It was satisfactorily proved in a few days that the man who had gone to see Mr.Winter had never reached the office door.
But, coming around the corner of the building where the new work was being done, he had fallen off the stone work, striking on a rock in such a way as to produce a fatal wound.

This tempered the feeling of the workmen toward Mr.Winter; but a wide-spread unrest and discontent had seized on every man employed in the mills, and as the winter drew on, affairs reached a crisis.
The difference between the mills and the men over the scale of wages could not be settled.

The men began to talk about a strike.

Philip heard of it, and at once, with his usual frankness and boldness, spoke with downright plainness to the men against it.

That was at the little hall a week after the attempt on Mr.Winter's life.