Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-12-10

Derwent, ''that it is usually the seller' and not the buyer, who pays the inter- mediate agent hls commission"
 That might easily have been arrang- ed, returned the other. We need only have asked you forty thousand dollars for the mine, instead of twenty thou sand and we should have made ten thou sand apiece. You cannot gay that the Buena Esperanza is not worth as muGh as that"
 1.-The Buena Esperanza may be worth it, but I should not have given it," Der went replied.
 "You might, if you had never heard of the lower price," said Fernandez, calmly. ''I am not fattering you, Mr. Derwent, when say that you know how to judge mine. And you are aware that this mine is worth ten times what is asked for it. When Morell received your letter he said to me, Here is man who wants a mine for speculative pur- poses, to take into the great markets of the world and sell for big price. In order to succeed in this, he must have a good mine. We will sell him the Buena Esperanza at its bottom price, d q then we will make our profit by sharing ill his. When we have put such a property in his hands he cannot refuse this I am sure Morell was right, MT. Derwent. You cannot refuse to enter into such an arrangement"
 And if I do refuse," said Derwent- ''for I object very much to having part ners in my business-what thenT
 "Then we must ask you to pay forty thousand dollars for the mine. That is our lowest price"
 There was q silence. Had Derwent followed his impulse he would have risen to his feet, said curtly, ''I decline to buy your mine on any terms," and mounting his mule have ridden away. But it required only moments refec- tion to show that such course would be particularly i'll advised at present. | Whether or not Fernandez meant to | fatter him when he said that he knew | how to judge a mine, the fact remained that he did know and that he had never seen mine that seemed to him so well worth possessing as the Buena Esperanza. He had said to himself, as he examined its lodes, that if all went well with him he ought to be able to make enough out of this alone to accomplish the end he had in view. And now after he had, as it were, seen with his own eyes the treas ure that was to redeem fortune and honor for him it was snatched away, and he had to choose between resigning il altogether-for to pay the additiona, price asked was impossible-or to share with others the profit needed by himself It was hard decision, and the manner in which it was forced upon him-tht time and place-made him say to him self that his original distrust of Fernan dez was well justified.
 As he sat on the green bank, with tn, shade arched entrance of the mine be hind him, the foaming water at his fee and his gaze taking in idly the tw' mozos, with the tethered animals farthe down the stream, and Senor Aranda nea at hand smoking cigarettes, he askeC himself what he should do, with desir for counsel and direction such as he haC never known before. And while he stil hesitated, uncertain how to deal witt the man who he now felt sure woult take any advantage of him, sound sud denly smote on the ears of all three which made them look at each othe with glance of surprised Interrogation