The morning times., 1895-10-27

ask you one more question. What do you
think of the conduct of Mr.. Kenyon and
Mr. Wentworth in refusing to take double
what they had been promised for making
the report?'
what do l think of them?'' repeated
the girl.
"Yes; what do you think of them? You
hesitate. You realize that you are in u
corner. You think Mr.. Wentworth and
MIR. Kenyon did very nobly in refusing
Rivers offer?'
Certainly 1 do
80 do !. think they acted rightly and
did as any honora bic men should do. Now,
dare you come and offer me double, or
three times, or four times, the amount my
paper gives me for getting this informa-
ton? Do you think that | am any less
honorable than Kenyon or Wentworth?
Your offer is an insult to me-nobody but
a woman, and woman of your class,
would have made it. Kenyon wouldn't
have made it. Wentworth wouldn't have
made 1t. You come here to bribe me. You
come here to do exactly the same thing that
j. h. Rivers tried to do for the Argus in
Canada You think money Will purchase
anything. That is the thought of your class.
Now, / want you TO understand that am
a woman of the people. i was born and
brought up in poverty in New York. You
London. 1 have suffered privation and
hardships that you know nothing of, and,
even if you read about them you wouldn't
understand. You, with the impudence of
your class, think you can come to me and
bribe me to betray my employer. i am
here to do a certain thing, and am going
to do that certain thing i'll spite of all the
money that all the LoDgworths ever pos
sessed, or ever will possess. Do l make
myself sufficiently plain?''
Certainly, Mis- Brewster. I don't
think any one could misunderstand you"
"wcll, am glad of that, because one can
never tell how thickheaded some people
may be-"
''Do you think there is any parallel be-
tween your case and MIR. Wentworth 81"
"Of course do. We are each sent to do
q certain piece of work. We each did our
work. We have both been offered bribe
to cheat our employers of the fruits of our
labor; only in my car g IL is very much
wore than in worth's, because his
employers would not have suffered, while
mine Will"
''This is all very plausible, Miss Brew
steT, but now allow me to tell you that
the confidence of a msn-there is class
of woman who know how 10 do that-I
thank Heaven am not of that class; / pre-
fer to belong to the class you have just now
been reviling Some men have an inherent
res pect for all women; Mr.. Wentworth is
apparently one of those, and, while he was
on his guard with man. he was not on
his guard with a woman. You took advan-
tage OF that, and You managed to tecure
what you have done is most dishonorable
thing. and that you are a ditgrace TO our
common womanhood. You have managed,
during q very short acquaintance. to win
certain Information which you knew he
would never have given you IL he had
thought it was to be published. You stole
that Information just as disreputably as
that man stole the documents from Mr..
Kenyons pocket. You talk of your honor
and your truth when you did such a con.
temptible thing! You prate of unbribeable-
ness, when the only method possible Is
adopted of king you do what is right and
just and honest. Your conduct makes me
ashamed of being q woman. A thoroughly
bad woman I can understand. but not a
woman Ike you, who trade on the fact that
you are woman, and that you are pretty.
and that you have pleasing manner, You
use those qualities as thief OF counter
feIter would use the peculiar talents God
had given him. How dare you pretend for
a moment that your case is similar to Mr..
WentwoTth's2 Mr.. Wentworth is an hon.
orable man. engaged IN an honorable busi- !
ness. as for you and your business, have
no words to express my contempt for both. |
Picking pockets is reputable compared with |
such work"
Edith Longworth was now standing up, |
her face flushed ard her hands clenched. |
very much regretted when she thought of 1
the circumstance afterward; but the cha
grin and disappointment at failure. where
abe had a moment before been sure of sue |
cess, overcame her. Her opponent stood