The morning times., 1895-10-19

.She is one of the Argus staff, too"
George Wentworth, you don't mean TO
tell ME that"
II do
And is she here TO find out about the
mine?'
Exactly. She was put on the job after
Rivers had failed
'Georgei'' said Kenyon. suddenly drop
ping his conipanion's arm, and facing HIM.
what have you told herr?
There is the misery OF it, L have told
her everything"
my dear fellow, how could you be
..Oh, 1 know-I know. ! know every
thing you would say. Everything you
can say, have said TO myself, and ten
times more and ten times worse. There
is nothing you can say OF me more
bitter than what 1 think about myself"
"Did you tell her anything about my re-
port?''
81 told her everything, everythingi Do
you understand? She is going 10 telegra ph
from Queenstown the full essence of our re-
ports-of both our reports"
Heavens! this is fearful Is there no way
you would try to prevent her sending it?''
If you think you can prevent her, I
wish you would try it,
How did you find it out? Did she tell
your"
"Oh, it doesn't matter how found it out.
did find It out. A man told me who she
was. then asked her, andshe was perfectly
frank about It. She read me the report
even"
Read it to your"
"Yes, read it to me, and punctuated it in
my presence-put in some words that sug-
gested as being better than those he had
used. Oh, it was the coolest piece of work
you ever saw"
"Butthere must be some way ofpreventing
her getting that account to New York in
time. You see. all we have to do is to wire
your people to hand in our report to the
directors, and then her report is forestalled.
She has to telegraph from a British office,
and it seems to me that We could stop her
in some way"
"As for instance, howl"
"Oh. Idon't know, just no W at the moment,
but we ought to be able to do it. If it was
a man. we could have him arrested as a
dyIamter or somathing: but a woman,
of course, is more difficult to deal with.
George, would appeal to her better nature
If l were you"
wentworth laughed sneeringly.
Better naturei' he said. "she hasn't
any; and that is not the worst of 1t. She
has calculated as she calls it, all the
possibilities In the affair. She 'calcu-
lates' that we will reach Queenstown about
Saturday night II we do, she will get her
report through in time to be published on
-unday in the New York Argus. II that
is the case, then see where our telegram
win be. We telegraph our people to send
in the report. 1t reaches the office Satur-
day night and is not read. The office closes
at O'Clock; but even il they got it, and
understood the urgency of the matter, they
could not place the papers before the d.
rectors until Monday morning, and by
Monday morning it will be in the London
financial sheets"
George, that woman is fiend."
mo, she isn't, John. She is merely a
clever American journalist. who thinks
she has done very clever good piece
of work, indeed, and who, through the
stupidity of one man, has succeeded,
that's ALL"
Have you made any appeal TO her
at all?''
"Oh, haven't II OF course 1 have.
What good did It do? she merely laughed
at me. Don't you understand? That is
what she is here for. Her whole voyage
is for that one purpose; and it's not likely
the woman is going to forego her triumph
after having succeeded-more especially as
somebody else in the same office has failed.
That's what gives additional Zest to what
she has done. The fact that Rivers has
failed aud she has succeeded. seems TO be
the great feather In her cap"
Then" said Kenyon, I'm going TO
appeal to Miss Brewster myself"
VERY wen. wish you joy OF your job.