The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1896-08-08

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Now, I want to ask you ono other
!: question, Miss-M iss-I don't think you
told me your name"
MY name is Edith Longworth."
!. 'sVers well, Miss Longworth. want
to 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
lspromised for making the report?"
What do think Of them?'' repeated
the girl.
55ys.'tfYes, what do you think Of them?
You hesitate. You realize that you are
| III a corner. You think Mr.. Wentworth
and Mr.. Kenyon did very nobly in re-
fusing Rivers offer?"
| 5 Certainly do"
$50 do l. think they acted rightly.
I and did as any honorable men should
I do. Now, when you think that, Miss
Longworth, how dare you come and
! offer me double, or three times, or four
times, the amount my paper givesto me
i for getting this information? DO you
think that am any less honorable than
Kenyon and Wentworth? Your offer
is an insult to ,ne-nobody but h woman,
and o woman Of your class, would have
I made it.. You come here to bride me.
I You come here to do exactly the same
thing that j. X. Rivers tried to do for
! the Argus in Canada. You think money
J will purchase anything, that is the
! thought of your class. Now, want
| you TO understand that l am a woman
/ Of the people. was born and brought
up in poverty in New York. You were
born and brought up, amid luxury, in
London. have suffered privations and
bardships that you know nothing of,
and, even if You read about them. you
wouldn't understand. You, with the
| impotence of your class. think you can
come to me and bride me to betray my
I employer. ! am here to do certain
thing, and l am going to do that certain
1 thing in spite of all the money that all
the Longworths ever possessed, or ever
\ will possess. Do l make myself sntfi-
GENTLY plain?"
Certainly, Miss Brewster. don't
| think anyone could misunderstood
YOU"
'.Well, am glad Of that, because one
can never tell how thickheaded some
/ people may be"
4 "Do you think there is any parallel
between your case and Mr.. Went
I worth's?'
,''Of course do. We are each sent to
do a certain piece of work. We have
I both been Offered bride to cheat our
employers of the fruits of our labor;
only i'll my case it is very much worse
than in Wentworth's, because his en-
ployers would not have suffered, while
| mine will"
/ This is all very plausible, Miss Brew-
ster, but now allow me to tell you that
what you have done is most tlishon-
orablei thing. and that you are a disgrace
i to our common womarhood. You have
! managed, during.a very short acquaint-
nnce, to win the confidence of a man
| there is class OF woman who know how
to do that thank Heaven Iam not Of
! that class; / prefer TO belong to the
1 class you have just now been reviling.
4 Some men have All inherent respect for
Fall women; Mr.. Wentworth is appar-
| emily one OF those, and, while he was
on his guard with man. he was not on
| his; guard with a woman. You took adj
vantage of that. aud you managed to Sc
cure certain information which you
i;newlhe would never have given you it
he had thought it was to be published.
| You stole that information just as dis
lsreputablytas that man stole tine docu-
Dlents from Mr.. Kcnyon's pocket. You
talk of your honor and your truth when
i you did such a contemplate thing!
| You pirate of unbribeableness, when the
only method possible is adopted of max
/ ing you do what is right and just and
| honest! Your conduct makes me
oughly bad woman can understand,
but not woman like you, who trade on
i the fact that you are woman. and that
4 you are pretty. and that you have
/ pleasing manner. You use those quail
| tiles as q thief or countcrfeitcr would
use the peculiar talents God had given
j him.! How dare you pretend for mo-
! ,nent that your case is similar to Mr..
| Wentworth's? Mr.. Wentworth is an
A0uOA dO4C AiiA. <A6u6SA AAA UA1 N~AASA
able business; as for you and your BUSH
ness, I have no words TO express my con-
tempt for both. Picking pockets is
reputable compared with such work"
| Edith Longworth was now standing
up, her. face flushed and her hands
clenched: She spoke with a vehemence
which she very much regretted when
she thought of the circumstance after
wards; but the chagrin and disappoint-
ment at failure, where she had mo-
ment before been sure Of success. over
came her. Her opponent stood before
her. angry and pale. At first Edith
Iongworth thought she was going to
| strike her, but if any such idea passed
through the brain of the newspaper
woman she thought better of it. For .
few moments neither spoke, then Jen-
ME Brewster said, in a voice of unnat-
! ural calmness:
T You are quite welcome to your opin-
ion Of me. Miss Longworth, and pre-
su1ne 4 am entitled to my opinion Of
kenyon and Wentworth. They are two
fools. and sou are third in thinking
|. you cum control the actions of a woman
where two young men have failed. Do
you think for a moment ] would grant
to you. q woman of a class ! hate, what
!! would not grant to q young man like
Wentw orth? They say there IS no fool Z
like an old fool. but it should be said:
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