The Delta independent., 1896-08-26

staterooIn than on deck. Come along,
old fellow" He caught his companion
Ivy the arm, and partly dragged him ou:
of the room, closing the door behind
him.
"Pull yourself together" he said. "a
little fresh air will do you good"
They made their way to the deck,
and linking arms walked up and down
For n long time Wentworth said moth
ing, and Kenyon had the tact to hold his
peace. Suddenly Wentworth noticed
that they were pacing back and forth
in front of Miss Brewster, so he con-
tinucd his walk around to the other side
of the ship. After few turns up and
down, he said: "You remember Rivers,
of course?"
Certainly"
"He was employed on that vile sheet,
the New York Argus"
IL suppose it is vile sheet don't
remember ever seeing It. Yes, know
he was connected with that paper.
What then? What has Miss brewster
to do with Rivers?"
''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"
"George!" said Kenyon, suddenly
dropping his companions arm. and fac
ing him. what have you told her?"
"There is the misery of it. have
told her everything"
MY dear fellow, how could you be"
"Oh, 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 bit
ter than what think about myself"
"Did you tell her anything about my
report?"
II told her everything, everything!
Do you understand? She is going to
telegraph from Queenstown the full es-
sence of our reports-of both our re-
ports"
"Hcavens! 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
1t out 1 did find IL out. A man told
me who she was; then 1 asked her, and
she was perfectly frank about it. She
read me the report even"
"Eead it to your
"Yes, read il TO me, and punctuated
IL in my prcsence-put in some words
that I suggested as being better than
those she had used. Oh, it was the
coolest piece of work you ever saw"
But there must be some way of pre-
venting 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 British Office,
and it seems to me that we could stop
her in some way"
"As for instance, how?"
''Oh, l don't know just how at the
moment, but we ought to be able to
do it. If it was n man VIC could have
him arrested as dynamiter or some
thing; but n woman, Of course, is more
difficult to deal with. George, would
appeal TO her better nature II were
you"
Wentworth laughed snceringly.
Better nature?' he said. "She hasn't
any; and that is not the worst of il.
She has Calculated ~ she calls Il,
all the possibilities in the affair; she
calculates that we will reach Queens
town about Saturday night. II we do,
she will get her report through in time
70 be published on Sunday in the New
York Argus. If that is the case, then
see where our telegram will be. We
telegraph our people 70 send in the re-
port. 1t reaches the Office Saturday
night, and is not read. The Office closes
Mt two O'Clock; but even II they got It,
and understood the urgency of the mat
Ter. they could not place the papers