Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-11-26

wants to get at. have youP
| The reason / am heYe is because you are
here. I am here to find out what your
report on those mines will be, also
what the report of your friend will be-
/ have found out"
"And do you intend to use the infor-
nation you have thus obtained-if L
may say it-under false pretenses?"
"My dear sir, you are forgetting your
self. You must remember that you ere
talking to q lady"
"a ladyl" cried Wentworth in his
anguish.
Yes, sir, q lady; and you must be
careful how you talk to this lady.
There was no false pretense about it,
If you remember. What you told me
was in conversation; 1 didn't ask you
for it. didn't even make the first adj
vances toward your acquaintance"
"But you must admit, Miss Brew
ster, that it is very unfair to get man
to engage in what he thinks is private
conversation, and then to publish what
he has said"
"My deag sir, if that were the case,
how would we get anything for publ
cation that people didn't want to be
kHDsegaRe22 ksHs gsaRe22etMYs tMbyo or 5EtGaIsesmer onee when
"Yes," interrupted Wentworth, ,weari-
Iy, Fleming told me the story"
"Oh, did he? Well, I'm sure I'm much
obliged to him. Then I need not re-
peat it,"
do you mean to say that you intend
to send to the Argus for publication
what 1 have told you in confidence2"
Certainly. As L said before, that is
what l am here for. Besides, there is
no in confidence about it,"
"And yet you pretend to be a truth
full, honest, honorable woman"
81 don't pretend it, am"
"How much truth, then, is there in
your story that you are a millionaire's
daughter about to visit your father in
Paris, and accompany him from there
to the Riviera?"
Miss Brewster laughed brightly.
"Oh, / don't call fibs that person has
to tell in the way of business lntruths."
''Then probably you would not call
what Mr.. J. X. Rivers, of your estimable
paper, did in Ottawa dishonorable"
"Well, hardly. I think Rivers was not
justified in what he did, because he was
unsuccessful, that is ali. I'll bet dol
lar if l had got hold of those papers
| they would have gone through to New
York; but then j. X. Rivers is only
stupid man, and most men are stupid"
with a shy glance at Wentworth.
II am willing to admit that, Miss
| Brewster, if you mean me. There never
was more stupid man than [ have
| been"
"My dear Mr.. Wentworth, it will do
you ever SO much good If you come to
| realization of that fact. The truth IS,
| you take yourself much too seriously.
| Now, it won't hurt you a bit to have
| what am going to have published in
| the Argus, and it will help me great
| deal Just you wait here for a few mo-
ments." With that she flung her book
upon his lap, sprang up, and vanished
down the companionway. In very
short time she reappeared with some
sheets of paper in her hand.
| "Now, YOU see how fair and honest /
am going to be. am going to read you
what / have written II there Is any
| thing in it that Is not true, will very
| gladly cut il out; and If there is any
thing more to be added, | shall be very
| glad to add it. Isn't that fair?"
| Wentworth was so confounded with
the woman's impudence that he could
make no reply.
She began to read: "By an unex-
planned stroke of enterprise, the New
| York Argus is enabled this morning TO
lay before its readers a full and exclu-
/ sive account of the report made by the
two English specialists, Mr.. George
| Wentworth and Mr.. John Kenyon, who
were sent over by the London syndicate
| to examine into the accounts and in
| uuire into the true value of the mines of
the Ottawa river" She looked up from
the paper and said, with an air of friend
| ly confidence:
81 shouldn't send that If | thought
the people at the New York end would
know enough to write it themselves;
but as the paper is edited by dull men,
and not by sharp woman, l have to
| make them pay 25 cents word for
putting their own enterprise. Well, to
60 on:
"When it is remembered that the nc
ton of the London syndicate will depend
entirely on the report Of these two gen
tlemen-"
81 wouldn't put it that way" inter
rupted Wentworth, in his despair. Il
would use the word largely for entire
lly."
"oh, thank you." said Miss Brewster,
cordially. She placed the manuscript on
her knee, and with her pencil marked
out the word entirely" substituting
largely" The reading went on:
"When it is remembered that the action
of the London syndicate will depend
largely on the report of these two gem
! tlemen, the enterprise of the Argus in
getting this exclusive information,