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

the mine?"
Exactly. She was put on the job
after Rivers had failed" K, SStst.;;s:. IL
''George!" said Kenyon, suddenly
dropping his companions arm, and fac77
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. | kI1owsesery-
thing you would say. Every thines-you
ycan. say l have said to ntyse f. Il snsassten
times more and ten times worse. There
is nothing you can say of me more Bit
ter than what think about myself"
Ibid you tell her anything about my
treport?" ~
II told her every thing, everything!
DO you understand? Shells :g4ng to
telegraph from Queenstown the full es--
sence Of our reports-of both our re-
ports"
-, ..Heavens! This is fearfnis. Is there
no way you would try to prevent her
sending it?" ss~
'If you think you can prevent her.
I wish you would try it. :. s%s =
"How did you find it QUIT 90 Did she
tell you?" .. ssTs.s ~.
."oh, it doesn't matter bowl found
1t out. I did find it out,.zs1s1 i11p told,
me who she was; then asked.1af, and
she was perfectly frank :ahodt-iks She
read me the report even. 49, -
'*Read it to you?'' *@F
( Eyes. read!it to me, and functuated
it in my presepoe-put in some words,
that I suggested as being better than
those she had used, Oh,s 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 seeyshlf we
have to do is to wire Your. people to
hand in our report to the directors,
and then her report is forestnlled. She
has to telegraph from British office,
and it seems to me that we could stop
her in some way" Z.
'As for instance, how?
'Oh, don't know just how at the
moment, but we ought to be able, to
do it. If it was a man we could have.
him arrested as a dynamiter or some
thing; but woman, of course, is more
difficult to deal with. George, l would
appeal to her better nature. if were
you" ..,
i" Wentworth laughed sneeringly.
''Better nature?" he said "Sta hasn't
any; and that is not the worst of it.
She, has calculated as she calls it,
all the possibilities in the affair; She,
calculates that we will reach Queens
town about Saturday night. IF we do,
she will get her report through in time
to 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 to send in the re-
port. It. reaches the Office Saturday
night, and is not read. The office closes
at two o'clock; but even if they got it,
and understood the urgency OF the mat
1. ter, they could not place the papers
before the directors until Monday
morning, and by Monday morning it
will be in the London financial sheets"
George. that woman is fiend."
. clever American journalist, who
thinks she has done very clever good
piece of work indeed, and who, through
the stupidity of one man, has succeed
ed, that's all.'' :
"Have you made any appeal to her
at alp
''Oh, haven't ~. OF course 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;
end it's not likely the woman is going
to forego her triumph after having
succeeded more especially as some:
body else in the same office has failed.
That's what gives additional zest to
what she has DONE. The fact that Riv-.
ers has failed and she has Succeeded,
seems to be the great feather in her
cap" -. &c.. p
Then said Kenyon, II ana, going
: to appeal to Miss Brewster myself" 81
"Very WE'LL. wish you JOY of your
Job. Do what you can, John, there's
good fellow. Meanwhile Tmtaht to be-
alone somewhere" !tis
!. Wentworth went down thesstaf1,Npy
that led to the steerage department.,
and for a few moments sat among the,
Storage passengers. Then he climbed
up. another ladder. and got to the very
front of the ship. Here he sat down pm
. coil of rope and thought over the
situation. Thinking, however, dad him,
very little good. He realized that even
ii he got hold of the paper Miss Brews-;
ter had, she could easily write eut,,a1l.
other. She had the facts iIss 4lerslt
and all she needed to do was to get to
telegraph office, and there write out
her message. IL
Meanwhile, Kenyon took few turns
up and down the deck thinking deeply
On the same subject. He passed over to.
the side where Miss Brewster sat, but.
On coming opposite her had not the
courage to take: his place beside her.
She was calmly reading her book.
Three times he came opposite her,
\ paused for moment. and then tbft3f iin7
\ ued his hopeless march. He.saw.that
his courage was not going tosbe sufi-.
aient for the task. md yet felt Gle task
must be accomplished. Hedidn't know
how to begin. He didn't know what.
iuducement to offer the, young woman
for foregoing the fruits of. her i1,ge--
1 nuity. He felt that this was the weak
point in his armor. The. third time he
paused in front of Miss Brewster. she
! looked up. and .motioned him t., thee
chair beside her. saying: g5a (. 5 y.