The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-10-23

known as one of the best newspaper
women in the city of New York. That
is the other consideration"
81 understood you were already
known as the most noted newspaper
woman in New York"
This remark was much more diplo-
matte than Miss LongwoTth herself sus-
Pected.
Jennie Brewster looked rather
pleased, then she said
''Oh, L don't know about that, but l
intend it shall be so before a year is
past"
very well, you have plenty of time
TO accomplish your object without US
ing the information you have obtained
on board this ship. Now, as l was say
ing, the New York Argus pays you
certain amount for doing this work
If you will promise not to send the re-
port over to that paper, 1 will give you
check for double the sum the Argus
will pay you, besides refunding all your
expenses twice over"
''In other words, you ask me to be
bribed and refuse to perform my duty
to the paper?"
ut isn't bribery. l merely pay you,
or will pay you, double what you will
receive from that paper. l presume
your connection with the paper is pure
ly commercial. You work for it be-
cause you receive a certain amount of
money; if the editor found some one
who would do the same work cheaper,
he would at once employ that person,
and your services would be no longer
required. Is that not true?"
"Yes, it is true"
Very well, then, the question of duty
hardly enters into such acompact. They
have sent you on what would be to most
people a very difficult mission. You
have succeeded. You have, therefore,
in your possession something to sell.
The New York paper will pay you
certain sum in cash for it. I offer you.
for the same article, double the price
the New York Argus will pay you. Is
that not a fair offcr?"
Jennie Brewster had arisen. She
clasped and unclasped her hands ner-
vously. For a small space of time moth
ing was said, and Edith Longworth
imagined she had gained her point. The
woman standing locked down at the
woman sitting
do you know all the particulars
about the attempt to get this informa-
tion?" asked Miss Brewster.
Il know some of them. What par
ticulars do you mean?"
''Do you know that a man from the
Argus tried to get this information from
Mr.. Kenyon and Mr.. Wentworth in
Canada?"
yes; l know about that"
do you know that he stole the re-
ports, and that they were taken from
him before he could use them?'
Yes"
do you know he offered Mr. Kenyon
and Mr.. Wentworth double the price
the London syndicate would have paid
them, on condition they gave him
synopsis of the reports?"
yes, l know that also"
VERY well, then. Now you ask me
to do very much more than Rivers
asked them; because you ask me to
keep my paper completely in the dark
about the information have got. Isn't
that so?'
Eyes, you can keep them in the dark
until after the report has been given to
The directors; then, of course, you can
do what you please with the Informal
ton"
"Ah, by that time it Will be of no value
By that time it viii be published in the
london financial papers. At that time
everybody can get it. Isn't that the
case?"
81 suppose So"
''Now, l want to ask you one other
question, Miss-AIiss-l don't think you
told me your name"
MY name is Edith Longworth.''
VERY well. Miss Lorgworth. 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
promised for making the report?"
What do l think of them?" repeated
the girl.
''Yes, what do you think of them?
You hesitate. You realize that you are
in a corner. You think Mr.. Wentworth
and Mr.. Kenyon did very nobly in re-
fusing Rivers offer?"
Certainly 1 do"
$50 do 1. think they acted rightly,
and did as any honorable men should
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 gives TO me
for getting this information? Do you
think that l am any less honorable than
Kenyon and Wentworth? Your offer
is an insult to me-nobody but d woman.
and woman of your class, would have
made it. You como here to bride me.
You come here to do exactly the same
thing that j. X. Rivers tried to do for
the Argus In Canada. You think money
VIII purchase anything. that is the
thought of your class. Now, want
you to understand that am a woman
of the people. was born and brought
up in poverty in Kew York You were
l..