Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-12-03

stateroom than on deck. Come along,
old fellow" Tie caught his companion
by the arTo, and partly dragged him out
Of the room, closing the dopr behind
him.
"Pull yourself together" he said. IA
little fresh air viii do you good"
They made their way TO the deck,
and linking arms walked up and down.
For long time Wentworth said moth
ing, and Kenyon had the tact 10 hold his
peace. Suddenly Wentworth noticed
that they were pacing back and forth
in front Of Miss Brewster, so he con-
tinued 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 Rjycrs?'
"She il one Of the Argus staff, too"
George Wentworth, you don't mean
to tell mo that!"
II do"
"And Is she here to find out about
the Inine2"
Exactly. She was put on the job
after Rivers had failed"
"Georgcl" said Kenyon, suddenly
dropping his companions arm, and fac
ing him. 'What have you told her?"
''Thcrc is the misery of IL. / have
told her everything"
my dear fellow, how could you be-
"Oh, know know. know every
thing you would say. Everything you
can say ] have said to myself, aud 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?'
81 told her everything, everythingl
DO you understand? She Ii going To
telegraph from Queenstown the full es-
sence Of our reports-of both our re-
ports"
'Heayensl This is fearful. Is there
no way you would try to prevent her
sending it2"
''If You think you can prevent her
] wish you would try IT,"
How did you find II out2 Did she
tell your"
"Oh, it doesn't matter how found
IL out. / did find it. out A rnnn told
me who she was; then asked her, and
she was perfectly frank about IL. She
read me the report even"
Read IL to your"
''Yes, rcod IL TO me, and punctunted
IL In my prescnce--put In some words
that ] 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 rs foresta1led. She
hfa 10 telegraph from n British office,
md it secns 10 me that we could stop
her in some way"
"As for instance, hDwY"
"Oh, ! don't know just how Mt the
moment, but we ought TO be able To
do IL. If 1t was u man we could have
him arrested as n dynamitcr or some
thing; but woman, Of course, In more
difficult 10 deal with. George, would
appeal to her better nature IF ] were
you"
Wentworth laughed gncerinRly.
BETTER nature?" he said. "she hasn't
any; and that Ii not the worst or IL.
She has calculated ne she calls it.
all tho possibilities IN the affair; she
calculates That wo win reach Queens
town about Saturday night. If we do.
She. VIII get her report through in time
TO be published on Sunday in the New
York Argus. II that is the case. then
see where our telegram will be. We
telegraph our people 10 send in the re-
port IL reaches the office Saturday
night, and ia not read. The Office closes
at two O'Clock; but even If they rot Il.
aud understood the urgency Of The mat
ter, they could not place the papers
before tho directors until Mondav
'll2rnipg, And by Monday mor..i-.-- -