The Delta independent., 1896-08-19

'Since you complimented me on my
caution, Mr.. Longworth, should be
sorry to forfeit your good opinion by
answering your questions"
.'Quite right; quite right" said the
elderly gentleman, laughing again.
That's one for you, and n very good
one, too. l must tell that to my daugh-
ter; and here she comes. Edith, my
dear. this is Mr.. Kenyon, who went
out to examine our mines. Curious,
isn't ii, that we should have been talk
ing about them this very morning?
Mr.. Kenyon, 1 call my daughter my
confidential man of business: she has
been all over the world with me. /
never make any Investments without
consulting her, so / warn you that she
will ask you more insidious questions
about the mines than shall"
John Kenyon had risen to his feet
to greet the girl and to offer her his
chair.
NO, thank yoa." she said. II want
to walk. 1 merely came to see If my
father was all right. Twas very much
disappointed that we did not go TO
Canada this time, as l wished to
see something of the snow-shoeing and
tobogganing there. l suppose there
was no tobogganing where you were?"
"Oh, ye," said Kenyon; "cven out
among the mines they had n tobor-
gan slide, on which one trip satisfied
me; and on several journeys ! had to
wear snow-shoes myself"
"How interesting" said the girl.
And the next thing John knew he was
walking the deck with her. relating his
experiences. This walk was the first
of many, and from that time forward
Kenyon did not miss his friend Went
worth.
Edith Longworth can hardly be called
q typical representative Of the Eng
lish girl. She had an English girls
education. but she had not the train
ing of the average English girl. She
had lost her mother early in life, which
makes a great difference in a girls
training, however wealthy her father
may be; and Edith's father was
wealthy. there was no doubt of that.
Ask any city man about the standing of
John Longworth, and you will learn
that the "housc" is well thought Of.
People said he was lucky, but John
Longworth asserted that there was no
such thing as luck in busincss-in
which statement he was very likely
not correct. He had large investments
in almost every quarter of the globe.
When he went into a thing he went
into it thoroughly. People talk of the
inadvisability of putting all ones eggs
into one basket, but John Longworth
was a believer in doing that very thing
and in watching the basket. Not that
he had all his eggs in one basket, or in
even one kind of n basket, but when
John Longworth was satisfied with the
particular variety of basket presented
to him he put a large number of eggs
in it. When anything was offered for
Observation-Disclosures it was n mine, a
brewery or a railway-John Longworth
took an experts opinion upon it, and
then the chances were that he would
disregard the advice given. He was in
the habit of going personally to sec
what had been offered to him. If the
enterprise were big enough he thought
little of taking "a voyage to the other
side of the world for the sole purpose
of looking the investment over.
When Edith Longworth was pro-
was concerned, she became more and
more the companion of her father.
She went with him on his long jour
neys, and SO had been several times
to America, once to the cape. and one
long voyage, with Australia as the OBJ
jective point, had taken her complete
ly around the world. She inherited
much Of her fathers shrewdness, and
there Is no doubt that if Miss Long
worth had been cast upon her own re-
sources she would have become an ex
cellent woman of business. She knew
exactly the extent of her fathers in
vestments, and she was his confidantc
in a way that few women nre with
their male relatives. The old man hal
great faith in Edith's opinion, al
though he rarely acknowledged it. Hav-
ing been together 30 much on such long
voyages, they naturally became, in a
way, boon companions. Thus Edith's
education was very unlike that of the
ordinary English girl; a training which
caused her TO develop into q different
kind Of woman than she would have
been II her mother had lived.
The friendship between Edith Long
worth and John Kenyon ripened so rap
idly that ON the day Wentworth had his
last disgusting interview with Jennie
Brewster they also were discussing
mining properties, but in somewhat DIFF
ferent fashion. Kenyon confided to the
girl that his own hopes and fears were
wrapped up In . mine.
After completing their work for the
London syndicate, the young men had