Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-12-17

| lowed his advice. AS general thing,
ne spent most of his time alone in a very
gloomy state of mind. on one occasion
when the genial Fleming slapped him
ON the shoulder, Wentworth, to his great
astonishinent, turned fiercely round and
| cried:
IF you do that again, sir, I'll knock
| you down."
| Fleming said afterwards that he was
Completely fiabbergasted" by this,
| whatever that may mean, and he added
that the English in general were queer
| race.
| 1t is true that he gathered himself to-
| gether at the time, and. having laughed
| little over the remark, said to Went
| worth:
"Come and have drink; then you'll
feel better"
This invitation Wentworth did not
even take the trouble to decline, but,
thrust his hands in his pockets once
more, and turned his back on the popu-,
lar New York politician
| Wentworth summed up the whole,
matter to John Kenyon when he said:
"There is no use in our talking or
thinking any more about it. We can
simply do nothing. / shall take the;
whole blame on my shoulders. am re-;
solved that you shall not suffer from my
! indiscrction. Now, don't talk to me any
more about it. l want to forget the
wretched business, if possible" So,
thus it came about quite naturally that
John Kenyon, who was a good deal
! troubled about the matter, took as his
confidante Edith Longworth, who also
betrayed the greatest interest in the
problem. Miss Longworth vas left all!
the more alone because her cousin had
taken permanently to the smoking
room. Some one had introduced him
to the fascinating game of poker, and in
the practice of this peculiar amusement,
Mr.. William Longworth was now spend
ing a good deal of his surplus cash as
well as his time.
Jennie Brewster was seldom seen on
deck. She applied herself assiduously
to the writing of that brilliant series of
articles which have since appeared in
the Sunday edition of the New York
| al ullNlCL IlO SChS1 ol bibAO VI L~A1S
at Sea-" and which were recently issued
| in book form.
AS everybody is already aware, her
sketches of the genial New York poll
tician and also of the tacitur1l English
man are considered the finest things in,
the little volume. They have been
largely copied as typical examples of
American humor. When Jennie Brew
ster did appear on deck, she walked
alone up and down the promenade with
sort of half-defant look in her eye as
she passed Kenyon or Miss Long
worth, and she generally passed them
together.
On this particularly eventful Satur-
day morning Kenyon and Miss Long
worth had the deck to themselves. The
conversation naturally turned TO the
subject which had occupied the minds
of both for the few last days.
do you know" said Miss Longworth,
81 have been thinking all along that she
would come to me at the last for the
money"
81 am not at all sure about that" an
swered Kenyon.
81 thought she would probably keepus
on the tenter-hooks just as long as pos
sible, and then at the last moment come
and say she would accept the offer"
IF she does," said Kenyon, 81 would
not trust her. l would give her to un-
derstand that check would be handed
to her when we were certain the article
lad not been used"
do you think that would be the safe
way to act if she came and said she
would take the money for not send
ing the cablegram? Don't you think it
would be better to pay her and trust
to her honor?"
Kenyon laughed somewhat sarcastic
ally. Il do not think would trust much
to her honor"
Nov, do you know, I have different
opinion of her. l feel sure that if she
said she would do thing, she would
do it."
81 have no such faith" answered