The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-02-11

4 20 engage in uhaf he thi-lzs is q yr1s s-.s
4 eonuerzatio1. and then 90 pubiish what
Z b. has hzid-
My dear sir. IL that were the ease,
how would we get anything for publi
cation tia; people didn'i Waui TO Be
known? Why. / remember once. when
the secretary Of state
Yes. Interrupted Wentworth. sgc1ri-
-. -Fleminc told ne the story
'7Oh. did he? Wei, I'm sure I'm r-uch
cSligtd 70 him Thea l need not re-
pcai it,
DO yOu mean 10 say tha; you intend
% send 20 the Argus for publication
hat ] have told you II confidence p
Certainly. As 1 sid before, that is
what I am here for. Besides. there is
no in confidence abou; it
and yet you pretend 30 b truth
ful, honest. honorable woman
Il don't pretend il. / am
How much truth. then. Is Their in
your story that you are . niiIiOBaIre's
daughter shout TO visit your father in
Paris. and accompany him from thsrs
70 the Riviera2T
-Oh. don't call fbs that . person has
to tell in the way Of business tintruths.~
Then probably you would not call
what Mr.. J. X. Rivers. Of your estimable
paper. did in Ottawa dishOnorable?
well, hardly. think Rivers was rot
justified IN what he did. because he was
unsuccessful. that is all. III bet dol
lar IL had got hold Of those papers
they would have gone through TO New
York; but then J. X Rivers is only a
stupid man. and most men are stupid"
with shy glance at Wentworth.
Il am willing 20 admit that. Miss
Brewster. II you mean me. There never
was more stupid man than have
BEEN
Ny dear MT. Wentworth. il will do
you ever 50 much good II you come 20
realization of that fact. The truth is,
you take yourself much too seriously.
Now, it won't hurt you bit TO have
what | am going to have published in
the Argus, and it will help me great
deal Just YOU wait here for a few mo-
ments.' With that she flung her book
upon his lap. spraDg up, and vanished
down the companionway. In very
short time she reapPeared with some
sheets of paper in her hand.
wow, you see how fair and honest
am going to be. / am going to read you
what !. have written. If there is any
thing in it that is not true, will very
glddly cut it out; and If there is any
thing more TO be added, shall be very
glad to add it. Isn't that fair?"
Wentworth was so confounded with
the woman's impudence that he could
make no reply.
She began to read: by an unex-
planned stroke of enterprise, the New
York Argus is enabled this morning TO
lay before it's readers a full and exclu-
siye account of the report made by the
two English specialists, Mr.. George
Wentworth and Mr.. John Kenyon, who
were sent over by the London syndicate
% examine into the accounts and in
quiz into the true value of the mines of
the Ottawa river" She looked up from
the paper and said, with an air Of friend
ly confidence:
Il shouldn't send that if / thought
the people at the New York end would
know enough to write il themselves;
but as the paper is edited by dull men.
and not by sharp woman, have to
make them pay 25 cents word for
putting their own enterprise. Well, to
go on:
when it is remembered that the ac-
tion of the London syndicate win depend
entirely on the report of these two gen
tlemen-"
IL wouldn't put it that way" inter
rupted Wentworth, in his despair. Il
would use the word largely for entire
ly'"
'Oh, thank YOU" said Miss Brewster.
cordially. She placed the manuscript on
her knee, and with her pencil marked
out the word entirely" substituting
largely" The reading went on:
when it is remembered that the action
of the London syndicate will depend
largely on the report of these two gem
ucInen, the enterprise of the Argus in
getting this exclusive information.
which will be Immediately cabled to
London, may be imagined. (That is
the preliminary. you see; and, as | said
it wouldn't be necessary TO cable it il
women were at the heGr: of affairs over
there, which they are not.) Mr.. John
Kenyon, the mining expert, has visited
all the mineral ranges along the Ottawa
river, and his report is that the mines
are very much what is claimed for them;
but he thinks they are not worked prop
crly, although, with judicious manage
mentand more careful mining, the prop
critics can be made TO pay good diyi-
dends. Mr.. George Wentworth, who is
one of the leading accountants of Lon
don"
II wouldn't say that, either" groaned
George. Just strike out the words,
'one of the leading accountants of Lon
dom"
'Yes?" said Miss Brewster; "and
what shall | put in place of them?"
Put in place of them, the stupides.
ass in London
Miss Brewster laughed at that. mo.
| shall put in what / first wrote: Mr..
George Wentworth, one of the leading
accountants of London, has gone
the books of the different
mines. He has made some startling
discoveries. The accounts have been
kept in such a way as TO completely de-
lude investors, and this fact will have a
powerful effect on the minds of the Lon.
don syndicate. The books of the diff.
ferant fninac Gboxv N Y1rCHt ~ about