The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-02-25
THE MkSXRESS
Of they Mine.
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Copyright, 1905. BY Robert Barr.1
CHAPTER vI.-CoNTrN,-rp.
[coPyright, IsQs. BY Robert Bari

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and linking arms walked up and down.
For long time Wentworth said no,b-
ing, and Kenyon had the tact to hold his
peace. Suddenly Wentworth noticed
that they were pacing back and forth
IN front of Miss Brewster, 80 he con-
tinued his walk around to the other side
OF the ship. After few turns up and
down, he said: "Yon remember Rivers,
Of course?"
Certainly"
He was employed on TINT vile sheet,
The New York Argus"
II suppose it is a vile sheet. / don't
remember ever seeing il. Yes, know
he was connected with that paper.
What then? What has Miss Brewster
TO dc with RiversY'
'She is one of the Argus staff. too"
George Wentworth, you don't mean
to tell me that!"
II do"
"And is she here to find out about
the mine?"
Exactly. She was put on the job
after Rivers had failed"
"George!" said Kenyon. suddenly
dropping his companions arm, and fac
ing him. "What have you told her?"
There is the misery of it. l have
told her everything"
MY dear fellow, how could you be"
"Oh, | know-I know. know every
thing you would say. Everything you
can say / have said TO myself. and 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?"
Il told her everything. everything!
DO you understand? She is going to
telegraph from Queenstown the full es-
sence of our reports-of both our re-
ports"
Heavens! This is fearful. Is there
no way you would try 20 prevent her
sending it?"
IF you think you can prevent her
l wish you would try it,"
How did you find it out? Did she
tell you?"
"Oh, it doesn't matter how | found
it out. l did find it out. A man told
me who she was; then | asked her, and
she was perfectly frank about it. She
read me the report even"
Read it to you?'
"Yes, read it to me, and punctuated
it in my presence-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 is forestalled She
has TO telegraph from British office,
and it seems to me that we could stop
her in sonic way"
''As for instance, how?"
"Oh, / don't know just how at the
moment, but we ought to be able TO
do it. If IL was a man we could have
him arrested as a dynamiter or some
thing; but a woman, of course, is more
difficult to deal with. George, / would
appeal to her better nature if / were
you"
Wentworth laughed sneeringly.
Better nature?" he said "She hasn't
any; and that is not the worst of it.
She has calculated as she calls it.
, all the possibilities in the affair; she
calculates that we will reach Queens
town about Saturday night. If we do,
she will get her report through in time
to be published on Sunday in the New
York Argus. If that is the case, then
see where our telegram will be. We
telegraph our people to send in the re-
port. 1t reaches the Office Saturday
night, and is not read. The office closes
at two o'clock; but even if they got it,
and understood the urgency of the mat
ter, they could not place the papers
before the directors until Monday
morning, and by Monday morning it |
will be in the London financial sheets"
George, that woman is fiend."
mo, she isn't, John. She is merely
a clever American journalist, who |
thinks she has done very clever good |
piece of work indeed, and who, through |
the stupidity of one man, has succeed |
ed, that's ALL
Have you made any appeal to her
at all?"
"Oh, haven't /? OF course / have.
What good did it do? She merely |
laughed at me. Don't you understand? ? |
That is what she is here for. Her
whole voyage is for that one purpose;
end it's not likely the woman is going
to forego her triumph after having
succeeded-more especially as some
body else in the same Office has failed.
That's what gives additional zest to
what she has done. The fact that Riv-
ers has failed and she has succeeded,
seems TO be the great feather in her
cap
Then" said Kenyon, II am going
to appeal TO Miss Brewster myself"
Very well. / wish you joy of your
job. Do what you can, John, there's
a good fellow. Meanwhile want to be
alone somewhere"
Wentworth went down the stairway
that led to the steerage department,
and for a few moments sat among the
steerage passengers. Then he climbed
up another ladder, and got to the very
front of the ship. Here he sat down on
coil of rope and thought over the
situation. Thinking, however, did him
very little good. He realized that even
il he got hold of the paper Miss Brews-
ter had, she could easily write out an
other. She had the facts in her head,
and all she needed to do was TO get to