The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-05-06

day when he met Wentworth at the
door.
Going TO eat ?" asked the latter.
"Yes"
Very well; I'll 60 with you. 1
couldn't stay last night to have a talk
with you over the meeting, but what
did you think of it?'
"Wcll, considering the articles which
appeared in the morning, and consid-
ering also the exhibition ! made of my
self in attempting to explain the merits
of the mine, think things went off
rather smoothly"
80 do /. 1t doesn't strike you that
they went off too smoothly, does it?"
"What do you mean?"
81 don't know exactly what ] mean.
I merely wanted to get your opinion
about it. You see. / have attended
great many gatherings OF this sort, and
il struck me there was "A certain cut-and-
driedness about the meeting. can't
say whether it impressed me favorably
or unfavorably, but noticed it,
81 still don't understand what you
mean"
well. as general thing, in such
meetings. when a man gets up and pro-
poses n certain action there is some
opposition. or somebody has a sugges-
ton to make, or something better to
propose, or thinks he has. and so there
is good deal of talk Now when King
got up and proposed calmly that Mel
vile should go TO America, it appeared
TO me rather an extraordinary thing
a. 4 I L 4 n ~
beforehand"
Perhaps he had done so.'
''Yes, perhaps. What do you think
of it ALP"
Kenyon mused for moment before
he replied: "As said before. thought
things went off very smoothly. Whom
do you suspect-young Longworth?"
81 do not know whom | suspect. ]
am merely getting anxious about the
shortness of the time. | think myself
you ought to go to America. There is
nothing to be done here. You should
go, see Won Brent, and get n renewal
of the option. Don't you see that when
they get over there, allowing them n few
days in New York, and day or two to
get out to the mine, we shall have little
more than week after the cable dis
patch comes in which to do anything,
should they happen 10 report unfa-
vorably."
"Yes, / see that. Still. it is only a
question of facts on which they have to
report, and you know as well as | do
that no truthful men can report un-
favorably on what we have stated. We
have undcrstated the case in every in
stance"
81 know that. ! am perfectly well
aware of that. Everything is ali right il
--if-Longworth is dealing honestly
with us. IL he is not, everything is all
wrong, and / should feel great deal
easier If we had in our possession an
other three months option of the mine
We are now at the fag end of this op-
tion, and it seems to me, as protection
TO ourselves, we ought either to write
to Won Brent-by the way, have you
ever written to bim?"
81 wrote one letter telling him how
we were getting on, but have received
no answer. Perhaps he is not in OF
tawa at present"
'Well, | think you ought to go to the
iltintS NitiI WI htiNlllt. "
is the injunction of those two men that
makes me suspicious. | can't tell what
l suspect. / can give nothing definite
but | have n vague uneasiness when
think that the man who tried to mis-
lead us regarding the value of the min
eral is going with the man who has led
us into all this expense; he who refused
to go into the matter in the first place.
pretended he had forgotten all about il
in the second place, and then suddenly
developed an interest"
John knitted his brows and said moth
ing.
II don't want to worry you about it
hut l do want your candid opinion.
What had we better do?"
at seems to me-" said John, after n
pause. that we can do nothing. 1t is
a very perplexing situation. l think.
however, we should turn il over in our
minds for a few days, and then l can
get to America in plenty of time, if nee
essary.'
Every we'll; suppose we give them
len days 10 get 10 the mine and reply.
IL no reply comes by the eleventh day.
then you will still have eighteen or
nineteen days before the option eN-
pires. Put it at twelve days. | pro
pose, if you hear nothing by then, you
go over"
Right said John; 1--WE may TAX.
that as settled"
by the way, you got an invitation.
aid you not?"
Yes"
"Are you going?"
II do not know. I should like to
70, and yet, you know, am entirely
amused to fashionable assemblages.
should not know what TO say or do
while i was there"
'As l understand, it is not to be
fashionable party, but merely little
friendly gathering which Miss Long
worth gives because her cousin
is about to sail for Canada
don't want TO fatter you,
John, but 1 imagine Miss Long
worth would be rather disappointed if
you did not put in appearance. Be
sides, as we are partners with Long
worth in this, and as he is going away
on account of the mine, l think it would
be q little ungracious of us not to CO."
"Very well; l will go. Shall l call
for you, or will you come for me%