The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-04-03


Kenyon was on his way TO lunch next
day when he met Wentworth at the
door.
"Going to eat ?" asked the latter.
eyes"
"yery well; I'll go with you.
couldn't stay last night TO have talk
with you over the meeting; but what
did you think of itP"
"Well, considering the articles when
appeared in the morning, and consid-
ering also the exhibition made OF my
self in attempting 10 explain the merits
of the mine, / think things went OF
rather smoothly"
$50 do /. II doesn't strike you that
they went off too smoothly, does itT
"What do you mean?"
81 don't know exactly what mean.
merely wanted TO get your opinion
about il. You see. have attended
great many gatherings of this sort, ana
g. struck me there was certain cutcanu-
driedness about the meeting. can't
saw whether IL impressed me favorably
or unfavorably, but noticed It,"
at still don't understand what you
mean
"Well. as a general thing. In such
meetings, when man gets up and pro-
noses a certain action there rs some
opposition, or somebody has sugges-
ton 10 make, or something better TO
propose, or thinks he has, and so there
is a good deal of talk. Now when King
got up and proposed calmly that Mel,
willie should go TO America, 1t appeared
20 me rather an extraordinary thing
20 do. unless he had consulted Melville
beforehand"
perhaps he had done So
"Yes, perhaps. What do you think
of IL ALP"
KENYON unused for moment before
he replied: "As said before, thought
things went of very smoothly. Whom
do YOU suspect--young LongworthY
az do not know whom / suspect
am merely getting anxious about The
shortncss of the time. l think myseli
YOU ought TO go to America Ihere u
nothing 70 be done here. You shoulo
go. see Won Brent, and get renewa
of the option. Don'ty you see that wher
they gct over there, allowing them n few
days In New York, and n day or two Z
pet out TO the mine, we shall have little
more than a week after the cable dis
patch comes in which 10 do anything
should they happen 10 report unfa
vorably."
ayes. 1 see that. Still. IL is only
ouestion OF facts on which they have 4
report, and you know as well as l d
that no truthful men can report IN
favorably on what we have stated. w
hive understated the case IN every in
stance"
81 know that. / am perfectly we
nware of that. Everything is all right
--if-I.ohgworth is dealing honestl
with us. IL he Is not, everything Is a
wrong, and / should feel great de'
casier IL we had in our possession on
other three months option of the min'
we are now at the flag end of this OF
ton. and 10 seems TO me, as protecuo
TO ourselves. we ought either to writ
10 Won Brcnt-by the way, have 20
ever written to bimY"
sI wrote one letter telling him no
we were getting on, but have receive
no answer. Perhaps he Is not In O
tawa at present"
sswell. think you ought TO go to u
mines with Longworth and Melville.
u - onjunction of those two men tn
makes me suspicious. | can't tell VIII
suspect ] can give nothing delni'
hut have n vague uneasiness when
.hlnk that the man who tried TO M
lead us regarding the value OF the mi
crai Is going with the man who has !
Ms i-to all this expense; ne VINO Iei I,l.
40 GO into rne matter in the first plas