The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-03-05

promised for making the report?"
What do think of them?" repeated
the girl.
"Yes, what do you think of them?
You hesitate. You realize that you are
in a corner. You think Mr.. Wentworth
and Mr.. Kenyon did very nobly in re-
fusing Rivers offer?"
Certainly 1 do"
$50 do l. l think they acted rightly,
and did as any honorable men should
do. Nov, when you think that, Miss
Longworth, how dare you come and
offer Inc double, or three times, or four
times, the amount my paper gives to me
for getting this information? Do you
think that I am any less honorable than
Kenyon and Wentworth? Your offer
is an insult to ,ne-nobody but d woman,
and woman of your class, would have
made it. You come hero to bride me.
You come here to do exactly the same
thing that J. X. Rivers tried to do for
the Argus in Canada. You think money
will purchase anything, that is the
thought of your class. Now, / want
you to understand that l am a woman
of the people. was born and brought
up in poverty in New York. You were
born and brought up, amid luxury, in
London: Ihave suffered privations and
bardships that you know nothing of,
and, even if you read about them, you
wouldn't understand. You, with the
impu,ience of your class, think you can
come to me and bride me tn betray my
employer. 1 am here to do a certain
thing, and am going to do that certain
thing in spite of all the money that all
the Longworths ever possessed, or ever
will possess. Do 1 make myself suffi-
GENTLY plain?"
Certainly, Miss Brewster. I don't
think anyone could misunderstood
YOU"
well, am glad of that, because one
people may be-"
do you think there is any parallel
| between your case and Mr.. Went
| worth's?"
'Of course do. We are each sent to
| do certain piece Of work. We have
| both been offered bride to cheat our
| employers of the fruits of our labor;
only i'll my case it is very much worse
| than i'll Wentworth's, because his en-
| ployers would not have suffered. while
mine will"
This is all very plausible, Miss Brew
ster, but now allow me to tell you that
what you have done is most dishon-
orable thing, and that you are 4 disgrace
| to our common wonlanhood. You have
managed, during very short acquaint-
ance, to win the confidence of man
| there is n class OF woman who know how
to do that thank Heaven am not of
that class; 1 prefer to belong to the
| class you have just now been reviling
Some men have an inherent respect for
all women; Mr.. Wentworth is appar-
emily one of those, and, while he was
| on his guard with a man, he was not on
his guard with a woman. You took adj
vantage of that, and you managed to Sc
cure certain information which you
knew he would never have given you il
he had thought it was to be published
| You stole that information just as dis
| reputably as that man stole tine docu-
nlents from Mr. kenyon's pocket. You
talk of your honor and your truth when
you did such a contemplate thing!
| You pirate of unbribeableness, when the
only method possible is adopted of max
ing you do what Is right and just and
| honest! Your conduct makes me
ashamed OF being a woman A thor
| oughly bad woman can understand,
but not 4 woman like you, WHO trade on
the fact that you are q woman, and that
you are pretty, and that you have q
pleasing manner. You use those quail
tiles as n thief or a countcrfeiter would
use the peculiar talents God had given
him. How dare you pretend for a mo-
ment that your case is similar to Mr.
| Nentworth's? Mr.. Wentworth is ar
honorable man, engaged in an honor
able business; as for you and your bust
| pess, have no words TO expires my con-
tempt for both. Picking pockets is
reputable compared with such work"
| Edith Longworth was now standing
| up, her face flushed and her hands
clenchcd. She spoke with veheInence
which she very much regretted when
she thought of the circumstance after
wards; but the chagrin and disappoint
| ment at failure, where she had 4 mo-
ment before been sure of success, over.
came her. Her opponent stood before
her, angry and pale. At first Edith
Longworth thought she was going to
strike her. but if any such idea passed
through the brain of the newspaper
woman she thought better of it. For j
| few moments neither spoke, then Jen-
ME Brewster said, in n voice of unnat
ural calmness:
You are quite welcome to your opin-
ion of me, Miss Longworth, and pre-
sulne l am entitled to my opinion of
Kenyon and Wentworth. They are two
| fools, and you are third in thinking
| you can control the actions of a woman
| where two young men have failed. Do
you think for moment 1 would grant
to you, a woman of a class hate, what
l would not grant to young man like
Wentworth? They say there is no fool
| like an old fool, but it should be said
that there is no fool like a young wom-
an who has had everything her own
way in this world. You are"
Il will not stay and listen to your
abuse. l wish to have nothing more to
do with you"
'Oh. yes. you will stay" cried the
other, placing her back against the
door. You came here at your own