The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1897-01-29

much astonished, in fact, for a moment
! speechless, to- see Mr.. William Long
worth enter and calmly gaze round the
rather shabby room with hi. critical
! eyeglass.
"Ah," he said, ''these are. your dig
| gings, are they? This is what they call
a dollar hotel, I suppose, over here
| Well, some people may like it, but /,
| confess / don't care much about it my
| self. Their three or four-dollar-a-day
hotels are bad enough for me. By the
way, you look rather surprised to see
me. Being strangers together in
strange country, expected warmer
| greeting. You said last night, in front
of the Russell house. that it would
please you very much to give me
warm greeting; perhaps you would like
to do SO tonight"
''Have you come up here to pro-
woke quarrel with me?" asked Ken
| yon.
ooh, bless you, no. Quarrel! Moth
ing of the sort What would I want
| to quarrel about?"
perhaps you will be good enough to
| lCIl lAC why yOu hCAC OhCh!
| Every reasonable request, very rea-
sonab1e indeed, and perfectly natural,
but still quite unnecessary. 1t is not
likely that man would climb up here
| into your room, and then not be pre-
| pared to tell you why he came, in the
first place, to congratulate you on the
beautiful and dramatic way in which
you secured the mine at the last mo-
ment, or apparently at the last mo-
ment. 1 suppose you had the money
all along?"
''No, had not"
''Then you came in to Won Brent just
as soon as you received it?"
''Well, now, don't see that it is the
business of anyone else but myself
Still, if you want to know, I have no OBJ
lection to saying that came to Mr..
Won Brent's room at the, moment re-
ceived the money"
Really! Then it was sent over by
cable, presume|
"Your presumption is entirely cor
rect"
my dear Kenyon" said the young
| man, seating himself without being
asked, and gazing at John in benevoi-
ent kind of way, you really show some
| little temper over this affair of ours.
Now here is the whole thing in a nut
| shell"
s'My dear sir, don't wish to hear the
whole thing in nutshell. I know all
about it, All I wish to know
"Ah, precisely, of course you do,
certainly, but nevertheless let me have
my say. Here is the whole thing. /
| tried towel, to cheat you. I thought
1 could make little money by doing so,
| and my scheme failed. Now if any
body should be in bad temper, it is L,
not you. Don't you see that? You arc
not acting your part well at all. I'm
astonished at you!"
''Mr Longworth, wish to have moth
ing whatever to say to you. If you
have anything to ask, wish you would
ask it as quickly as possible, and then
leave me alone"
''The chief fault find with you, Ken
/ yon," said Longworth, throwing one leg
over the other, and clasping his hands
around his knee, ''the chief fault have
to find, is your painful lack of sense Of
humor. Now, you remember last night
offered you the mapagership of the
mine. L thought certainly that by this
time to-day 1 should be the owner of it,
or, at least, one of the owners. Now,
you don't appear to appreciate the
funninesS of the situation. Here you
are, the owner of the mine, and am out
in the cold-left,' as they say here in
America. / am the man who is
| left"
eff that is all you have to talk about"
said Kenyon gravely, 81 must ask you
to allow me to go on with my packing.
I am going to the mine tomorrow
Certainly, my dear fellow, go at
once, and never mind me. Can 1 be Of
any assistance to you? 1t requires a
special genius, you know, to pack a
portmanteau properly. But what 7
wanted to say was this-why didn't you
I turn around, when you had got the
mine, and offer me the managership Of
it? Then you could have had your
revenge The more 1 think of that
episode in Won BrenG's Office, the more
[ think you utterly failed to realize the
dramatic possibilities of the situation"
Kenyon was silent.
''Now all this time you are wondering
why / came here. Doubtless, you wish
to know what I want
II have not the slightest interest in
the matter" said Kenyon.
''That is ungracious, but nevertheless
will continue 1t is better, see, to be
honest with you, if a person wants to
get anything out of you. Now want to
get bit of information out of you.
want to know where you got the money
with which you bought the mine?"
Il got it from the bank"
"Ah, yes, but l want to know who
sent it over to you"
cit was sent to me by George Went
worth"
Quite so, but now want to know
who gave Wentworth the money!
/ You will have chance of finding
! that ont when Won oO 10 FnUland nv