The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-01-08

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Going to eat ?" asked the latter.
YES"
"Very well; I'll go with you. 1
couldn't STAY last night TO hove talk
with you over the meeting, but what
did you think of ito"
well, 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"
$50 do l. 1t doesn't strike you that
they went off a little too smoothly,
does ito
What do you mean?"
Il don't know exactly what l mean.
] merely wanted to get your opinion
about it. You see, | have attended a
great many gatherings of this sort, and
il struck me there was a certain cut-and-
driednesS about the meeting. l can't
say whether it impressed me favorably
or unfavorably, but noticed it."
81 still don't understand what you
mean"
well, as a general thing, in such
meetings, when man gets up and pro-
poses a certain action there is some
opposition, or somebody has sugges-
tiOn to 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, it appeared
to me rather an extraordinary thing
to do, unless he had consulted Melville
beforehand"
Perhaps he had done so.'
''Yes, perhaps. What do you think
of it ALP"
Kenyon unused 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 l suspect. l
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 a renewal
of the option. Don't you see that when
they get over there, allowing them 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 to report unfa-
!vorably."
'Yes, 1 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 I'M
favorably on what we have stated. We
thaye understated the case in every in
stance"
II know that. l am perfectly well
aware of that. Everything is all right if
--if-Longworth is dealing honestly
with US. If he is not, everything is all
wrong, and l should feel great deal
easier if we had in our possession an
other three months option of the mine.
We are now at the flag end of this OPP
Fion, and it seems to me, as protection
10 ourselves. we ought either to write
10 Won Brent-by the way, have you
ever written to him?"
Il wrote one letter telling him how
we were getting on, but have received
10 answer. Perhaps lie is not in OF
tava at present"
We'll, l think you ought to go to the
mines with LongwoTth and Melville. 1t
rs the conjunction of those two men that
makes me suspicious. l can't tell what
I suspect. can give nothing definite
hut l have a 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
10 so 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.
Il don't want to worry you about ii
but / do want your candid opinion.
What had we better do?"
1T seems to me- said John. after a
pause, that we can do nothing. 1t is
a very perpleXiHg situation. l think,
llONNhGL We SiiN'd41 Ia II IL ONfl III OttA
minds for a few days. and then l can
get TO America in plenty Of time, if nee
essary.''
Very well; suppose we give them
len days 10 get TO the mine and reply.
If no reply comes by the eleventh day.
then YOU viii still have eighteen OF
nineteen days before the option eX-
pires. Put it at twelve days. pro
pose, if you hear nothing by then, you
go over
Right" said John; I'VE may take
that Is settled"
by the way, You got an invitation.
did you not?"
Yes
Are you going?"
Il do not know. ! should like 10
go, and yet, you know. am entirely
unused 10 fashionable assemblages. !
should not know what to say or do
while | was there
"As / understand. it is not to be \
fashionable party. but merely a little
friendly gathering which Miss Long
worth gives because her cousin