The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-02-04
Anywhere. If yon lie, me accompany

you. | won't say merely trifle de-
lighted"
"Ahl Haven't you forgiven that re-
mark yet?"
There's nothing 10 forgive. and IL
is quite too delicious to forget. ] shall
never forget 1t"
II believe that you are very cruel at
heart. Miss Brewster"
The young woman gave him n curious
side look, but did not answer. She
gathered the wraps she had taken from
the cabin, and, handing them 20 him
before he had thought of offering TO
take them, they went on deck. He
found there chairs side by side. and ad-
mired the intelligence of the deck stew
ard, who seemed to understand what
chairs to place together. Miss Jennie
sank gracefully into her own, and al
lowed him to adjust the wraps around
her.
There" she said, that's very nicely
done; as well as the deck steward him
self could do il. and am sure IL is i'm
possible to pay you more graceful
compliment than that. So few men
know how to arrange one comfortably
: in a steamer chair"
"You speak as though you had vast
experience in steamer life: aud yet you
told me this was your first voyage"
"1t is. But it doesn't take woman
more than a day TO see that the average
man attends to such little niceties very
clumsily. Now, just tuck in the corner
,, out of sight. There! Thank you. ever
so much. And would you be kind
: enough to-yes, that's better. And
this other wrap so. Oh! that is perfect.
What patient man you are, Mr.. Went
worth"
"Yes, Miss Brewster, you are n for
eigner. / can see that now. Your pro-
fessed compliment was hollow. You
said l did it perfectly, and then i'm
mediatcly directed me how to do it."
; Nothing of the kind. You did il well.
, and think you ought not to grudge me
!, the pleasure of adding my own little
improvements"
'Oh, if you put it that way, l will not.
Now, before / sit down, tell me what
book l can get that will interest you.
The library contains very good as
sortment."
:. II don't think care about reading.
, Sit down and talk. | suppose am too
indolent to-day. l thought, when
came on board, that would do lot of
reading, but believe the sea air makes
one lazy. | must confess feel entirely
Indifferent to mental improvement"
"You evidently do not think my con.
versation will be at all worth listen
ing to-"
"How quick you are to pervert my
meaning. Don't you see that think
your conversation better worth listen
ing to than the most interesting or inn
proving book you can choose from the
library? Really, in trying to avoid
giving you cause for making such re.
mark, l have apparently stumbled into
worse error. l was just going to say
| would like your conversation much
better than book. when | thought you
would take that as reflection on your
reading. If you take me up so sharply
will sit here and say nothing. Now
then, talk"
What shall l say?"
''0h, il l told you what to say / shoul,
4. be doing the talking. Tell me abou
yourself. What do you do in London q
II work hard. l am an accountant
It And what Is an accountant? Wha
does he do? Keep accounts?"
p Some of them do; do not. l see
q rather, that accounts other people keel
have been correctly kept"
e Aren't they always correctly kept
Q I thought that was what bookkeeper
were hired for"
IF books were always correctly KEEP
there would be little for us to do: bu
IT, happens, unfortunately for some bu
= fortunately for us, that people occa
sionally do not keep their accounts &C
u curately."
: And can you always find that out i
you examine the books?"
Always"
Cant man make his accounts S,
that no one can tell that there is any
y thing wrong?"
"The belief that such thing can b.
!, done has placed many poor wretch il
: prison. 1t has been tried often enough.
4 81 am sure they can do il in the states
d l have read OF it being done and con
) tinued for years. Men have made of
d with great sums of money by falsify
II ing the books. and no one found il ou
: until the one who did it died or RAJ
away"
q Nevertheless If an expert accountan
4 had been called in he would have fount
+ out very soon that something wal
r wrong. and just where the wrong wa
and how much"
4 II didn't think such cleverness pos
e sible. Have you ever discovered any
thing like that?"
81 have"
what is done when such a thing i
/ discovered?"
# THAT depends upon circumstances
, Usually policeman is called in"
a why. it's like being detective.
wish you would tell me about some o
t the eases you have had. Don't make m,
o ask too many questions. Talk"
e Il don't think my experiences woulC
l interest you in the least. There was on,
S case with which had something to dc
in London two years ago that"
G "Oh, London. don't believe the book
keepers there are half so sharp as ours
+; If you had to deal with American ac
II countants you would not find out SC