The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-05
Anywhere. if yo., let me accompany

you"
81 shall be most delighted to have
you. 1 won't say merely trifle de-
lighted"
'Ah! Haven't you forgiven that re-
mark yet?"
There's nothing to forgive, and it
is quite too delicious to forget. shall
never forget it."
II believe that you are very cruel at
heart. Miss Brewster"
The young woman gave him curious
side look, but did not answer. She
gathered the wraps she had taken from
the cabin, and. handing them to 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 it, and am sure it is i'm
possible to pay you more graceful
know how to arrange one comfortably
in steamer chair"
"You speak as though you had vast
experience in steamer life: and yet you
told me this was your first voyage"
1T is. But it doesn't take a woman
more than 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 a patient man you are, Mr.. Went
worth"
"Yes, Miss Brewster, you are for
eigner. I 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 it we'll.
and think you ought not to grudge me
the pleasure of adding my own little
improvements"
"Oh, if you put it that way, 1 will not.
Now. before l sit down, tell me what
book L can get that will interest you.
The library contains very good as
sortment."
81 don't think care about reading.
Sit down and talk. suppose l am too
indolent to-day. l thought, when l
came on board, that would do lot of
reading. but l 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 l 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, have apparently stumbled into
worse error. was just going to say
I would like your conversation much
better than a book. when l thought you
would take that as reflection on your
reading. If you take me up so sharply.
I will sit here and say nothing. Now.
then, talk"
What shall say?"
''Oh, if told you what to say should
be doing the talking. Tell me about
yourself. What do you do in London ~
II work hard. 1 am an accountant"
"And what is an accountant? What
does he do? Keep accounts?"
Some of them do: l do not. 1 see,
rather, that accounts other people keep
have been correctly kept"
"Aren't they always correctly kept
1 thought that was what bookkeepers
were hired for"
eff books were always correctly kept
there would be little for us to do; but
it happens, unfortunately for some but
fortunately for us. that people occa-
sionally do not keep their accounts &C
curately."
and can you always find that out if
you examine the books?'
Always"
Cant a man make his accounts so
that no one can tell that there is any.
thing wrong?"
THE belief that such thing can be
done has placed many a poor wretch in
prison. 1t has been tried often enough"
81 am sure they can do it in the states.
1 have read of it being done and con-
tinued for years. Men have made off
with great sums of money by falsify-
ing the books. and no one found it out
until the one who did it died or ran
'away."
Nevertheless. if an expert accountant
had been called in he would have found
out very soon that something was
wrong. and just where the wrong was
and how much"
Il didn't think such cleverness pos
sible. Have you ever discovered any
thing like that?"
Il have"
What is done when such a thing is
discovered?"
That depends upon circumstances.
Usually policeman is called in
why. it's like being detective. 1
wish you would tell me about some of
the cases you have had. Don't make me
ask too many questions Talk"
II don't think my experiences would
interest you in the least. There was one
case with which had something to do
in London two years ago that"
"Oh. London. don't believe the book
keepers there are half so sharp as ours.
If you had to deal with American ac-
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