The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-01-20

other. Tgotyour telegram" began the
editor. "Am I to understand from it
that you have failed?"
"Yes, sir" replied the young man,
without the slightest hesitation.
"Completely?"
"Utterly."
didn't you even get synopsis OF
the documents?"
"Not hanged synop."
The editors frown grew deeper. The
ends of his fingers drummed nervously
on the desk.
"You take failure rather jauntily, ii
strikes me-" he said, at last.
"What's the use of taking it any other
wayP I have the consciousness of know
ing that did my best"
"Um, yes. It's great consolation, no
doubt, but 1t doesn't count in the news
paper business. What did you do?"
'''I received your telegram at Montreal
and at once left for Burnt Pine-most
outlandish spot on earth. found that
Kenyon and Wentworth were staying
at the only hotel in the place. Tried to
! worm out of them what their reports
we're to be. They were very polite, but
didn't succeed. Then tried to bribe
them, and they ordered me out of the
room"
Perhaps you didn't offer them
enough"
II offered them double what the Lon
don syndicate was to pay them for max
ing the report, taking their own word
for the amount. couldn't offer more,
because at that point they closed the
discussion by ordering me out of the
room. tried to get the reports that
night, on the quiet, out of Wentworth's
valise, but was unfortunately inter-
rupted. The young men were sus-
picious, and next morning they left for
Ottawa to post the reports, as gath
cred afterward, to England. 1 sue
ceeded in getting hold of the reports,
but / couldn't hang on. There are too
many police in Ottawa to suit me-"
DO you mean to tell me- said the
editor, "that you actually had the re-
ports in your hands and that they were
taken from your"
Certainly I had; and, as to their be,
ing taken from me, it was either that or
Jail. They don't mince matters in Can
ada, as they do in the United States,
you know"
''But l should think q man of your
sbrewdness would have been able to get
at least synopsis Of the reports be-
fore letting them out of your posses
sion."
my dear sir" said the reporter,
rather angry, "the whole thing covered
forget how many pages of foolscap
paper, and was the most mixed-up mat
ter ever saw in my life. / tried
sat in my room at the hotel, and did my
best to master the details. 1t was full
of technicalities, and / couldn't make
it out. 1t required mining expert to
ret the hang of their nbrasea and fig-
ures, SO 1 thought the best thing to do
was to telegraph it all straight
through to New York. I knew it would
cost lot of money, but l knew, also,
you didn't mind that; and l thought
perhaps somebody here could make
sense of what baffled me; besides, I
wanted to get the documents out of my
possession, just as quickly as possible"
Hem" said the editor "You took no
notes whateverp"
"No, did not. had no time. /
knew they missed the docu-
ments they would have the detectives
on my track AS it was, was arrested
when entered the telegraph Office"
"Well. it seems to me-" said the man
aging editor, III ! nad once nau Ine
papers in my hand should not havelet
them 60 until had got the gist of what
was in them"
"Oh, it's all very well for you to say
30, replied the reporter, with the free
and easy manner which exists between
American newspaper men and their em-
ployers, "but l can tell You, with q
Canadian Jail facing a man, it is hard
to decide what is best to do. Icouldn't
get out Of the town for three hours,
and before the end Of that time they