The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-03-04

Iivhiscu LOT nluNulg tne report!
What do / think of them?" repeated
the girl.
YES, what do you think of them?
You hesitate. You realize that YOU are
in corner. You think Mr.. Wentworth
and Mr.. Kenyon did very nobly in re-
fusing Rivers offcr?"
Certainly do"
80 do I. think they acted rightly,
and did as any honorable men should
do. Now, when you think that, Miss
Longworth, how dare you come and
offer me double, OF three times, or four
times, the amount my paper gives to me
for getting this information DO you
think that nm any less honorable than
Kenyon and Wentworth? Your offer
is an insult to ,ne--nobody but q woman,
and woman of your class, would have
made 1T. You come here to bribe me.
You come here to do exactly the same
thing that j. Il. Rivers tried to do for
the Argus in Canada. You think money
will purchase anything, that is the
thought of your class. Now, ] want
you to understand that am a woman
of the people. was born and brought
up in poverty in New York You were
born and brought up, amid luxury, in
London. have suffered privations and
bardships that you know nothing of,
and, even if you read about them, you
wouldn't understand. You, with the
impudence of youI-chss, think You can
come to me and SffSe me 20 betray INV
employer. am here to do n certain
thing, and ain going TO do that certain
thing in spite of all the money that all
the Longworths ever possessed, or ever
will possess. Do | make myself sufii-
ciently plain?"
Certainly, Miss Brewster. ] don't
think anyone could misunderstood
you."
well, L am glad of that, because one
can never tell how thickheaded some
people may be-"
DO you think there is uny parallel
between your case and Mr.. Went
worth's?"
"Of course do. We are each sent to
do certain piece of work. We have
both been offered a bribe to cheat our
employers OF the fruits of our labor;
only in my case it is very much " orsc
than i'll Wentworth's, because his em-
ployers would not have suffered, while
mine will"
This is all very plausible, Miss Brew
ster, but now allow me to tell you that
what you have done is n most dishon-
orable thing, and that you are disgrace
10 our common womanhood. You have
managed, during very short acquaint-
nnce, to win the confidence of a man
there is class OF woman who know how
10 do that thank Heaven am not of
that class; l prefer 10 belong to the
class you have just now been reviling.
Some men have an inherent respect for
all women; Mr.. Wentworth is appar-
emily one of those, and, while he was
on his guard with man, he was not on
his guard with woman. You took adj
vantage of that, and you managed to Sc
cure certain information which you
knew he would never have given YOU if
he had thought it was to bc published.
You stole that information just as dis
reputably as that man stole tine docu-
nlents from Mr.. Kenyon's pocket. You
talk of your honor and your truth when
you did such contemplate thing!
You pirate of unbribeableness, when the
only method possible is adopted of MAX
ing you do what is right and just and
honest! Your conduct makes me
ashamed of being woman. a thor
oughly bad woman can understand,
but not woman like you, who trade on
the fact that you are woman, and that
YOU are pretty, and that you have
pleasing manner. You use those quail
tiles as a thief or n countcrfeiter would
use the peculiar talents God had given
MIN. How dare you pretend for u mo-
ment that your case is similar to Mr..
Nentworth's? Mr.. Wentworth is an
honorable man, engaged in an honor
able business; as for you and your busi-
ness, have no words 10 expire SIS my con-
tempt for both. Picking pockets is
reputable compared with such work"
Edith Longworth was now standing
up, her face flushed and her hands
clenched. She spoke with vehemence
which she very much regretted when
she thought of the circumstance after
""'uS' Duo uhc SndS III anu ulSdDlOiut- |
ment at failure, where she had a mo-
ment before been sure of success, over |
came her. Her opponent stood before |
her, angry and pale. At first Edith |
Ilongworth thought she was going to |
strike her, but if any such idea passed |
through the brain of the newspaper
woman she thought better of it. For n !
few moments neither spoke, then Jen-
ME Brewster said, in voice of unnat-
ural calmness:
You are quite welcome 10 your opin-
ion of me, Miss Longworth, and / pre-
same | am entitled to my opinion OF
Kenyon and Wentworth. They are two
FOOLS, and you are third in thinking
you can control the actions of woman
where two young men have failed. Do
iou think for moment would grant
10 you. woman of class hate, what
would not grant to a young man like
NentworthP They say there is no fool
ike an old fool, but il should be said
mat there is no fool like a young wom-
IN who has had everything her own
way in this world. You are"
II will not stay and listen TO your
lbuse. L wish To have nothing more TO
10 w III you"
"oh, yes, you will stay!" cried the
'ther, placing her back against the
loor. You came here at your own
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