The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-02-24


"Yes. know that also"
"Very well, then Now you ask me
to do very much more than Rivers
asked them; because you ask me to
keep my paper completely in the dark
about the information have got. Isn't
that SOP?
"Yes, you can keep them in the dark
until after the report has been given to
the directors; then, of course, yor can
do what you please with the informa-
ton"
"Ah, by that time it will be of no value.
By that time it will be published in the
London financial papers. At that time
everybody can get it. Isn't that the
case?"
81 suppose So"
"Now, | want to ask you one other
question, Miss-Miss-I don't think you
told me your name"
"My name is Edith Longworth."
"very well, Miss Longworth. I want
to ask YOU one more question. What
do YOU think of the conduct of Mr..
Kenyon and Mr.. Wentworth in refusing
to take double what they had been
promised for making the report?"
'What do l think of them?" repeated
the girl.
eyes, 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 offer?"
Certainly I do"
$50 do l. | 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, or three times, or four
times, the amount my paper gives to me
for getting this information? Do you
think that | am any less honorable than
Kenyon and Wentworth? Your offer
is an insult to me-nobody but II woman,
and woman of your class, would have
made it. You come here to b-ibe me
You come here to do exactly the same
thing that j. X. Rivers tried to do tol
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
l up in poverty in New York. You were
, born and brought up, amid luxury, in
t London. have suffered privations ano
2 hardships that you know nothing of
and, even if you read about them, you
, wouldn't understand. You, with The
l impudence Of your class, think you car
: come to me and bribe me to betray my
cmployer ain here to do a certain
thing, and am going to do that certain
: thing in spite of all the money that al
b the Longworths ever possessed, or evel
will possess. DO | make myself sufli
cicntly plain?"
n Certainly, Miss Brewster dom
:, think anyone could misunderstap'
YOU"
/. "Well, am glad of that, because on
n can never tell how thickheadcd SOM
e people may be-
y
i between your case and Mr.. Went
worth's?"
"Of course do. We are each sent t
IL do certain piece of work We hav
both been offered bribe to cheat on
9 employers of the fruits of our labor
II only in my case it is very much W wors
It than in Wentworth's, because his en-
ployers would not have suffered, Will
y mine will"
II "This is all very plausible, Miss Brew
ster, but now allow me to tell You tina
D. what YOU have done is a most dishor
s. orable thing, and that you are d;ssTac
to our common womanhood. You hav
'r managed, during very short acquain
ance, to win the confidence of man
] there is class OF woman who know ho'
is to do that thank Heaven am not {
that class; l prefer 10 belong to th
le class you have just now been revilin;
s. Some men have an inherent respect fc
ID all women; Mr.. Wentworth is appa
" entity one of those, and, while he Wa
a Dn his guard with man, he was rot o
k. his guard with a woman. You took AZ
e. iuntagc of that, and you managed TO s
~ :ure certain reformation which 20
us Knew he would lever have given you
II he had thought it was to lc publishe
You stole that information Just as di
be leputably as that man stole tine doc
ty ments from Mr.. kcnyon's pocket. Ic
talk of your honor and your truth whe
H., YOU did such contemplate thing
i'll You prate of funbribeableness, when Il
ne only method possible is adopted of ma
'e- ing you do what Is right and just al
Ne honest! Your conduct makes n
of ashamed of being a woman. tho
ne oughly bad woman | can understan
sr, but not woman like you, who trade {
~, the fact that you are a woman, and tn
er you are pretty. and that you have
pleasing manner. You use those qua
tiles as a thief OF counterfeiter wou
ty use the peculiar talents God had giv'
ey him. How dare you pretend for a m
,st ment that your case is similar TO N
on Wentworth's? Mr.. Wentworth is {
re, honorable man, engaged in an hone
I'll. able business; as for you and your bu
| a ness, | have no words 10 express myc