The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1897-01-16


best done in solitude. Kenyon. so will
not bother you for an hour or two"
Again Kenyon smiled. but made no
reply, and Wentworth departed.
The elderly gentleman whose chair
was next TO Kenyon's. looked round at
the young man when his friend men
toned the mine and his name
"Are you Mr.. Kenyon, the mining ex-
pert?" he asked. when Wentworth
walked away.
Il am mining engineer" answered
Kenyon, with some surprise.
did you go out to Canada to report
Gu mines there for the London syndi-
cate?"
"Why do you ask?' said Kenyon. all
his native caution being aroused in a
moment, on hearing the astonishing
question.
The elderly gentleman laughed. "Be-
cause / am, in q measure, responsible
for YOU" he said. II am Mr.. Long
worth-John Longworth. of the city
and a member of the London syndi-
cate. Two names were proposed
Sections and yours. voted for you;
not that l knew anything about you,
but some OF the others seemed very
anxious that Section should go, so
thought 1t best to vote for you. There
fore, you see, as 1 said before, 1 am
partly responsible for your being
here"
81 hope you will not be dissatisfied
with the result, Mr.. Longworth."
81 hope not myself. 1 can see that
you are a cautious man, and those who
recommended you vouched for your
capabilities, so with caution and ca
pacity man should succeed. INTENDED
to visit the properties. but / was de-
tanned so long in the west that did
not have time to go north. How did
you find the mines? ?"
"Since you complimented me on my
caution. Mr.. Longworth, should be
sorry TO forfeit your good opinion by
answering your questions"
quite right; quite right" said the
elderly gentleman. laughing again.
"Thats one for you, and very good
one, too. must tell that to my daugh-
ter; and here she comes. Edith, my
dear. this is Mr.. Kenyon, who went
out TO examine our mines. Curious,
isn't IL, that we should have been talk
ing about them this very morning?
Mr.. Kenyon, L call my daughter my
confidential man OF business; she has
been all over the world with me. 1
never make any investments without
consulting her, so warn you that she
will ask you more insidious questions
about the mines than / shall"
John Kenyon had risen to his feet
to greet the girl and to offer her his
chair.
"No, thank you," she said. II want
to walk. merely came to see IL my
father was all right. was very much
disappointed that we did not go to
Canada this time, as wished TO
see something of the snow-shoeing and
tobogganing there. / suppose there
was no tobogganing where you were ?"
"Oh, yes" said Kenyon: even out
among the mines they had a tobog-
gan slide, on which one trip satisfied
me; and on several journeys 1 had To
wear snow-shoes myself"
"How interesting" said the girl.
And the next thing John knew he was
walking the deck with her. relating his
experiences. This walk was the first
of many. and from that time forward
Kenyon did not miss his friend Went
worth.
| Edith Longworth can hardly be called
a typical representative of the Eng
lish girl. She had an English girls
education, but she had not the train
ing OF the average English girl. She
had lost her mother early in life. which
makes a great difference In a girls
training, however wealthy her father
may be; and Ediths father was
wealthy, there was no doubt of that
| Ask any city man about the standing OF
John Longworth, and you will learn
that the "house" Is well thought of.
People said he was lucky, but John
Longworth asserted that there was no
such thing as luck in business-in
which statement he was very likely
not correct. He had large investments
in almost every quarter Of the globe
When he went into n thing he went
into IL thoroughly. People talk OF the
individuality of putting all ones eggs
into one basket, but John Longworth
was believer in doing that very thing
and in watching the basket. Not that
he had all his eggs in one basket, or in
even one kind of a basket, but when
John Longworth was satisfied with the
particular variety OF basket presented
to him he put n large number of eggs
in IL. When anything was offered for
nvestmcnt-whether IL was n mine, u
brewery or n rnilway--John Longworth
took an experts opinion upon il, and
then the chances were that he would
disregard the advice given. lie was i'm
the habit of going personally to sec
what had been offered 10 him. IL the
enterprise were big enough he thought
little of taking n voyage to the other
side of the world for the sole purpose
OF looking the investment over.
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