The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-02-11

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Then I think your profession must
ts a very important one
I'VE thfnk 70. Miss brewster. I wouid
Ike 10 be paid a percentage on the
money saved beczuAc Of my report
-And Won't your
-Unf0rtunzieIy no.
4 think tha; IL too bad. Iruppoee the
. discrepancy must have bcen small. or
Z the American accountant would not
i have overlooked it,
/ + didn't Eay tba, b. had overlooked ii
. stiIl. t'se size Of the discrepancy does
not make the difference. 4 small error
. IL aa easily found a. . large one. This
I one wss large. / suppose there is no
harm in my saying tha; the books. tax
E ing them together, showed a profit Of
& cSOOO0. when they should have shown
Ioes Of nearly half that amount. /
I hope nobody oveghears me-
-NO; We are quite alone. and you may
be sure will not breathe word Of what
sou have been telling me-
~DOn's breathe II 10 Kenyon. a: least.
IIe would think me insane If he knew
what hage said
is Mr. Kenyon an accountant. too2@
"Oh. no. He is q rnineral0gis,. lie can
20 into a mine and tell with a reason
able certainty whether il will pay the
working Of IL or not. OF course. as be
says himself, any man can see six feet
into the earth as well as he can. But il
S not every man that can gauge the
value Of a working mine ~ well as John
Kenyon"
Then while you were dclying among
The figures. your companion was dely-
ing among the mineralsy'
Precisely"
And did he make any such startling
1iscoscry as you didY'
NO: rather the other way. He finds
the mines very good properties, and he
thinks that II they are managed intelIi-
gently they will be good-pa wing invest
ments-that Ia, at "a proper price, you
know-nOt at what the owners ask for
them at present. But you can have no
possible interest in these dry details"
Indeed, you are mistaken. think
what you have told me intensely inter
estiug."
For once IN her life Miss Jennie Brew
Stcr told the exact truth. The unfor-
tunate man at her side was fattcred.
''For what have told you,' he said,
eve were offered twice " hat the Lon
don people pay us for coming out here.
In fact, even more than that. We were
asked TO name our own price,
Really now. BY the owners Of the
property, ] suppose, H. you wouldn't tell
on them?"
mo. by one OF your famous New
York newspaper men. lie even went 20
far as to steal the papers that Kenyon
bad in Ottawa. He was clcyerly caught,
though, before lac coIld make any use Of
what he had stolen. In fact, unless his
people in New York had the figures which
were originally placed before the Lon
don board doubt IL my statistics would
have been OF much use TO him. even if
he had been allowed 10 keep them. The
full significance OF my report will not
show until the figures have given are
compared with those already in the
hands Of the London people, which were
vouched for as correct by your clever
American accountant"
you shouldn't run down an ac-
countant just because he Is an Amer
Jean. Perhaps there will come a day.
Mr.. Wentworth. when you will admit
that there are Americans who are more
clever than either that accountant or
that newspaper man. don't think
your specimens are typical"
81 don't run down. az you call it, the
men because they are Americans. /
run down the accountant because he
was either ignorant or corrupt. run
down the newspaper man because he
was thief"
Miss brewster was silent for few
moments. She was hnprcssing on her
memory what he had said TO her and
was anxious TO get away, SO that she
could write out in her cabin exactly
what had been told her. The sound of
Che lunch gong gave her the excuse she
needed, so, bidding her victim pleas
ant and friendly farewell, she hurried
from the deck to her stateroom.