Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1897-02-04


with you over the meeting; but what
did You think Of it?''
"Well, considering the articles which
appeared in the morning, and consid-
erine also The exhibition | made of my
self IN attempting 20 explain the merits
of the mine. I think things went off
rather smoothly"
$50 do l. 1t doesn't strike you that
they went of a little too smoothly,
does it?'
what DO YOU mean?"
Il don't know exactly what l mean.
l merely wanted 10 get your opinion
about il. You see. | have attended a
great many gatherings OF this sort, and
il struck me there was certain cut-and-
driedness about the meeting. l can't
say whether ii impressed me favorably
or uufayorably, but 1 noticed it,"
II stu don't understand what you
mean"
"Wcll, as a general thing, in such
meetings, when a man gets up and pro-
poses a certain action there IS some
opposition, or somebody has a sugges-
ton TO make, or something better TO
propose, or thinks he has, and so there
is good deal of talk. Now when King
got up and proposed calmly that Mel
vile should go TO America, it appeared
to me rather an extraordinary thing
TO do, unless he had consulted Melville
beforehand"
Perhaps he had done so."
Eyes, perhaps. What do you think
of it ALP"
Kenyon unused for moment before
ne replied: "As 1 said before, thought
things went off very smoothly. Whom
do you suspect--young Longworth?"
"I do not know whom | suspect. L
am merely getting anxious about the
shortness Of the time. think myself
you ought TO go 10 America There is
nothing to be done here. You should
go, see Won Brent, and get a renewal
of the option. Don't you see that when
they get over there, allowing them few
days in New York, and a day or two to
get out TO the mine, we shall have little
more than a week after the cable dis
patch comes in which to do anything,
should they happen to report unfa-
yorably."
Eyes, see that. Still, it is only a
question of facts on which they have 10
report, and you know as well as / do
that no truthful men can report un-
favoraply on what we have stated. We
have understated the case in every in
stance"
81 know that. / am perfeC tly well
aware of that Everything is all right if
--if-Longworth is dealing honestly
with us. If he IS not, everything is all
wrong, and l should feel great deal
easier II we had in our possession an
other three months option of the mine,
We are now at the fag end of this op-
ton, and 1t seems 10 me, as protection
to ourselves, we ought either 70 write
to Won Brcnt--by the way, have you
ever written to him ?"
81 wrote one letter telling him how
we were getting on, but have received
no answer. Perhaps he is not in OF
tawa at present"
Well I think you ought to go TO the
mines with Longworth and Melville. 1t
makes me suspicious. / can't tell what
] suspect. l can give nothing definite
but ! have a vague uneasiness when |
think that the man who tried 10 mis-
lead US regarding the value OF the min
eral is going with the man who has led
us into all this expense; he who refused
TO go into the matter in the first place,
pretended he had forgotten all about 1t
in the second place, and then suddenly
developed an interest"
John knitted his brows and said moth
ing.
II don't want TO worry you about it,
but i do want your candid opinion.
What had we better do?"
at seems 10 me-" said John, after n
pause, that we can do nothing. 1t is
"A very perplexing situation. / think,
however, we should turn it over in our
minds for It few days, and then 1 can
get to America in plenty of time, if nee
essary."
Every well; suppose we give them
ten days TO get 10 the mine and reply.
If no reply comes by the eleventh day,
then you will still have eighteen or
nineteen days before the option eX-
pires. Put it at twelve days. / pro
pose, If you hear nothing by then, you
90 over"
Right" said John; eve may take
that rs settled"
by the way, you got an invitation,
did you not?"
"Yes."
''Are you going?"
II do not know. | should like 10
20, and yet, you know, / am entirely
unused TO fashionable assemblages.
should not know what to say or do
while | was there"
Gas ! understand, IL is not to be a
fashionable party, but merely little
friendly gathering which Miss Long
worth gives because her cousin
Is about to sail for Canada.
/ don't want TO fatter you,
worth would be rather disappointed il
you did not put in appearance. BE
sides, as we are partners with Long
worth in this, and as he is going away
on account OF the mine, | think it would
be u little ungracious of us not TO CO."
VERY well; / viii go. Shall / call
for you, or viii you come for mc?"
II viii call for you, and we will &c
there together in "A cab. BE ready abou;
eight o'clock"
The mansion Of the LongworthB was
brilliantly lighted that night, and John
| felt rather faiut-hearted as he stood
on the steps before going in. The
chances are he would not have had the
courage TO announce himself if his
friend Wentworth had not been with
him. George, however, had no sucn
qualms, and was much more used 70
this kind of thing than his comradc
So they went in together and were
warmly greeted by the young hostess.
1T is so kind OF you 10 come" she
said, con such short notice. was
afraid you might have had some prior
engagement and would have found II
Impossible to get here"
"You must not think that OF me, .
said Wentworth. 81 was certain 10
| come; but 1 must confess my friend
: Kenyon here was rather difficult TO
manage. He seems 10 frown on fash
ionablc assemblogeE, and actually had
the coolness to propose that we should
both have prior engagements"
Edith looked rcproachfully at Ken
yon, who flushed 10 the temples, as
was usual with him, and said: