The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-06-02

He imagined at once that It was vou
Brent, who wished to see him with re,
gard to some fcrmality relating to the
transfer, and he was, therefore, very
much astonished, in fact, for a moment
speechless, to see Mr.. William Long,
worth enter and calmly gaze round the
rather shabby room with his critical
eyeglass.
"Ah," he said, "these are your dig
gings, are they2 This is what they call
Il dollar hotel l suppose, over here,
Well, some people may like it, but |
iconfess I don't care much about it my
lself. Their three or four-dollar-a-day
hotels are bad enough for me. By the
way, you look rather surprised to see
me. Being strangers together in a
strange country, expected a warmer
greeting. You said last night, in front
Iof the Russell house, that it would
please you very much to give me n
warm greeting; perhaps you would like
to do so tonight"
Have you come up here to pro-
woke quarrel with me?" asked Ken
lyon.
"Oh, bless you, no. QUARREL Moth
ling Of the sort What would 1 want
ito quarrel about?"
Perhaps you will be good enough to
tell me why you came here, then?"
very reasonable request, very rea-
'sonable indeed, and perfectly natural,
but still quite unnecessary. 1t is not
likely that man would climb up here
into your room, and then not be pre-
pared to tell you why he came, in the
first place, to congratulate you on the
beautiful and dramatic way in which
you secured the mine at the last mo-
ment, or apparently at the last mo-
ment. suppose you had the money
all along?"
"No, 1 had not"
"Then you came in to Won Brent just
as soon as you received it?"
"Well, now, don't see that it is the
business of anyone else but myself.
Still, If you want to know, have no OBJ
lection to saying that I came to Mr..
Won Brcnt's room at the moment re-
'ceived the money"
Really! Then it was sent over by
cable, presumed"
"Your presumption is entirely cor
rect"
'My dear Kenyon" said the young
man, seating himself without being
asked, and gazing at John in benevol-
ient kind of way, "you really show some
little temper over this affair of ours.
Now here is the whole thing in nut
shell"
"My dear sir, don't wish to hear the
whole thing in nutshell. know all
about it. All wish to know
'Ah, precisely, of course you do,
certainly, but nevertheless let me have
my say. Here is the whole thing ]
tried to-well, to cheat you. Thought
j could make little money by doing so,
and my scheme failed. Now if any
body should be in bad temper, it is I,
not you. Don't you see that? You arc
not acting your part well at all. I'm
astonfshed at you!"
'NMr. Longworth, wish to have moth
ing whatever to say to you. Ii you
have anything to ask, 1 wish you would
ask it as quickly as possible, and then
leave me alone"
''The chief fault l find with you, Ken.
yon," said Longworth, throwing one leg
over the other, and clasping his hands
around his knee, "the chief fault l have
to find, is your painful lack of a sense o!
humor Now, you remember last nigh
I offered you the managership Of th,
mine. 1 thought certainly that by this
time to-day should be the owner of it
or, at least, one Of the owners. Now
you don't appear to appreciate The
funniness of the situation. Here yor
are, the owner Of the mine, and am ou
in the cold-'left,' as they say here il
America. l am the man who i:
left
IF that is all you have to talk about,
said Kenyon gravely, 81 must ask yol
to allow me to go on with my packing
l am going to the mine Tomorrow
Certainly, my dear fellow, go a
once, and never mind me. Can be o.
any assistance to you? 1t requires &
special genius, you know, to pack :
portmanteau properly. But what
wanted to say was this-why didn't you
turn around, when you had got the
mine, and offer me the managership ot
it? Then you could have had YOU
revenge. The more l think Of that
episode in Won Brent's Office, the more
think you utterly failed to realize the
dramatic possibilities of the situation
Kenyon was silent.
Now all this time you are wondering
why i came here. Doubtless, you wish
to know what want"
81 have not the slightest interest in
the matter" said Kenyon.
THAT is ungracious, but nevertheless
l will continue. 1t is better, see, to be
honest with you, il a person wants to
get anything out of you. Now l want to
get bit of information out of you.
want to know where you got the money
with which you bought the mine?"
Il got it from the bank"
"Ah, yes, but l want to know who
sent it over to you"
1T was sent to me by George Went
worth"
quite so, but now lwant to know
who gave Wentworth the money!"
"You will have chance of finding
that out when you go TO England by
asking him"
"Then you won't, tell me?" .. 2.
81 can't tell you"
You mean by that, Of course, that
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