The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-02-03

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Certainly. A thousand of them il
you like; and will answer them all ii
1 can"
"Thank you. Will you tell me, Miss
Brewster, if you are connected with any
newspaper"
Miss Brewster laughed her merry,
silvery, little laugh. "Who told you ?
Ahl l see how it Is. It was that crea-
ture Fleming. I'll get even with him
for this some day. know what office
he is after, and the next time he wants
a good notice from the Argus he'll get
1t; see If he don't know some things
about him that he would just as soon
not see in print. Why, what fool the
man is! 1 suppose he told you out OF
revenge, because I wouldn't speak to
him the other evening. Never mind, I
lean afford to wait"
"Then-then, Miss Brewster, it is
true"
Certainly it is true; is there any
thing wrong about it? hope you don't
think it is disreputable to belong to q
good newspaper"
ITO good newspaper, no; to a bad
newspaper, yes"
"Oh, l don't think the Argus is bad
newspaper. 1t pays we'll"
"Then it is to the Argus that you be-
long?"
Certainly"
MAY / ask, Miss Brewster, if there
is anything l have spoken to you about
that you intend to use in your paper ?"
Again Miss Brewster laughed. 81
will be perfectly frank with you.
never tell lie-it doesn't pay. Yes.
The reason am here is because you are
here. am here to find out what your
report on those mines will be. also
what the report of your friend will be.
I have found out"
"And do you intend to use the infor-
nation you have thus obtained-;f I
may say it-under false pretenses?"
my dear sir, you are forgetting your
self. You must remember that you are
talking to a lady"
"A ladyl" cried Wentworth in his
anguish.
"Yes, sir, lady; and you must be
careful how you talk to this lady.
There was no false pretense about it,
if you remember. What you told me
was in conversation; I didn't ask you
for it. didn't even make the first ad-
vances toward your acquaintance"
"But you must admit, Miss Brew
ster, that it is very unfair to get man
to engage in what he thinks is private
conversation, and then to publish what
he has said"
"My dear sir, if that were the case,
how would we get anything for publ
cation that people didn't want to be
known? Why, remember once, when
the secretary of state"
"Yes," interrupted Wentworth, ,weari-
ly, Fleming told me the story"
"Oh, did he? Well, I'm sure I'm much
obliged to him. Then | need not re-
peat it,"
"Do you mean to say that you intend
to send to the Argus for publication
what have told you in confdence?"
Certainly. AS / said before, that is
what l am here for. Besides, there is
no in confidence about it,"
"And yet you pretend to be a truth
full, honest, honorable woman?"
II don't pretend it, am"
"How much truth, then, is there in
your story that you are millionaire's
daughter about to visit your father in
Paris, and accompany him from there
to the Riviera?'
Miss Brewster laughed brightly.
"Oh, / don't call fibs that person has
to tell in the way of business ,lntruths." "
"Then probably you would not call
what Mr.. j. K. Rivers, of your estimable
paper, did in Ottawa dishonorable?"
swell, hardly. think Rivers was not
justified in what he did, because he was
unsuccessful, that is all. I'll bet dol
lar if l had got hold of those papers
they would have gone through to New
York; but then J. X. Rivers is only a
stupid man, and most men are stupid"
with a shy glance at Wentworth.
81 am willing to admit that, Miss
Brewster, If you mean me. There never
was a more stupid man than | have
been"
my dear Mr.. Wentworth. it will do
, you ever so much good if you come to a
realization of that fact. The truth is,
! you take yourself much too seriously.
Now, it won't hurt you a bit to have
what l am going to have published in
the Argus, and it will help me great
deal. Just you wait here for few mo-
ments.' With that she flung her book
upon his lap, sprang up, and vanished
down the companionway. In very
short time she reappeared with some
sheets of paper in her hand.
"Now, you see how fair and honest
am going to be. am going to read you
what | have written. If there is any
thing in it that is not true, will very
gladly cut it out; and if there is any
thing more to be added, shall be very
glad to add it. Isn't that fair?"
Wentworth was so confounded with
the woman's impudence that he could
make no reply.
She began to read: by an unex-
planned stroke of enterprise, the New
York Argus is enabled this morning to
lay before its readers full and exclu-
sive account of the report made by the
two English specialists, Mr.. George
Wentworth and Mr.. John Kenyon, who