The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1897-02-10

II want you to do some energetic
thinking about our mine, you know,
30 that you will be ready to open the
campaign when we reach London.
Thinking which is worth anything is
best done in solitude, Kenyon, so l will
not bother you for all 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.
II am mining engineer" answered
Kenyon, with some surprise.
"Did you go out to Canada to report
on mines there for the London syndi'
cate?"
"Why do you ask?" said Kenyon, all
his native caution being aroused in
moment, on hearing the astonishing
question.
The elderly gentleman laughed. "Be-
cause l am, in measure, responsible
for you," he said. 81 am Mr.. Long
worth-John Longworth, of the city
and member of the London syndi-
cate. Two names were proposed
Sections and yours. voted for you;
not that 1 knew anything about you,
but some of the others seemed very
anxious that Scotton should go, so 1
thought it best to vote for you. There
fore, you see, as l said before, l am
partly responsible for your being
here"
81 hope you will not be dissatisfied
with the result, Mr.. Longworth."
81 hope not myself. | can see that
you are 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 l was de-
tanned so long in the west that did
not have time to go north. How did
you find the mines?"
"Since you complmented 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.
"That's 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 it, that we should have been talk
ing about them this very morning
Mr.. Kenyon, call my daughter my
confidential man of business; she has
been all over the world with me. /
never make any investments without
consulting her, so l warn you that she
will ask you more insidious questions
about the mines than 1 shall"
John Kenyon had risen to his feet
to greet the girl and to offer her his
chair.
"No, thank you," she said. 'T want
to walk. 1 merely came to see If my
father was all right. was very much
disappointed that we did not go to
Canada this time, as l wished to
see something of the snow-shoeing and
tobogganing there. / suppose there
was no tobogganing where you were? p
"Oh, yes" said Kenyon; "cven out
among the mines they had tobog-
gan slide, on which one trip satisfied
me; and on several journeys ] 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 a thing he went
into it thoroughly. People talk of the
inadvisability 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 q basket, but when
John Longworth was satisfied with the
particular variety of basket presented
to him he put large number of eggs
in it. When anything was offered for
Observation-Disclosures it was a mine, Il
brewery or railway-John Longworth
took an experts opinion upon it, and
then the chances were that he would
disregard the advice given. He was in
the habit of going personally to see
what had been offered to him. If the
enterprise were big enough he thought
little of taking voyage to the other
side of the world for the sole purpose
of looking the investment over.
When Edith Longworth was pro-
nounced finished, as far as education
was concerned, she became more and
more the companion of her father.
She want with him on his lnnnr ini11-