The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1897-02-19

confidential man of business; she has
been all over the world With ne. 1
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. Il want
to walk. 1 merely came to see if my
father was all right. Twas 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. 1 suppose there
was no tobogganing where you were?"
'Oh, yes" said Kenyon; even out
among the mines they had a tobog-
| gan slide, on which one tri p satisfied
me; and on several journeys ! had to
wear snow-shoes myself"
| How interesting" sslid the girl.
And the next thing Joln, 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
n typical representative of the Eng
Hsh 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 great difference in n 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 we'll 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
re had all his eggs in one basket, or in
even one kind of a basket, but when
John Longworth was satisfied with the
particular variety of basket presented
to him he put a large number of eggs
| in it. When anything was offered for
Observation-Disclosures it was a mine, a
brewery Or a 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 a voyage to the other
| side of the world for the sole purpose
of looking the investment over.
When Edith Longworth was pro-
ncunced finished, as far as education
was concerned, she became more and
| more the companion of her father.
She went with him on his long jour-
| neys, and so had been several times
| to America, once to the cape, and one
| long voyage, with Australia as the OBJ
| jective point, had taken her complete
| ly around the world. She inherited
much of her fathers shrewdness, and
| there is no doubt that if Miss Long
worth had been cast upon her own re-
sources she would have become an ex-
| cellent woman of business. She knew
exactly the extent of her fathers in
vestments, and she was his confidante
in a way that few women are with
their male relatives. The old man had
great faith in Edith's opinion, al
though he rarely acknowledged it. Hav-
ing been together so much on such long
voyages, they naturally became, in a
education was very unlike that of the
ordinary English girl; a training which
| caused her to develop into different
kind of woman than she would have
| been if her mother had lived.
The friendship between Edith Long
worth and John Kenyon ripened so rap
idly that on the day Wentworth had his
last disquieting interview with Jennie
Brewster they also were discussing
mining properties, but in somewhat diff
| ferent fashion. Kenyon confided to the
| girl that his own hopes and fears were
wrapped up in mine.
After completing their work for the
London syndicate. the young men had
transacted little business on their
own account. They visited together
mica mine. which was barely pay
ing expenses, and which the owners
were anxious to sell. The mine was
owned by the Austrian Mining COM
pany whose agent, Won Brent, had met
Kenyon in Ottawa. Kenyon's educated
eye had told him that the white
mineral they were placing on the dump
at the mouth of the mine was more
valuable than the mica for which they
were mining. Kenyon was scrupulously
honest-a quality somewhat at a dis
count in the mining business-and it
seemed to him hardly fair that he
should take advantage of the ignorance
of Won Brent regarding the mineral on
the dump. Wentworth had some
trouble in overcoming his friends scru-
pies. He insisted that knowledge al
ways had to be paid for, in law, medi-
cine, or mineralogy, and therefore that
they were perfectly justified in profit
ing by their superior wisdom. So it
came about that the young men took to
England with them a three months
| option on the mine, which means that
for three months they were to have the
privilege of buying the property at
| certain figure named in the legal docu-
ment which was called in the mining