Arizona republican., 1898-08-06


 50 do I. I think they acted rightly, and did as any honorable men should do. NO", Wlsen you thi1iil that, Miss Longworth, how dare you come an,l offer me double, or three times, CT four times, the amount my paper gives to me for getting this information? Do you think that I am any less honorable tllal, Kenyon and Wentworth? Tour offer is an insult to ne-nobody but q woman, and a woman of your class, would have made it. You como here to bribe me. You come here to do exactly the same thing that J. K. Rivers tired to do for the Argus in Canada. You think money will purchase anything, that is the thought of your class. Now, 1 want you to understand that I am woman of the people. was born and brought up in poverty in New York. You were horn and brought up, amid luxury, in London. have suffered privations and hardships that you know nothing of, and, even if you read about them, you wouldn't understand. Yo,i, with the [ imputlence of your class, think you can come to me and bribe me to betray my >mployer. l am here to do a certain thing, and I am going to do hat certain thing in spite of all the money that all the Longworths ever possessed, or ever, will possess. Do 1 make myself sufii- ciently plain?''
 Certainly, Miss Brewster I don't think anyone could misunderstood you"
 Well, am glad of that, because one can never tell how thicllheaded some people may be-
 Do you think there is any parallel between your case and MT. Went worth's?'
 'Of course do. We are each sent to do a certain piece of work. We have both been offered bribe to cheat our employers of the fruits of our labor; only in my case it is very much worse than in Wentworth's, because his en- ployers would not have suffered, while mine will"
 'This is all very plausible, Miss Brew stcr, but now allow me to tell you that what you have done is most dishon- orable thing, and that you are disgrace to our common womaEhood. You have managed, during a very short acquaint- ance, to win the confidence of a man there is class of woman who know how 10 do that-I thank Heaven 1 am not of that class; I prefer to belong to the class you have just now been reviling. Some men have an inherent respect for l.,11 ic cntly one of those, and, while he was on his guard with a man, he was not on bis guard with a woman. You took ad- vantage of that, and you managed to se- cure certain information which you knew he would never have given you if he had thought it was to be published. You stole that information just as dis lcputably as that man stole the docu- nlents from MT. Kenyon's pocket. You talk of your honor and your truth when you did such q contemptibie thing. You prate of unbribeableness, when the only method possible is adopted of mak- ing you do what IS right and just and honest, Your conduct makes me ashamed of being woman. A thor oughly bad woman I can understand, but not woman like you, who trade on the fact that you are woman, and that you are pretty, and that you Lave pleasing manner. You use those quail ities as thief or a countcrfeiter would use the peculiar talents God had given aim. How dare you pretend for a mo- inent that your case is similar to Mir. Wentworth's? MT. Wentworth is an honorable man, engaged in an honor able business; as for you and your busl- ness, 1 nave no words to express T1,- coz tempt for both. Picking pockets is reputable compared with sucl work. Edith Longworth was now standing up, her face flushed ard her hands cIenchetl She spoke with a vehemence which sile very much regretted when she thought ot the circumstance after wards; but the chagrin and disappoint- ment at failure, where she had mo- ment before teen sure of success, over came her. Her opponent stood before her, angry and pale. At first Edith | Iongwofth thought she was going to strike her, but if any such idea passed l through the brain of the newspaper woman she thought better of it. For few moments neither spoke, then Jcn- nie Brewster said, in voice of unna = ural caiTncss:
 'N ou are quite welcome to your opir- ion of me, Miss LoIgworth, and 1 pre- su1ne I am entitled to my opinion of Kenyon and Wentworth. They are two fools, and you are q third in think n 2 you can control the actions of a we n;l.i where two young men have failed. Do you think for moment l would grant to you, a woman of a class hate, what 1 would not grant to a young man like Wentworth? They say there is no fool like an old fool, but it should be said that there is no fool like a young wom- an who has had everything her own