Arizona republican., 1898-07-30

Nevertheless, if an expert accountant had been called in he would have found out very soon that something was wrong, and just where the wrong was and how much
 | 'T didn't think such cleverness pos sible. Have you ever discovered any thing like that?"
 "I have"
 What is done when such a thing is discovered?"
 ''That depends upon circumstances. Usually policeman is called in.'
 "Why, it's like Eeing a detective. I wish you would tell me about some of the cases you have had. Don't make me i ask too many questions. Talk"
 "I don't think my experiences would interest you in the least. There was one case with which had something to do in London two years ago that" i "Oh, London. don t believe the book. keepers there are half so sharp as ours. ! If you had to deal with American ac countants you would not find out so easily what they had or had not done" | Well, Miss Brewster, whatI tell you | is, of course, in confidence. l wouldn't whisper it to anybody else. but l may say I have just had an experience O! 1 that kind with some of your very sharp est American bookkeepers. l found that the books had been kept in the most ingenious way, with the intent to deceive. The system had been going on for years"
 ..IIow interesting. And did you call in policeman?"
 s'No. TlIIs was one of the cases where a policeman was not necessary. The i books were kept with the object of i showing that the profits of the m-of | the business-haI been much greater than they really were. l may say that one of your American accountants had already looked over the books, and, whether through ignorance or careless ness, or from a worse motive, he re- ported them all right. They were not all right, and the fact that they were not will mean the loss of fortune to some people on your side of the water and the saving of good money to others on my side"
 "Then I think your profession must be very important one."
 "We think so, Miss Brewster. would like to be paid a percentage on the money saved because of my report"
 And won't you?"
 "Unfortunately mo-"
 q think that is too bad. suppose the discrepancy must have been small. or the American accountant would not have overlooked it."
 q didn't say that he had overlooked it. Still, the size of the discrepancy does not make the difference. A small error is as easily found as a large one. This one was large. I suppose there is no harm in my saying that the books, talk ing them together, showed a profit of 10000, when they should have shown 1 a loss of nearly half that amount. I hope nobody overhears me"
 "No; we are quite alone, and you may be sure will net breathe word of what you have been telling me-
 Don't breathe it to Kenyon, at least. He would think me insane if he knew | what I have said.''
 ''Is Mir. Kenyon an accountant, too?"
 "Oh, no. He is a mineralogist. He can  able certainty whether it will pay tic working of it or not. Of course, as he says himself, any man can sec six feet into the earth as well ss he can. But it is not every man that can gauge the value of working mine su wei as olln i Kenyon
 linen while you were Gelving among the figures. your companion was delv- l ing alsol ,rt e minerals ?'
 Precisely"
 And G-d lc make any such startling discovery a.s you did?"
 No; ratiler the other way. He finds the mines very good properties, and he thinks that if they are managed intelli- gently they will be good-payipg invest nents-that is, at a proper price, you ] know-not at what the owners ask for them at present. But you can have no possible interest in these dry details"
 Indeed, you are mistaken. I think what you have told me intensely inter esting.'
 For once in her life Miss Jennie Brew ster told the exact truth. The unfor- tunate man at her side was flattered.
 For what I have told you,'' he said, i've were offered twice W hat the Lon don people pay us for coming out here In fact, even more than that. We were asked to name our own price,"
 Really now. By the owners of the property, suppose, if you wouldn't tell on them?'
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