Arizona republican., 1898-08-27
CHAPTER XXI.

message he read it several times over before it's full meaning dawned upon him. Then he paced up and down his room and gave way. to his feelings. His best friends, who had been privileged to hear Georges vocabulary when he was rather angry, admitted that the young man had a fiuency of expression which was very much more terse than proper. When the real significance of the dispatch became apparent to him. George outdid himself in this particular line. Then he realized that, however consolatory such language is to a very angry man, it does little good in any practical way. He paced silently up and down the room. wondering what he could do, and the more he wondered the less light he saw through the fog. He put on his hat and went into the other room.
 Henry" he. said to his partner, s'do you know anybody who would lend me z e2O,0OO?"
 Henry laughed. The idea of any body lending that sum of money ex- cept On the very kcst security was i'll it. sell cItTCItetN COIllc.
 Do you want it to-day?" he said.
 "Yca, I want i. to-day"
 Well, I don't l,now- any better plan than to go out into the street ard ask every man if he has that sum about him. Nou are certain to meet men who have very much more than . 20,00e, and per haps one of them. struck by your very
  hand over the sum to you. l think, however, George, that you would be more successful if you met the capital ist in a secluded lane some dark night, and had a good reliable club in your hand
 "Ycu arc right" said George. 'Of course, there is just as much possibil- ity of my reaching the moon as getting that sum of money on short notice.''
 "1cs, or on long notice, either, imagine. I know plenty of men who have the money. but l wouldn't under take to ask them for it, and 1 don't be- lieve you would. Still. there is not hing like trying. He who tries may succeed, but no one can succeed who doesn' t v !. He could let you have the money in a moment if he wanted to do so. He knows you. Whats your security. what are you going to do with it-tnat eternal mine of yours?'' "Ics. that eternal mine I want if to be mine. That is why I need the ea0,o0o'
 I IL !, i for you. You never spoke to old Long- worth about it, did you? He wasn't l one of the men you intended to get into this company"
 l No, he was not. I wish he had been. He would have treated us better than his rascally nephew las done"
 "Ah, that immaculate young man has | been playing you tricks, has he?'
 He has played me one trick, which is enough"
 Well, why don't you go and sec the old man and lay the case before him : 1 He treats that nephew as if he were 1 his son. Now, a man will do a great deal for his son. and perhaps old Long worth might do something for his nephew.'
 "Ycs, but I should have to explain tc him that his nephew is a scoundrcl.'
 ''Nery well, that is just the kind of cx. plantation to bring the 6 e20.CuO. If his nephew really is a scoundrel. and YOU can prove it, you could not want a bet ter lever than that on the old mans money bags
 By love-" said Wentworth, ''l be 1 lieve l shall try it. l want to lei hin know, anyhow. what sort of q man his nephew is. I'll go and sec him.
 Il would.'' said the other. turning tt his work. And so George Wentworth putting the cahlegra1n in his pocket went to see old Mr. Longworth in ; frame of mind in which no man should sec his fellow-man. He did not wal to be announced. but walked, to the astonishment of the clerk, straigh through into Mr. Lcngworth's room 1 He found the old man seated at his desk
 Good day, Mir. Wentworth said tht financier. cordially.
 Good day" replied George, curtiy II have come to read cable dispatch | 10 you or to let you Tcau II. 1tt threw the dispatch down before the olt gentleman, who adjusted his spectaclc and read it. Then he looked llp ln quiringly at Wentworth.
 "You don't understand it, do you 2 < said the latter.
 q confess l do not. The Longwortl in this telegram does not refer to me does it??''
 No. it does not refer 10 YOU, but i refers to one of your house. You nephew, William Longworth, is scoundreli"
 An said the old man. placing tt: dispatch on the desk again and re
 moving his glasses. Have you com to tell me that"
 ''Yes, l have. Did you know it be fore?''
 No, I did not" answered the ol gentleman, his color rising, "and I q not know it HOW. I know you say st