Arizona republican., 1898-08-03
Copyright, 1895. by < Robert Barr.

Il suppose it is a vile sheet. don't remember ever seeing it. Yes. know ne was connected with that n.nor What thtn? What has Miss Rrewstar to do with Rivers?''
 ohe IS one of the Argus staff. too"
 ueorge Wentworth, you don't mean to tell me that!" And is she here to find out about the mine?" Exactly. She was put on the job after Rivers had failed"
 ''George!" said Kenyon, suddenly dropping his companions arm, and fac ing him. "What have you told her?" ''There is the misery of it. I have told her everything-'
 "My dear fellow, how could you be" 'Oh, know-I know. know every thing you would say. Everything you can say 1 have said to myself, and ten 1 times more and ten times worse. There ! is nothing you can say cf,mc more bit 1 ter than what I think about myself" Did you tell her anything about my report?'
 ''I told her everything, everything! Do you understand? She is going to telegraph from Queenstown the full es- sence of our reports-of both our re- ports.''
 Heavens! This is fearful. Is there no way you would try to prevent her sending it?''
 If you think you can prevent her I wish you would try it'
 'How did you find it out? Did she tell you?"
 'Oh, it doesn't matter how I found | it out. l did find it out. A man told me who she was; then asked her, and she was perfectly frank about it. She read me the report even.'
 Read it to you?'
 Yes, read it to me, and punctuated it in my presence-put in some words that 1 suggested as being better than those she had used. Oh, it was the coolest piece of work you ever saw" ''But there must be some way of pre- venting her getting that account tc New York in time. You see, all we have to do is to wire your people te hand in our report to the directors and then her report is foreStalled. She has to telegraph from British office and it seems to me that we could stoI her in some way"
 ''As for instance, how?"
 'Oh, 1 don't know just how at the moment. but we ought to be able tt do it. If it was man we could have him arrested as dynamter or some thing; but woman, of course, is nor, difficult to deal with. George, would appeal to her better nature if wer, you" ---~r4ss7@-ss-N' r. '.fl'
 Wentworth laughed sneeringly Better nature 2" he said "She hasn any; and that is not the worst of it She has 'caculated,' as she calls it all the possibilities in the affair; sh. calculates that we will reach Queens town about Saturday night. If we do she will get her report through in tim, to be published on Sunday in the New York Argus. If that is the case, the1 see where our telegram will be- w, telegraph our people to send in the re port. It reaches the office Saturda, night, and is not read. The office close. at two o'clock; but even if they got it and understood the urgency of the mat ter, they could not place the paper. before the. directors until Monda, morning, and by Monday morning i will be in the London financial sheets.
 George, that woman is fiend.'
 No, she isn't, John. She is me1el, ! f.l. thinks she has done very clever goo. piece of work indeed, and who, througl the stupidity of one man, has succeed ed, that's all"
 Have you made any appeal to he at all?''
 "Oh haven't |? Of course I have What good did it do? She merel laughed at me. Don't you understand That is what she is here for. He whole voyage is for that one purpose and it's not likely the woman is guin to furcgu her triumph after having surcee'lrd- more especially some body else in the same office has failed That's wha: gives additional Zest t what she has done. The fact that Ris CTS has failed and she has succeeded seems to be tie great feather in he cap"
 Then" said Kenyon. 1T am goin to appeal to Miss Brewster myself.D
 ''Nery well. I wish you joy of you job. Do what you can, John, there q good fellow. Meanwhile want to b alone somewhere"
 Wentworth went down the stairwa l that lcu to the steerage department ] l and for d few moments sat among tn sieerage passengers. Then he climbe Up another ladder, and got to the yer fl iont of the ship. Here he sat down o a coil of rope and thought over tn :, situation. Thinking, however, did hi1 :. very little good. He realized that eve il he got hold of the paper Miss Brew: s ter had, she could easily write out al