Arizona republican., 1898-08-27

lily HepneWS pf1Vate SpeculatlOnS- 1 have nothing to do with them. I have nothing to do with your mine. The matter is of no interest whatever to me, and l must decline to hear anything about it. You are, also, if you will ex- cuse my saying so, not in a fit state of temper to talk to any gentleman. If you like to come back here when you are calmer, I shall be very pleased to listen to what you have to say"
 'I shall never be calmer on this sub iect. l have told you that your nephew is scoundrel You are pleased to deny the accusation"
 T do not deny it; I merely said I diI not know it was the case, and I do not believe it, that is ail.''
 ''Very well; the moment I begin to show you proofs that things are as 1 say"
 My dear sir,'' cried the elder man. with some heat, you are not showing proof. You are merely making asser- tions, and assertions about a man who is absent-who is not here to defend himself. If you have anything to say against William Longworth, come and say it when he is here, and he shall an swer for himself. It is cowardly of you, and ungenerous to me, to make a number of accusations which am in no wise able to refute.''
 Will you listen to what have to say?''
 No; will not.'
 ''Ther, by God, you shall!" and with that Wentworth strode to the door and turned the key, while the old man rose from his seat and faced him.
 Do you mean to threaten me, sir, in my own office?"
 II mean to say. Mir. Longworth, that I have made a statement which l anu going to prove to you. mean that you shall listen to me, and listen to mo now" And, I say, if you have anything to charge against my nephew, come and say it when he is here"
 When he is here, MT. Longworth, it 1 will be too late to say it; at present you can repair the injury he has done. When he returns to England you cannot do so, no matter how much you mi ght wish to make the attempt
 | The old man stood irresolutc for q mo- ment: then he sat down in his chair again.
 'Very we'll" he said, with sigh, II am not so conductive as I once was. Go on with your story" i My story is very short" said Went worth. Ut simply amounts to this: You know your nephew formed q part nership with us in relation to the Cana lian mine?"
 "I know nothing about it, l tell you,' answered MT. Longworth.
 "Very well, you know it now" q know you say so."
 Do you doubt my word?'
 'I will tell you more about that when I hear what you have to say. Go on.'
 Well, your nephew, pretending to aid us in forming this company, did everything to retard our progress. He engaged offices that took q long time to fit up. and which we had. at last. to take a hand in ourselves. Then he left for week, leaving nc address. and re- fusing to answer the letters sent to his office for him. On one pretext or au- other the forming of the company was delayed, until, at length when the op- ton by which Mr Kenyon held the mine had only Il month to run, your nephew went to America in company with Mr. Melville, ostcnsibly to see and report upon the property. After waiting q certain length of time and hearing noth- ing from him Che had promised to cable us), Kenyon went to America to get re- newal of the option. This cablegranl tcxpains his success. He finds, on going there, that your nephew has secured the option of the mine in his own name, and. as Kenyon says, we are cheated. Now. have you any doubt whether your nephew is d scoundrel or not!"'
 Mr. Longworth unused for a few mo ments on what the young man had told him.
 If what you say IS exactly true. there is no doubt that William has been guilty of a piece of very sharp practice.
 sharp practce." cried the other You might as well call robbery sharp practice.'
 My dear sir, have listened to you; now I ask you to listen to me. If, as say, what you have stated is true, my nephew has done something which think an honorable man would not do: but as to that l cannot judge until hear his side of the story. It may put different complexion on the matter and I have no doubt it will; but, ever granting your version is true in every particular, what have I to do with it. I am not responsible for my nephew actions. He has entered into a business connection, it seems, with two young men and has outwitted them. That i: probably what the. world would say about it. Perhaps, as you say, he ha' been guilty of something worse, ane has cheated his partners But even ad hitting everything to be true, do nc see how I am responsible in any way"
 Legally. you are not; morally, think, you are.
 l ''Why?"
 If he were your son.
 But he is not my son. he IS my nephew.