The Princeton union., 1900-01-04
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Everybody can get It. Isn't that thesi
case ??'' r
IT suppose so.'' n. II;
Now, I want to ask YOU ono other
question, Miss Miss Il don't think you
told me your name.''
4 Ny name is Edith Longworth.
Very we'll, Miss Longworth. want
TO ask you one more question. What
10 you think of the conduct Of Mr. &
kenyon and Mr.. Wentworth in refusing,
to take double what they had beee !.
promised for making the report?' #
~ what do think of them p repeated
the girl. ..a
Eyes, what do you think of them2
You hesitate. You realize that YOU are.
in a corner. You think Mr.. Wentworth
and Mr.. Kenyon did very nobly in re-
fusing Rivers offer?"
certainly I do"
80 do 1. think they acted rightly.
and did as any honorable men should
do Now, when you think that, Miss
Longworth, how dare you come and
offer me double, or three times. or fou1.
times, the amount my paper gives to me
for getting this information? Do YOU
think that am any less honorable than
Kenyon and Wentworth? Your offer
is an insult to 'ne-nobody but {. 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 tried to do for
the Argus in Canada. You think money
will purchase anything, that is the
thought of your class. Now, I want
you to understand that I am a woman
of the people. I was born and brought
up in poverty in New York. You were
born 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. You, with the
imputlence of your class, think you can
come to me and bribe me to betray NV
employer. I am here to do a certain
thing, and am going to do that certain
thing in spite of all the money that all
the Longworths ever possessed, or ever
will possess. Do I make myself sufi-
ciently plain?"
'Certainly, Miss Brewster. I don't
think anyone could misunderstood
you.'
'Well, am glad of that, because one
can never tell how thickheaded some
people may be-
"Do you think there is any parable,
between your case and Mr.. Went
worth's?"
"Of course do. We are each sent to
do 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
ster, but now allow me to tell you that
what you~have done is a most dishon-
orable thing, and that you are disgrace
to our common womanhood. You have
managed, during very short acquaint-
ance, to win the confidence of a man
there is class OF woman who know how
to do that-I thank Heaven am not of
that class; I prefer to belong to the
class you have just now been reyiling.
Some men have an inherent respect for
all women; Mr.. Wentworth is appar-
emily one of those, and, while he was
on his guard with man, he was not on
his guard with a woman. You took ad-
vantage of that, and you managed to Sc
cure certain information which YOU
knew he would never have given youif
he had thought it was to be published.
You stole that information just as dis
reputably as that man stole the docu-
ments from Mr.. Kenyon's pocket. You
talk OF your honof and your truth when
you did such a contemplate thing!
You prate of funbribeableness,w when the
only method possible is adopted of MAX
ing you do what is right and just and
honest! Your conduct makes me
ashamed of being a woman. a thor
oughly bad woman can understand,
but not woman like you, who trade on
the fact that you are woman, and that
you are pretty, and that you have a
pleasing manner. You use those quail
tiles as thief or a counterfeiter would
use the peculiar talents God had given
him. How dare you pretend for a mo-
1nent that your case is similar to Mr.
Wentworth's? Mr.. Wentworth is an
honorable man, engaged in an honor
able business; as for you and your busi-
ness, I have no words to express my con-
tempt for both. Picking pockets is
compared with such work."
Edith Longworth was now standing
up, her face flushed and her hands
clenched. She spoke with a vehemence
which she very much regretted when
she thought of the circumstance after
wards; but the chagrin and disappoint.
ment at failure, where she had mo-
ment before been sure of success, over
came her. Her opponent stood before
her, angry and, pale. At first Edith
l.ongworth thought she was going to
strike her, but if any such idea passed
through the brain of the newspaper
woman she thought better of it. Fora q
few moments neither spoke, then Jen-
nie Brewster said, in voice of unnat-
1ro1 0,,,~oee,