VOX,. XXXIII flllOAltnn'o FALL AND WINTER SHOES If J) All Ready l-'or Your Careful Inspection. WE SHOW YOU More Stylish, Servicable. Lower Priced Footwear Than Any Other Shoe House in Town Besides The Greatest Variety to Chose From. You can examine every particle that goes to make this line of Shoes from the bottom up. We show them in every style of toe—Bui Dog. Razor, Needle and Lon don, Double Sole and Extension Kdge. They arc up-to-date. Patent Leather, Enamel, Cordovan, Willow Tan Calf Besides this line our Men's Working and _ Dress Shoes at ft.oo, }i 50, #2.00 and $ 2 -5 n are great values and find ready sale. _ Boys and Girls Sctool Shoes —Made strong, servicable, stylish, heel or spring. f'/ They are water and cold resisters; they will \»». carry a boy or girl a long road to schoo . \ 1 We have them in oil grain, kangaroo, box \* and crack-proof calf, kip, unlined, veal calf, f ' 1 in butto.i and lace, at 75c, fi.oo, #1.25, fi.4o, if /7&mk _ 4j-%- and 1.50. Ladies Fine Shoes in all the newest last--, all widths,at 85c, |i.oo, $1.25, $1.50, $2.00. - \ "t $2-5° °o. See our welts, heavy soles, at . V /. <2OO , 50a „,i; 3 .00. v M . La'.i . Warm Shoes and Slippers, flannel \ !' ]■ |(W I 1' lined, at 45c, 50c, 75c, SI.OO and #1.25. U j-lljM' j'') II i'tf They Crumbs of Comfort. \>*~* 1 // !Me 1 -s .ind Hij's' Bjoti and Heavy Shoes ~f high or low instep, box to-; or plain. Men's a ' 75-> s'.oo $1.25, 51.50, 52.00 and {2.50 • Boys' at 75c, Jl.oo, #1.25 and $1.50. If y< u var.t good, servicable Footwear >1 une price and w here ycur dollar will buy as much as your ntighl cr's dollar'will, go to -H-Bntler's Leading Shoe Honse-tt- Opp. Hotel Lowry. B. C. HUSELTON. Faultless, Every One V . - ■ /■ ~" T " " f&'l our sho< 'S are faultless in materia , in j ''l wor^"nans '"P an( ' 1,1 style. Our customers, and | tl]eir nuniber J? rcw each day, find no fault with the prices we ask for reliable footwear. // ujMjd \I Am Going to Offer >r|Ejj ** Some Record M F \Tft Mens' Fine Shoes, Lace or Ccngress «. Itl JDIX o Mensj;Working Shoes ? *3 O. ii/mi, , Mens Box toe * hoes (double soie and tap I*3 Sn X 1 ( ) PiSs Mens Heavy Beaver Bals .' 'fl Mens Heavy sole waterproof C0rd0van5..'.''.'.......".'.'.'.*, i.^J T , A Fll IT Q ' a(lies vv 'aterproof Oil Grain Shoes «! no -LixV UlLij Ladies Kangaroo Calf Shoe Ssc Ct TT/\nn Ladies Fine Dongola Button Shoes qoc hllOhS Ladies Warm Lined Shoes i Leather trimmed ."" 80c ■w j. kj Ladies Warm Lined Shoes (Leather trimmed) 50c Boys Fine Shoes in all the late style toes l U t Hoys Working Shoes JjU 1 □ vA-gm.6^ — IM| CjTT \ 171 Qj We have on hand 42 pair Boys heavy grain waterproof IJII v / |J shoes, double sole and tip on toe, Sizes 13, 1 and 2 which we boiyjht cheap, and will sell at 50c per pair they are fully worth fi.oo. Call early for this lot will not last long. MISSES Blisses Fine Dongola Shoes si.oc| r<TT „ IMisses Crack-proof Shoes 1.00 -| I I h. Si IMisses Heavy Oil Grain Shoes, waterproof 85c UIIV/UO IMisses Satin Calf Shoes .. 85c Our stock of felt boots and rubber goods is very large, and prices are the lowest. Examine our stock before you buy, it will pay you. JOHN BICKEL, 128 South Main St, Butler Pa. Anf Friday, Saturday, onday, 15, 16, 18, SPECIAL SALE OF FINE MILLINERY! \ Bonnets at $3.00. $4.00 and $5.00 Worth *5.00, $6.00, and *7.00. \ \ '^• 00 *7'°° and $9.00 Worth *7.00, -9.00 and $12.00. r / Chudrens Hats $1.50, #2.25 and $3.00 Worth $2.00, 52.-5 and $3.75. f Ladies Natural Wool Underwear at 75c the kind you have been paying $l.O > for. M. F. & M. MARKS, 113 toji7 South Main Street, Butler, Pi. T. H. Burton T. H. Burton There is a Difference of Opinion ;But Herelsa Landslide, Regarding the when they vote proper man for cn the best place ''resident. to trade WHICH WAY ARE YOU HEADING? Not in Politics—but where are you going to do you fall buying? foil WtiDl the Best and Most for im Money, Don't Yon? You can get it. We give it. and / Furnishing Goods. ( .'All departments complete and well stocked with Tiio IfeiYtri Sij i6>, tlic tiiid (jiiiiiiis mill te for tlie Money r» i^ iS? i A c han ! titUeS a"' 1 ou/P'-'ces demonstrate how bad we want business. ' Political Speakers Are Wrangling Over the Ba-is of Values So:ne in and get our prices and we will show you the liasis of Value? in our line in side of a minute WE have a complete assortment of splendid goods They are yours at prices that will make our competitors of this sale as tie of '^6 {Twill bejturning down good Bargains if you don't .Icome. T. H. Burton T. H. Burton THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Liver Ills Like biliousness, dyspepsia, headache, cor. ti ;ation, sour stomach, indigestion are promptly cured by Hood's Pills. They do their work Hood's easily ami thoroughly. ■ ■ ■ Best after dinner pills. 111 25 cents. All druggists. I 1119 Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. The only Pill to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. RAILKOf'D IIV'! TA i, S PENNSYLVANIA Weslirn Pennsylvania Division. ScWlnle in vfleet Nov. 10 lbtW South. Week Days A. Si. A. >1 A. M. P. si. P »l Bitlkr Leaveca *uo 11 2U 2 4 Saxonburu. Arr.ucw- -as u 4.; 3in g duller Jc'i.. • "27 .. *> ij u7 :s 3 • 5". Huller.li'f. * my g , 553 Natrona.. ..Arrive; :••.-» s'22l :n, < „ l.irt-UIUtl: '.4 •£ WO': 12 2l» 352 (■ tl AprliiL'dali To ie 12 3k to" Clareruont u -3 4 )t? Sharysbdrv •ir f-ai loi 422 « " ty XlO <11;< 115 434 1,43 a. j! a. w. ». u I-. ji r x MJSI'AI THAI NX r.<av( Jioil.-r !or All.— -lit tr\ < lly Hial r: ln.'j ii lui ei bieolate to* T:4> A. V.. *>:<o f.lifl 5 * o I*. *l. v Norlb. Week'>::}«-»• » ». A. »i. A. *l. p. si. p, M All'ghei,.* City..l.l TOO li-J.". 235 5 .t, l.irrmonl 3I» 1145 2tß ... <1 jiiiKOale 930 11.19 315 55', r.irentuin 732 939 "2oS 3 ■<, t;,, Valrona 737 9 4:. 12 13 33« Cl 2 (Hit'er .let AT 746 950 12 23 34s if Ulltlt r .IC'I l.v 745 DEO 12 34 34- 0 ■ «U.li l.burg 810 lo's 12 .19 411 <; 4 • dor:.K« Ar. R35 lo as 125 438 7'< A. >!, A. M. P. M, P M P v, SVM>A\ TIiAIXS l.r d vi AHeu'lit-ti} U-. r, ■ I'uili r ami (irlueipai hiiermfli.ite o«»ioi-s'- ■\ >i.. :111«1 7:15 I . M ft".-, k Pays 'J, r the Ksri «• k !.»»• ' 1,1 »■ '«• • p. Hi p.'l. 1120 625 Lv Butlkk. A.- ... J25 12 07 727 Ar Bqilpi Ju't Lv 12 i 4 •> !•*, "745 Lv iii.il. r .lir't lr 83v 12 3; 3IS 740 Ar Frei'piiri.. L S2B 12 oi 322 7 ,13 " A lie;:'; Jr'i 821 12 2". 333 804 " L*ee::l:it7|t. 812 12 1l 350 821 '•|' l «oltn:( Ap«.l!'" 756 lif. 418 851 " 732 11 450 a 22'• R: nr-vilie... 7UO lit' 4 8 930 .. 18 10 15 *in 1135 « A :i. t.na • 325 8(V 100 310 " t-r.hu.-jt.. 11 1.) 3 !(• 430 ti 23 " •S 30 11 -Ji i». ni ji ui. a uj (■ m On Kui.<la\, trail' Bniler 7:40 >1 , connect* :nr llarri-hurff Aluuo*, un Htiilvdelphia. I ..ninth trains fur tljn edst leave f'itt*- Lti'f? (Union Station) a.-; fu'lows:— Atiantic Express, <!ai!r 3 10 A. M Pennsylvania Limited " 715 " Day Express, " 730 '• vutv Liue Exprew 800 " r tiiladeipl.in E*i ,-ess ' 430 P. V. Eastern Express " ... .705 " Past Line •• glO « Philad'a .Mail, t> today 0n1y. ...8 40 a. For detailed in'ornibiion aJilre s Thus. *'. ® * !t > Pa-' J . Ajtl. Westi in Dir ret, cor «• ilth AV«. end BiuitMicld St , ii:vbu.v, Sn. ' PKEVO6T, J K tfOOD, Hejcra! Manager. l»et'l Tassr Agent. pII'TSBUKG & WESTERN Railway. Allegheny Short Line. Schedule in effect, July 19, 1896. utler Time, Depart. Arrive Alleglienj Accommodation.. fi 2">arm »25 m A legbenj Flyer 8 15 ;.m to uO m * kron Mall 8 isuni 7 .m pn Newcastle Aeconio tt 13am saan Allegheny Accomo io us am 12 20 i n, Uleglieny Express 255 pu, 4 55 HI. (lilc&go Express i<r> r.ni ; ' "'O mi Wleglieny Mall 6 o!> pm 7 Tv pi, h. lwood Aecom..> 05 pm 73. ATllien y kxpreb-s j r nm pi) syn Kune and Itiudloio Mull w (6 am :> 20 pi, •'larlon Accomo 5 l > [n> 9 50 uu Foxburg Accomo 7 35 : 11, 8 05 an SU>'I»AY TWAINS. Deforest Jet. Accomo 8 15 an: 7 30 pn iUeghenv Accomo llooOai, ciucaKo Express 335 pit, 455 pu \lleglieny AciOtno 605 pm, 4 5> pn Pullman bullet rtleeplng Cars HUH Jrst-cia •) ij coaches run r.lirouifb between Hutlo r am •jlcano dallv. For thrr...gh tlcketa to point.-. Hi" Wrsi Northwest or Southwest apply to A B. LROUC , Agen > atler, a. Trains leave the l«. i' O. depot In HiUlUi» .or 1 tu- Kii*t a-; follows. For Washington 1)' (J., Baltimore, Pbllaoti pliU, n,i Now York. 7:30 an:! !i.-2U p. n Cumberland, 6:40. 7 -.30, a.m. 1 :!0, 920 p. m.Con 0' Isvlile. f MO, 7:30. a. m. 1.10. 4.30, 4.45, 5.30, S.'.'i J. m. I'nioutown. ~..0 a. m , 1 . 10. 4.30. 5.30 p. n Onlontonn, Morga 1 to-vt aau Fairmont, 1 ,311. :, IN. and s,3o p.m. Mt,Pleasant t!.40, 7. 30 a. EJ. •to and 4.30 p in. Washington, Pa. 7.40 am 30 a. ni.. 4.00,4.43 and 9.00.11.55 p.m. Wheei ng. 7.4 C. and 9.30 a. m., and 4.00.9.00. 11.55;. .. Cincinnati, St, ..ouis. Columbus and »v. ark. 7.40 a. m.. 9.10, 11.55 p, m. For Chicago. 2.40 an l 9.30 p. m. Parlor and sleeping cars to Ualtlmore u a>ii- Ingtoti. Cincinnati and Chleairo. Q. 0 Dunklk, Gen. Snpt. Allegheny, P,. C. W. B.USBTT, A G.P.A . Allegheny. {'„ K. P. KKYNOLDS. Supt.. Foxiurg, Pa THE PITTSBURG, SHENAN GO & LAKE ERIE RAILROAD r l lMb TABLE —lu -li-ioc >loii(iay, Jun» 28, 1896. Trains a r e rin by Stan-lard Cen tral Time (90th Meridian). GOING NORTH. C 01 NQ SOUTH TO 1 M 12 j STATIONS 3 11 , . p..m) ~ . ,i). Arr I,v'ea.m. ! » U m." —I4 55 230 1-uCT.ilo 5 3.' 2 2 ■ 1324 1 m.-|... .Dunkirk Ir, sti| 14 7 00 1 42 9 4ft| e in g35 3 35 6 25 1 (r.i 9 15 . Wallace .luoct. 6 17 9 15 1 12 6 2 1 1 1)4! 9 11 ......Glrard 6 so| f 18 1 15 60912 54 859 l.ockport. .. 700 919 120 02; W 8 511 .Cianesville. 7 OS| «J S8 4 .54 ■■ i I T 41l|lV _,r ....|IQ 221 6 I 5571244 8 I ar.. ..\lbion WVil~9 41 137 5431233 ; 8 3!| .. Shadeland... 723 953 4 -,1 F4012 30 SB6 ... sprinnboro. .. 727 9 STI 455 5 J3 12 24 8 2O ..Conncautvllle.. 7 34 10 03! 5 03 5 !2 Oil! 8 o||| ... Moa'v'le J t. .. Sooj 10 25| 525 457 12 I - 807 ar. Kxpo.P.irk lv aO7 10 1 ■ 4 7 4 57 lo 15, 7 31 lv ar 8 07 456 10 021 7 20;I v .C'onu't Lake iti oi. 'j'i . 12 22 8 I 0 ar ar 8 17 10 50 ft S 6 420 935 6 4">j v..Meadvllte .lv 9 35 , ... 12 17| 8 421 ar at 81211 2V 0 NO2ll 51 742 . Hartsto\.-nT No 110 39 \" U M* 6 I 3 i •• Adtttr.sviiie 10 44 5 i . .. LI 38 7 27 Osgood 10541 S v 1 '251136 7is ... Greenville ... C 30111 o> ! « 1,5 6 18 11 20 7 05: ....5henan^0.... 6 40 li 20 6 00u0 51 j6 45 .... Kredoula... J 03ill 44 B"» 5 4110 43 625 Mercer... 7 2.112 04 10" ■> VlO 29, 6 101 I'ardoo,.. 7to 22 714 5 19 10 201 6 (JO ... Grove City. .. 7 47-12 33 7 -5 i °°i 5 ■ Harrlsvllie 758 "2 4;, 730 4 op) 5 K)|. .Braocbion.. .. h oei'2 54 j 7 4;, 5 00 — .I BIC |iv .Hranchton.ar 71012 10 545 355 ar...UHH:ir<l.. ,ly 0 25:11 15J "" I 53; 9 sn; 5 Ml.v.. .KelSters ... 8 10112 58! 7 4 4 .19! 9 42j 521 j EllClld. g 22 I 1 'j K 0 ! * ' 9 '•"! * -OL .... B'LL 'IT . .... GML I IAL I If. ] ]A|U gbeiiy. Psvvil 01 3 50 1 . 3 ,3 1' 4 1 Hlt!*bi»"K,B£o. 1> mip. >n N'OTE.— Train ee. 1 stirtu Ir.xn Exposi tl >u r.irk ic 5:4») <i in. MonJ ty-; o ~ily t 2 runs to Exp isiti.-ni P.rk Satur-lays only. Triin-< li» a;id 16 wiil ru 1 Su:i<l-ty only he'ween Butler ami Exp isition Hur'x.iuak in.' all stops Lv Butler at. 7:30 am. Ke turning leave Exp wition Park C p.m. W T G B HL^')REDS of paper- in diflerent for correßpmdenca B»* p.- par, tablets atni envelopo.4 to match Pa; er by thejpoiind cr rear. AT DOUGLx\SS' Near BUTLER, r.A UTTLER. PA., THURSDAY. XO V EI[BER IS). 1890. THEMjMRTO of the|^^pMine. fare and l ""Robert ES by CHAPTER I. £■» £IE managing - ed ' itor of tlie New York Argiia sat at his desk with a deep frown on his face, looking out from under his shaggy eyebrows at the young' ina.ii thrown a huge fur overcoat on the back of one chair, while he sat down himself on an other. "I got your telegram," began the editor. "Am I to understand from it that you have failed?" "Yes, sir," replied the young 1 man, without the slightest hesitation. "Completely?" "Utterly." "Didn't you even get a synopsis of the documents?" "Not a hanged synop." The editor's frown grew deeper. The ends of his fingers drummed nervously on the desk. "You take failure rather jauntily, it strikes me," he said, at last. "What's the use of other way? I have the consciousness of k sew ing that I did my best." "Dm, yes. It's great consolation, no doubt, but it doesn't count in the news paper business. What did you do?" "I received your telegram at Montreal and at once left for Burnt Tine—most outlandish 6pot on earth. I found that Kcnyou and Wentworth were staying at the only hotel in the place. Tried to worm out of them what their reports were to be. They were very polite, but I didn't succeed. Then I tried to bribe them, and they ordered me out of the room." "Perhaps you didn't offer them enough." "I offered them double what the Lon don syndicate was to pay them for mak ing the report, taking their own word for the amount. I couldn't offer more, because at that point they closed the discussion by ordering me out of the room. I tried to get the reports that night, on the quiet, out of Wentworth's valise, but was unfortunately inter rupted. The young men were sus picious, and next morning they left for Ottawa to post the reports, as I gath ered afterward, to England. I suc ceeded in getting hold of the reports, but 1 couldn't hang on. There are too many police in Ottawa to suit me." "Do you mean to tell me," said the editor, "that you actually had the re ports in your hands and that they were taken from you?" "Certainly I had; and, as to their be ing taken from me, it was either that or jail. They don't mince matters in Can you know." "But I should think a man of your shrewdness would have been able to get at least a synopsis of the reports be fore letting them out of your posses sion." "My dear sir," said the reporter, rather angry, "the whole thing covered I forget how majiy pages of foolscap paper, and was the most mixed-up mat ter I ever saw in my life. I tried— I sat in my room at the hotel, and did my best to master the details. It was full of technicalities, and 1 couldn't make it out. It required a mining expert to get the hang of their phrases and fig ures, so 1 thought the best thing to do was to telegraph it all straight through to Now York. I knew it would cost a lot of money, but I knew, also, you didn't mind that; and I thought perhaps somebody here could make sense of what baffled me; besides, I wanted to get the documents out of my possession just as quickly as possible." "Hem," said the editor. "You took no notes whatever?" "No, I did not* I had no time. I knew the moment they missed the docu ments they would have the detectives on my track. As it was, I was arrested when I entered the telegraph office." "Well, it seems to me," said the man aging editor, "if I had once had the papers in my hand I should not have let them go until I had got the gist of what was in them." "Oh, it's all very well for you to say so," replied the reporter, with the free and easy manner which exists between American newspaper men and their em ployers, "but I can tell you, with a Canadian jail facing a man, it is hard to decide what is best to do. I couldn't get out of the town for three hours, and before the end of that time they would have had my description in the hands of every policeman in the place. They knew well enough who it was that took the papers, so my only hope lay in getting the thing telegraphed through, and if that had been accom plished everything would have been all right. 1 would have gone to jail with pleasure if I had got the particulars through to New York." "Well, what are we to do now?" asked the editor. "I'm sure I don't know. The two men will be in New York very shortly. They sail, 1 understand, on the Colorie, which leaves in a week. If you think you have a reporter who can get the particulars out of these men, I should be very pleased to see you set him on. I tell you it Isn't so easy to discover what an Eng lishman doesn't "want you to know." "Well," said the editor, "perhaps that's true. I will think about it. Of course, you did your best, and I appre ciate your efforts; but I am sorry you failed." "You are not half so sorry as I am," said Kivers, as he picked up his big Can adian fur coat and took his leave. The editor did think about it. He thought for full two mlnu tes. Then he dashed off a note on a sheet of paper, pulled down the little knob that rang the district messenger alarm, and when the uniformed boy appeared gave him the note, saying: "Deliver this as quickly as you can." The boy disappeared, and the result of his trip was soon apparent in the ar rival of a very natty young woman in the editorial rooms. She was dressed in a neatly-fitting' tailor-made costume, and was a very pretty girl, who locked about 19, but was, in reality, considera bly older. She had large, appealing blue eyes, with a tender, trustful ex pression in them, which made the ordi nary man say: "What a sweet, inno cent look that girl has;" yet what the young woman didn't know about New York was not worth knowing. She boasted that she could get state secrets from dignified members of the cabinet, and an ordinary senator or congress man she looked upon as her lawful prey. What had been told to her in the strictest confidence had often become the sensation of the next day in the pa per she represented. She wrote over a nom de guerre, and had tried her hand at nearly everything. She had answered advertisements, exposed rog-ues and swindlers and had gone to a hotel as chambermaid in order to write her ex periences. She had been arrested and locked up so that she might write a three-column account for the Sunday edition of the Argus, of "How Women Are Treated at Police Headquarters." The editor looked upon her as one of the most valuable members of his staff, and she was paid accordingly. She came into the room with the self possessed air of the owner of the build ing, took a seat, after nodding to the editor, and said: "Well?" "Look here, Jennie," began that aus tere individual, "do j-ou wish to make a trip to Europe ?" "That depends," said Miss Jennie; "this is not just the time of year that people go to Europe for pleasure, you know." "Well, this is not exactly a pleasure trip. The truth of the matter is, Rivers has been on a job and has bungled it fearfully, besides nearly getting him self arrested." The young woman's eyes twinkled. She liked anything with a spice of dan ger in it, and did not object to hear that she was expected to succeed where a mere masculine reporter had failed. The editor continued: "Two young men are going across to England on the Coloric. It sails in a week. I want you t» take a ticket for Liverpool by that bout, and obtain from either of those two men the particulars —the full particulars—of reports they "And am I to take the pick of the two young: menP *' have made on some mining properties in Canada. Then you must land at Queens town and cable a complete ac count to the Argus." ■ "Mining isn't much in my line," said Miss Jennie, with a frown on her pretty brow. "What sort of mines were they dealing with —gold, silver, copper, or what?" "They are certain mines on the Ot taw a river." "That's rather indefinite." "I know it is. I can't give you much j information about the matter. I don't know myself, to tell the truth, but I know it is vitally important that we should get a synopsis of what the re ports of these young men are to be. A company, called the London syndicate, been formed in England. This syndicate is to acquire a large number of mines in Canada, if the accounts given by the present owners are any thing like correct. Two men, Kenyon and Wentworth —the first a mining en gineer and the second an expert ac countant —have been sent from London to Canada, one to examine the mines, the other to examine the books of the ! various corporations. Whether the ; mines are bought or not will depend a good deal on the reports that these two nicn have in their possession. The re ports, when published, will make a big 1 difference, one way or the other, on the stock exchange. I want to haTe the gist of these reports before the London syn dicate sees them. It will be a big tiling for the Argiis if it is the first in the field, and I am willing to spend a pile of hard cash to succeed. So don't econ omize on your cable expenses." "Very well; have you a book on Canadian mines?" "I don't know that we have, but there is a book here the 'Mining of Canada;' will that be of any use?" "I shall need something of that sort. I want to be a little familiar with the subject, you know." "Quite so," said the editor, "I will see what can be got in that line. You can read it before you start and on the way over." "All right," said Miss Jennie; "and am I to take the pick of the two young men ?" "Certainly," answered the editor. "You will see them both, and can easily make up your mind which will the sooner fall a victim." "The Coloric sails in a week, does it?" "Yes." "Then I shall need at least SSOO to get new dresses with." "Good gracious!" criec *he editor. "There is no 'good gracious' about it. I'm going to travel as a millionaire's daughter, and it isn't likely that one or two dresses will do me all the way over." "But you can't get new dresses made in a week," said the editor. "Can't I? Well, you just get me the SSOO and I'll see about the making." The editor jotted the amount down. "You don't think S4OO would do?" he said. "No, I don't. And say, am Ito get a trip to Paris after this is over, or must I come directly back?" "Oh, I guess we can throw in the trip to Paris," said the editor. "What did you say the names of the young men are? Or are they young? Probably they are old fogies, if they are In the mining business." "No; they are young, they are shrewd, and they are English. So, you see, your work is cut out for you. Their names are George Wentworth and John Ken yon." "Oh, Wentworth is my man," said the young woman, breezily. "John Ken yon. i Know just what sort of a per son he is—somber and taciturn. Sotindi too much like John Human, or Johr Milton, or names of tliat sorU" "Well, I wouldn't be too sure about i until you see them. Better not mak< up your mind about the matter." "When shall I call for the $500?" "Oh, that you needn't trouble about The better way is to get your dressei made, and tell the peopie to send tht bills to our office." "Very well," said the young woman. "I shall be ready. Don't be frig-htened at the bills when they come in. If they come up to SI,OOO remember I told you , I would let you off for $500." The editor looked at her a moment, i and seemed to reflect that perhaps it was better not to give a young lady uu- I limited credit in New York. So he ! said: "Wait a bit. I'll write you out | the order, and you can take it down stairs." Miss Jennie took the paper when it was offered to her, and disappeared. 1 When she presented the order in the business office the cashier raised his eyebrows as he noticed the amount, and with a low whistle, said to himself: "Five hundred dollars! I wonder what game Jennie Brewster's up to now." CHAPTER 11. The last bell had rung. Those who were going ashore had taken their de parture. Crowds of human beings clus tered on the pier head and at the large doorways of the warehouse which stood open on the steamer wharf. As the big ship slowly backed out there was a fluttering of handkerchiefs from the mass on the pier, and an answering flutter from those who crowded along the bulwarks of the steamer. The tug slowly pulled the prow of the vessel around, and c.t last the engines of the steamship began their pulsating throbe —throbs that would vibrate night and day until the steamer reached an older world. The crowd on the pier became more and more indistinct to those on board, and many of the passengers went below, for t-lie air was bitterly cold, and the boat was forcing its way down the bay among huge blocks of ice. Two, at least, of the passengers had taken little interest in the departure. They were leaving no friends behind them, and were both setting their faces toward friends at home. "Let us go down," said Wentworth to Kenyon, "and see that we get seats together at table before all are taken." "Very good," replied his companion, and they descended to the roomy saloon, where two long tables were al ready laid with an ostentatious display of silver, glassware and cutlery, which made many, who looked on this wilder ness of white linen with something like dismay, hope that the voyage would be smooth, which, as it was a winter pas sage, there was every chance it would [ not be. The purser and two of his as sistants sat at one of the shorter tables with a plan before them, marking off the names of passengers who wished to be together, or who wanted some particular place at any of the tables. The smaller side tables were still un covered, because the number of passen gers at that season of the year was comparatively small. As the places were assigned, one of the helpers to the purser wrote the names of the passen gers on small cards, and the other put the cards on the tables. One young woman, in a beautifully fitted traveling gown, evidently of the newest cut and design, stood a little apart from the general group which surrounded the. purser and his assist necr.lv ?r*ni\jiprl everv given. Sometimes a shade of disap pointment crossed her brow, as if she expected some particular person to pos sess some particular name which that particular person did not have. At last her eyes sparkled. "My name is Wentworth," said the young man whose turn itwas. "Ah! any favorite place, Mr. Went worth?" asked the purser, blandly, as if he had known Wentworth all his life. "No, we don't care where we sit; but my friend, Mr. Kenyon, and myself would like places together." "Very good; you had better come to my table," replied the purser. "Nos. 23 and 24—Mr. Kenyon and Mr. Went worth." The steward took the cards that were given him, and placed them to cor respond with the numbers the purser bad named. Then the young woman moved gracefully along, as if she were interested in the names on the table. She looked at Wentworth's name for a moment, and saw in the place next to his the name of Mr. Brown. She gave a quick, apprehensive glance around the saloon, and saw the two young men who had arranged for their seats at table now walking leisurely toward the companionway. She took the card with the name of Mr. Brown upon it, and slipped upon the table another on which was written: "Miss Jennie Brewster." Mr. Brown's card she placed on the spot from which she had taken her own. "I hope Mr. Brown is not particular which place he occupies," said Miss Jen nie, to herself; "but at any rat© I shall see that I am early for dinner, and I'm sure Mr. Brown, whoever he is, will not be so ungallant as to insist on having this place if ho knows his card was here." Subsequent events proved Miss Jen nie's surmise regarding Mr. Brown's indifference perfectly well founded. That young man searched for his card, found it, and sat down on the chair op posite Miss Jennie, who already occu pied her chair, and was, in fact, the first one at table. Seeing there would be no unseemly dispute about places, she be gan to plan In her own mind how she would first attract the attention of Mr. Wentworth. While thinking how best to approach her victim, Miss Jennie heard his voice. "Here you are, Kenyon, here are our places." "Which is mine?" said the voice of Kenyon. "It doesn't matter," answered Went worth, and then a thrill of fear want throug-h the gentle heart of Mins Jennie Brewster. She bad not thoug-ht of the young man not caring which seat he occupied, and she dreaded the possi bility of finding herself next to Kenyon rather than Wentworth. Her first es timate of the cliaracters of the two man seemed to be correct. She always thought of Kenyon as Bunyan, nnd she felt certain that Wentworth would be the easier man of the two to influence. The next moment her fears were al layed, for Kenyon giving a rnpid glance at the handsome young woman, delib erately chose the seat farthest from her, and Wentworth, with: "I beg your par don," slipped in and sat down on the chair beside her. "Now," thought Jennie, with a sigh of relief, "our positions are fixed for the meals of the voyage." She had made her plajis for beginning an acquaintance with the young man, but they were ren dered unnecessary by the gallant Mr. Wentworth handing her the bill of fare. "Oh, thank you," said Miss Jennie, In a low voice, which was so musicai that Wentworth glanced at her a second time and saw how sweet ajid pretty and inno cent she wag. "I'm in luck," said the unfortunate young man to himself. Then he remarket! aloud: "We have not many ladies with us this voyage." "N'O," replied Miss Brewster; "I bu|>- I>ose nobody really crosses nt this time of the year unless compelled to." "I can answer far two passengers that such is the case." "Do you mean yourself as one?" and ray friend." "How ; . 't must be," said M!.«s Brewster, "to tra\ <. f r : end. Then one Is not lonely. L, u..»„ nm traveling alone." "I fancy," said the gallant Went worth, "that if you are lonely while on board ship it will be entirely your own fault." Miss Brewster laughed a silvery little laugrh. "I don't know about that," she said. "I am going to that Mecca of all Americans—Paris. My father is to meet mo there, and we are then going on to the Riviera together." "Ah! that will be very pleasant,"said Wentworth. "The Riviera at this sea son is certainly a place to be desired." "So I have heard." she replied, "Have you not been across before?" "So, this is my first voyage. I sup pose you have crossed many times ?" "Oh, no," answered the Englishman; "this is only my second voyage, my first having been the one that took me to America." "Ah, then, you are not an American?" returned Miss Brewster, with apparent surprise. She imagined that a man is generally flattered when a mistake of this kind is made. No matter how proud he may be of his country, it shows that there is certainly no provincialism about him that, as the Americans say, "gave him away." "1 think," said Wentwprth, "as a general thing, I am not mistaken for anything but what I am—an English man." , "I have met so few Englishmen," said the guileless Miss Jennie, "that really I should not be expected to know." "I understand it is a common delusion among Americans that every English man drops his 'h's,' and is to be detected in that way." Jennie laughed again, and George Wentworth thought it one of the pret tiest laughs he hail ever heard. I'oor Kenyon was rather neglected by his friend during the dinner. He felt a little gloomy while the courses wenton, and wished he had an evening paper. Meanwhile Wentworth and the hand some girl beside him got on very well together. At the end of the dinner she seemed to have some difficulty in get ting up from her chair, and Wentworth j showed her how to turn it around, leav ing her free to rise. She thanked him prettily. "I am going on deck," Bhe said, as she turned to go; "I am so anxious to get my first glimpse of the ocean at night from the deck of a steamer." "I hope you will let me accompany you?" returned young Wentworth. "The decl;s are rather slippery, and even when the boat is not rolling it isn't quite safe for a lady unused to the motion of a ship to walk alone in the dark." "Oh, thank you very much!" replied Miss Brewster, with effusion. "It is kind of you, lam sure; and if you prom ise not to let me rob you of the pleasure of your after-dinner cigar I shall be most happy to have you accompany me. I will meet you at the top of the stair way in five minutes." "You are getting on," said Kenyon, as the young woman disappeared. - "What's the vise of being on board take advantage 01 making shipboard acquaintances. There is an unconventionality about life on a steamer that is not without its charm, as, perhaps, you will find out before the voyage is over, John." "You are merely trying to ease your conscience because of your heartless de sertion of me." George Wentworth had waited at the top of the companionway a little more than five minutes when Miss Brewster appeared, wrapped in an arrangement tipped with fur, which lent an addition al charm to her complexion, set off as it j "Poor Mr. Wentworth-only the tint night out and he told ma hie name was Qeoree." was by a jaunty steamer cap. They stepped out on the deck, and found it not at all as dark as they expected. Lit tle globes of electric light were placed at regular intervals in the walls of the dock building. Overhead was stretched a sort of canvas roof, against which th* sleety rain pattered. One of the sailors, with a rubber mop, was pushing into the gutter by the side of the ship the mois ture from the deck. AU around the boat the night was as black as ink, ex cept here and there where the white curl of a wave showed luminous for a moment in the darkness. Miss Brewster insisted that Went worth should light his cigar, which, after some persuasion, he did. Then he tucked her hand snugly under his arm, and she adjusted her step to suit his. They had the promenade all to themselves. The rainy winter night was not as inviting to most of the pas sengers as the comfortable rooms be low. Kenyon, however, and one or two others came up, 0111 sat down in the Bteamer chairs that were tied to the brass rod which ran along the deck house wall. He saw the glow of Went worth's cigar as the couple turned at the further end of the walk, and .as the two passed him he heard a low murmur of conversation, and now and then caught a snatch of silvery laughter. It was not because Wentworth had de serted him that Kenyon felt so uncom fortable nnd depressed. He couldn't tell just what it was, but there had set tled on his mind a strange, uneasy fore boding. After a time he went down into the saloon nnd tried to read, but could not, and so wandered along the seemingly endless narrow passage to his room, which was Wentworth's as well, and, in nautical phrase, "turned in." It was late when his companion came in. "Asleep, Kenyon?" he asked. "Xo," was the answer. "By George! John, she is one of the most charming girls I ever met. Won derfully clever, too; makes a man feel like a tool beside her. She has read .early everything. Has opinions on ul our authors, a great many of whom I*v< never heard of. I « ish. for your sake John, that she had a sister on board." "Thanks, old man; awfully good oi you, I'm sure." said Kenyon. "Don't you think it's about time to stop raving and get into your bunk, and turn out that confounded light?" "All right, growler, I will," was the answer. Meanwhile, in her own stateroom, Mi's Jennie Brewster was looking at hex rvxieetion in the glass. As she shook out her long hair until it rippled down her back, she smiled sweetly, and said to herself: "Poor Mr. Wentworth! Only the first night out and he told me his name vrns George." CHAPTER in. Next morning Wentworth worked his way. with much balancing and holding cn of stanchions, along the deck, for the ship rolled fearfully, although there seemed to be. little w iud and the sun was shining brightly, but the per son he sought was now here visible. He thought he would go into thesmoking rooin, but changed his mind at the door, and turned down the companionwc v to the main saloon. The tables had been cleared of the breakfast belongings, but on one of the small tables a white Cioth had bees laid, and at this spot of purity in the general effect of red plush sat Miss Brewster, who was com placently ordering what she wanted from a steward, who did not seem at all pleased in serving one who had disre garded the breakfast hour to the dis arrangement of all saloon rules. The chief steward stood by a door and looked disapprovingly at the lateguesU It was almost time to lay the tables for lunch, and the young woman was as calmly ordering her breakfast as if she had been the first person at the table. She looked up brightly at Wentworth, and smiled as he approached her. "1 suppose." she began. "I'm dread fully late, und the steward looks as if he would like to scold me. How aw fully the ship is rolling. Is there a storm?" "No. Bhe seems to be doing this sort of thing for amusement. Wants to make it interesting for the unfortunate passengers who are not good sailors, I suppose. She is doing it, too. There's scarcely anyone on deck." "Dear me. I thought we were having a dreadful storm. Is it raining?" "No. It's a beautiful sunshiny day; without much wind, either, in spite of all this row." "I suppose you have had your break fast long ago?" "So long since that I am beginning to look forward with pleasant antici pation to lunch." "Oh dear! I had no idea I was so late as that-. Perhaps you had better scold me. Somebody ought to do it, and the steward seems a little afraid." " You overestimate my courage. lam a little afraid, too." "Then you do think I deserve it?" "I didn't say that, nor do I think it I confess, however, that up to this mo ment I felt just a trifle lonely." "Just a trifle I Well, that is flattery. How nicely you English do turn a com pliment. Just a trifle!" "I believe, as a race, we do not ture much into compliment-giving at all. We leave that for the polite for eigner. He would say what I tried to say a great deal better than I did, of course; but he would not mean half so much." ■ r." l P' at M S Tcr V ploe - Mr - Wentworth. WO deck ?" "Anywhere, if you let me accompany you." "I shall be most delighted to have you. I won't say merely a trifle de lighted." "Ah! Haven't you forgiven that re mark yet?" "There's nothing to forgive, and it is quite too delicious to forget. I shall never forget it." "I believe that you are very cruel at heart, Miss Brewster." The young woman gave him a curious side look, but did not answer. She gathered the wraps she had taken from the cabin, and, handing them to him before he had thought of offering to take them, they went on deck. He found there chairs side by side, and ad mired the intelligence of the deck stew ard, who seemed to understand what chairs to place together. Miss Jennie sank gracefully into her own, and al lowed him to adjust the wraps around her. "There," she said, "that's very nicely done; as well as the deck steward him self could do it, and I am sure it is im possible to pay you a more graceful compliment than that. So few men know how to arrange one comfortably in a steamer chair." "You speak as though you had vast experience in steamer life; and yet you told me this was your first voyage." "It is. But it doesn't take a woman more than a day to see that the average man attends to such little niceties very clumsily. Now, just tuck in the corner out of sight. There! Thank you, ever so much. And would you be kind enough to—yes, that's better. And this other wrap so. Oh! that is perfect. What a patient man you are, Mr. Went worth." "Yes, Miss Brewster, you are a for eigner. I can see that now. Your pro fessed compliment wae hollow. YoU said 1 did it perfectly, and then im mediately directed me how to do it." "Nothing of the kind. You did it well, and I think you ought not to grudge me the pleasure of adding my own little improvements." "Oh, If you put It that way, I will not. Now, before I sit down, tell me what book I can get that, will interest you. The library contains a very good as sortment." "I don't think I care about reading. Sit down and talk. I suppose lam too Indolent to-day. I thought, when I came on board, that I would do a lot of reading, but I believe the sea air makes one lazj\ I must confess 1 feel entirely indifferent to mental improvement." "You evidently do not think my con versation will be at all worth listen ing to." "How quick you are to pervert my meaning. Don't you see that I think your conversation better worth listen ing to than the most interesting or im proving book you can choose from the library? Really, in trying to avoid giving you cause for making such a re mark, I have apparently stumbled into a worse error. I was just going to say I would like your conversation much better than a book, when I thought you would take that as a reflection on your reading. If you take me up so sharply, I will sit here and say nothing. Now, then, talk." "What shall I say?" "Oh. if 1 told you what to say I should be doing the talking. Tell me about yourself. What do you do in London?" "I work hard. lam an accountant." "And what is an accountant? What does he do? Keep accounts?" "Some of them do; I do not. I see, rather, that accounts other people keep have been correctly kept." •Aren't r hvy always -orrectly kept 3 ? I thought *h:it was what bookkeeper# ere hired for." "If books were always correctly kept there would be little for ns to do; but :♦ happens, unfortunately for some bat fortunately for us. tliat pcopl© occa sionally do not keep their accounts ac* curately." 'And can you always find that out If you examine the books?" "Always." ' an t a man make his accounts so ♦hat no one can tdl that there is any thing wrong?" "The belief that such a thing- can be done has placed many a poor wretch in prison, [t has been tried often enough." "I am sure they can do it in thestates. 1 have read of it being done and con tinued for years. Men have made oft with jrcat sums of money by falsify ing' the books, and no one found it out until the one who did it died or ran away." "Nevertheless, if an expert accountant ha<i been called in he would have found out very soon that something' was wrong 1 , and just where the wrong was and how much." "1 didn't think such cleverm-. - TS sible. Have you ever diseoveri i ;iny thing 1 like that?" "I have." 'What Is done when such a tl. ::g is discovered?" "That depends upon circumsUj noes. Usually a policeman is called in." "Why, it's like being a detective. I wish you would tell me about aome of the cases you have had. Don't make me ask too many questions. Talk." "1 don't think my experiences would interest you in the least. There was one case with which I had something- to do in London two years ago that—" "Oh, London. I 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, what I tell you is, of course, in confidence. I wouldn't whisper it to anybody else, but I may say I have just had an experience of that kind with some of your very sharp est American bookkeepers. I 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." "How interesting. And did you call in a policeman?" "No. This was one of the cases where a policeman w-ae not necessary. The books were kept with the object of showing that the profits of the m—of the business—had been much greater than they really were. I 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 n fortune to some people on your side of the water and the saving of good money to otJiere on my side." "Then I think your profession must be a very important one." "We think so. Miss Brewster. I would like to be paid a percentage on the money saved because of my report." "And won't you?" "Unfortunately no." "I think that is too bad. I suppose the discrepancy must have been small, or the American accountant would not have overlooked it." "I didn't say thathe 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 teg iftdwv.. £ 40,000, when they should have shown a loss of nearly half that amount. I hope nobody overhears me." "No; we are quite alone, and you may be sure I will not breathe a 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 Mr. Kenyon an accountant, too?" "Oh, no. He is a mineralogist. He can go into a mine and tell with a reason able certainty whether it will pny the working of it or not. Of course, as he says himself, any man can sec six feet into the earth as well as he can. But it is not every man that can gauge the value of a working mine so well as John Kenyon." "Then while you were delving among the figures, your companion was delv ing among the minerals?" "Precisely." "And did he make any such startling discovery as you did?" "No; rather the other way. Ho finds the mines very good properties, and he thinks that if they are managed intelli gently they will be good-paying invest ments —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 arc mistaken. I think what you have told xne intensely inter-, esting." For once in her lif? Miss Jennie Brew- Bter told the exact truth. The unfor tunate man at her side was flattered. . "For what I have told you," he said, "we were offered twice what 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, I suppose, if you wouldn't tell on them?" "No. By one of j our famous New York newspaper men. He even went so far as to steal the papers that Kenyan had in Ottawa. lie was cleverly caught, though, before he could make any use of what he had stolen. In fact, unless his people in New York had thefigures which were originally pladed before the Lon don boai-d I doubt ifmy statistics would have been of much '«ee to liim, even if he had been allowed to keep them. The full significance of my report will not the .v until the figures I have given are compared with those already in the hands of tine London people, which were vouched for a« correct by your clever American accountant." "You shouldn't run down an ac countant just because he is an Amer ican. Perhaps there will come a day, Mr. Went worth, when you will admit that there are Americans who are moaa clever than either that accountant or that newspaper man. I don't think your specimens arc typical." "I don't 'run down,' as you call it* the meti~beoau.se they are Americans. I 'run down' the accountant because ho was either ignorant, or corrupt. I 'run down' the newspaper man because he was a thief." Miss Brewster was silent for a few, moments. She was impressing' on her, memory what he had said to her and was anxious to get away, so that she could write out in her cabin exactly, what had been told her. The sound of the lunch gong gave lier the excuse Deeded, so, bidding her victim a pleas ant and friendly farewell, she hurried from the deck to her stateroom. [TO »F. CONTIHCXD.] Park row—l write jokes for a living. Pennibe —Is that a boast # or an ap« peal for charity?—X. Y. Truth; No. 46
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