Just you wait
here for a few moments.'
With that she flung her book upon his lap, sprang up, and vanished down
the companion-way. In a very short time she reappeared with some sheets
of paper in her hand.
'Now you see how fair and honest I am going to be. I am going to read you
what I have written. If there is anything in it that is not true, I will
very gladly cut it out; and if there is anything more to be added, I
shall be very glad to add it. Isn't that fair?'
Wentworth was so confounded with the woman's impudence that he could make
no reply.
She began to read: '"By an unexampled stroke of enterprise the _New York
Argus_ is enabled this morning to lay before its readers a full and
exclusive account of the report made by the two English specialists, Mr.
George Wentworth and Mr. John Kenyon, who were sent over by the London
Syndicate to examine into the accounts, and inquire into the true value
of the mines of the Ottawa River."'
She looked up from the paper, and said, with an air of friendly
confidence:
'I shouldn't send that if I thought the people at the New York end would
know enough to write it themselves; but as the paper is edited by dull
men, and not by a sharp woman, I have to make them pay twenty-five cents
a word for puffing their own enterprise. Well, to go on: "When it is
remembered that the action of the London Syndicate will depend entirely
on the report of these two gentlemen--"'
'I wouldn't put it that way,' interrupted Wentworth in his despair.
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