'He is not in the
North; he is in Paris, and we expect him home to-night.'
'Oh, indeed!' said John, who made no further comment.
'Now, where's your subscription-list? Oh, you told me you have none yet.
Very well; this sheet of paper will do.' And the young woman drew some
lines across the paper, heading it, 'The Canadian Mica-mine.' Then
underneath she wrote the name Edith Longworth, and after it--'For ten
thousand pounds.' 'There! I am the first subscriber to the new company;
if you get the others as easily, you will be very fortunate.'
And, before John could thank her, she laughingly turned to her companion,
and said:
'We must go.'
CHAPTER XXV.
When Wentworth dropped in to see if anything had happened, Kenyon told
him that young Longworth was not in the North at all, but in Paris.
Wentworth pondered over this piece of information for a moment, and said:
'I have written him, but have received no answer. I have just been to
see the solicitors, and have told them that time was pressing; that we
must do something. They quite agreed it was desirable some action should
be taken at once, but, of course, as they said, they merely waited our
instructions. They are willing to do anything we ask them to do. However,
they advised waiting until Longworth got back, and then they proposed we
should have a meeting at the offices here. They said, moreover, that, if
Longworth had five or six men who would go at work with a will, the whole
affair would be finished in a week at most.
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