He had nothing whatever to do with his nephew's action.'
'Oh, I know that,' said Wentworth. 'I would have apologized to him long
ago, only--well, you know, he told me I shouldn't be allowed in the
office again, and I don't suppose I should.'
'A letter from you would be allowed in the office,' replied the young
lady, looking at the floor.
'Of course it would,' said George; 'I will write to him instantly and
apologize.'
'It is very good of you,' said, Edith, holding out her hand to him; the
next moment she was gone.
George Wentworth turned to his desk and wrote a letter of apology. Then
he mused to himself upon the strange and incomprehensible nature of
women. 'She makes me apologize to him, and quite right too; but if it
hadn't been for the row with her father, she never would have heard about
the transaction, and therefore couldn't have bought the mine, which she
was anxious to do for Kenyon's sake--lucky beggar John is, after all!'
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
When the business of transferring the mine to its new owner was
completed, John Kenyon went to the telegraph-office, and sent a short
cable-message to Wentworth. Then he turned his steps to the hotel, an
utterly exhausted man. The excitement and tension of the day had been too
much for him, and he felt that, if he did not get out of the city of
Ottawa and into the country, where there were fewer people and more air,
he was going to be ill. He resolved to leave for the mine as soon as
possible.
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