He wanted no favour from Melville, so he wrote a second
letter, contradicting the request made in the first, and, after posting
it, returned to his hotel, and went to bed, probably the most tired man
in the city of Ottawa.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
This chapter consists largely of letters. As a general rule, letters are
of little concern to anyone except the writers and the receivers, but
they are inserted here in the hope that the reader is already well
enough acquainted with the correspondents to feel some interest in what
they have written.
It was nearly a fortnight after the receipt of the cablegram from Kenyon
that George Wentworth found, one morning, on his desk two letters, each
bearing a Canadian postage-stamp. One was somewhat bulky and one was
thin, but they were both from the same writer. He tore open the thin one
first, without looking at the date stamped upon it. He was a little
bewildered by its contents, which ran as follows:
'MY DEAR GEORGE,
'I have just heard that Melville is the man who has bought the mine. The
circumstances of the case leave no doubt in my mind that such is the
fact; therefore, please disregard the request I made as to employment in
the letter I posted to you a short time ago. I feel a certain sense of
disappointment in the fact that Melville is the owner of the mine. It
seems I have only kept one rascal from buying it in order to put it in
the hands of another rascal.
'Your friend,
'JOHN KENYON.
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