I therefore enclose you his letter.
I had some thought of cutting out a part of it, but knowing your desire
to have all the documents in the case, I take the liberty of sending this
one exactly as it reached me, and if anyone is to blame, I am the person.
'I remain, your agent,
'GEORGE WENTWORTH.'
He sent this letter out at once, so that he would not have a chance to
change his mind.
'It will reach her this afternoon, and doubtless she will call and see
me.'
It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say she did _not_ call, and she did
not see him for many days afterwards; but next morning, when he came to
his office, he found a letter from her. It ran:
'DEAR MR. WENTWORTH,
'The sending of Mr. Kenyon's letter to me is a somewhat dangerous
precedent, which you must on no account follow by sending any letters you
may receive from any other person to Mr. Kenyon. However, as you were
probably aware when you sent the letter, no blame will rest on your
shoulders, or on those of anyone else, in this instance. Still, be very
careful in future, because letter-sending, unabridged, is sometimes a
risky thing to do. You are to remember that I always want all the
documents in the case, and I want them with nothing eliminated. I am very
much obliged to you for forwarding the letter.
'As to the managership of the mine, of course I thought Mr. Kenyon would
desire to come back to London. If he is content to stay abroad, and
really wants to stay there, I wish you would tell him that Mr.
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