The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-08-24
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The House of a
Thousand Candles
MEREDITH NICHOLSON
Copyright by
The Bobbs Merrill Company

devil I'm here, as We may say. quite
incog. Staying at an East Side lodging
house. where / shant Invite you 10 call
on me. But l must see you"
Dine with me tonight, at Sherry's--"
Too big, too many people
Therein lies SECURITY, II you're in trou-
BILE I'm about to go into exile, and i
want 10 eat one more civilized dinner be-
fore | go"
Perhaps it's jus; as we'll. Where are
you of for-not Africa AGAIN.
NO. Just Indiana-one OF the sovereign
American states, as you ought TO know"
"Indians?"
mo. Warranted all dead"
Pack k-train--balloon--aut
els-how do you get there?''
"Varnished cars. It's easy. It's not the
getting There; it's the not dying of ennui
after you're on the spot"
"Humph What hour did you say for
the dnner?"
Seven o'clock. Meet me at the en-
trance"
IF I'm AT large! Allow me to precede
you through the door, and don't follow me
OH the street, please!"
He walked away his gloved hands
clasped lazily behind him. lounged out
upon Broadway and turned toward the
Battery. | waited until he disappeared.
then took an uptown car.
My first meeting with Laurance Dono-
van was I'm Constantinople, at a cafe
where I was dining He got into a row
with an Englishman and knocked him
down. II was not my affair but | liked
tue ease and dehniteness with which Lar
ry put his foe out of commission.
learned later that 1t was a way he had
The Englishman meant well enough. but
he could not, of course, know the inten-
sity OF Larry's feeling about the unhappy
lot of Ireland. In the beginning of my
own acquaintance with Donovan I some
times argued with him. but soon learned
better manners He quite converted me
10 his own notion of Irish affairs, and
was as hot an advocate as he OF head
smashing as means of restoring Ire
lands lost prestige.
My friend. the American sul-general
at Constantinoplc was not without a sense
OF humor and easily enlisted him in Lar
rvs behalf. The Englishman thirsted for
vengeance and invoked all the powers He
insisted. with reason, that Larry was a
British subject and that the American
consul had no right to give him
asylum-a point that was, un-
derstand, thoroughly well-grounded in
law and fact. Larry maintained. on
the other hand. that he was not English
but Irish. and that as his country main
tained no representative I'm Turkey, II wa $
MS privilege 10 md refuge wherever II
was offered. Larry was always the most
plausible of human beings. and with the
connivance OF the American consul we
made an impression. and got him of
| did not realize until later that the
real Joke lay In the fact that Larry was
English-born, and that his devotion 10
Ireland was purely sentimental and uui-
xotic His family had 20 be sure. come
out OF ireland some time I'm the dim past.
and settled In England. but when Larry
reached years OF knowledge II not Of dis
erection, he cut oxford and insisted on TAX
ing his degree at Dublin. lie even believed
or thought he believed-in banshees. He
allied himself during his university days
with the most radical and turbulent advo-
Gates OF n separate national existence for
Ireland. and occasionally spent a month
In Jail for rioting But Larry's instinct :
were scholarly; he made a brilliant record
AT the university: then. at twenty-five.
he came forth To look AT the world. and
liked u exceedingly we'll His father was
a busy man and he had other sons; he
granted Larry an allowance and told him
20 keep away from home until he got
ready 20 he respectable.
CTo be continued tomorrow