Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-02-02
teen hundred and one.
CHAPTER u.
A Face I'd sherrY's.

ana ? drew me aside, ignored my
hand and otherwise threw into our
meeting a casual quality that was
somewhat amazing in view Of the fact
that we had met last at Cairo.
Allah il Allah"
j was undoubtedly Larry. felt the
heat OF the desert ann heard the camel
drivers cursing and our Sudaness
guides plotting mischief under a win
dow far away.
Well" we both exclaimed interro-
gativeiy.
He rocked gently back and forth.
with his hands in his pockets, on the
tile floor OF the banking house | had
seen him stand thus once on a time
when he had eaten nothing in four
days-it was in Abyssinia, and our
guides had lost us in the worst posi-
| bic place-with the same untroubled
look in his eyes.
Please don't appear surprised, or
scared or anything, Jack" he said,
with his delicious intonation. Il saw
a fellow looking for me an hour or so
ago. He's been at it for several
months; hence my presence on these
shores OF the brave and the free. He's
probably still looking, as he's per-
sistent devil. I'm here, as we NAV
say, quite incog. Staying at an East
Side lodging house, where / shan't in
vite you to call on me- But must see
you"
Dine with me tonight at Sher-
RVS"
100 Dig, too many people,
Therein lies security. if you're in
trouble. I'm about to go into exile
ana ! want to eat one more civilized.
dinner before | go"
Perhaps it's just as well. Where.
are you off for,-enot Africa again."
NO. Just Indiana.--one of the SOW
ereign American states, as you ought
to know"
'Indians?"
No; warranted all dead"
Pack train-balloon-a
camels,-how do you get there?"
vanished 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 dinner?"
Seven o'clock. Meet me at the en-
trance"
til be there if I'm not in jail. Kind
ly allow me to precede you, and don't
follow, pleasei"
He walked away, his gloved hands
clasped lazily behind him, lounged out
upon Broadway and turned toward the
Battery. | waited until he disap.
peared, then took an uptown car.
My first meeting with Laurance Don
ovan was in Constantinople, at a cafe
where was dining. He got into a row
with an Englishman and knocked him
down. 1t was not my affair but liked
the ease and definiteness with which
Larry put his foe out of commission. I
learned later that it was way he had.
My friend, the American consul gen.
eral at Constantinople, was not with
out sense of humor, and | easily en-
listed him in Larrys behalf. The Eng
lishman thirsted for vengeance and in
voked 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, | understand, thor
oughly well-grounded in law and fact.
Larry maintained on the other hand.
that he was not English but Irish and
that, as his country maintained no
representative in Turkey, it was his
privilege to find refuge wherever it
was offered. Larry was always the
most plausible of human beings, and
between us,-he, the American consul
and I've made an impression, and
got him off
| did not realize until later that the
real joke lay in the fact that Larry
was Engish-born, and that his devo-
tion to Ireland was purely sentimental
and quixotic His family had, to be
sure, come out of Ireland some time
in the dim past, and settled in Eng
land; but when Larry reached years of
knowledge, If not of discretion, he cut
Oxford and insisted on taking his de-
gree at Dublin. He even believed,-or
thought he believed,-in banshees He
allied himself during his university
days with the most radical and turbu-
lent advocates Of a separate national
existence for Ireland, and occasionally
spent a month in jail for rioting. But
Larry's instincts were scholarly: he
made brilliant record at the univsr-
sity; then, at %, he came forth to look
at the world and liked II exceeding
well. His father was busy man and
he had other sons. so he granted Larry
an allowance and told him to keep
away from home until he got ready to.
be respectable. So, from CONSTANT
nople, after tour of Europe. we to-
gether crossed the Mediterranean in
search of the feshpots of lost king
doms, spending three years in the pur-
suit. We parted at Cairo on excellent
terms. He returned to England and
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