Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-01-19

v SssoW AAo " pI0CoV0 you, ana QO0'l
 follow, please!"
 He walked away, his slowed hands
 clasped lazily behind him. lounged out
 upon Broadway and turned toward the
 Battery. l waited until he disap.
 peared. then took an uptown car.
 My first meeting with Laurance Don
 ovan was in Constantinople, at cafe
 where l was dining. He got into row
 with an Englishman and knocked him
 down, It was not my affair, but I liked
 the ease and deiiniteness with which
 Larry put his foe out of commission. I
 learned later that 1t 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 Larry's behalf. The Eng.
 lishman thirsted for vengeance and In.
 voked all the powers. He insisted,
 with reason, that Larry was 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 1t
 was offered Larry was always the most plausible of human beings, and between us.-he, the American consul and live 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 devo. ton 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 thought he believed,-in banshees. He allied himself during his university days with the most radical and. turbu. lent advocates of separate national existence for Ireland, and occasionally spent month in jail for rioting. But Larry's instincts were scholarly: he made a brilliant record at the univer. sity; then, at P. he came forth to look at the world, and liked 1t exceeding well. His father was busy man and he had other sons. so he granted Larry an allowance and told him to keen away from home until he got ready to De respectable. So, from Constanti- nople. after tour of Europe, we to- gether crossed the Mediterranean in search of the fleshpots of lost king. doms, spending three years in the pur. suit. We parted at Cairo, on excellent terms. He returned to England and later to his beloved Ireland, for he had blithely sung the widest Gaelic songs In the darkest days of our ad- ventures, and never lost his love for The Sod. as he apostrophized-and capitalized-his adopted country.
 Larry had the habit of immaculate. ness. He emerged from hIs East Side lodging house that night clothed prop- erly, and wearing the gentlemanly air or peace and reserve that is so wholly incompatible with his disposition to breed discord and indulge in riot. When we sat down for leisurely din. her at Sherry's we were not, modest. y maintain, forbidding pair. We If may drag myself into the matter are both trife under the average height. sinewy, nervous, and, just then. trained fine. Our lean, clean.shayen aces were well.browned-mine wear. ng fresh coat from my days on the steamers deck.
 Larry had never been in America be- ore. and the scene had for both of us he charm of gay and novel spec acle. I have always maintained, in alking to Larry of people and races, hat the Americans are the hand. omest and best putup people in the world. and I believe he was persuaded # 1t that night as we gazed with eyes ong unaccustomed to splendor upon he great company assembled in the estaurant. The lights, the music, the ariety and richness of the costumes f the women. the many unrisss%ebly oreign faces that gave a cosmopoli. an accent to the whole. wrought a welcome spell upon senses inured to in earth's waste and dreary ,laces.
 Now tell me the story" I said. Have you done murder? Is the of- ense treasonable?"
 Tt was a tenants row in Galway, nd I smashed a constable. I smashed i'm pretty hard. dare say, from the ow they kicked up in the newspapers.
 lay low for a couple of weeks. caught
 boat at Queenstown, and here I am, rafting for a chance to get back to he Sod without going in irons"
 You were certainly born to be anged. Larry. You'd better stay in Imerica. There's more room here han anywhere else. and it's not easy Q kidnap . man in America and carry i'm on"
 Possibly not: and yet the situation mt wholly tranquil" he said. trans king bit of pompano with his fork. Kindly note the forid gentleman at our right-at the table with four els next the lady in pink. It may in- crest you to know that he's the Brit Ih consul"