The Irish standard., 1907-01-12
A Face at Sherrv'..

scared or anything, Jack he said.
with his delicious intonation. 81 saw
q 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 a per-
sistent devil. I'm here, as we NAV
say, quite incog. Staying at an East
Side lodging house. where I shan't in.
vite you to call on me. But | must sec
you"
Dine with me tonight, at sher.
rvs"
TOO big, too many people"
Therein lies security, if you're in
trouble. I'm about to go into exile,
and | want to eat one more civilized
dinner before co.
Perhaps it's just as we'll. Where
are you off for,-not Africa again?"
NO. Just Indiana,-one of the SOW.
ereign American states. as YOU ought
to know"
"Tndians?"
No; warranted all dead"
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camels,-how do you get there?"
vanished cars. It's easy. It's not
the getting there; it's the not dying of
ennul after you're on the spot"
"Humph! What hour did YOU saw
For the dinner?"
Seven O'clock Meet me at the an.
trance
I'll be there if I'm not in Jail. Kind.
~ allow me to precede you, and don't
follow, please.'
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 a way he had.
My friend, the American consul gen.
erai at Constantinople, was not with.
out a sense OF humor. and I 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
mad no right to give him asylum.-a
point that was, | understand, thor.
oughly well-grounded in law and fact.
Larry maintained, OH 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 English-borl, and that his devo
ton to Ireland was purely sentimental
and quixotfc. 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, ii not of discretion, he cut
Oxford and insisted on taking his de-
gree at Dublin. He even believed,-or
thought he belicved,-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 month in Jail for rioting. Bit
Larry's instincts were scholarly. he
made brilliant record at the univer.
sity; then. at %. he came forth to look
at the world, and liked 1T exceeding
well. His father was busy man and
ne mad other sons, so he granted Larry
an allowance and told him to keen
away from home until he got ready ia
he respectable. So. from CONSTANT.
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 hat night clothed nron.
ery, and wearing the gentlemanly air
Go Be Continued.)