Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-03-07
CHAPTER Il.
A Face al sherry,a.


made no difference to me whether the
market rose or fell. Something of the
spirit of adventure that had been my
curse quickened in my heart as /
walked through crowded Broadway
past Trinity church to a bank and
drew the balance remaining on my
letter Of credit received In currency
slightly less than $1,000.
AS turned from the teller's window
ran into the arms of the last man in
che world / expected to see.
This, let 1t be remembered, was in
October of the year of our Lord, nine.
teen hundred and one.
Don't mention my name an thou
Dvest mel" said Laurance Donovan,
and he drew me aside, ignored my
band and otherwise threw into our
meeting casual quality that was
somewhat amazing in view of the fact
Chat we had met last at Cairo.
allah IL Allah"
1t was undoubtedly Larry. felt the
heat of the desert and heard the camel
drivers cursing and our Sudanese
guides plotting mischief under win
dow far away.
WELL" we both exclaimed interro-
gatively.
He rocked gently back and forth.
with his hands in his pockets, on the
Gle 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 Abyssiaia, and our
guides had lost us in the worst posi-
Ole 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. 81 saw
a fellow looking for me an hour or so
ago. He's been at 1t 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 may
say, quite incog. Staying at an East
Side lodging house, where I shan't In
Hite you to call on me. But must see
you"
"Dine with me tonight. at Sher-
ry's--"
'Too big, too many people"
Therein lies security. II you're in
trouble. I'm about to go into exile.
and I want to eat one more civilized
dinner before 60"
Perhaps it's just as well. Where
are you off for,-not Africa AGAIN."
Il mo. Just Indiana,-one of the SOW
&reign American states, as you ought
TO know"
'Tndians?"
mo; warranted all dead"
Pack Observation-Disclosures
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"
''Pll be there If I'm not in jail. Kind
iy allow me to precede you, and don't
follow, pleased"
He walked away, his gloved hands
cIasped 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 Dom
oyan was In Constantinople, at 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.
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 l easily en-
listed him in Larry's behalf. The Eng
lishman thirsted for vengeance and in,
yoked 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
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-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,-or
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 brilliant record at the univer-
aity; then, at %, he came forth to look
at the world and liked 1t exceeding
well. His father was a 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 a 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 hlifhalx sung the widest Gaelic