Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-04-18
CHAPTER II.
F., A Face at sherry's.

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
1 ran into the arms of the last man in
the world l expected to see.
This, let IL be remembered, was In
October of the year of our Lord, nine
teen hundred and one.
Don't mention my name an. thou
lowest mel" said Laurance Donovan,
and he drew mo aside. ignored my
hand and otherwise threw into our.
meeting casual quality that was.
somewhat smazing in view of the fact
that we had met last at Cairo.
Allah il Allah!" -, q.
1t was undoubtedly Larry. felt the
heat of the desert and heard the camel
drivers cursing and our Sudanese
guides plotting mischief under a win
dow far away.
Welt" we both exclaimed interro.
.gatively.
He rocked gently back and forth,
with his hands in his pockets, on the
tile floor of the banking house. l had
seen him stand thus once on time
when he had eaten nothing in four
'days-it was in Abyssilia, and our
guides had lost us 10 the worst posi-
bile 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 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-
isistent devil I'm here. as we may
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-
ry's-"
"Too big. loo many people"
Therein lies security. If you're in
trouble. I'm about to go into exile,
and l want to eat QUO more civilized
dinner before l CO."
Perhaps it's Just as we'll. Where
are you off for,-not Africa again?'
mo. Just Indlana,-one of the SOW
ereign American states. as you ought
to know"
'Indians?"
stNro. mn ~,,o..4oA III
Pack -bhlloon.-automobi
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"
''Ilumph What hour did you say
for the dinner"
"Sevon o'clock. Meet me at the en-
trance"
''I'll be there If m not in jail. Kind
iy allow inc to precede you, and don't
follow, pleased"
He walked away. his gloved hands
clasped lazily behind him, lounged out
upon broadway and turned toward the
Battery. l waited uutil he disap-
peared, then took an up town car.
MY lISl HltellUB WIN l4duTduCe OOQ-
ovan was,in Constantinople, at cafe
where was dining He got into row
with an Englishman and knocked him
down. 1t was not my affair, but liked
the ease and deflniteness with which
Larry put his foe out of commission. |
learned later that it was way he had.
My friend, the Americon consul gen
eral at Constantinople, was not with
out sense OF humpr, and easily en-
listed him in Larrys behalf, Tho Eng
iishman thirsted for cngeance 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, l understand, thor
oughly well-groundod in law and fact
Larry maintained, on the other hand
that he was not English but Irish, and
that as ibis country maintained nc
representative in Turkey, It was his
privilege to find refuge wherever II
was offered, Larry was always the
most plausible of hmnan beings, and
between lis.---he. the American consul
nnd I,-Wc iaade an impression, and
rot him of.
did not realize until later that the
zeal Joke lsy Ia the fact that Larry
was English BON, and that his devo
tlon to Iiela-.d was purely sentimental
and qliAvor. Ills family had. to be
sure, come oil Of ireland some time
10 the an. = and settled in Eng