The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-11-16
Copyrights 1905 By Bobbs-Msrriii 70.
CHAPTER ~.
A Face at Shcrry's

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 telers window
ran into the arms of the last man in
the world / expected to see.
This, let II 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 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 II Allah"
II 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
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-
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 information. 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-
sistent devil. I'm here, as we may
say. quite incog. Staying at an East
Side lodging house. where / shant In
vite you to call on me. But must see
you"
Dine with me tonight, at Sher-
RVS"
Too big, too many people"
trouble. I'm about to go into exile
ana | want to eat one more civilized
dinner before CO."
Perhaps it's just as well. Where
are you of for,-not Africa AGAIN."
mo. Just Indiana,-one of the SOW
p. ereign American states, as you ought
to know"
"Indians?"
mo; warranted all dead"
Pack -balloon-automobile
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"
I'm be there II I'm not in jail. Kind
ly allow me 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 until he dlsap-
peared, then took an uptown car.
My first meeting with Laurance Don
ovan was in Constantinople at cafe
where ! was dining. He got into row
with an Englishman and knocked him
down. II was not my affair, but liked
the ease and definiteness with which
Larry put his foe out of commission.
learned later that 1t was a way he had.
My friend, the American consul gen.
eral at Constantinople, was not with
out a sense Of humor, and | 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, II was his
privilege to find refuge wherever II
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, II not of discretion, he cut
oxford and insisted on taking his de
gree at Dublin He even belieyed.-o
thought he belleved,-in banshees. He
allied himself during his university
days with the most radical and turbu
lent advocates of q senarale national