The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-01-24
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~ allow me TO precede YOU ana oon.
follow. please!"
He walked away, his gloved hand.
ciasped lazily behind him, lounged on
Upon broadway and turned toward the
battery. l waited until he disap
peared' then took an uptown car.
MY hrst meeting with Laurance Don
| oVan was In Constantinople. AT q cafe
Where | was dining. He got into row
with an Englishman and knocked hin
uo"n. II was not my affair. but liked
the ease and deflniteness with which
Larry put his foe out Of commission.
'earneo later that 1t 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-.
nsted MIN in Larry's behalf The Eng
Hshman thirsted for vengeance and In.
Voked all the powers. He insisted
WIN 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-grounded in law and fact.
Larry maintained, on the other hand.
that ne was not English but Irish. and
that' as his country maintained NO
representative in Turkey, 1t was his
privilege to find refuge wherever II
was onered. Larry was always the
most plausible of human beings, and
between us,-he, the American consul
ana I've made an impression, and
got him off.
did not realize until later that the
lreal joke lay in the fact that Larry
was English-born, and that his deyo
zion to Ireland was purely sentimental
ana qu1xotic. His family had. to be
sure, come out of Ireland some time
IN the dim past, and settled in Eng
lano; 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
Gays with the most radical and turbu.
lent advocates Of a separate national
existence for Ireland, and occasionaIlv
spent month in Jail for rioting. But
Larrys instincts were scholarly. he
made brilliant record at the univar.
sity; then, at %, he came forth to look
at the world, and liked It exceeding
well. His father was busy man and
ne had other sons, so he granted Larry
an allowance and told him to keen
away from home until he got ready ia
De respectable. So, from CONSTANT
nople, after tour of Europe. we To-
gether crossed the Mediterranean in
search of the feshpots of lost king.
doms, spending three years in the pur-
suit. We parted at Cairo on exceIlent
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 adj |
ventures, and never lost his love for
Inc SOD, as he observation-disclosures
capltalized-his adopted country.
Larry had the habit of immaculate.
ness. He emerged from his East Side
looglng house that night clothed prop |
erly, and wearing the gentlemanly air
OF peace and reserve that is so wholly |
with his disposition tn
breed discord and indulge in riot
When we sat down for a Ieisurelv din
ner at Sherry's we were not. I modest
ly maintain, forbidding pair. We
II may drag myself into the matter
are Doth tribe under the average
height, sinewy, nervous. and just then
trained fine. Our lean, clean-sbayen
faces were well-browned-mfne wear
Ing a fresh coat from nv DAYS on the
steamers deck.
Larry had never been in America he
-ore, and the scene had for both of us
he charm of a gay and novel spec
.acle. | have always maintained. in
to Larry OF people and races
hat the Americans are the hand
'omest and best put-up people in the
world, and l believe he was persuaded
If 1t that night as we gazed with ewes
ong unaccustomed to splendor upon
he great company assembled in the
The lights, the music. the
'ariety and richness OF the costumes
Il the women, the many Enthusiastically
'oreign faces that gave a cosnopoli-
an accent to the whole, wrought a
Welcome spell upon senses Injured to
hardship in earth's waste and dreary
places.
Now tell me the story" I said.
Have you done murder? Is the Of
ense treasonable?"
1T was tenants row in Galway.
nd | smashed constable. smashed
i'm pretty hard, l dare say, from the
ow they kicked up in the newspapers.
lay low for couple of weeks, caught
boat at Queenstown, and here 1 am,
Waiting for chance to get back to
he Sod without going in irons"
You were certainly born to be
anged. Larry. You'd better stay in
lmerica. There's more room here
han anywhere else, and it's not easy
D kidnap man in America and carry
i'm Off"
Possibly not; and yet the situation
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