The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-01-07

II.
a FACE at sherry's.

n,orket rose or fell. Something of the
snirit of adventure that had been my
curse ouickened in my heart as |
walked through crowded Broadway
mast Trinity church to a bank and
drew the balance remaining OF my
letter of credit. / received in currency
slightly less han $1,000.
As turned from the teller's window
7 ran into the arms of the last man in
.the world | expected to see.
This. let it 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 il Allah"
1t was undoubtedly Larry. 1 felt the
heat of the desert and heard the camel
drivers cursing and our Sudanese
guides plotting mischief under a win
dow far away.
"Well!" we both exclaimed interro-
g%atively.
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 a time
when he had eaten nothing in four
days-it was in Abyssinia, and our
guides had lost us in the worst posi-
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look in his eyes.
please don't appear surprised, or
scared or anything, Jack" he said,
with his delicious information. Il 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 1 shan't in
vite you to call on me. But 1 must see
you"
Dine with me tonight, at Sher-
ry's-"
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 l 60"
Perhaps it's just as we'll. Where
are you off for,-not Africa again ?"
mo. Just Indiana,-one of the SOW
ereign American states, as you ought
to know"
~"Indians?"
No; warranted all dead"
Pack train-balloon-automobile-
camels'-how do you get there?"
vanished cars. It's easy. It's not
tne getting there; it's the not dying of
ennul after you're on the spot"
Humph! What hour did you say
Tor the dinner?"
Seven o'clock. Meet me at the en-
trance"
III be there if I'm not in Jail. Kind
allow me to precede you, and don't
follow, pleased"
ne walked away, his gloved hands
casped lazily behind him, lounged out
upon broadway and turned toward the
battery. l waited until he disap-
peared' then took an uptown car.
My first meeting with Laurance Don
ivan was in Constantinople, at a cafe
"nere was dining. He got into a row
WIN an Englishman and knocked him
UO"n' IL was not my affair, but l liked
rue ease and definiteness with which
Larry put his foe out of commission. l
learned later that it was a way he had.
MY friend, the American consul gen.
etal at Constantinople, was not with
Vut a n of humor, and 1 easily en-
nsted him in I~.arry's behalf. The Eng
"ShHan thirsted for vengeance and in
.oneo all the powers. He insisted,
"ttn reason, that Larry was a British
suDJect n that the American consul
H"u no right to give him asylum,-a
YIN that was, l understand, thor
TUsuiy weli-grounded in law and fact.
larry maintained, on the other hand,
St ne was not English but Irish, and
al' as his country maintained no
~.epresentative In Turkey, 1t was his
plYHege to find refuge wherever it
was offered. Larry was always the
wost plausible of human beings, and
Set"een us,-he, the American consul
auu I've made an impression, and
got him of.
| dld not realize until later that the
nea4 o X lay in the fact that Larry
."as hnglish-born, and that his devo-
y 10 ireland was purely sentimental
ny quixotic His family had, to be
sue, come out of ireland some time
the dim past, and settled in Eng
auui but when Larry reached years of
0ouowledge, If not of discretion. he cut
wAioru n insisted on taking his de-
See at Dublin. He ever believed,-or
thought he believed,-in banshees. He
slhed himself during his university
Lays with the most radical and turbu-
NAl advocates Of a Sam rafa national