The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1910-02-12

hausted foreign travel, he spent much
time on his estate in the North Caro-
lima hills, where he could ride all
day on his own land, and where he
read prodigiously in a huge library
that he had assembled with special
reference to works on piracy, sub
ject that had attracted him from early
youth.
1t was this hobby that had sealed
his friendship with Griswold who had
relinquished the practice of law, after
brilliant start in his native city of
Richmond, to accept the associate pro.
fessorship of admiralty in the law de-
partment of the University of Vir-
ginia. Marine law had a particular
fascination for Griswold from its es-
sentially romantic character. AS a
law student he had read all the de-
cisions in admiralty that the libraries
afforded, and, though faithfully serv-
ing the university, he still occasional
ly accepted retainers in admiralty
cases of unusual Importance. His lee
lures were constantly attended by
students in other departments of the
university for sheer pleasure in Girls
wold's racy and entertaining exposi-
ton of the laws touching the libeling
of schooners and the recovery of
Jettisoned cargoes. Henry Maine
Griswold was tall, slender and dark,
and he lowered recklessly, as he
might have put it, on the brink of
thirty. He stroked his thin brown
mustache habitually, as though to hide
the smile that played about his hui
morous mouth-a smile that lay even
more obscurely in his fine brown eyes,
He did violence to the academic tradi-
lions by dressing with metropolitan
care, gray being his prevailing note
though his scarfs ventured upon bold
color schemes that interested his stu
dents almost as much as his lectures
The darkest fact of his life-and one
shared with none-wSs his expert
ments in verse. From his undergrad
uate days he had written occasionally
little song, quite for his own pleas
ure in versifying, and to little sheaf
of these things in manuscript he still
added few verses now and then.
Don't worry, Ardy," he was saying
to his friend as "all aboard" was
called, "and don't be reckless When
you get through looking for the wink
ing eye, come up to Charlottesville
and We'll plan THE True Life of
Capt. Kidd" that is some day going
to make us famous"
I'll wire you later" replied Ard.
more, clinging to his friends hand a
moment after the train began to move
Gr1swold leaned out of the vestibule
to wave last farewell to Ardmore,
and something very kind and gentle
and good to see shone in the law
yers eyes. He went into the car
smiling, for he called Ardmore his
best friend, and he was amused by his
last words, which were always Ard
more's last in their partings, and
were followed usually by kilograms
about the most 2preposterous things,
or suggestions for romantic adven-
lures, or some new hypothesis touch
ing Capt. Kidd and his buried treas
ure. Ardmore never wrote letters;
he always telegraphed, and he en-.
joyed filing long, mysterious and ex.
pensive messages with telegraph oper-
ators In obscure places where a
scrupulous ten words was the frugal
limit. MS.
Griswold lighted a cigar and opened
the afternoon Atlanta papers in the
smoking compartment. His eye was
caught at once by imperative head
lines. 1t is not too much to say that
the eye Of the continent was arrested
that evening by the amazing disclos-
ure, now tardily reaching the public,
that something unusual had occurred
at the annual meeting of the Cotton
Planters association at New Orleans
on the previous day. Every copy
reader and editor. every paragrapher
on every newspaper in the land had
smiled and reached for fresh pencil
as preliminary bulletin announced
the passing of harsh words between
the governor of North Carolina and
the governor of South Carolina. 1t
may as we'll be acknowledged here
that just what really happened at the
Cotton Planters convention will
never be known. for this particular
meeting was held behind closed doors,
and as the two governors were
honored guests OF the association. no
member has ever breathed word
touching an incident that all most
sincerely deplored. Indeed, no hint
of it would ever have reached the pub
lie had it not been that both gentle
men hurried's left the convention hall,
refused to keep their appointments to
speak at the banquet that followed
the business meetings, and were re-
ported to have taken the first trains
for their respective capitals. 1t was
whispered by few persons that the
governor of South Carolina had
taken fling at the authenticity of
the Mecklenburg Declaration Of Inde-
pendence; it was rumored in other
| quarters that the governor of North
Carolina was the aggressor, he having
1T was said-declared that a people
(meaning the freemen of the common