The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-10-30

my ears open for any account Of his dotnsA
From one point Of view. the Club Window
outlook, he was very usual figure, one Of
those stout. rubicund. jolly men. . good polo
player. q good man in q house party. genial
natured, and none too brilliantly Drained.
about An this he was one side of the
report. but. on tho other. there were certain
stories that were something more than the
ordinary.
wIlbraham was obviously a senttmentAlist
and an enthusiast; there was the extraordi-
nary case shortly after I frst met him Of
Ids championship Of x q man who had been
caught In an especially bestial kind Of
crime and received a years Imprisonment
for It On x leaving prison wiIbraham
ehampioned and defended him. put him MP
for months in his rooms in Duke street.
down Piccadilly, and took him over to PariA-
It says a great deal for Wilhraham's accept.
Cd normalty and his general popularity that
this championship Of K did him no harm
n vas 20 obvious that he himself was the
last man IN the world to be afflicted with Ks
murmnr something about birds Of Q
feather"; one or two kind friends warned
Wilbraham IN the way kind friends have. and
to them he simply said: If . feslsrs a pal
hts a pal"
An this might IN ths end have done VIII
braham harm had not x most happily COM
united suicide in Paris In 1905. . ,
There followed q year or two hter the
mnch more celebrated business Of Lady c.
I mead not go into all that now, bat here
again wfibraham constituted himself her d.
fender. although she robbed. cheated, and
maligned him a. she robbed. cheated, and
malisned every one who was good TO her.
It was quite obvious that he was not IN
love with her; the obviousness of # was
one Of the things In him that ANNOYED her.
He simply felt apparently thaG she bad
bean badly treated the very last thing that
she had beenl gave her any money he had
put Ids rooms At the disposal Of herself and
bar friends. and. a have said. championed
her everywhere. This AFFAIR I'D very nearly
nntsh him socially, and In his regiment. Il
was not % mnch that they minded his caring
Tor Lady c-taftsr al. any man can b fooled
BY any vumanl-but It was Lady Cs friends
who made the whole thing 20 impossible
Such q crsw! Such q horrible crswl And n
wS queer thing to SEA wnbsaham with his
straight blue eyes and innocent mouth and
gsnerl air Of amiabls simplicity in the com
psny Of men Ike Colonel B and young Ken
meth Parr- There ID no harm, consderinx
the iatsr publicity Of bis case. in mentioning
his nams) We'll, that affair luckily came 70
N end just m tirns- Lady disappeared to
Berlin and was NO more SEEN
There were other oasss into which I need
not go when Wuhrahsm was seen in strange
company, always championins somebody
who was not worth the champaonins. He
had no social tact" and for them At any
rate no moral sense. In himself he v,s the
ordinary normal man about town. NO pruds,
but straight as a man can be In his dsbts,
his love affairs, his. friendships, and his
sport Than came the war. He dId bril-.
hantiy ct Mons. was wounded twios. went
out b 0anipon. had touch It Palestine, s.d
rstEnsd to France again % shers d yeshAs
nnal triumph.
No man can possdbiy hevs haA more q ths
var than he had. and II IL my own belief
that he had just . little too much os II.
Hs had hssa always psfhaSs 4 nsss