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

-quser.- - No sre most Of N queer.
somewhere. and the horrors Of that horrible
war undoubtedly affected him. Finally be
lost. Just . week before the armistice, one
Of his best friends Ross Mclean, . loss
from which he certainly never recovered.
have now. think. brought together an
the incidents that c.n throw any kind Of
light upon the final scene.
In the middle Of 1913 he retired from M
army. and It was from this time to his death
that saw something Of him. He went back
to his old home at Horizons In Duke street.
and As was living at that time in Marlbor-
ough Chambers in Jermyn street We were
m easy reach Of one another. The early part
Of 1890 was queer time" People had be-
come. imagine. pretty wen accustomed to
realizing that those two wonderful hours
Of Armistice day had not ushered in the
millennium any moro than those first mar
vicious moments of the Russian revolution
produced n
Every one has always hoped for the mil
isnnium, but the trouble since the days Of
Adam and Eve has always been that people
have such different ideas as to what exactly
that millennium shall be. The plain facts of
the matter simply were that during 1913 and
1890 the world changed from q war Of nations
to war Of classes, that inevitable change
that history has always shown follows on
great wars.
Az NO one ever reads history, II was nat
ual enough that there should be a great
deal Of disappointment and a great deal Of
asaontshnnent Men at the head Of affairs
who ought to have known better cried aloud,
How ungrateful these people are, after all
we've done for them!" and the people under
meath shouted that everything had been
muddied and spoiled and that they would
have done much batter had they been 1t
the head Of Affairs, an assertion for which
there was no sort of justification.
Wnbraham. being a sentimentalist and an
tdealist, suffered more from this general dis
appointment than most people. He had had
wonderful relations with the men under, him
Throughout the war. He had never tired AZ
recounting how marvelously they had be-
hayed. what heroes they were. and that It
vas they who would, pull the country to
gether.
At the same time he had Q naif horror Of
boashevism and anything unconstitutional,
and he watched the transfornaSsoa n his
brave lads" into discontented and idle
voskmen with dismay and deep distress. He
used sometimes to come around to my rooms
ana talk to me: he had the bewildsrsd air of
a man walking In his sleep.
He made the fatal mistake Of reading IN
the papers. and he took In the Daily Herald
In order that he might see what II v.s
these fellows had to say for themselves" r
The Herald upset him terribly. Its bland
assumption that Russians and Sim Fsinsrs
could DO no wrong, but that the slightest
sign Of assertion Of authority on the part Of
any government vas wicked granny
shocked his very soul. I remsmbsr that he
wrote . long. most sarnssS lsttsr. to Lans-
bury. pointing ont to him that If h subverted
I'll authority and constitutional government
his cwn party would in its turn Be subvertsd
vSsn II came to sovern OF course. he re-
oefved no AnsvR.
During thsSs months cams, to loys Dc
man. me attraction that had feit tor him
from the vsry nrst deeply undsriay an my
rotation to him. hut a aw mora Of him
! found many very positive reasons for my
liking. He MAS the sinp,sst, bravsst, pursst
most lqyal ~, nast unsslnsh ssui alive,