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He said that he did not value his life, that lives were only given to men in order that they might lay them down, and that the noblest way of laying down a life was in the service of humanity. I could see that Crossan was getting more and more suspicious every minute. "It is in order to save the lives of others," he said, "that I want to send my telegram to the Prime Minister."
He had promised to do this, but there was no necessity for him to keep his promise once the troops were withdrawn from Belfast. He returned to his duties in Parliament, and, as I gathered from the papers, harassed the Government successfully all through the autumn session. The Dean and Crossan played their hymn tune on our church bells every day for a fortnight.
"I suppose," I said, "that it's rather unusual in battles to do that sort of thing march off, I mean without giving some sort of notice to the other side. It strikes me as rather bad form. There ought to be a rule against it." Bob's men returned, sheepishly and dejectedly, to their original posts. Crossan was arguing with McConkey about the condition of the machine gun.
It was nearly an hour after Crossan left me when I recollected that I had not found out anything about the packing-cases. The subject somehow had not come up between us, though I fully intended that it should. Our talk about Home Rule gave me no clue to what was in the cases.
It was Crossan who commanded this particular regiment. It never was safe, even in the quietest times, to be flippant with Crossan. On a night like that and under the existing circumstances, Bland might very well have been knocked on the head for his joke if I had not come to his rescue. "Crossan," I said, "don't make a fuss. Mr. Bland and I are simply taking a walk round the streets."
"Then what did she come for?" I did not know, so I ignored Godfrey's question. "And in the second place Crossan wouldn't debauch the whole place by making the men drunk night after night on smuggled spirits. Why, only three weeks ago he spoke to me seriously about the glass of claret I drink at dinner. He did it quite respectfully and entirely for my good. I respected him for it."
Godfrey regarded Marion as, in a sense, his property, although there was nothing in the way of an engagement between them. McNeice, whom I had hoped to meet, was not on the yacht. The steward explained to us that he was spending the day with Crossan. I could see that the thought of any one spending the day with Crossan outraged Godfrey's sense of decency.
Their latest feud was concerned with the service of carts which take the fish from our little harbour to the nearest railway station. Crossan is politically a strong Protestant and an Orangeman of high attainment. Godfrey has no particular religion, and in politics belongs to that old-fashioned school of Conservatives who think that the lower orders ought to be respectful to their betters.
The man" that is in this case Crossan himself "is the gowd for a' that." "You can get about the country pretty quickly in that car," I said. Crossan looked at me with a perfectly expressionless face for some time. Then he said said "If you think, my lord, that I'm neglecting my work, you've only to say so and I'll go."
Others, among them James Crossan, manager of the Kilmore Co-operative Stores, and Grand Master of the Orangemen of the county, were summoned to the conference. Then the first steps were taken. McNeice went back to Ireland and began, with the aid of James Crossan, his work of organization.
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