From birth, and as an attribute inborn10, I have been ever too quick to give. For a first part of my life at least, and until I shackled11 my impulse of liberality, I was the constant victim of that natural readiness. And I was cheated and swindled with every rising sun. I gave friendship and took pretense12; I parted with money for words; ever I rendered the real and received the false, and sold the substance for the shadow to any and all who came pleasantly to smile across my counter. I was not over-old, however, when these dour13 truths broke on me, and I began to teach myself the solvent14 beauty of saying “No.”
During those months of exile—for exile it was—which I spent in Washington Square, I cultivated misanthropy—a hardness of spirit; almost, I might say, I fostered a hatred15 of my fellow man. And more or less I had success. I became owner of much stiffness of sentiment and a proneness16 to be practical; and kept ever before me like a star that, no matter how unimportant I might be to others, to myself at least I was most important of mankind. Doubtless, I lost in grace by such studies; but in its stead I succeeded to safety, and when we are at a final word, we live by what we keep and die by what we quit, and of all loyalties17 there’s no loyalty18 like loyalty to one’s self.
While I can record a conquest of my generosity and its subjugation19 to lines of careful tit-for-tat, there were other emotions against which I was unable to toughen my soul. I became never so redoubtable20 that I could beat off the assaults of shame; never so puissant21 of sentiment but I was prey22 to regrets. For which weaknesses, I could not think on the affairs of The Emperor’s Cigars and The German Girl’s Diamonds, nor on the sordid23 money I pouched24 as their fruits, without the blush mounting; nor was I strong enough to consider the latter adventure and escape a stab of sore remorse25. Later could I have found the girl I would have made her restitution26. Even now I hear again that scream which reached me on the forward deck of the “Wolfgang” that September afternoon.
But concerning the Cuban filibusterer, his outsailing against Spain; and the gold I got for his going—for these I say, I never have experienced either confusion or sorrow. My orders were to keep him in; I opened the port’s gate and let him out; I pocketed my yellow profits. And under equal conditions I would do as much again. It was an act of war against Spain; yet why should one shrink from one’s interest for a reason like that? Where was the moral wrong? Nations make war; and what is right for a country, is right for a man. That is rock-embedded verity27, if one will but look, and that which is dishonest for an individual cannot be honest for a flag. You may—if you so choose—make war on Spain, and with as much of justice as any proudest people that ever put to sea. The question of difference is but a question of strength; and so you be strong enough you’ll be right enough, I warrant! For what says the poet?
“Right follows might
Like tail follows kite.”
It is a merest truism; we hear it in the storm; the very waves are its witnesses. Everywhere and under each condition, it is true. The proof lies all about. We read it on every page of history; behold28 it when armies overthrow29 a throne or the oak falls beneath the axe30 of the woodman. Do I disfavor war? On the contrary, I approve it as an institution of greatest excellence31. War slays32; war has its blood. But has peace no victims? Peace kills thousands where war kills tens; and if one is to consider misery33, why then there be more starvation, more cold, more pain, and more suffering in one year of New York City peace than pinched and gnawed34 throughout the whole four years of civil war. And human life is of comparative small moment. We say otherwise; we believe otherwise; but we don’t act otherwise. Action is life’s text. Humanity is itself the preacher; in that silent sermon of existence—an existence of world’s goods and their acquirement—we forever show the thing of least consequence to be the life of man. However, I am not myself to preach, I who pushed forth35 to tell a story. It is the defect of age to be garrulous36, and as one’s power to do departs, its place is ever taken by a weakness to talk.
This filibusterer whom I liberated37 to sail against Spain, I long ago told you was called Ryan. That, however, is a fictitious38 name; there was a Ryan, and the Spaniards took his life at Santiago. And because he with whom I dealt was also put up against a wall and riddled39 with Spanish lead, and further, because it is not well to give his true name, I call him Ryan now. His ship rode on her rope in New York bay; I was given the Harriet Lane to hold him from sailing away; his owners ashore41—merchants these and folk on ’change—offered me ten thousand dollars; the gold was in bags, forty pounds of it; I turned my back at evening and in the morning he was gone.
You have been told how I never thought on those adventures of The Emperor’s Cigars, and The German Girl’s Diamonds, without sensations of shame, and pain. Indeed! they were engagements of ignobility42! Following the latter affair I felt a strongest impulse to change somewhat my occupation. I longed for an employment a bit safer and less foul43. I counted my fortunes; I was rich with over seventy thousand dollars; that might do, even though I gained no more. And so it fell that I was almost ready to leave the Customs, and forswear and, if possible, forget, those sins I had helped commit in its name.
In the former days, my home tribe was not without consequence in Old Dominion44 politics. And while we could not be said to have strengthened ourselves by that part we took against the union, still, now that peace was come, the family began little by little to regather a former weight. It had enough at this time to interfere45 for my advantage and rescue me from my present duty. I was detailed46 from Washington to go secretly to Europe, make the careless tour of her capitols, and keep an eye alive to the interests of both the Treasury47 and the State Department.
It was a gentleman’s work; this loafing from London to Paris, and from Paris to Berlin, with an occasional glance into Holland and its diamond cutting. And aside from expenses—which were paid by the government—I drew two salaries; one from the Customs and a second from the Secret Service. My business was to detect intended smuggling48 and cable the story, to the end that Betelnut Jack49 and Lorns and Quin and the others make intelligent seizures50 when the smugglers came into New York. The better to gain such news, I put myself on closest terms—and still keep myself a secret—with chief folk among houses of export; I went about with them, drank with them, dined with them; and I wheedled53 and lay in ambush54 for information of big sales. I sent in many a good story; and many a rich seizure51 came off through my interference. Also I lived vastly among legation underlings, and despatched what I found to the Department of State. There was no complaint that I didn’t earn my money from either my customs or my secret service paymaster. In truth! I stood high in their esteem55.
At times, too, I was baffled. There was a lady, the handsome wife of a diamond dealer56 in Maiden57 Lane. She came twice a year to Europe. Obviously and in plain view—like the vulgarian she was not—this beautiful woman, as she went aboard ship in New York, would wear at throat and ears and on her hands full two hundred thousand dollars’ worth of stones—apparently. And there they seemed to be when she returned; and, of course, never a dime58 of duty. We were morally sure this beautiful woman was a beautiful smuggler52; we were morally sure those stones were paste when she sailed from New York; we were morally sure they were genuine, of purest water, when she returned; we were morally sure the shift was made in Paris, and that a harvest of thousands was garnered59 with every trip. But what might we do? We had no proof; we could get none; we could only guess.
And there were other instances when we slipped. More than once I tracked a would-be smuggler to his ship and saw him out of port. And yet, when acting60 on my cables, the smuggler coming down the New York gang-plank was snapped up by my old comrades and searched, nothing was found. This mystery, for mystery it was, occurred a score of times. At last we learned the trick. The particular room occupied by the smuggler was taken both ways for a round dozen trips ahead. There were seven members of the smuggling combine. When one left the room, his voyage ended, and came ashore in New York, another went duly aboard and took possession for the return trip. The diamonds had not gone ashore. They were hidden in a sure place somewhere about the room; he who took it to go to Europe knew where. And in those several times to follow when the outgoer was on and off the boat before she cleared, he found no difficulty in carrying the gems61 ashore. The Customs folk aren’t watching departures; their vigilance is for those who arrive. However, after a full score of defeats, we solved this last riddle40, and managed a seizure which lost the rogues62 what profits they had gathered on all the trips before.
Also, as I pried63 about the smuggling industry, I came across more than one interesting bit of knowledge. I found a French firm making rubies64—actual rubies. It was a great secret in my time, though more is known of it now. The ruby65 was real; stood every test save the one test—a hard one to enforce—of specific gravity. The made ruby was a shadow lighter66, bulk for bulk, than the true ruby of the mines. This made ruby was called the “scientific ruby;” and indeed! it was scientific to such a degree of delusion67 that the best experts were for long deceived and rubies which cost no more than two hundred dollars to make, were sold for ten thousand dollars.
As a curious discovery of my ramblings, I stumbled on a diamond, the one only of its brood. It was small, no more than three-quarters of a carat. But of a color pure orange and—by day or by night—blazing like a spark of fire. That stone if lost could be found; it is the one lone68 member of its orange house. What was its fate? Set in the open mouth of a little lion’s head, one may now find it on the finger of a prince of the Bourse.
It was while in Madrid, during my European hunting, that those seeds were sown which a few months later grew into a smart willingness to let down the bars for my filibusterer’s escape. I was by stress of duty held a month in Madrid. And, first to last, I heard nothing from the natives when they spoke69 of America but malediction70 and vilest71 epithet72. It kept me something warm, I promise, for all I had once ridden saber in hand to smite73 that same American government hip6 and thigh74. I left Madrid when my work was done with never a moment’s delay; and I carried away a profound hate for Spain and all things Spanish.
As I was brought home by commands from my superiors at the end of my Madrid work, these anti-Spanish sentiments had by no means cooled when I made the New York wharf75. Decidedly if I’d been searched for a sentiment, I would have been discovered hostile to Spanish interest when, within three weeks following my home-coming, I was given the Harriet Lane, shown the suspect and his ship, and told to have a sleepless76 eye and seize him if he moved.
It’s the Norse instinct to hate Spain; and I was blood and lineage, decisively Norse. That affair of instinct is a mighty77 matter. It is curious to note how one’s partisanship78 will back-track one’s racial trail and pick up old race feuds79 and friendships; hating where one’s forbears hated, loving where they loved. Even as a child, being then a devourer80 of history, I well recall how—while loathing81 England as the foe82 of this country—I still went with her in sympathy was she warring with France or Spain. I remember, too, that, in England’s civil wars, I was ever for the Roundhead and against the King. This, you say, sounds strangely for my theory, coming as I do from Virginia, that state of the Cavalier. One should reflect that Cavalierism—to invent a word—is naught83 save a Southern boast. Virginia, like most seaboard Southern states, was in its time a sort of Botany Bay whereunto, with other delinquents84, political prisoners were condemned85; my own ancestors coming, in good truth! by edict of the Bloody86 Jeffreys for the hand they took in Monmouth’s rebellion. It is true as I state, even as a child, too young for emotions save emotions of instinct, I was ever the friend, as I read history, first of my own country; and next of England, Germany, Holland, Denmark and Sweden-Nor-way—old race-camps of my forefathers87, these—and like those same forefathers the uncompromising foe of France, Spain, Italy, and the entire Latin tribe, as soon as ever my reading taught me their existence.
My filibusterer swung on his cable down the bay from Governor’s Island. During daylight I held the Harriet Lane at decent distance; when night came down I lay as closely by him as I might and give the ships room as they swept bow for stern with the tide. Also, we had a small-boat patrol in the water.
It was the fourth day of my watch. I was ashore to stretch my legs, and at that particular moment, grown weary of walking, on a bench in Battery Park, from which coign I had both my filibusterer and the Harriet Lane beneath my eye, and could signal the latter whenever I would.
On the bench with me sat a well-dressed stranger; I had before observed him during my walk. With an ease that bespoke88 the trained gentleman, and in manner unobtrusive, my fellow bencher stole into talk with me. Sharpened of my trade, he had not discoursed89 a moment before I felt and knew his purpose; he was friend to my filibusterer whose black freeboard showed broadside on as she tugged90 and strove with her cable not a mile away.
He carried the talk to her at last.
“I don’t believe she’s a filibusterer,” he said. Her character was common gossip, and he had referred to that. “I don’t believe she’s a filibusterer. I’d be glad to see her get out if I thought she were,” and he turned on me a tentative eye.
Doubtless he observed a smile, and therein read encouragement. I told him my present business; not through vain jauntiness91 of pride, but I was aware that he well knew my mission before ever he sat down, and I thought I’d fog him up a bit with airs of innocence92, and lead him to suppose I suspected him not.
After much tacking93 and going about, first port and then starboard—to use the nautical94 phrase—he came straight at me.
“Friend,” he said; “the cause of liberty—Cuban liberty, if you will—is dear to me. If that ship be a filibusterer and meant for Cuba’s aid, speaking as a humanitarian95, I could give you ten thousand reasons, the best in the world, why you should let her sail.” This last, wistfully.
Thereupon I lighted a cigar, having trouble by reason of the breeze. Then getting up, I took my handkerchief and wig-wagged the Harriet Lane to send the gig ashore. As I prepared to go down to the water-front, I turned to my humanitarian who so loved liberty.
“Give your reasons to Betelnut Jack,” I said; “he delights in abstract deductions96 touching97 the rights of man as against the rights of states as deeply as did that Thetford Corset maker98, Thomas Paine.”
“Betelnut Jack!” said my humanitarian. “He shall have every reason within an hour.”
“Should you convince him,” I retorted, “tell him as marking a fact in which I shall take the utmost interest to come to this spot at five o’clock and show me his handkerchief.”
Then I joined the Harriet Lane.
At the hour suggested, Betelnut Jack stood on the water’s edge and flew the signal. I put the captain’s glass on him to make sure. He had been given the reasons, and was convinced. There abode99 no doubt of it; the humanitarian was right and Cuba should be free. Besides, I remembered Madrid and hated Spain.
“Captain,” I observed, as I handed that dignitary the glasses, “we will, if you please, lie in the Narrows to-night. If this fellow leave—which he won’t—he’ll leave that way. And we’ll pinch him.”
The Captain bowed. We dropped down to the Narrows as the night fell black as pitch. The Captain and I cracked a bottle. As we toasted each other, our suspect crept out through the Sound, and by sunrise had long cleared Montauk and far and away was southward bound and safe on the open ocean.
“I believe,” observed the Jolly Doctor to the Sour Gentleman when the latter paused, “I believe you said that the Filibusterer was in the end taken and shot.”
“Seized when he made his landing,” returned the Sour Gentleman, “and killed against a wall in the morning.”
“It was a cheap finish for a 10,000-dollar start,” remarked the Red Nosed Gentleman, sententiously. “But why should this adventurer, Ryan, as you call him, go into the business of freeing Cuba? Where would lie his profit? I don’t suppose now it was a love of liberty which put him in motion.”
“The Cuban rebellionists,” said the Sour Gentleman, “were from first to last sustained by certain business firms in New York who had arranged to make money by their success. It is a kind of piracy100 quite common, this setting our Spanish-Americans to cutting throats that a profit may flow in Wall and Broad streets. Every revolution and almost every war in South and Central America have their inspirations in the counting-rooms of some great New York firm. I’ve known rival houses in New York to set a pair of South American republics to battling with each other like a brace101 of game cocks. Thousands were slain with that war. Sure, it is the merest blackest piracy; the deeds of Kidd or Morgan were milk-white by comparison.”
“It shows also,” observed the Jolly Doctor, “how little the race has changed. In our hearts we are the same vikings of savage102 blood and pillage103, and with no more of ruth, we were in the day of Harold Fairhair.”
Sioux Sam, at the Old Cattleman’s suggestion, came now to relate the story of “How Moh-Kwa Saved the Strike Axe.”
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