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The young man who has gone out as
doctor with Lieutenant ----'s expedition to the South Pole?"
A wave of tender feeling from my childhood came surging up to my throat
and I said:
"He was the first of my boy friends--in fact the only one."
The young doctor's eyes sparkled and he looked as if he wanted to throw
down his soup-spoon, jump up, and grasp me by both hands.
"God bless me, is that so?" he said.
It turned out that Martin and he had been friends at Dublin University.
They had worked together, "roomed" together, and taken their degrees at
the same time.
"So you know Mart? Lord alive, the way things come out!"
It was easy to see that Martin was not only his friend but his hero. He
talked of him with a passionate love and admiration with which men,
whatever they feel, rarely speak of each other.
Martin was the salt of the earth. He was the finest fellow and the
staunchest friend and the bravest-hearted chap that walked under the
stars of God.
"The greatest chum I have in the world, too, and by the holy Immaculate
Mother I'm destroyed at being away from him.


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