Show AN IRISHMAN IN SPAIN The Strange Story of An ODonnell Otherwise the Duke of Tehran In the early part of this century three brothers named ODonnell left their native na-tive countryIreland of courseand wtnt to live In Spain where they all had extraordinary careers one died in 167 rrter he had become the Duke of I I 1 Tetuan though he was better known as i General ODonnell he was one of the irist brilliant military men of his time I The youngest brother was cut off in his youth but nothing in the lives of the I others js so strange and touching as I the story of his death In 1S32 there was war in Spain regard re-gard the succession to the throne and young ODonnell declared himself for Isabella who was indeed soon proclaimed pro-claimed queen but before that time ODonnell fell a prisoner to General Zu malacarrecuy a leader of the Carllst forces The young Irishman looked upon this as almost a piece of good luck for the Carllst leader was an old school mate of his The two friends celebrated this meeting after the separation of years as a festive occasion and as they ate supper together and drank tcasts to old times Zumalacarrecuy said saidYour Your captivity will be brief my friend I am just about to send off a flag of truce to your general to negotiate nego-tiate an exchange of prisoners so that you may expect to be free tomorrow The flag of truce was indeed sent but the result was terribly unexpected The general of the Christians that was the name given to Isabellas party answered an-swered the Carllst envoy by saying I will show you how I treat rebels and forthwith he had all his Carlist prisoners brought out and shot down before the eyes of Christians and the officer had no better news ihan i the story of their death to take back to his chief The next morning Zumalacarrequy came into his tent where his prisoner breakfasting wearing a very unhappy un-happy expression he sat down in silence si-lence I What is the matter asked ODon nell Have you slept badly or was your chocolate burnt I am immensely disturbed was the I answer and he told how the Carlist prisoners had been shot and added I must make reprisals My friend in one I hours time you must be shot no matter mat-ter how I feel about it ODonnell set down his cup after finishing his chocolate and said Yes that is a matter of course you must not distress yourself about it I would act in the same way myself Now give me a couple of cigarettes and wrIting material for I must write a letter which I will trouble you to take care of after my execution As ho was finishing the letter the guard came to take out the prisoners ODonnell got up at once shook hands with the man who wasboth his friend and his enemy lit another cigarette and walked out to be shot |