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Strange Roads September of 1913. I went with an open mind on the Irish question. On the one hand, I certainly had no sympathies with treason and disaffection, and I thought—and think still—that the Home Rule movement had been advanced by odious and cruel and criminal methods. On the other hand, as all my friends will testify, I am not an extreme Protestant—to put it mildly, or, as the rhetoricians would say, to use an agreeable meiosis—and I had a notion that I should find something extremely dour and harsh among the "Black Prodestans" of the north-east of Ireland.