12/154 Mr.Davis was asked if he would make the trip. In less than two hours back came this laconic cable: "'Leaving Mexico City to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock.' "That was Richard Harding Davis--no hesitancy, no vacillation. He was always willing to go, to take any chance, to endure discomfort and all if he had a fighting opportunity to get the news. The public now knows that Davis was arrested on this trip, that Huerta refused to make good on the interview, and that it was only through the good efforts of the British Ambassador at the Mexican capital he was released. But Davis went. |