(This will seem flattery only to those who are not acquainted with the real histories and antecedents of the Norman nobles of the epoch in question.) His application of these eleventh-century theories to our nineteenth-century municipal democratic conditions brought him into sharp contact with me, and with one of my right-hand men in the Department, Inspector John McCullough.

Under the old dispensation this would have meant that his friends and kinsfolk were under the ban.
Now it happened that in the Department at that time there was a nephew or cousin of his, Jerry D.Sullivan.I found that Jerry was an uncommonly good man, a conscientious, capable officer, and I promoted him.

I do not know whether Jerry or Jerry's cousin (Senator Sullivan) was more astonished.

The Senator called upon me to express what I am sure was a very genuine feeling of appreciation.

Poor Jerry died, I think of consumption, a year or two after I left the Department.