30                                   Patrick T Lawlor

electrocuted in his room in Bangkok when he touched a fan which
had an exposed wire. "His death was more than a blow;" Van
Doren writes in his obituary, "it was heartbreaking.. .. That he did
not come back [from Asia] is more terrible than I can say. The char¬
acter of this man—'but it is something very hard to put into
\yords.'"