The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-08-22

thing and then began again without a
thought of what was coming next
Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said
1t seems impossible now that any one
ever heard this for the first time, but
all those fellows did then and poor Nolan
went on still unconsciously or mechan-
ically:
This is my own. my native land.
They all saw that something was to
pay; but he expected to get through,
though he turned a little pale and
plunged on:
Whose heart has ne'er within him burned
When home his footsteps he has turend
From wandering on a foreign strand,
If such there be go mark him we'll
BY this time the officers wefe all be-
side themselves wishing there was any
way to make him turn over two pages
But Nolan had not quite presence of mind
enough for that He gagged little, COL
ored crimson and staggered on until he
came to the line
The wretch concentred all in self
He could go no further He started up.
swung the book into the sea and vanished
to his stateroom 1t was two months be-
fore he left it again; and the officer who
had borrowed the Lay of the Last Min
strel" had to invent some excuse for not
returning it.
Nolan's braggadocio had quite broken
down. After he came out of his stateroom
he was never the same man again. He
never read aloud unless it was from the
Bible or Shakespeare. But it was not
merely that; he never again entered with
the other young men as companion. He
seldom spoke unless he was spoken to
except TO very few friends. He had a
nervous, tired look. When the Brandy
wine was homeward bound she made the
Windward islands. Nolan knew by the
signs of the sea and sky that it was the
western world to which he was again ap-
preaching. To the surprise of all the ship
lay off and on near the islands for day
or So Then came looming up from the
under world of water another man-of- war
flying the American flag. 1t was the
Warren. and after exchanging signals the
Warren sent boat to the Brandywine
with an officer, who was instructed to
take poor Nolan off with his belongings
and convey him aboard the ship which
was outward bound.
Nolan looked very blank when he was
ordered to get ready to 80 aboard the
Warren. He seemed to realize fully that
for him there was no going home, even
as a prisoner. Some 20 such transfers did
Nolan make later, which kept him al
the country he had wished never to see
again.
1t was on one of his cruises up the Ned
iterranean that Mrs Graf, the celebrated
southern beauty of those days, danced
with him. They had been lying long
time in the Bay & Naples the officers
were very intimate with the officers of
the British fleet there and there had been
many festivities. So our officers thought
they must give ball on board their ship
and did so. Nolan was allowed to be
present, but, as always when strangers
were aboard, an officer was by his side
to see that no allusion was made TO the
United States.
1t was gay affair. The celebrated Lady
Hamilton herself asked for some "Ameri-
can dances" And then an odd thing
happened. The band to which they were
dancing was composed of negroes, and
they played at Lady Hamilton's request
tba Uirot,ia raaI Monsvrrausk and wera
about to play THE Old Thirteen" Every
body danced contra dances In those days
and the name of the dance was announced
by the leader of the music. Just az old