Morris tribune., 1914-08-14

sooner or later, only SOMEBODY must
go over them first and cut out any adj
vertisement or stray paragraph that
alluded to America. Phillips told me a
story of something which happened at
the Cape Of Good Hope on Nolan's first
voyage, and 1t is the only thing / ever
knew of that voyage. Phillips had
borrowed a lot of English books from
an officer, which in those days, as in
deed in these, was quite windfall.
Among them, as the devil would order.
was the Lay Of the Last Minstrel"
which they had all Of them heard Of.
but which most Of them had never
seen. l think 1t could not have been
published long. Well, nobody thought
there could be any risk Of anything ma
donal in that, so Nolan was permit
ted to join the circle one afternoon
when lot Of them sat on deck smok-
ing and reading aloud. Nolan took the
book and read to the others, and he
read very well, as | know. Nobody in
the circle knew line of the poem.
only it was all magic and border chiv-
airy and was 10000 years ago. Poor
Nolan read steadily through the fifth
canto, stopped a minute and drank
something and then began. without
thought Of what was coming:
"Breathes there the man with soul so
dead
Who never to himself hath said
=" This is my own, my native landT"
Then they all saw something was to
pay, but he expected to get through,
suppose, turned a little pale, but
plunged on:
Whose heart hath meier within him burned
AS home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him WELL"
By this time the men were all beside
themselves, wishing there was any
way to make him turn over two pages.
but he had not quite presence of mind
for that. He gagged little, colored
crimson and staggered on:
For him no minstrel raptures swell.
High though his titles. proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim,
Despite these titles, power and pelf,
AAS WAOSSAAs %CAANG1SA e1ISA Gal III SS1&
And here the poor fellow choked, could
not go on. but started up, swung the
book into the sea, vanished into his
stateroom. land. by Jove." said Phil
lips. 1--WE did not see him for two
months again. And l had to make up
some beggarly story to that English
surgeon why did not return his Wal
ter Scott to him.
That story shows about the time
when Noian's braggadOcio must have
broken down At first they said he
took a very high tone, considered his
imprisonment a mere farce, affected to
enjoy the voyage, and all that, but
Phillips said that after he came. out of
his stateroOm he never was the same
man again. He never read aloud
again unless 1t was the Bible or Shake
speare or something else he was sure
Of. He was always shy afterward
when knew him-very seldom spoke
unless he was spoken to. except to a
very few friends. He lighted up coca
sionally. but generally he had the nerv.
J GUS, tired look OF a heart wounded
i man. 81 hs
Nolan's transfer at sea to the War.
rem was the first Of some twenty such
transfers, which brought him sooner
or later into half our best vessels, but
which kept him all his life at least
some hundred miles from the country
he had hoped be might never hear OF
again. ~
1t may have been on that second
cruise-it was once when he was ar
the Mediterranean-that Mrs. Graf
the celebrated southern beauty Of those
days. danced with him. They haC
been long time in the bay of Naples
and the officers were very intimate
in the English deet. and there had beer
great festivities. and our men though
they must give great ball on board
the ship. They wanted to use Nolan:
stateroOm for something, and they hat
ed to do it without asking him to tn,
ball, so the captain said they nigh
ask him Ii they would be responsible
that he did not talk with the wrOnl
people, "who would give him inteIli
gence." For ladies they had theafam
lily of the American consul, one or twC
travellers who had ventured so far ant
nice bevy of English girls and ma
irons, perhaps Lady Hamilton herself
AS the dancing went on, Nolan an
our fellows all got at ease, as said
so much so that it seemed quite natu
raj for him to bow to that splendi
Mrs. Graf and say:
II hope you have not forgotten me
Miss Rutiedge. Shall have the nor
or OF dancing?" E
He did it so quickly that Shubrich
who was by him. could not hInde
him. She laughed and said:
Il am not Miss Rutiedge any longer
Mr. Nolan, but win dance all tn
same. just nodded to ShubFtck as
to say he must leave Mr. Nolan to he
and led him or TO the place where th
dance was forming.
Nolan thought he had got his chanc'
He had known her at Philadelphi,
and at other places had met her an
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