The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1917-06-14
FOURTH iNSTAlLMENT.

party of American came on board
In the Mediterranean. But this l. be-
lleve TO be lie: or rather, it Is a
myth. ben trovato. involving ire
mendous blowing-up with which he
sank Burr, asking him how he liked
TO be without country" But it is
clear, from Burr's life, that nothing
or the sort could have happened; and
mention this only as an illustration
or the stories which get agoing where
there is the least mystery at bottom.
SO Philip Nolan had his wish full
hlled. Poor fellow, he repented of his
folly, and then, like a man, submitted
to the fate he had asked for. He new
er Intentionally added to the difficulty
or delicacy of the charge of those who
had him in hold. Accidents would
happen; but they never happened from
his fault. Lieutenant TruxtOn told me
that when Texas was annexed, there
was careful discussion among the
officers whether they should get hold
OF Nolan's handsome set of maps, and
cut Texas out of it, from the map
OF the world and the map of Mexico.
The United States had been cut out
when the atlas was bought for him.
But it was voted rightly enough, that
to do this would be virtually to reveal
TO him what mad happened, or, as
Harry Cole said, to make him think
Old Burr had succeeded. So it was
from no fault of NOlans that great
botch happened at my own table, when |
for short time, was in command of |
the George Washington corvette, on
the South American station. We were
lying in the La Plata, and some Of tho
officers, who had been on shore, and
had just joined again, were entertain
ing us with accounts of their misad-
ventures in riding the half-wild horses
of BuenOS Aires. Nolan was at table,
and was in an unusually bright and
laxative mood. Some story of q tum-
BILE reminded him of an adventure of
his own, when he was catching wild
horses In Texas with his brother Steph-
en-, at time when he must have been
quite boy. He told the story with
Il good deal of spirit-sO much so, that
the silence which often follows a good
story hung over the table for an in
slant, to be broken by Nolan himself.
For he asked, perfectly uncOnscfously,
pray, what has become of Texasi
After the MeXicans got their independ-
ence, thought that province of Texas
would come forward very fast. 1t is
really one of the finest regions on
earth it is the Italy of this continent.
But I have not seen or heard word
of Texas for near twenty years."
There were two Texan officers at the
table. The reason he had never heard
of Texas was that Texas and her af
fairs had been painfully out of his
since Austin began his I
so that while he read of {
Honduras and Tamauipas, and, till t
quite lately, of California, this virgin t
province, in which his brother had G
travelled so far and, believe, had died, t
had ceased to be with him. Walters
and Williams, the two Texas men, a
looked grimly at each other, and tried l.
not to laugh. Edward Morris had his S
attracted by the third link "
In the chain Of the captains chan Il
leIier. Watrous was seized with a con- II
vulsion of sneezing. Nolan himself Il
saw that something was to pay, he did n
lot know what. And l. as master of p
he feast, had to say: l
Texas is out of the map, Mr.. No 1t
an. Have you seen Captain Backs Il
furious account of Sir Thomas Roe's n
NelcOme?" IL
After that cruise / never saw No K
an again. l wrote to him ut least ~
vice a year, for in that voyage we Il
ecame even confdentially intimate; III
ut he never wrote to me. The other 10
len tell me that in those fifteen years sc
e aged very fast, as well he might Dt
indeed, but that he was still the same b
emile. accomplishing. silent sufferer m
hat he ever was. bearing as best he
Duld his self-appointed punishment, iii
ather less social, perhaps, with new ev
len whom he did not know, but more &c
nxious, apparently, than ever to serve tn
nd befriend and teach the boys, some ty
{ whom fairly seemed to worship him. sa
nd now IL seems the dear old fellow ex
dead. He has found a home at tn
st, and a country. NJ
Since writing this. and while con- yO
dering whether or no l would print be
as a warning to the young Of today
what 1t is to throw away a country, ov
have received from DanfOrth. who is ha
, board the Levant. a letter which me
YES an account Of Nolan's last hours. ed
To understand the first words of the I
tier. the nOnprOfessiOnal reader Re
iouId remember that after 1917 the igs