The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-05-07

| friends. He lighted up occasionally,
l remember late in his life hearing
him fairly eloquent on something
| which had been suggested to him. by
one of Fletcher's sermons, but geper-
ally he had the nervous. tired lbok
of a heart-wounded man.
When Captain Shaw was coming
home-if, as | say. it was Shaw FRA.
Their 10 the surprise of everybody
they made one of the Windward is
lands, and lay off and on for neArly
a week. The boys said the officers
were sick of salt junk, and meant TIC
have turtle soup before they came
home. But after several days the
Warren came to the same renqez-
vous: they exchanged signals; she
sent TO Phillips and these homeward-
bound men letters and papers, hnd
told them she was outward bound,
perhaps to the Mediterranean, hnd
took poor Nolan and his traps on
the boat back to try his sec pnd
cruise. He looked very blank when
he was told to get ready to join her.
He had known enough of the signs
of the sky to know that till that mo-
ment he was going home" But
Ills was d ulSIlHCl tNlutllCt VI SUfUS-
thing he had not thought of, per
haps, that there was no going home
for him. even to prison. And this
was the first of some twenty shch
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 he might Hev-
er hear of again.
1t may have been on that second
cruise-it was once when he wasi up
the Mediterranean-that Mrs. GIaff,
the celebrated Southern beauty of
those days, danced with him. They
had been lying long time in the
Bay of Naples, and the officers Were
very intimate in the English fleet,
and there had been great festivities,
and our men thought they must give
a great ball on board the ship. How
they ever did it on board the War
rem l am sure l do not know. Per
haps it was not the Warren, or per
haps ladies did not take up so much
room as they do now. They wanted
to use Nolan's stateroom for some
thing, and they hated to do it with
out asking him to the ball; so the
captain said they might ask him. if
they would be responsible that he
did not talk with the wrong people,
who would give him intelligence"
So the dance went on, the finest
party that had ever been known, l
dare say; for | never heard of a mian-
of-war ball that was not. For ladies
they had the family of the American
consul. one or two travellers Who
had adyentured so far, and a Aice
bevy Of English and matrons, Der
haps Lady Hamilton herself.
Well, different officers relieEed
each other in standing and talking
with Nolan in friendly way, so as
to be sure that nobody else spoke to
him. The dancing went on with
spirit, and after a while even the
fellows who took this honorary gu ard
of Nolan ceased to fear any contre-
temps. Only when some English la
dy-Lady Hamilton, as l said, per
haps, called for a set of American
dancers" an odd thing happehed
Everybody then danced contredantes
The black band, nothing loath, CON
ferred as to what american danche"
were, and started off with Virginia
Reel" which they followed with
"Money-Musk," which, in its turn in
those days, should have been follow
ed by The Old Thirteen" But just
as Dick, the leader, tapped for his
fiddlers to begin, and bent forward,
about to say, in true negro statc,
" The Old Thirteen gentlemen and
and ladies!" as he had said, Yir-
ginia Reel if you please" " Mo-
ney Musk if you pleased" the g APP
tain's boy tapped him on the sh9 ul-
der, whispered to him, and he did
not announce the name of the DANCE;
he merely bowed, began on the Dir,
and they all fell to. the officers tea
ching the English girls the figure,