Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-09-20


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1 k0ew al taat voyage PHILLIPS had
| Borrowed a tat OF tnslish hssoks feaas
tu esssees, which In these days, AS ia
| deed In these was quite Il wiudfali
| saserx Them, as the devil woald order,
| Was the Lay Of the Last Minstrel"
| which they had NIL of them beard Of,
| oar which ttfost Of Ne,n had never
seen, think il could not have been
! published scny Well. notsody thought
there coad te any risk ul anything ua.
| tional In that. 81 Nolan was permit,
| ted To join the circle one afternoon
when lot of them sat OH deck smok-
ing and reading aloud. Nolan took the
book and read to the Others. and he
| read very we'll. as know. Nobody In
the circle knew line of the poem.
| only II was all magic and border chiv-
airy and was 10000 years ago Poor
Nolan read steadily through the fifth
canto. stopped minute and drank
something and then began. without
thought of what was coming:
''Breathes there the man with soul SC
dead
WHO never to himself hath said.
This is my own. my native land?"
Then they all saw something was to
pay. but he expected to get through.
suppose. turned little pale. but
plunged on:
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned
AS home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign strand?
II such there breathe. 60. 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.
The wretch concentrated all in SELF
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. I'VE did not see him for two
months again. And had to make up
some beggarly story to that English
surgeon why did not return his Wal
ter Scott tn him"
That story shows about the time
when Nolan's braggadocio must have
broken down. At first they said he
took very high tone. considered his
Imprisonment a mere fifrce. affected to
enjoy the voyage. and al 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
sreare or something else he was sure
Of. He was always shy afterward
when | knew hin-very seldom spoke
Unless he was spoken to. except to a
very few friends. He lighted up occa-
sionally. but generally he had the nerv
Gus, tired look Of q heart wounded
man.
NOlan's transfer ut sen 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 he might never hear OF
again.
1t may have been on that second
cruise-it was once when he was up
the Mediterranean that Mrs. Graf.
the celebrated southern beauty Of thos.
days. danced with him. They had
iRen long tinie ia the bay OF Naples
and the officers We're very intimate
In the English fleet. aud there had h-en
great festivities. and our uien thought
they must give u great ball on board
the ship, They wanted to use \olan's
stateroom for something. aud they hat
ed to do ii without asking hiu to the
ball, SO the captain said they might
ask him II they would be responsible
that he did not talk with the wrong
people. who would give him intelli-
gence." For ladies' they had the fam.
lily Of the American consul. one or two
travellers who had ventured 40 far and
Il nice bevy Of English girls and ma.
irons. perhaps Lady Hamilton herself
As the dancing went on. Nolan and
our fellows all got at ease. as | said
so much SO that 1t seemed quite natu
raj for him to bow to that splendid
Mrs, Graft and say:
Il hope you have not forgotten me
Miss Rutledge. Shall have the hon
ar Of dancing?'
He did 1t so quickly that Shubrick.
who was by him. could not hinder
him. She laughed and said:
I am not Miss Rutedge any longer.
Mr., Nolan. but will dance all the
same" Just nodded to Shubrick as II
10 say he must leave Mr. Nolan to her
and led him OF to the place where the
dance was forming.
Nolan thought he had got his chance,