The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1917-05-17
pose. turned a little pale, but


From wandering on a 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 n little, colOred
! crimson and staggered on:
For him no minstrel raptures swell.
| High though his titles. proud his name.
Boundless his wealth wish can claim,
. Despite these titles. power and pelf
| The wretch concentrated all In self
And here the poor fellow checked. could
not go on. but started up, swung the
book into the sea, vanished into his
stateroom. "und. by .JOve," said Phil
lips, Eve did not see him for two
months again. And l had to make up
some beSgarly story to that English
| surgeon why | did not return his Wal
| ter Scott to him."
That story shows about the time
| when NOans braggadOcio must have
| broken down. AT first they said he
' took very high tone, considered his
: Imprisonment 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 it 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 II
| very few friends. He lighted up occa-
sionally, but generally he had the nerv-
Gus, tired look of Il heart wounded
man.
NOlanS 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 mt least
some hundred miles from the country
he had hoped he might never hear of
again.
1t may have been on that second
cr,iise-it was once when he was up
the Mcditcrrancan-that Mrs. Graft,
the celebrated southern beauty of those
days, danced with him. They had
been Il long time in the bay Of Naples,
| and the officers We're very intimate
| in the English fleet, and there had been
| great festivities, and our men thought
| they must give great ball on board
the ship. They wanted to use Nolan's
| Stat"rOom for something. and they hat
ed TO do X without 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 intelli-
Scncc,' For ladies they had the fam
I've ..f Ito, .,,l
travellers who had vcntured so far and
nice bcvy 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 it seemed quite natu
raj for him to bow to that splendid
Mrs. Graft and say:
81 hope you have not forgotten me
Miss Rutlcdge. Shall have the hon
or of dancingI"
lie did it so quickly that Shubrick
who WAS 10y him, could not hinde
him. She laughed and said:
4 am not Miss Rutledge any longer
Mr.. Nolan, but | will dance all tn,
same" just nodded to Shubrick as 4
to say he must leave Mr.. Nolan to he
ana led him off to the place where th
dance WAS forming.
; NOlan thought he had got his chance
He had known her at Philadelphia
ana at other places had met her ant
this was II godScnd. He said boldly
Il little pale, she said, as she told III,
the story years after:
And what do You hear from home
Mrs. GraTi"
And that splendid creature locke,
through him. Jove! how she mus
have looked through him! Home!
Mr.. Nolan!M | thought you were TIN
man who never wanted to hear O
home again And she walked direct
iy up the deck to her husband and lef
, poor Nolan alone. as he always was
He did not dance again.
a happier story than either Of thes
| have told is OF the war In one o
the great frigate dues with the Eng
liSh. in which the navy was really bap
tiZcd, it happened that Il round sho
from the enemy entered one OF on
ports square and took right down tn
officer of the gun himself and almos
. tNtIs HltH TIE gun = crew. AS IN
surgeons people were carrying of tn
bodies there appeared Nolan in hi
shirt sleeves, with the rnmmcr in hi
nand, ana, Just ~ if he had been tn
, officer, told them off with authorit,
who should go To The cockpit with tn
wounded men, who shotsd stay will
him. perfectly CHEEKY and with tina
way which makes men feel sure all Il
right and is going to be right. And h
finished londing the gun with his owl
hands. aimed 1t and hadc the men fire
, And there he stayed. captain of tha
, gun, Keeping those fellows in spirit
till the enemy struck. The captain
walked forward 10y way Of encourag
Ing the men. and Nolan touched bi
hat and said:
81 am showing them how we do thi
in the artillery. sir"
And this is II part Of the story wher,
n al. 4, Al,