The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-17

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 Then they all saw something was to pay, but he expected to get through, l suppose, turned a little pale, but plunged on:
 l Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned | Az home his footsteps he hath turned | 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 a 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, l Despite these titles, power and pelt, | The wretch concentrated all In self And here the poor fellow choked, could not so on, but started up, swung the book into the sea, vanished into his stateroom, "and, by love-" said Phil | lips, i've did not see him for two ] morths again. And 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 Nolan's braggadociO must have broken down. At first they said he took a very high tone, considered his l Imprisonment a mere farce, affected to 1 enjoy the voyage. and all that but 1 Phillips said that after he came out of l 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 l knew him-very seldom spoke unless he was spoken to, except to a very few friends. He lighted up Occa- sionally. but generally he had the nery- ous, tired look of heart wounded man.
 Nolans transfer at sea to the War ren 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.
 l It may have been on that second ! cruise-it was once when he was up 1 the Mediterranean-that Mrs. Graf, the celebrated southern beauty of those days, danced with him. They had been 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. They wanted to use Nolaps | stateroOm for something, and they hat ed to do 1t without asking him to the ball. 80 the captain said they might ask him If they would be responsible | that be did not talk with the wrong people, "who would give him intelli- | gence." For ladies they had the fam fly of the American consul, one or two travellers who had Yentured so far and 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 50 that 1t seemed quite natu- l ral for him to bow to that splendid Mrs. Graf and say:
 q hope you have not forgotten me, Miss Rudedge. Shall I have the hon. CT of dancing?'
 He did 1t so quickly that ShubrIck, who was by him, could not hinder hun. She laughed and said;
 T am not Miss Rutledge any longer, MT. Nolan, but l will dance all the same." just nodded to Shubrick as If to say he must leave MT. Nolan to her and led him of to the place where the dance was forming
 Nolan thought he had got his chance. He had known her at Philadelphia, and at other places had met her and thIs was a godsend. He said boldly a little pale, she said, as she told me the story years after:
 And what do you hear from home, Mrs. GraHT'
 And that splendid creature looked through him. love! how she must have looked through him! "Home!! Mir. Eolan!!l l thought you were the man who never wanted to hear of home agalnr' And she walked direct ly up the deck to her husband and left poer Nolan alone, as he always WAS. Be did not dance again.
 A happier story than either of these have told Is of the war. In one of the great frigate duels with the Eng llsh, in which the navy was really bap- ttEsd, 1t happened that round shot from the enemy entered one of our ports square and took right down the officer of the gun himself and almost every man of the guns crew. AS the surgeon'b people were carrying or Inc bodies there appeared Nolan in his shirt slesvea, with the rammer in his ] ho,H end IrSHt q q # ha had hneE fSI-s