The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-04-01


ceiver. The other boys in the garrison
sneered at him, because he sacrificed
in this unrequited affection for poll
tician the time which they devoted to
Monongahela, hazard and high-low-
Jack. Bourbon. euchrs and poker
were still unknown. But one day No
Ian has his revenge. This time Burr
came down the river, not as an attor-
ney seeking a place for his office
but as distinguished conqueror He
had defeated l know not how. many
district attorneys: he had dined at 1
know not how many public dinners; he
many Weekly Arguses, and it was ru-
mored that he had an army behind him
and an empire before him. 1t was q
great day--his arrival--to poor Nolan.
before he sent for him. That evening
he asked Nolan to take him out in his
sSiff to show him a canebrake or a
cotton wood tree, as he said-rcally
to seduce him: and by the time the
sail was over Nolan was enlisted body
and soul. From that time, though, he
did not yet know 1t, he lived as A
MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY.
Burr's Intentions.
What Burr meant to do / know no
moro than you dear reader. 1t is none
Of our business just now. Only when
the grand catastrophe came, and JEFF
ferson and the house of Virginia of
that day undertook to break on the
wheel all the possible Clarences of the
then house of York by the great trea-
son trial at Richmond, some Of the
lesser fry in that distant Mississippi
Puget's sound is today. introduced the
like novelty on their provincial stage.
and to while away the monotony of the
summer at Fort Adams. got up. for
on the officers there. One and another
Of the colonies and ma jors were tried,
and to fill out the list, little Nolan.
against whom, Heaven knows. there
was evidence enough. that he was
sick of the service, had been willing
to be false to it. and would have obeyed
any order to march anywhither with
anyone Who would follow him had the
order been signed, by command of
His Exc. A. Burr. The courts dragged
on. The big flies escaped--rightly for
all I know. Nolan was proved guilty
enough. as I say; yet YOU and would
never have heard of him. reader, but
that. when the president of the court
asked him at the close whether he
wished TO say anything to show that he
| had always been faithful to the United
States. he cried out in a fit of frenzy:
Damn the United States l wish |
j.. may never hear of the United State.
again!"
! suppose he did not know how thu
words shocked old Colonel Morgan
who was holding the court. Half o.
the officers who sat in it had served
through the Revolution; and theil
lives not to say their necks, had beer
risked for the very idea which he 81
cavalierly cursed In his madness He
on his part. had grown up in the ives
OF thoSe days in the midst of "Spanisl
plot" Orleans plot" and all the rest
He had been educated on planta
ton where the finest company wa
a Spanish officer or French nlerchan
from Orleans. His education, such a
1t was, had been perfected in com
mercial expeditions to Vera Cruz: an,
II think he told me his father one
hired an Englishnan to be .a privat
tutor for a winter on the plantation
He had spent half his youth with a.
Older brother. hunting horses in Texas
and. In a word, to him United States
was scarcely reality. Yet he had bee
fed by United States" for all the year
since he had been in the army. He ha
sworn on his faith as Christian I
be true to Omitted States" II wa
United States which gave him tn
uniform he wore and the sword b
! This side. Nay, my poor Nolan, 1t wa