The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1917-06-29

not the Warren, or perhaps ....... go
not take up so much room ns ihN
do 3oN. They wanted 10 use Nnlnn's
stateroCsn for something. and they
hated ~ do it without asking him to
the ball. SO the captain said they
might ask him, If they would be re-
sponSible 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. | dare say for I never heard |
OF a man-of-war ball that WAS not. For |
ladies they had the family OF the
American consul, one or TIVE travellers
who had adventured so far, and nice
bevy of English girls and matrons, per-
haps Lady Hamilton herself.
Well, different officers relieved each
other in standing and talking with No
| Ian in a friendly way, so as TO be sure
| that nobody else spoke to him. The
dancing went on with spirit, and after
q while even the fellows who took this
honorary guard OF Nolan ceased to fear
any contretemps. Only when some
| English lady-Laly Hamilton, as l
said, perhaps, called for a set of
"American dancers" an odd thing hap
pened. Everybody then danced con-
tredances. The black band, nothing
loath, conferred as to what american
dances" were, and started off with
"Yirginia Reel" which they followed
with 'Aoney-Musx," which, in its turn
in those days, should have been FOL.
lowed By 1.-The Old Thirteen" But
just as Dick, the leader, tapped for his
fidders to begin, and bent forward,
about to say, in true negro state, The
Old Thirteen gentlemen and ladies !"
as he had said "'Virginny Reel if you
pleased" "'Money- Musk If you
please" the captains boy tapped him
on the shoulder, whispered to him, and
he did not announce the name of the
dance; he merely bowed, began on
the air. and they all fell to, the Off
GERS teaching the English girls the
1 figure, but not telling them why II
had no name.
But that is not the story l started
to tell. AS the dancing went on, No
Ian and our fellows all got at ease, a,
e l said, so much so that it seemed quite
$ natural for him to bow to that splendit
Mrs. Graft, and say:
l 81 hope you have not forgotten me
Miss Rutledge. Shall / have the hon
or of dancing"
l. He did it so quickly that Shubrick
> who was by him. could not hinde
i him. She laughed and said:
L 81 am not Miss Rutledge any longer
Mr.. Nolan; but / will dance all tn
$ same" just nodded to Shubrick, as
" to say he must leave Mr.. Nolan to hel
e and led him off to the place where tn
" dance was forming.
y Nolan thought he had got his chance
: He had known her at PHILADELPHIA,
3 and at other places had met her, an
4 this was a godsend. You could M
talk in contredances, as you do
cotillions, or even in the pauses
| Waiting; but there were chances fl
tongues and sounds, as well as Fl
eyes and bushes. He began with b.
travels, and Europe, and Vesuvius, ar
the French; and then, when they he
worked down, and had that long tai
ing time at the bottom of the set,
said boldly, little pale, she said,
III she told me the story, years after:
j "And what do you hear from HON
a Mrs. Graff?"
% And that splendid creature look'
through him. Jove how she mu
have looked through him "Home
:. Mr.. Nolanl!l I thought you were Il
man who never wanted to hear
IN home againi" and she walked direct
Hi up the deck to her husband, and lie
~ poor Nolan alone, as he always we
N He did not dance again.
IN cannot give any history of him
81 order; nobody can now; and, indee
1 am not trying to- These are the tt
ditions, which / sort out, as l belle
them, from the myths which have be
\ told about this man for forty yea
" The fellows used to say he was t
III Iron Mask" and poor George Pc
went to his grave in the belief tn
this was the author of "Junius," W
~ was being punished for his celebrat
IN. libel on Thomas Jefferson. Pons w
not very strong In the historical lii
ny A happier story than either of these
or have told is of the war. That car
VI along soon after. l have heard IL
affair told In three or four ways, ar
~ indeed, it may have happened me
III than once. But which ship it was
es | cannot tell. However, in one,
U.s. least, of the great frigate duels wi
en- the English, in which the navy W
On really baptized, it happened that
"a round shot from the enemy enter
'u' one of our ports square, and took rig
" down the officer of the gun himse
eu and almost every man of the gu
''e crew. Now you may say what y
pa choose about courage, but that is l
~ nice thing to see. But as the m
ah' who were not killed picked themsely
on up, and the surgeons people were G.
sc. rying off the bodies, there appear
'iu Nolan, in his shirt sleeves, with
au hammer in his hand, and, just as If
my had been the officer, told them off w
'"o authority who should go to the CO.