The daily Alaskan., 1917-07-19
(Continued from yesterday

Alter that cruise never SEW Nole0 again. wrote to him at least twice e year, for in that voyage we became even conhdentialy Intimate; but hS never wrote to me The other men tell nc that in those fifteen years he aged VaEy fast. And now 1t seems the dear cd fellow is dead. Be has found a h0Ds at last. and a country.
 Since writing this have received from Danforth. who Is on board the Levant. a letter which gives an O. count of Nolan's lest hours. It removes all my doubts about telling this stogy.
 To understand the aFst words of the letter the nonprofesEiOnal reader shOG& remember that after 1871 the poIEisa of every officer who bad Nolan ia charge was one of the greatest deh- cacy. The government had failed Co renew the order of 1897 regarding him. What was a man to do7 Should he lot him go! What. then. If hs were called to account by the department for ViO- lating the order of 1SO7i Should hS keep him? What. then. if Eolan should be liberated some day and should bring an action for false imprisonment or Kidnapping against every man who hS9 had him in charge? The secretary al. ways said, as they so often Co @ Washington. that there were 10 Hps' cial orders to give and that VIC RO4s act on our own judgment ,
 Here Is the letter: :
 Levant, 2' F 8. o ta' ". '
 Dear Fred-I try to find he3St aAa htS to tell you that it iB all over with desI osa Nolan. The doctor had been WGtehtaS him very carefully and yesterHay moE2EaS came to me and told me that Nelnn was not so well and had not left hLS BtAkof0oEeS Q thing 1 never remembered befoTo. EAs had let the doctor come and zee him sG Ae lay there, the first time the doeG0T ha4 been in the stRtsroom, and he sala As should like to see me. Oh, aaAr' DO you remember the mysteries we boys uSo4 70 invent about his room h tho old HnSrs9tA days? Well. I went ip. and there. to es E,lre. the poor fellow lay In hk bSEaAs smlllnE pleasantly aB he gave me aAS hand, but looking very fral l could Aet heln a glance round, which showed nc what A little shrine he had made SS thS box he was lying in. The stars and BtrtPR9 were triced up above and around phoasFo Of Washington. and he had painted Q EaA-j jestic eagle. with lightninES Sia1Lng fren his beak and his foot just clAHginS th0 whole globe which hts Wings sVoTSAAa- owed The dear old boy saw my glance and said, with a sad smile, Here, yoS Soo. I have a country" And he pointed te ths foot of his bed, where l had not Oe0a De- fore a great map of the United States % he had drawn it from memory and which he had there to look upon a he lay. Quaint, queer old names werO on H n larRe letters "Oh. DanfoFth," he BNIa, V know l am dying. cannot get hS00' Surely you will tell me sonOthiAE new stop. stop! Do not speak til say wat I am sure you know-that there S Rot M this ship. that there is not h AneRaeA- God bless her!-R more loyal nan than ' There cannot be a man whS lsVeG the olS flax Rs I do or prays for h HS 1 So CT hopes for it az do. There arc thIFSY-Eo1g stars in it now, DRnfoFth. l thank 0SS for that, though do not knew what thslg names are. There has never been 0ne taken away I thank GOd fer that ! know by that that there has noVor bSGa any successful Burr. Oh, DaDfOrth. paz~ forth" he sighed out. ''tSll mo-tsn no something-tell me everything, DAA&SESRs before l diep'
 InEhan, swear to you that I felt BkO a monster that 1 had not told him SVery- thing before. Danger or no dAngOf. ael- icacy or no delicacy, who was eAAS shsuId have been acting the tyrGDt nA this lime over this dear, sRlnled old Dan who had years ago expiated in bin whslo H,anhood's life the madness of eoyse treason? ''fdr. Nolan" said ], Il Win tell you everything you ask about only "hs7a shall beginT'
 Oh. the blessed smile that crept over his white face! And he pressed my hand and said: God bless you! Tell me tAotR names," he said, and he pointed to itAa stars on the flag.
 Well. I told him the names in Gs EoGa order as could. and he bads me tAho down his beautiful map and draw thsn in as I best could with my pencil He was wild with delight about TeG29; toA9 ma how hls brother died there He ha4 marked . gold cross where he 1uppoGad his brothers grave was, and ho bod guessed at TeTas. Thea ho jwHB asl4ghsed as be saw cnhferria end Oregon ThAA he BaId, be had BAgpoeto6 PaFtly Socsuls hs had nsvoE bSsA peESsSeSa 0 lAaS ca thzt shore, though the VahpS UOFo there so much "Ana the men" Said kN. laugh ] Ing, brought of Q Boo4 deal bp9tdfg fur5." Then he went back-ASSvoaA. hey far!-to ask about the Chesapeaks AE19 what was done to Barron for BuFrondesfRB her to the Leopard ana whether BufS ever tried again, and he ground hiS iSsatA | with the ouiy passion he showed. But lla q moment that WAS over, and ho saas. ''God forgive me, for I am sure forSf"S him" Then be asked Rbosit tho old WaR | and settled down more quietly and NaEy happily to hear me tell in an hour the history oc fifty years.
 How 1 wished 1t had bOen HonabeeT who knew something! 1 tell you, LnghaUS if was a hard thing te eondsnSo the hts- tory of half a century Into that talk WssS a sick man. And do not nov iRnoH what I told him of emigration ana ItAS means of 1t, of steAmbeGtB and rShTeAaa and telsEraphA, of inVSntiOng and eqShs and literature, of the colleges aad lHelS | Point and tha naval school, but WteA thS quesrest interruptions that ever ySu heard You see, it was RobInSon CrUsoS sakiRg all the accumulated questions of hfty7Sl1 years.
 rarpa7absr he asked all Of c saGAea