The Nevada County picayune., 1917-05-31
SECOND lNSTAELmENT.

story. For Captain Shaw, if 1t was h., handed it t9 #hts successor in the charge. and he to his.
 The rule adopted on board the ships oa which haze met "The Man without fl Country was. I think transmitted from the beginning No mes liked 10 have him permanently, because h-s presence cut oT all talk CT home or of the prospect ef return. ef politics or letters. Of pence or of War-cut off more than half the talk men like to have at sea. But il was always thought too hard that h. should never meet the rest of Us, except to touch hats, and We finally sank EGf5 one sFs. tem. He was not permitted to talk with the Hea unless an officer was by With officers he had uarestgaanDl iu- tarouurse. as far as they and he chose But he grew shy. though he had favor ftes: l was one. Then the captain always asked him to dinner on Mon day. Every mess in succession took up the invitation In its turn. Accord iHg to the s.ze af the ship. g8a had him If your mess more nr less often at dinner. Ills breakfast he ate in his own stateraasns he always had | state room. which Has where sentinel, or somebody on the watch. could see the door. And whatever else he ate or drank he ale or drank alone. Some times. when the marines CT sailors had any special publication. they were per mltted to invite "Piuiu-Battons." as they called hia Then Nolan was sent with ssme officer. and the men were forbidden te speak of hgme while he was there. They called him "Plain- Buttons,' because, while he always chose 10 wear q regulation army uni form, he Was not permitted to wear the army button. for the reason that 1t bore either the initials or the in- signia If the country he had dIs0wned.. }
 I remember. soon after I joined the navy, l was on shore with some of the older officers from our ship and from the BrandyWine, which We had met at Alexandria. We had leave to make q party and eo Up to Cairo and the Pyra, mids. As We logged along some of the gentlemen fell To talking about No Ian, and someone told the system which was adopted from The first about his books and other reading. As he was almost never permitted td go on shore, even though the vessel lay in port for months, his time. at the best, hung heavy; and everybody was per mitted to lend him books if they were not published lu America and made no aIlu~iou t0 l. Thy-- aeee common enough in tAe old days. when people iu the other hemisphere talked of the United Stat#s as Ntsle as ~e do of Paraguay. He had almost All the for rten papers that came into thu ship. saeH,r ur Inter: only somebody must go oyer them first and eat out any advertisement off stray paragraph that at.aai t9 America. E4at in tha mf'-t If aae of NapoieeH.5 battles. or aae af Cunning zuea#aez. Haar Nolan would tH.t zss.t i".e. see.gss uu tle. back of tHs H#sa of th#f#FaEr 'aeHe had l.ea stseril-.ta aH t packet fee E,# 4er u ~##f1f fH-r t't= presidents Heee. F 5fH H#7 -thatssr r-iae tt-.r r.i ar 1ll.z F.aH- zeH.eh aff=rs#F# had eaaf-a and more thaa eHal-l tu da th. ] re- member f.. aaa-. peer It##ia- w.a Was of tha HarEE. as s.s5a .zz fae aiLaz sion to r#asHHg 7ea- i-a5a. tH.a a story at something zst..A A-h9H.a.= al tIf# Cape uf GHaH Hope oa &e5H's fr-t ee5aa-; and 4f k 5h- oa#s tI.tz eser kao" af#fI4Hf EnHa-s Ihag had touched at tlfe eaqc, aa5 Ha# deaa tHr- .e.ai h.as a#t. t1. Eas.aa a--tl 4H4 the-H==t. aH4 .heft.= leaving fer # long era.#e#ap tae Iua.au ocean. Phil. HF4 had borrowed lef If EugU-h books from aH etIiear.-eh.et, if those days. a- Indeed l1 these, Has quite 4 wiudfail. Among them, as thu Devil would e.3sH. Ha the "LaN ef tho Last Miustr.L9 which thcy had All of them heard of buHHhiah mast ef them had never sean. thiuE # ceQiQ not have been published iaag. Well nobody thought fhrTe could be any risk of any thin. national h that, though Phillips xNorc old shaw had eat cut the sTempe~t' from Shakespeare tefore he let %alau have it because he said,
 
 hy Jovr should be one day So No- Ian was permitted 10 join She circle one afternoon when lot of them sat on deck smoking and reading aloud. People do not do such things so often now, but when l was young we. got rid of a great deal of time so. We'll, so 1t happened that in his turn Nolan took the hook and rpad Ia fha. at hprS and he read very well, as I know. No- body in the circle knew line of the poem, only it was all magic and bor- der chiyalry, and was ten thousand years ago. Poor Nolan read steadily through the fifth canto, stopped a min ute and drank something, and then be- gan. without a thought of what was coming
 Breathes there the man. with soul so