The Nevada County picayune., 1917-06-07
THIRD fNsTALLMENT.

nlI the LegeH4s agree mat lIt 31lA1lIt- dore said:
 T see you do. and thank you sir; and I shall never forget this day, sir, and you never shall, sir"
 And after the whole thing was over, and he had the EnglIshman's sword, in the midst of the state and ceremony of the quarterback. he said:
 Where is Mir. Nolan? Ask Mir. No Ian to come here"
 And when Nolan came, the captain said:
 MT. Nolan, we are all very grateful to you today; you are one of Us today; you will be named in the dispatches
 And then the old man took of his own sword of ceremony. and gave il to Nolan. and made him put It on. The man told me this who saw 1t. Nolan cried like a baby. and we'll he might. He had not worn sword since that internal day at Fort Adams. But al- ways afterward, on occasions of cere- mony, he wore that quaint old French sword of the commodores.
 The captain did mention him in the dispatches II was always said he asked that he might be pardoned He wrote a special letter to the secretary of war. But nothing ever came of it. AS I said, that was about the time when they began to ignore the whole transaction at Washington, and when Nolans Imprisonment began to carry itself on because there was nobody to stop 1t without any new orders from home.
 have heard 1t said that he was with Porter when he took possession of the Nukahiwa islands. Not this Porter. you know, but old Porter, his father, Essex Porter, that Is, the old Essex Porter. not this Essex. As m artil- fiery officer. who had seen service in the West. Nolan knew more about for tifcations, emhrasures, rayelines, stockades, and all that, than any of them did i; and he worked with right good will in fixing that battery all right. I have always thought it was a pity Porter did not leave him h command there with Gamble. That would have settled all the question about his punishment. We should have kept the islands, and at this mo- ment we should have one station in the Pacific ocean. Our French friends too. when they wanted this little wa tering place. would have found 1t was pre-occupied. But Madison and the Virginians, of course. flung all that away.
 All that was near fifty yenrs ago. If Nolan was thirty then, he must have been near eighty when he dled. He looked sixty when he was forty. But he never seemed 10 me to change hair afterward. As I imagine his life, from what have seen and heard of if. he must have been in every se8, and yet almost never on land. He must have known in & formal way, more officers in our service than any man living knows. H. -oid ne an=es with a grave smile, thN' nu mah in the world lived so mefhn5lcal a life as he. '.Ycu know the bays say I am the Iron Mask, ae1 yea know hazs hH=s he was.n He said if did uat da taE anyone to try to rea5 all the t.me. more than 10 do anything t.~r atI t#z tEzs E hut that he read Ja@f frye hours day Then he sad. T Er,p uH ny nate- books, writing n them at such and such hours fHam uha- ! haee 6a a Pending; and l Iur5aae .a them @5 scrapbooks" Tbese wore very curious indeed He had sax.ar eight. al aiaar- ent subjects There wa~ ane ef lH-- tory oae.aG aataga5 -asaaee. .eaa Y t h he called "03as aa3 Ends Tat la'y N1.re ua u-r. hunks nL eNtE.-ts from new eH8feHs= IH.F had H.sz af plants and HH=a shells Hal aa# H5 carved scraps l=1.a...ad }N-az- a=-. he had taught tae u.u 'n gH. tr a IT, and they Haaa te4. a He drew adrlEaEZE A l
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