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

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4 suppressed, turned q little pale, blu,
pluneed Oh.
WHOSE heart hath ne'er within him
burned,
~ home. his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on foreign strand?
sIf such there breathe 60, mark him
we'll"
BY this time the men were all be-
side themselves wishing there was any
way TO make him turn over two pages !;
put he had not quite presence of mind
for that. He gagged a little, colored
crimson, and staggered on,
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his
name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can
claim,
Despite these titles, power, and pelf,
The Wretch, concentred all in SELF
and here the poor fellow choked, could
not go on, but started up, swung the
hook into the sea. vanished into his
stateroom. And, by Jove," said Phil
lips, we did not see him for two
L
| months again: and | had to make mp
some beggarly story to that English
surgeon why did not return his Wal
| ter Scott to him.
| His Front Gone.
| That story shows about the time
when Nolan's braggadocio must have
been broken down. At first, they said
| he took a very high tone, considered
his Imprisonment mere farce, affect
ed to enjoy the voyage. and all that;
but Phillips said that after he came
out Of his stateroom he never was the
same man again. lie never read aloud
again, unless it was the Bible or
Shakespeare, or something else he was
sure Of But it was not that merely.
flt never entered in with thu other
young men exactly as a companion
again. He was always shy afterWard.
when / knew him-very seldom spoke.
unless he was spoken TO, except to a
very few friends. He lighted up occa-
siunaIIy--l remember late in his life
| hearing him fairly eloquent on some
| thing which had been suggested to
him by one of Flechier's sermons, but
generally he had the nervous, tired
look of n heart wounded man.
When Captain Shaw was coming
home if as l say, it was Shaw, rather
to the surprise of everybody they made
one Of the Winward islands, and lay
off and on for nearly a week. The
boys said the officers were sick of
salt-junk. and meant to have turtle
soup before they came home. But
after several DAYS the Warren came
to the same rendezvous. They ex-
changed signals: she sent to Phillips
ana these homeward bound men letters
and papers, and told them she was
outward bound, perhaps to the Medt-
| terranean and took poor Nolan and his
| traps on the boat back to try his SC
ond cruise. He looked very blank
when he was told to get ready to join
her. He had known enough of the
signs OF the sky 10 know that till that
moment he was going home" but this
was Il distinct evidence Of somcthins
he had not thought of, perhaps-that
there was no going home for him, even
to prison. And this was the first of
some 20 such transfers, which brought
him sooner or later into half our best
vessels, but which kept him all his life
at least some hundred miles away
from the country he had hoped he
might never hear of again.
The Second Cruise.
1t may have been on that second
cruise. 1t was once when he was ur
the Mediterranean. that Mrs. Graft
the celebrated southern beauty OF
those days, danced with him. The,
had been lying'a long time in the BAY
of Naples, and the officers were yer,
intimate in the English fleet, and Their,
( had been great festivities, and our me1
/ thought they must give a great bal
r on board the ship. How they ever die
it on board the warren" | am sure
p do not know. Perhaps it was not III,
, "Warrcn," or perhaps ladies did no
1 take up so much room as they do now
= They wanted to use Nolan's stateroon
q for something, and they hated to do
= without asking him to the ball; so tn
Y captain said they might ask him :
o they would be responsible that he di
: not talk with the wrong people. "wh
- would give him intelligence" So tn
dance went on, the, finest party tina
had ever been known, / dare say; 70
, II never heard of a man of-War ba