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Don't FORGET That I am stili doing 1 business atJ the Have uotf a Lot /At - Old Prices See me for heavy and fancy groceries'. lean save you money; Give wao m chance at your country produce in trade or for cash. '? -?V V'~ I w. Br this time the men were all be side themselves, wishing there was auj* i way to make him turn over two pages; Itrat he had. not quite presence of mind tor that; he gagged a little, colored crimson, and staggered on: For him no mlnBtt-el raptures ?wall; High though hu titles, proud his name. Boundless his wealth as wish can claim. Despite these titles, power and pelf, iThe wretch, concentered-all In self;? and here the poor fellow choked, conld not go on, bqt started up, swung the book Into the sea, vanished Into his stateroom, "and by Jove," said Phil lips, "we did not see him for two months again. And I had to make lip some beggarly story to that English surgeon- why I did not return his Wal ter Scott to him." That 'story shows about the time when Nolan's braggadocio must have broken down. At first, they said, he took a very high tone, considered his imprisonment a mere farce, affected !to enjoy the voyage, and all that; but Phillips said that after he"cdme out of j his stateroom he never was the same man again. He never read aloud again, unless It was the Bible or Shakespeare, or something else he was sure of. But ,lt was not that merely. He never en tered In with the other young men ex actly as a companion again. He was always shy afterward, when I knew him, very seldom spoke, unless h? was spoken to, except to a very few friends. He lighted up occasionally, I remember late In his life hearing him fairly eloquent on something which had been suggested to him by one of Flechler's sermons, but gener ally he had the nervous, tired look of ? heart-wounded man. When Captain Shaw was -coming home?If, as I say, it was Shaw?rath er to the surprise of everybody they made one of the Windward Islands, and lay off and on for nearly a week. The boys said the officers were sick of salt Junk, and meant to have tur tle soup before they came home. But after several days the Warren came to the same rendezvous; they exchanged signals; she sent to Phillips and these homeward-bound men letters and pa pers, and told them she was outward bound, perhaps to the Mediterranean, and took poor,Nolan and his traps on the boat back to try his second cruise. He looked very blank when he was told to get ready to join her. He bad known enough of the signs of the sky Turned ? Little Pal* but Plunged On. to know that till that moment h? was going "home." Bat this was a dis tinct evidence of something he had not thought of, perhape, that there was no going home tor him, even to a prison. And tills was the first of some twenty soch transfers, which brought him sooner or later Into half oar beet ?e? aels, bat .whlck kept him all hls< life at least some hundred miles ftom the eotfhtry he had hoped ha might never hear at again. It iter' hare been on that second crolae?It win once when he was op the Mediterranean?that' Mrs. CfraS, the celebrated . Southern beauty of those days, danced' with. him. The; had been lying a long'.ttme in^tha B^y of Naplee, sad the oSa?rs were rfrj intimate .1? the ?d tfiere had bMDlP^fsMliMea^-^ ? ?ver did It'on board tie Warwol em sure J do not know;..Pfcrhapa It was not the /WanetMor pesttapp ladles 4*4 ?ot tak? tup so. anch room as they dojjow.. TW wanted to aae'Nolan?? ?tateroopj\for ?ob,ethane, and th'ay bated to jo It *J$opt the ba^j so ?Uts?MK?fe said ; ladles-they fiaiT fEe? family -of the American consul, ona or two travelers who SW adventured so far, and a Dice bevy of English girls and matrons, per haps Lady Hamilton' herself. Well, different officers relieved each other in standing and talking with No lan in a friendly way, so as to be sure that nobody else spoke to him. The dancing went on with spirit, and after a while even the fellows who took this honorary guard of Nolan ceased to feuT any contretemps. Only when some English lady?Lady Hamilton, as I 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 <^hat "American dances" were, and started, off with "Virginia Heel," which they followed with "Money-Musk." which. Id its turn In those days, should have been fol lowed by "The Old Thirteen." But Just as Dick, the leader, tapped for his fiddlers to begin, and bent forward, abont to say, In true negro state, " The Old Thirteen,' gentlemen and ladles!" as he bad said, " 'Vlrglnny Reel,' If you please 1" " "Money-Musk," If you please 1" the captain's 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 offi cers teaching the English girls the figure, but not telling them why It had no name. But that Is not the story I started to tell. As the dancing went on, No lan and our fellows all got at ease, as I said, so much so that It seemed quite natural for him to bow to that splendid Mrs. Graff, and say: "I hope you have not forgotten me, .Miss Rutledge. Shall I have the hon or of dancing?" _ 1- He did It so quickly that Shubrick, who was by him, could not hinder him. She laughed and said: "I an not Miss Rutledge any longer, Mr. Nolan; but I will dance all the same," just nodded to Shubrick, as if to gay-lie must leave Mr. Nolan to her, and led him off to the place where the dance was forming. r. Nolan thought he had got his chance. He had known her at Philadelphia, and at other places had met her, and this was a godsend. You could not talk In contredances, as you do In --cotillions, or even In the pauses of waltzing; but there were chances for tongues and sounds, as well as for eyes and blushes. He began with her travels, and Europe, and Vesuvius, and the French; and then, when they had worked down, and had that long talk ing time at the bottom of the set, he said boldly, a little pale, she snld, as she told me the story, years after "And what do yon hear from hornet Mrs. (Jraff?" And that splendid creature looked through him. Jove 1 how she must ihave looked through him I "Home! t Mr. Nolan 111 I thought you were the man who never wanted to hear of home again 1" and she walked directly up the deck to her husband, and left poor Nolan alone, as he always was. (?He did not dance again. ! I cannot give any history of him la order; nobody can now; and, indeed. I am not trylng^o. These are the tra-, dltlons, which I sort out, as T believe them, from the myths which have been told about this man for forty years. The fellows used to say he was the "Iron Mask;" and poor George Pom went_to his grave In the belief that this was the author of "Junius," who was being punished for his celebrated libel on Thomas Jefferson. Pons was .not very strong In the historical line. A happier story than either of thee? 1 ihave told la of the war. That cam* jalong soon after. I have heard thla affair told In three or four ways, and, i Indeed, It may have happened mor? than once. But which ship It was on :I Cannot tell. However, In one, at least, of th? great frigate duels wttfe the English, in which the navy was really baptised. It' happened that a round shot from the eneny entered ose of our porta square and took right down the oQlcer: of th? gun himself, ?and almost every man of th i gun's crew. Now yon may say w^at yo? choope about courage^ but that Is not a nice thing to se?. But as the matt who were not klU?d picked themselves up, and the snrgeocCs people were cai? [?ylng off th? bodla? there apusar?4 .Nolan, In his shirt sftvves; with tlx rammer In his hand, and, Just as If h?' had been the officer, told them, off wttk authority, who should go to the roefc p(t with tike wounded men, who should stajr\wlth him, perfectly cheery, and wlfti that wa?i.whlch' jukes' men fell "sot? ~ah la' ri|bt and kr going to be itfft And M finished loading th? gun with bis own haadis, aimed It, and bajSi the men fir?. 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