W orld’s Greatest Short Stories N o . I. THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY By Edward Everclt Hale tl'WAKl. LVkkfclT Twenty-four famous authors were asked recently to name the best short story in the English language The choice of Mary Roberts Rine­ hart and Owen Johnson was “The Man Without a Country," by Ed­ ward Everett Hale His works are published by Little. Brown & Co. HA1 fl MARY ROBERTS RNEHAKT • round from New Orleans to the norm- : I ern Atlantic coast with the prisoner on i board the sentence had been approved, j and he was a man without a country. When l was second officer of the j Intrepid some thirty years a fter 1 saw | the original paper of instructions: Washington (with the date, which must ! have been late in 1807). i I Sir—You will receive from Lt. Neale the ; person of Philip Nolan, late a lieutenant I in the United States army, j This person or. his trial by court mar­ tini expressed with an oath the wish that he might never hear of tlie United Stales again. I Tiie court sentenced him to have his J wish fulfilled. j For the present the execution of the or­ der is intrusted by the president to this department. You will take the prisoner on board your ship and keep him there with such pre- j caul ions as shall prevent his escape. You will provide him with such quarters, i rations and clothing as would be proper j for an officer of his late rank if he were | a passenger on your vessel on the busi­ ness of his government. The gentlemen tin board will make any | arrangements agreeable to themselves re­ garding his society. He is to be exposed < to no indignity of any kind, nor is he ever unnecessarily to be reminded that he is a i prisoner. j Hut under no circumstances is he ever to hear of his country or to see any in- , I formation regarding it. and you will es- i peeially caution ail the officers under your j command to take care that, in the various j indulgences which may be granted, thiH , | rule, in which his punishment is involved, i shall not be broken. It is the intention of the government that he shall never again see the country . which he has disowned. Before the end | of your cruise you will receive orders j which will give effect to this intention. , itesp y yours. W. SOUTHAHD. For the Becretnry of fhe Navy. 1 suppose the commander of the Le- vunl lias it today as his authority for | keeping this mini in his mild custody. I T he rule adopted on hoard the ships j ou which 1 have met “The Man With ; out a Country” was. 1 think, transm it­ ted from the beginning. No mess liked to have him permanently, because his presence cut off all talk of home or of the prospect of return, of politics or letters, o f peace or of war—cut off more than half the talk men like to have at sea. But it was always thought too hard that he should never meet the rest o f us, except to touch lints, und we filially sank into one system. He was not permitted to talk with the men unless an officer was by. With j officers In* laid unrestrained inter con-se. as far as they and lie chose. But he grew shy, though he had favor- j it es. 1 was iwie. Then the captain al­ ways asked him to dinner on Monday. Every mess in succession took up the invitation in its turn. According to the size of the ship, you had him at your mess more or less often at dinner. His To be continued. 1 suppose he did not know' now tue words shocked old Colonel Morgan, Nolan young olfieer ns there was in ■ who was holding the court. I liad grown up iu the west of those the "Legion o f the W est.” as tile western division of out* ¡ days in the midst of “Spanish plot.” I “Orleans plot" and all the rest. He finny was then eulied. When Aaron had been educated on a plantation Burr made ids first dashing expedition down to New Orleans in 1805 at Fort i where the tiuost company was a Span­ ish otllcer or a French merchant from M issue or somewhere above on the Orleans. His education, such us It r i . er in* met. as the devil would have ! was, had been perfected in commercial it tin's gay. dashing, bright young fel I expeditious to Vera Cruz and I think low at some dinner party, I think. ! lie told me his father once hired an Furr marked him, talked to him. walk­ Lngiislirnaij to be a private tutor for a ed with him. took him a day or two's ' winter on tb«-plantation. lie hud spent voyage in his fiat boat and. in short, half his you Mi with an older brother fascinated him. For the next year limiting horses in Texas, and. in a word, barrack life was very tame to poor to him “United States'* was scarce­ Nolan, lie occasionally availed of the ly a reality. Vet he had been fed by permission the great man had given “ United S tates" for all the years since him to write to him. The other boys he had lkeen in the army. l i e had in file garrison sneered at him because sworn on liis faith as a Christian to be In* sacrificed in this unrequited affec­ true to “United States.” it was “Unit­ tion for a politician the time which ed States” which gave him the uniform t! ey devoted to moiioiigahela. sledge lie wore and tin* sword by bis side. I a id high-low-Jack. Bourbon, euchre do not excuse Nolan. I only explain to a id poker were still unknown. But the reader why he damned his country ode day Nolan had his revenge. This and wished lie might never hear her time B a rr came down the river not as name again. ted attorney seeking a place for his of He never did hear her name but flee, but as a disguised conqueror. It once again. From that moment. Sept. was rumored that he had an army be­ I 23. 1807. till ti e day he died. May 11, hind him and an empire before him. : I8d,”. he never heard her name again. It was a great day his arrival—to poor For that half century and more he was Nolan Burr had not been at the fort ; u man without a country. j mi hour before he sent for him. That Old Morgan, as I said, was terribly evening he asked Nolan to take him i shocked. II*» called the court Into his out in bis skiff to *bow him a cane- j private room and returned in fifteen brake or a cottonwood tree, as he said ¡ minutes with i face like a sheet, to - really to sedm e h im -an d by the time say: lhe sail was over Nolan was enlisted Edwards-Duus Wedding “Prisoner, hear the sentence of the body and soul. From that time, : court. The court decides, su bject to Mr. Herman Onus of Kstncada though lie did not yet know it. he lived I the approval ot the president, that you as “» man without ?i country.** never hear the name o f tin* United and Miss Audrey Edwards ot Port­ What Burr meant to do 1 know no j States again.*’ land were married Thursday. No­ more than you. dear render. It is mme Nolan laughed. But nobody elao of our business just now. only when vember i?th, at one o'clock, at the the grand catastrophe cam e some of ¡ laughed. Old Morgan was too solemn the lesser fry in that distant Missis­ a*ui the mtoie room was nilsUe- the Unite«) States! I wish I them certa hi. that is. if I may U»- and his bride and wish them all [ may never hear of ?h. Unitisf States i lieve the men who say they have seen kinds of prosperity. again”' ids '.ignntm-o Before tin* Nnuiilus u»*t ( P A R T I. i l l LI I* NOLAN w as as flue n B Dale’s Would like to have you come in and see the nice alumnium ware that they are giving away absolutely FREE as premiums. It pays to trade with them, as their prices are always right, their goods the best and their treatment, courteous. Yes. the fruit trees have come in, that we told you of, some days since. See them also, just which you want. and pick out See DALE’S Surplus Sale Manufacturers’ Emergency and Sur­ plus sale combined with the slaughter of the balance of the Soule Bros.’ F a il­ ure stock all in the hands of Ellsworth, Barnes & Davey, the manufacturers’ representatives, still in progress at Eilers Music House. Here is a list of the many bea itiful instruments still to be had at the almost unbelieveably low prices. 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