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 218 THE BATTLE OK BALACLAVA. chap, filled hin i with anger. Eight before him he saw Captain Nolan audaciously riding across his front Noian " f rom feft t° right ; but not content with a trespass ?n?ront?f which alone would have been shocking enough the brigade. tQ j^^ Cardigan's orderly mind, Captain Nolan, turning round in his saddle, was shouting, and waving his sword, as though he would address the brigade. We now know that when Nolan thus strangely deported himself, he was riding in a direction which might well give significance to his shouts and his gestures ; for, instead of choosim- a line of advance like that pursued by Lord Cardi- gan, he rode crossing the front of the brigade, and bearing away to the right front of our advancing squadrons, as though he would go on to the spot on the Causeway Heights where the Odessa regi- His pro- merit stood posted* Kegarded in connection with this significant fact, -the anxious entreaties which he sought to express by voice and by signs would apparently mean something like this — ' You are ' going quite wrong ! You are madly going down ' this North Valley between flanking fires, where all the observers, points out the way in which Nolan's direction] deviated from that of Lord Cardigan : — Lord Cardigan. >■ bable object.
 * This diagram, by an officer who was one of the nearest ol