A Stirring Story of Military Adventure and of a Strange Wartime Wooing, Founded on the Great Play of the Same Name By BRONSON HOWARD AND HENRY TYRRELL Major Ruffin was a white haired, el- passed through the spacious aie! derly man, sixty years old if a day. In his fiery fanatical zeal there was some- thing humorous—and something tragic. Colonel Haverill, fifty-five years of age, was distinctively an American sol- dier type. A veteran of the Mexican war, he was happily married to his second wife, a New York belle up to the time of her becoming the colonel's bride, some six years before the period with which the present narrative is concern- ed. His only son, Frank, was at that time a boy of fourteen. bright and spirited: but, as the colonel declared with real mortification. evidently not cut out for a soldier. That most la- mentable deficiency—in the father's eyes—gave color to the assertion. made not by Mrs Haverill alone, that the colonel thought more of his young southern wards. Robert and Gertrude Ellingham, than he did of bis own son. However this may have been, the colonel’'s young wife more than made up to the iad the deprivation of his father's full measures of paternal con- fidence and affection. Having no chil dren of her own, she gave to the boy what in his Infancy he had never known—a mother's loving care. Ax he grew up in New York amid good fami- ly associations and in comfortable ecir- and down the broad winding stairs to | = the drawing room. Everywhere, as Mrs with the colonel, the younger people Haverill de. scended after her troublous interview | were blissfully lounging or circulating | about, still talking love and war. They had a new and breezy accession to their ranks in the person of Jenny | Buckthorn, daughter of bluff old General Francis U. 8 A. She was the! Buckthorn of the regular army and had beer born and brought up in a! military camp on the western plains. “We're going to see active service now-—sooner than you civilians seem to suspect.” announced Jenny to an at- | tentive group of listeners unuder the front portico. “Our boys are already under marching orders in Washington. Your Genernl Beauregard is riding his high horse, it seems. Tell him for me that he'd better mind what he’s doing or we'll have Heartsease down here after him.” “And who is Heartsease, pray?” in- quired Gertrude Ellingham, who of late was developing an unwonted in- terest in the federal military service. “Heartsense? Brevet Captain Hearts- ease? Why, he is—one of my favorite cavalry officers. You'll hear about Illustrations From Actual Wartime Photographs by Brady COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS PROLOGUE. This thrilling romance of love, war, patriotism and adventure in the valley of Virginia, 1861-5, has a vivid ‘historical and scenic setting. The whole stirring pan- orama of the mighty struggle that preserved the Union is out- lined as a background to the ro- mantic love drama continuously occupying the stage, the dramatis personae of which are famous soldiers and typical civilians on both sides. This novel, like the play which ranks as Bronson Howard's masterpiece and which has held undiminished popular- ity on the stage for a quarter of a century past, is broadly non- partisan in spirit and abounds in striking characters, with ef- Jective contrasts of pathos and comedy. The illustrations are particularly interesting because wartime photographs of famous generals, camps, batteries, his- toric scenes and typical soldiers gray. —_— ' CHAPTER |. Haughty Old Charleston. oe me as if it bad drifted bodily across the Atlantic from old France or Spain.” said Colo- barborwurd from the pillared veranda of the roomy colonial mansion front- ing on the East Battery. 8ky and water in that southern sea- board clime were blue, but it was the soft. dreamy blue of Mediterranean lit with strangely large. low bung stars. The magnolias were not yet in bloom, but amid the moss veiled live or rather rhapsodized in language of golden tone, us If confiding thrilling secrets that burst from stifled hearts. heightened rather than restrained by the political turmoil of the time. un- der which an oddly assorted group of a majority of them are actual who wore both the blue and the HARLESTON always looks to mel Haverill as he stood gazing out It was early spring of the year 1861. shores. Nights of velvety dusk were oaks already the mockingbirds sang. Such were the enviable conditions, people of various ages and conditions, and including besides Charlestouians , | ’ : ' nel Haverill. : ® by Review of Reviews company. _ Charleston In 1861. 2 number of representatives of other sections of the south as well as of porthern states. planned the Ellingham | ball for the second week in April. Colonel Haverili of the regular army of the United States had been a Mexi can war comrade of the late Colonel Ellingham of Virginia. When Eiling: ham died Haverill became the guardian of his two children, Robert and Ger trude. Robert was duly graduated from West Point and with his classmate. Kerchival West of Massachusetts. went, with the rank of lieutenant, to see active service on the plains in the i | regiment of Colonel Haverill. — Ordered to Washington, Colonel Haverill and his wife were now traveling north- ; ward via Charleston. accompanied by ' dispute. | question” - | tive. “if 1 ovned the 4.000,000 shives | I would gladly give them all up for the | | preservation of the Union.” i Lieutenants Ellingham and West. Ger- trude Ellingham had come on from the family homestead in the Shenandoah valley of Virginia to meet her brother Bob. Likewise Madeline West bad come to join her brother Kerchival and incidentally to enjoy her first acquaint: ance with the fascination southern city. Nothing less than a ball—one of the famous Ellingham “levees” —could fit- tingly honor the occasion. The younger set, including the two lieutenants, had practically no other subject of “serious” discussion. Seces- sion talk was rife, to be sure, and mil- itary activities going on were such as to lead to but one logical conclusion— that war or something very like it was imminent. But love outranked logic. in that particular camp at least. At the very opening of the campaign the casualties took in Kerchival West and his demure, dark eyed sister Made line: also, as mutual offsetting to thix pair, the gallant Bob Ellingham and his sister Gertrude, the latter a spir ited girl, with warm bronze hair be fitting her emotional temperament and vivid complexion to match. The first cloud that appeared in -thix roseate sky was Edward Thornton. Thornton was rather a handsome fel low in his insolent way and a few years older than the two lieutenants that is to say. he was close upon thirty He had more than the assurance of manner that such advantage might perhaps be expected to give him—espe clally with Mrs. Haverill, the colonel’s wife. : The young people frankly did not like Thornton, though none of them had said so. and probably any or all of them would have denied the charge had it been made. Meanwhile Dr. Ellingham and the colonel and Mrs, Haverill and the Pinckneys (South Carolina relatives of the Ellinghamyg saw graver portents than sentimental cnes on the near hori zon. Their conversation turned upon questions of state sovereignty, the “old flag,” and rights as to secession from the Union. “If the interests of your manufactur | ing and shipping states of the north.” observed Dr. Ellingham, "and of our agricultural and cotton states of the south are not running in harmony, that is no excuse for a family quarrel.” “1 quite agree with you,” said Colo “It is an awkward thing for a soldier to take sides in such a Theoretically we don’t have: to. The government settles all that for us, and we simply obey orders. | fee . confident they will find a remedy for | the present break as they have for | other and perhaps worse ones in the! past. If it were not for the slavery’ “Ah” sighed the southern conserva “Well, your friend, Major Ruttin, cer | | tainly bas more decided opinions on! i the subject than both of us put togeth | er,” laughed Haverill, making the cus. | tomary effort to divert the conversa: | tion into lighter channels. Ruffin was a striking character, typ- i ical of the time. They met him after | noons at the Charleston hotel or on a sunny morning walking by the Bat | tery sea wall, gazing out across the! harbor to where the Sumter fortress ! reared its forty foot walls on an arti . ficial island built on the shoals. This was one of the important fortifications of the seceding states whose status in. relation to the federal government was in ominous dispute. i . “Sir,” Ruffin would say impressively. “t the status of these federal forts in the seceded states Is not yet determin. ed, it is high time it should be. Af an appeal to arms Is necessary, and || can see that it is, sooner or later, let, it come right here and now.” “But. mu jor.” Colonei Haverill would protest, “1 understood you were a Vir ginian? Virginia has not seceded.” “Not yet, but she will—she must. | am, as you say, sir. a Virginian born But this hanging fire is so little to my taste, sir, that 1 have sold my Virginia property and cast my allegiance with South Carolina for the present. | have enlisted with the state troops here. aiid 1 await any minute General Beaure gard’s call to the batteries he is plant strict control, | and “made a man of him.” | such a “mun” as the colonel, his fa- | ing all around Sumter.” | room, closing the door behind her, cumstances, seeing little of his father “Yes—wherever Miss Buckthorn is for five minutes or so,” whispered Bob Ellingham to Madeline West. "I know Heartsease. Not a bad fellow, but the biggest fop that was ever misdealt into the cavalry. General Buckthorn says about him. Wears a single eyeglass at guard mount, and carries a scented lace hand- kerchief at cross country drill.” Gertrude Ellingham drew Jenny aside and asked her: | “How Is it ro bave a sweetheart who | [Continued on page 7, Col. 1.] Medical. Results that Remain | ARE APPRECIATED BY BELLEFONTE | PEOPLE. ! Thousands who suffer from backache and P. kidney complaint have tried one remedy after | another, finding only temporary benefit. k:., is discouraging, but there is one Kidney med izine that has earned a reputation fi asting results and there is plenty of proof of its mer- it right here in Bellefonte. Here is the testimony of one who used Wartime Photograph of General G. T. Beauregard. i and experiencing the irksomeness with- out the companionship of that parent's | { it was not to be won: Doan's Kid Pills ago, now dered at if Frank came perilously wen | makes his tes Limony evan ot rOn gin to being spoiled. fonte, ublic statement After graduation from Columbla— | instead of from West Point, as the | colonel would have desired If such a choice could have been realized in the | natural course of events— Frank Haver- | ill entered the banking house of the igo He ILE LY ve TE vps ean nent. In 1890 | Jo muller from i si, lpgering to work. not rest well and was at a loss to know what to do. After trying a number of remedies without deing bene- fitted, I learned of Doan’ Kidney Pill Howards. relatives of his stepmother | and got a ny t y hosed to be Te This had seemed a promising connec. the remedy | required, removing Jou. tion—it might have led. possibly, to an i Bien Rains Le. 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