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"Bellefonte, Pa., March 28, 1913.
HENANDOA
By
HENRY TYRRELL
Founded on
BRONSON HOWARD'S
Great Play
A Stirring Story of
Military Adventure
and of a Strange
Wartime Wooing
Copyright. 1812, by G. P. Putnam's
Sons
SYNOPSIS
Beauregard is ready to fire on Fort Sum-
ter. Frank Haverill, General Haverill's
scapegrace son, is hiding in Charleston
Edward Thornton annoys Mrs Haverill
[Continued from last week-]
Here Thornton and Jenny Buckthorn
came up.
“I'm glad the attack on Sumter is to
be made at last,” declared Thornton.
“1 do not share your pleasure in that
prospect,” said a serious voice over
Gertrude’s shoulder. It was that of
her brother, Lieutenant Robert Elling
ham.
“And you a southern gentleman!" re
torted Thornton. with the customar:
shade of insolence
“And you a northern—gentieman?
With the reluctant accent Bob gave
to the word “gentleman” it actuall:
seemed to be in quotation marks wil
an interrogation point after ft.
“I am a southerner by choice. 1 <hui
join the cause.” said Thornton curtl)
“We can ta.ie care of our own rights
sir. They will be safe in our keepin:
even If you should not find it to your
interest to run risks in our behalf.”
“You'll find me ready for any risk
you like.” muttered Thornton. turnin
on his heel.
At the same moment Colonel Haverti
who had not participated in the dans
ing,approached from the direction of In
wife's apartment. He held in his hana
a white silk, handkerchief, which he fin
mediately offered to Lieutenant West
who took it. glanced at the initials
his own-—thanked his superior office
and passed out to the veranda over
looking the lawn, where many colorec
lanterns twinkled. tlere, almost as it
by preconcerted arrangement, Mrs.
Haverill joined bim n moment later,
“Madam.” said the young man, with
embarrassed solicitude, “1 hwy to tell
you how happy | au to see that your
indisposition has vanished aiso to of-
fer humble apologies for my awkward:
ness and helplessness when | under
took to rush to your aid. You can ail
ways depend upon me to act the part
of an idiot in such an emergency.
Fortunately 1 was able to tind Miss
Gertrude and my sister and send them
to you in time to be of real service.
Colonel Haverill has just banded me
back my handkerchief.”
“Oh, thank you, lieutenant, for ev-
I suppose my hushand had
been to my room looking for me. Some-
Charleston Was Preparing to Bombard
Fort Sumter.
thing came up today that has upset
us both a bit. And It is in regard to
that matter that 1 wish to ask you to
do me a favor—a great service, Will
you?”
“Pray command me, Mrs. Haverill,”
answered Kerchival with his beart
thumping in wild, wondering excite
ment.
“It is about the colonel’s son, Frank.
You know the trouble he has got into
in New York. He has escaped arrest,
and 1 have just received word that he
is here in Charleston. | am the only
one he can turn to. His father is stern
and uncompromising in his bumilia-
tion. 1 want you to find Frank and
arrange for me to meet him as soon as
possible, if you can do it with safety.
I shall give you a letter for him. |
should like you to take it at daylight
if possible. It is a sad errand, and I
know of none but yourself whom | can
trust with it”
Lieutenant Kerchival West bowed
profoundly.
“1 will get ready at once,” he said.
“1 can change my clothes in five min-
utes.”
How he welcomed this spur io ace
. tion! The ball had endea for him at
the last words of Gertrude.
He kept his word within the five
minutes specified and came back boot-
ed and spurred to report to the colo
nel's wife. She was not where he had
left her, but he heard her low, earnest
voice at the other end of the shad-
owed veranda.
“If my husband knew,” Mrs. Haver-
illI's voice was saying, “he would kill
you, Edward Thornton, unless yon
treacherously took advantage and shot
him down without remorse. You know
I am innocent. 1 never gave you any
hint of encouragement, and the last 1
remember you were crouching before
me like a whipped cur. But | have
kept the secret, and you must. Avoid
meeting Colonel Haverill before we
leave Charleston.”
“You have my apology.” whispered
Thornton.
“That is not what 1 have asked.”
“Do you mean by that that you will
not accept amends?”
“For my husband's sake,” the wo-
man pleaded
“Ah, your anxiety on his account,
madam. makes me feel "it perhaps,
after all. my offense is : ved unpar-
donable. What an absurd blunder for
a gentleman to make. If 1 badn't sup-
posed it was Lieutenant Kerchival
West who was my rival”—
“What do you mean, sir?"
“But instead it is your husband who
stands between us.”
“How dare you, sir!” cried the exas-
perated lady, now on the verge of hys-
terics. ‘Let me tell you that what-
ever I may wish to spare my husband
he fears nothing for himself. Bat,
no; 1 entreat of you do not let this
horrible affair go any further.”
Kerchival West. having wo choice
but to overhear, was of the same mind.
He now stepped forward decisively,
saying:
“Pardon me. | hope I am not inter-
rupting. I believe, Mrs. Haverill, you
have an errand for me?"
“Yes!” she exclaimed eagerly. *"I'bank
you so much. [ will go and write the
note immediately. Pray excuse me,
Mr. Thornton.”
Without another word she hastened
away. The two men bowed and wait-
ed in silence until she was out of sight
and hearing. Then Kerchival West
drew himself up and said quietly:
“Thornton, you are n d—-d scoun-
drel. Do I make myself plain?”
“You have made it plain all along
that you are looking for a quarrel.
I've no objection. Still, | prefer to
pick my own adversaries.”
“Colonel Haverill is my commander,”
sald West, trembling with suppressed
excitement. “He is beloved by every
officer in the regiment."
“Well, what authority does that give
ou” —
“His honor is our honor. His wife" -
“Oho, that's it, eh? So you have a
first class license to act as Mrs. Haver-
UiI's champion. 1 have heard that her
favorite officer’”—
Kerchival approached a step nearer.
“You dare to suggest”—
“If 1 accept your challenge,” sneered
the other, “1 shall do so not because
you are her protector or the protector
of her husband's honor, but as my ri-
val. We stand on even ground.”
“Cur, you listen to me now"”—and
Kerchival emphasized his words with
a slash of his riding whip full in Thorn-
ton's face,
“1 think you are entitled to my at-
tention, sir,” responded the other, re-
covering himself quickiy.
“My time here is short, as you
know,” Kerchival said.
“Long enough for my purpose, I
reckon. The bayou—up the Ashley a
mile or so—is a convenient place. In
an hour from now it will be light
enough to sight our weapons.”
“I'll be there in half an hour with a
friend!” cried Kerchival.
® *® * * * * *
Nobody in Charleston slept that
night of April 11-12. At the Ellingham
house, as at Pinckney's, and at many
another home of luxury and pride there
were festive or other gatherings which
kept people up and about until long
past midnight.
Then in the early hours of that fate-
ful Friday an exchange of rocket sig-
nals between Forts Johnson and Moul-
trie began. Every one knew what that
meant. The men, some of them with-
out stopping to change their evening
clothes, disappeared with strange, si-
lent. ominous alacrity. The women
huddled in whispering groups or
brought spyglasses and from outdoor
points of vantage watched intently
across the dark waters to where the
flagstaff of Sumter, like a warning fin-
ger, pointed solemniy to the stars in
the balmy dusk of the southern spring-
time sky.
The abrupt departure of Thornton
and Lieutenants West and Ellingham,
accompanied, as it appeared, by Dr.
Ellingham and one or two of the young
men in uniform, had not failed to at-
tract attention and excite comment.
Mrs. Haverill by discreet inquiry
among the household servants, obtained
a startling hint or two which she hast-
ened to communicate in confidence io
Gertrude—none else,
“There are tears in your eyes, Ger-
trude,” said Mrs. Haverill sympathetic-
ally.
“They have no right there,” returned
the girl, with a pitiful flash of the oid
spirit that contrasted with the scared
look on her unwontedly pale face.
“I am afraid 1 know--not what has
happened to Lieutenant West in those
Iast few minutes, but—forgive a wo-
man who has had more experience than
you have, dear, and who is fond of you
~what happened between you and him
when you were together for the last
time, maybe, in—who knows how long?
Let fate part you, if it must, but not a
quarrel. What is pride or coquetry at
such a moment?’
“Another rocket,”
cried Madeline
.
| outer darkness.
West, flitting from somewhere in the
“Does auy one know
where Rob—I mean where Lieutenant
Ellingham is? He excused himself for
a minute and he has been gone an hour
and a half. He promised to be here
before” —
“So did Lieutenant West,” Mrs. Ha-
verill joined in with undisguised anx-
fety.
Boom, came a loud, sullen, reverber-
ating report from over the bay.
“Look!” screamed Gertrude Elling-
ham, jumping up in a frenzy of excite-
ment. “Did you see thut line of fire
against the sky. That was no rocket
—that was a shell. It has struck the
fort!"
At the same instant there was a loud
clatter of horses’ hoofs outside and
Bob Ellingham dashed up the front
steps.
“Ruffin has fired the shot!” he cried,
throwing his cap into the air. “Hark!
there goes another one. They have
opened fire on Sumter, sure enough!”
“Where is Mr. West? Mr. Thorn-
ton? The doctor?’ demanded the
three women, all in a breath.
“They are—Anderson doesn’t reply- -
That's what I rode back ahead to tell
you. It's all right. The second shot
hit Thornton, and Kerchival hasn't a
scratch. He'll be along with the doc-
tor directly. Ruffin swore he would
fire the first” —
“For heaven's sake, Robert, what are
you talking about?’ pleaded Gertrude,
seizing him by the arm. “Do try and
compose yourself and tell us what has
happened. You say that”
“Kerchival and Thornton have had it
out, I tell you. Beauregard has 3.000
or 4,000 men under arms, and it's a
chance if Anderson can muster a hun-
dred. Well, as I was saying, they met
In the gardens down at the bayou.
Sam Pinckney and myself loaded the
weapons. a pair of regulation navy
sixes. Then we tossed up a silver dol-
lar for choice of position at ten paces, |
and Thornton won. But that made no
difference. for the sun wasn't up yet"—
“Mercy! Was it a duel?" Mrs. Ha-
verill interjected. !
“It certainly was, madam. Kerchivai |
scored at the second fire. His bullet
plowed through Thornton's cheek. |
branding him, but nothing dangerous. |
The doctor is with him, and old Ker-
chival is all right and coming along!
after me any minute. Well, that tri-
fling affair is over and well over.
Something more important has started,
I thought you'd all be anxious to know
that” —
“Madam, 1 have to beg your pardon
for my unexpectedly prolonged absence
and to report for orders.”
This last was the voice of Kerchival,
looking uncommonly pale and animat- |
ed, nddressing himself to Mrs. Ha- |
verill.
She grasped his hand without speak-
ing and drew him aside.
“I can only say God bless you, Lien-
tenant West,” she said, with quivering |
lips. “Some happier day 1 hope tc
thank you adequately and so will the
colonel. He knows even less than | do
at the present moment, But he knowas
that Frank has taken refuge here, and
be will not see him or allow me to de
go. You will take those to the poor boy.
won't you—this Water and this little
packet? It is a sacred confidence, anc
1 ask It, as | know you receive it
freely.”
Kerchival bowed profoundly and was
off in a second.
Mrs. Haverill's envoy to her stepson
Frank had cost her another poignant
scene with the colonel. Before the bali
had ended and the excitement of Sum-
ter fairly began, husband and wife
had met in the seclusion of the lady's
apartment,
“My Desdemona.” he had said ic
more than half serious bantering, “I
picked up Cassio’s handkerchief here,
and I have returned it to its owner.
That is all very well, my giri, but
what is this 1 hear about you having |
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Colonel Anderson and Fort Sumter.
had a fainting spell or something ear-
ler in the evening? You are trembling
and excited even now.”
“My husband, there is something I
have to tell you—something very near i
to your heart, It is about your son"—
“About Frank? Again?”
“He Is here in Charleston.”
“He ought to be in prison, I suppose.
But to me he is nowhere.”
“1 am sending word to him; I may
see him later. Have you no word for
him?”
“I have told you be and his unfor-
tunate wife are provided for. Why
should you see him? I shall not.”
“At least I had thought to convey a
warmer message than that from his
father.”
Here the colonel paused a moment
in silence and made his peculiar ges-
aside from before his face.
“Frank is a man now,” he said at’
last. “I couldn't trust myself to see
him—and, anyway, he must now stand
on his own pins. We all must, for |
' these are desperate days and rebel
Hous boys are not the only concern
by a long way. But, here”—the colo-
nel carefully took something from his |
breast pocket—*I will send him some-
thing to make a man of him If any-
thing can. He will understand. |
know he loves you as if you were his |
own mother. Possibly he has some
little tenderness for his father also. |
If he has 1 think he will look tenderly |
| upon this picture and at the same time |
remember me.’
“A miniature portrait of me!” gasped
Mrs. Haverill as she received it from
her husband's hands.
“Yes; the one you gave me before
we were married. 1 have never Leen
without it a single hour since. I have
carried it through every campaign and
in many a scene of danger on the
plains. You see what a sentimental
| old ruffian 1 am now, don’t you? Nev-
er mind. Frank is a fugitive from jus-
tice. God only knows what his future
will be.”
[Continued 4 on page 7, Col. 1.)
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