The Fort Stockton Pioneer. (Fort Stockton, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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A Stirrmi Story ot Military Adventure and
a Strange Wartime Wooing. Pounded
on the Great Play of the Same Name
By BRONSON HOWARD AND HENRY TYRRELL
Utuatrahon* Frum Actual Wartime Photograph* by Brady
corrmcu? mi av
PROLOGUE
This thrilling romance of love
war, patriotism amt adventure ir
the volley of Virginia,
ha* a vivid historical and scenit
setting. The whole stirring pan-
orama of *h v mighty struggle
that preserveit the Union is out-
lined as u background to thi ro-
mantic tove drama continuously
occupying the stage, the dramatis
personae of which are famous
soldiers und typical civilians on
both sides. This novel, like the
play which ranks us Bronson
Howard's masterpiece and which
has held undtmtntshed 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-
fective contrasts of pathos and
comedy. The illustrations are
particularly interesting because
a majority of them are actual
wartime photographs of famous
generals, camps, batteries, his-
toric scenes and typical soldiers
who wore both the blue and the
gray- _
CHAPTER I.
Haughty Old Charleston.
HARLK8TON always look* to
M me us If It bad drifted bodily
aero** the Atlantic from old
Franco or Spain," »aid Colo
n«*l Haverlll us be stood gazlug out
harborward from the pillared veranda
of the roomy colonial tuaiiMlon front-
ing on the Kant Kattery.
It wan early xpring of the year 1*11.
Sky and water In that southern sea
board clime were blue, but It was the
aoft. dreamy blue of Mediterranean
shore*. Night* of velvety duak were
lit with strangely large, low hung
star*. The magnolia* were not yet in
bloom, but amid the moaa veiled live
oaks already the mockingbird** **aug
or rather rbapnodlxod In language of
golden tone, a* If confiding thrilling
secret* that burnt from stifled heart*
Such were the enviable condition*,
heightened rather than retrained h>
the politic's) turmoil of the time, un-
der which an oddly a**orted group of
people of v&rloua age* and conditions,
and Including hestdc* Charlestonian*
• by Review of Review* compeer.
CKaHcetew In 1M1.
• number of representative* of other
aacUooa of the sooth ss wsll as of
Mrthsrn states, planned the El ling ham
ball for the second week In April.
Oolooel Haverlll of the regular army
af the United fltetee had been a Mori
can war comrade of the let# Oolooel
Biting ham of VlrrlnJa. When Blllng
ham died Haverlll became the geetdlai
of hla two children. Robert and Ger
trad*.
Hebert was duly graduated fron
West Point end with hla clesomat*
Ksrchlval West of Maasaehoaett
went, with the rank of nontenant i
aaa active esrvke on the ptelea la tl
c r eu thaws tons
regiment of Colonel Haverlll Ordered 1
to Washington, ('olnorl Haverlll and
hi* wife wen* t*«»w traveling north
want via Charleston, accompanied by
Ltrutennnts Klltnghani and West G**r
trade KI line ha in had come on from the
famll' homestead In the k*lienandoah
valley of Virginia to meet h**r brother j
p.il, Likewise Madeline West t»a<l
come to Join her brother Kerchivsl and I
Incidentally f«< enjoy tier flr«t acquaint
an< -e with the fascination southern city
Nothing I*-*-* than a hall one of the
famous Klllughatu "leveee’ could tU
Ungly honor the occatdon.
The younger set. (minding the two
lieutenants, had practically no other
aubject of • serious" discussion Keces
alon talk was rife, to Is* sure, and mil
Itarv activities going on wore such ns
to lead to but one logical conclusion
that war or something very like It was
imminent Hut love outranked logic.
In that particular camp at least
At the very opening of the campaign
the casualties took lu Kercblval West
and his demure, dark eyed sister Made
line. also, ns mutual offsetting to this
pair, the gallant Bob Elllngham and
bis sister Gertrude, the latter a splr
tted girl, with warm brona* hair i*e
fitting her emotional temperament sod
vivid completion to match
The first c|ond that appeared in this
roseate sky was Edward Thornton
Thornton was rather a handsome fel-
low In his Insolent way and a few
years older than the two lleutennnt*
that Is to say. he wa* close upon thirty.
He had more than the assurance of
manner that such advantage might
perhaps l*e exacted to give him—esjs*
dally with Mr* Haverlll. the colonel’s
wife
The young people frankly did not like
Thornton, though none of them had
aa!d so. and probably any or nil of
them would have denied the charge
had It been made.
Meanwhile I>r. Elllngham and the
colonel and Mrs. Haverlll and the
Pinckneys (South Carolina relatives of
the Elllnghnnqp saw graver portents
than sentimental ones on the near hori
son. Thetr conversation turned upon
questions of state sovereignty, the "old
flag.” and rights ns to secession from
tb* Union.
“If the interests of your inanufactur
lng and shipping states of the north.”
observed I>r Elllngham. "and of our
agricultural and cotton atatca of the
south are not running In harmony, that
Is no excuse for a family quarrel.”
“I quite agree with yon,” said Colo-
nel Haverlll. ”It Is an awkward thing
for a soldier to take aides In such a
dispute. Theoretically we don't have
to. The government nettles all that for
ns, and we simply obey orders. I feel
confident they will find a remedy for
the present break as they have for
other and perhaps worse one* In the
past If It were not for the slavery
question"—
"Ah,” sighed the southern conserva-
tive. -If I owned the 4.000.000 slaves
I would gladly give them all up for the
preservation of the Union.”
"Well, your friend. Major Ruffin, cer-
tainly has more decided opinions on
the aubject than both of us put togetb
er.” laughed Haverlll, making the cus-
tomary effort to divert the con versa
tlon into lighter channels.
Ruffin was a striking character, typ-
ical of the time. They met him after-
noons at the Charleston hotel or on a
sunny morning walking by the Bat-
tery ms wall, gasing out across the
harbor to where the Sumter fortress
reared Its forty foot walls on an art!
Octal Island built on th* shoals. This
was one of the important fortifications
ot the seceding state# wboee status la
relation to the federal government wee
la ominous dispute.
• "Air.” Ruffin would say Impressively.
*V the statue of these federal forte to
the seceded states la mot yet determin-
ed, ft Is high tUne it should be. If
sr appeal to arms la necessary. and I
sen see that It la. eoooer or later, let
R come right hare and now.”
“But, major.” Colonel Haverlll would
protest, *T understood you war* a Vlr
gin Ian? Virginia has not seceded"
“Not yet, but she will—she must. I
am, as you say. air. a Virginian bora
Bat this hanging Are la eo little to my
toots, sir, that I have sold my Virginia
property and cast my alleglanee with
•oath Carolina for th* present. I have
enlisted with the state troops here, and
I await any minute Oeoeral Beaure-
gard's call to the batteries be Is plaat-
tog all around Runiter."
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wa* It on
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• Ifv a Nr* \'*r
lu tbelr rank- tk Ike 1
III* oat?
tint let.
ku att».-rt. I'
da ugMvr of 1
Ru< a thorn ot
had twee Is in
with feel n»«eiUlc*tl*»*» *»ia*i»Mt *****
cut •••! for a ••Idler T»*at ***•<•* »•
■tentabf*- *lefi« te*»cy in the tstl.ee •
eye* gave rwhir N» the *-serii » *
ant try Mr* Haverlll alone that th.-
roloart thought more of kta toting
southern wanU Rntiert and Gertrod*-
Klltngtiam. than tie did of Ills own w»n
However this IM*> have (teen, tin
cnktiiei's voung wife more than made
uI to th«* lad tho deprivation of hl»
father k fu! measure* of |iaternal r'o*'
Aden*-* and affection lifting no chi
dm. of her own. she gave to the
what In hi* lufut.y he had never
known a mother's lot lug rare A« to*
grew up In Nev* \ t.rk nuild g»"*d faml
|y i>«.i latPoik and In comfortable clr
cumstat!'e« -eelng little of h|« fsther
Wactinkk Photograph ot General P
G T. Beauregard
and experiencing the Irksomeness wit!)
out the companionship of that perentV
strict control. It was not to Ik* won
dered at if Frank came perilously neoi
to tieing * tailed
After graduation from Columhla
Instead of from Went Point, a- the
colonel would have desired if stni> ::
choice could have i»een realized In tin
natural course of events Frank Have)
III entered the hanking house of th.
Howard*, relatives of his stepmother
This had seemed a promising con nee
tion—It might have led. possibly, to nn
other matrimonial alliance through one
of the pretty daughters of the family
on whom the young clerk was known
to have made a moat favorable Impre-
alon— when suddenly he run away
with and married Edith Maury, a nice
enough girl, as It was said, but two ot
three years his senior and the duugh
ter of an Imisiverlshed southern family
whose home was In New Orleans.
This was bad enough Still a rash
love match is not in Itself an unpin
donahle sin Frank was forgiven A;
least a truce was patched up and the
prodignl son went hack repentant, as I)
•earned, to Ids st«s»| at the hank
Alas, the prodigal climnx was yei
to cotne Its lieglnulugs had dated
bark even to the college days. Edward
Thornton had ls*en much In New York
then He had first met the Haverills
at Saratoga. Handsome, reckhws, a
social favorite and sportsman of no
amall pretensions, Thornton had Itn
mediately exercised over young Frank
an Influence amounting to fascination
and hero worship. Those were Hush
time* of racing, of gambling, of drink-
ing and—south of Mason and Dixon's
line es|Ks-lally—of dueling. Thornton
took the eager, precocious boy In haud
and "made a man of him." It was
auch a "man" as the colonel, bis fa
ther, absent most of the time on west
era duty, never dreamed.
Matters were in such strained rela-
tions now when the colonel and hla
wife stopi>ed ut Charleston on their
way north And It was at this fateful
moment that the Inst stroke fell.
The day l>efore the Elllngham ball
Colonel Haverlll learned from the New
York newspn|«ers and simultaneously
by letter from his lawyers there thnt
bis son was uu absconder and a fugi-
tive. Under suspicion on account of
Irregularities discovered at the Howard
bank, he had fled, no one knew whith-
er. to escape arrest, leaving bis wife de-
serted aud without resources.
Colonel llaverill’a grief and rage
were fearful.
“I might have expected it,” he aald.
“And yet. hadn't I enough else on my
aalnd Just now without being brought
to face a thing like this? Well, let fote
deal with him He daaervea the worst
that can happen. I am through with
him. I have always done my bast by
him; now I have other and more Im-
portant duties to perform. I am an
officer of the United States army."
"Don’t Judge him top hastily, John.
May It not hava bean that It was only
after another was dependent on him
that the debts of a thoughtless spend-
thrift—for he waa nothing worse-
drove him to desperation—to fraud,
perhaps—I will not believe crime."
"His wife shall be provided for—my
lawyer* have tbelr Instructions." re
plied the colonel curtly.
Mr* Haverir, stole softly out of the
room, cloning the door behind her.
K>« «-'»er than »«••» nvlUanr 10
to Masped * saanuu orf Jean) *•• an «t
iBfttive group «f H-fruera .*h Hw
fr uit 1 rt o o r I *• ar. , • dt
under mar* bln* order* In M a kiting
Your General IL-mu*»-g<»rv| t« ruling to*
high hnrae, It «*eem* Tell him toi me
tha* he'd tw-tier mind wh.it tie * doing
or we’ll hive llearttenwe down k.-n
after him **
"Ami who l* llenrtkeaae. pray In-
quired Gertrud*- Ktlllighsui. w ho of I
late wa* developing an miwnntol in
Wrest In the federal mlllt.in servh ••
"lleart*eske> Itrevet Captsln lle.irt*
ease'- Win he I* one of my favorite
cavalry officer* You’ll hear almiil
him
"Yes wherever Ml«x Buckthorn It.
for five minute* or eo," whispered Itot*
Rlllnghatn to Madeline West "I know
Heart-ease Not a bail fellow, but the
blggi-kt fop ttist ws* ever mlkiteiilt Into
the cavalry You ought to hear vvhnt
General Buckthorn says about him
Wears h single eyeglass at guard
mount, and carries a scented lace hand
kerchief at cross country drill."
Gertrude Elllngham drew Jenny
aside and asked her
“How I* It to have a sweet heart who
Is a soldier?”
"It's all right.” answered Jenny
promptly "I wouldn’t have a sweet
heart who wasn't a soldier—a north
ern soldier, of course ”
A flush of pleasure stole over Ger
trade's face, then died out as suddenly
as It had come.
Madeline West murmured to Robert
Elllnghiitn
“It Is only lately that I have realized
there are northern soldiers and south-
ern soldiers I thought there was hut
one flag, and that you all served nn
der It."
"That Is what I was brought up to
believe." replied the young lieutenant,
•'but some unaccountable change has
come alsiut."
"But It seems to me," lnteri»o*ed
KerchlvHl West, “that the jieople of
Charleston are taking an extraordinary
Interest in the preparations to bmn
hard Fort Sumter They look forward
to bucI) an event as If It were to be a
gala day."
It wns at this Juncture that Mrs.
Haverlll appeared Before she had
time to Join the group Thornton has
fcened forward to meet her and said In
a low. hurried tone
“I must see you alone I have Im-
portant news for you."
"Are there—any further tidings of
Frank?" she Inquired eagerly.
"Yes We must not talk here"—as
they prissed out together Into the hall
and paused at the foot of the stairs—
"Frank Is here lu Charleston."
• ••••a*
The halls were decked and gnrland-
ed. hall dresses were laid out In readi-
ness. and the young people were prac-
ticing minuets
Toward twilight Kerchlvnl West and
Robert Elllngham strolled across the
Battery park and along the old sea
wall together.
"Bob, old comrade,” the former be-
gan. "I have something I waut to men-
tion to you."
"Ik It about Thornton?"
“It 1* al>out Mrs Haverlll. the colo-
nel's wife."
"I understand—certainly, old boy—
tell me all you know about It”
"Well, I was passing along the gal-
lery of the second floor on my way to
my room when 1 heard a muffled
scream, then a lady's voice uttering
violent or, rather, hysterical, exclama-
tions. The sounds came from one of
the principal guest rooms, aa I sup-
posed. but whose I didn't kDOW. Then
the door was opened hastily, and Mrs.
Haverlll apiieared. looking alarmingly
111 or else terribly frightened and trem-
bling with excitement”
"And was any one with her?"
"Not that I know of. I did have an
impression— Anyway, she recovered
herself quickly after I bad maturated
my haudkerchief with ammonia and
eau de cologne and anything else that
chanced to be at hand and given It to
her. It would be all right she aald,
and I was not to let such a foolish lit-
tle Incident disturb me on any account
Btill”-
"8tlll. the 'foolish little Incident’ must
have had a serious cause behind It.
eh r
"80 I thought But It may have been
only a mouse."
"Or It may bar* been Thornton. I
waa right" exclaimed Elllngham, strik-
ing the clinched flat of one hand Into
the palm of the other.
“Then, by heaven. Bob"—
“It mustn't get to th* colonel. Lane*
Thornton to ms.”
**▲ pretext la all that is necessary
If you don't find It 1 will."
They shook hands to diene*, then
hurled to to drone.
Robert and Karchival war* aa eager
aa any one for th* dancing, yet they
could not enter Into thb spirit of the
affair and engage their partners (aa a
matter of fact than* latter, meaning
chlofly Madeline and Gertrude, did not
rank* nn early appearance* In the par
lora) until tbelr anxiety about Mr*
Haverlll should be allayed. Would ah*
And nn excuse to avoid the ordeal of
•aysty under the eyas of nt least two
patoona who knew af tha shock she had
—Raced bat n ftw hours prartoosiy?
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References:
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Barry, E. The Fort Stockton Pioneer. (Fort Stockton, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1913, newspaper, March 28, 1913; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth806826/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .