The Iola register., 1901-06-14

history. JEFFERSON Davis hAu Deen sec
retary of war at the time the Holbin
! court-martial was held, and the rec
ord coming before him for review, he
had promptly approved the sentence
of the court. A long struggle to Sc
cure a modification of the sentence
| had followedt-and in this struggle
many politicians had been arrayed by
'Holbin's mother, but in vain. The
sentence stood and these people new
er forgot the issues involved; the
Holbns hated Jefferson Davis. The
name "Holbin" had clung to the mem
ory of the hero of Buena Vista; he
declined to appoint Raymond Holbin
or to commission him in any way to
! command honorable men. The deci-
sion was in harmony with his devo-
tion TO his principles, devotion that
was destined to make him in the end
the most unfortunate of American
statesmen.
This new public reflection upon Hol-
bin filled him with an ungovernable
rage. Had safe opportunity offered,
he would not have hesitated to send
a bullet through the heart Of the man
who was responsible for it. Indeed,
he armed himself, and for many
months was convinced that he might
at any moment be dedicated to the
discharge of a patriotic duty. The
president OF the confederacy walked
daily in the presence of death, for
fanaticism and desperate men sur
rounded him. His safety lay in the
fact that he walked in the sunlight,
where the results of an attack prom
ised never less than life for life. And
Raymond Holbin was not the man
to barter his away; he bided his tirlf.
A far more dangerous enemy was his
mother, who numbered official nc
quaintances in Washington by the
scores, and who knew when and
where to plant the deadliest blow.
This woman, secure in her social posi-
ton, displaying by her own efforts
and the efforts of her stepdaughter
in hospital work devotion to the
southern cause, was in secret fast bal
ancing accounts with jefferson Davis.
Friends of Raymond Holbin, for he
still had few, with the aid Of his
mother, secured him bomb-proof po-
sition with a rank Of captain; and
there he stuck, with all the time for
plotting that might be demanded.
What seemed to Holbin an oppor-
tunity for a sweeping revenge came
very unexpectedly. Up to then he had
been but an instrument in the hands
of his mother and that large circle
of invisibles known to him who
sapped the strength of the confeder-
aoy. Their many interests preceded
his. The opportunity came through
Louise. He did not dare to disregard
her card and Responded instantly to
her implied command, armed with
his old secret and virtuous indig-
nation. He had almost forgotten her
A year before, when she had sufIi-
GENTLY recovered from her illness to
permit it, he had sent her north, de-
ceived by Sacred" pledges, to new
hiding-pace. The immediate opening
of hostilities had seemed to fix the
separation. 1t had never occurred to
Aim that she would make an effort
20 cross the lines,
The new meeting between Louise and
Holbin was marked by great display
of passion on his part; she was calm
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