The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-10-18

t"'C1 1901 anu 1900.
Stephen Brice, of the Brahmin class
OF Boston, after his fathers business
failure and death, came with his
mother to St. Louis. there 20 study
ana practice law in the Office Of his
fathers friend Judge SiIas Whipple.
Virginia Caryel, the only child Of
Colonel COmyn Carvel. was beautiful
and distinguished. The Colonel was
OF an old Maryland family. He was the
leading dry goods merchant of ST
Louis and a veteran of the Mexican
| War
| Judge Whipple was taciturn and alb
rupt He concealed a generous heart
under a forbidding exterior. He slept
IN his office. He was a black" Repub-
mean. He secured clients because
they needed his professional ability.
He took Sunday dinner at Colonel Car
Vels, where the discussion over slave
ry in Nirginias hearing went on with
a plalnness of speech that only the
lifelong friendship of the two men
could have made possible Colonel
CarVel was the highest type of a
Southern gentlemen.
Mrs. Brice, Stephens mother. bore
her reduced fortune with dignity and
/ with high hope in her sons future and
Il spirit Of sacrifice in his interest.
klIphalet Hopper, was a New Eng
lander, in Colonel CarveIs employ In
dustrious and saving. he was unscru-
pulous and mean, valuine only finan-
cial success and cherishing jealousy of
others good fortune.
Clarence COlfaX, the son of a rich
widow, was Nirginia's cousin He ran
race horses, he fought gamecocks. He
had "a commanding indolence" He
believed society based on slavery was
divinely appointed. MasterfuI, cOur-
ageous, adventurous. athletic and
handsome, he was a true Cavalier. use
less except for war.
The events of the story sport with
the natural antagonism, in tradition
and convictions, of the Puritan Steph-
en- Brlce and the Lady of the Caval-
lers, Virginia Carvel. They met first
at a slave market. A beautiful quad
room is put up for sale. With all his
savings Of 5000, Brice determines to
buy the girl from a life of shame with
an intending bidder and then free her
Virginia, through Colfax, also bids for
the girl to use her as a maid Brce,
in sympathy for the pleading mother
OF the slave, persists in his purpose,
and to Virginia 5 great disgust, bids
the other two, and manumits the girl.
Soon after. on her fathers insist
Rrira to Lnr fir.t narty She enuhs
him hut finally danrn. Win him The,,
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