Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1922-01-14

st. louis captured a camp Of rho
golden youth of St. Louis nohiIizir.
! as Confederates. Colfax was srn,.r,
those taken, but refused a parole and
escaped to the Southern army. Tbraa
I disturbing events brought Brio a.s
/ Virginia together again. He so,ot.
to render the Carvels service Which
/ Virginia resented. Mrs. Brica ana
Virginia, however. soon became ir,a-
ested in the nursing of wounded sal
diers and of Judge Whlpple. whom )
fatal Hines had overtaken Prf..
rs a lieutenant was in the bartla am.
Ficksburg and found Colfax badI,.
wounded In the captured CITY IL
/ sent him North TO ST. Louis. where no
was nursed by Virginia. CoIfav bod
distinguished himself by daredevil av-
| PLOTS of great usefulness to his causo
virginia was enthused by his patriotic
devotion to the cause she loved and
their engagement was the resnlt
Brice was wounded In the camnaigns
after Vicksburg and also returned 10
st. Louis.
The climax of the story comes at
the deathbed of Judge Whipple Col
onel Caryel, though in the rebel army
returns to see his daughter. Hearing
Of Whipples Illness, he visits Whin-
pies office, where he finds Virginia
and COlfax. In the latter's hurried
withdrawal to chase a spy who proves
to be Eliphalet Hopper, Virginia and
Brice, Unexpectedly to each. are
| thrown together. She is surprised into
a betrayal and full realization of her
interest in him. Hopper eludes Colfax
| and creeps into WhippIe's outer Of
fee. By corrupt transactions with
Federal quartermasters he has Iecome
q rich man and the real owner of the
Carvel business. He finds Virginia
alone and threatens, unless she mar
ries him, to betray her father to the
Union authorities as a spy. Brice ap-
pears, strikes Hopper down, defies
him with counter-threat of prosecu-
ton for corruption. This rlds the
story Of Hopper.
Colfax goes South after Virginia
has broken their engagement. He is
subsequently captured as a spy. Brice
Identifies him and then intefvenes
with Sherman to save his life. Mean
time, Brice is sent by Sherman to City
Point with dispatches. There he
meets Lincoln again. Lincoln remem-
bers him and invites him to become
his aid.
The story closes with the visit Of
Virginia to Lincoln at the White
House, for the pardon of Colfax. Lin
coin had heard of the circumstances,
sees Virginia and brings in Brice
After a conversation In which there
is revealed to Virginia the constant
sorrow of Eineoln's soul and his deep
sympathy for the Southern people, he
pardons Colfax and leaves Brice and
Virginia to that mutual confession OF
love of which each had long been con-
scious. They were married at once,
but their honeymoon was darkened
with the sudden taking off of the great
American.
The story is well told. The plot is
not forced and maintains ones inter-
est TO the end. Stephen Brice is al
most too perfect. The author speaks
feelingly of the anxiety of novelists
to avoid this danger. Virginia's char
acter is perhaps better done, because
easier to endow with attractive fail
ings. Judge Whipple and Colonel
Carvel are admirably drawn.
The story weaves in an accurate
and valuable description of the causes
of the war and of the kind of people
that fought the war. st. Louis, the
confluence of the two streams OF
Western immigration from the North
and the South, was the place to study
the mixing but conflicting elements Of
our people before the Civil war 1t
| was the authors home. He reveals
their faults and their virtues with inn
partial pen. He maintains the just
balance. He avowedly and really takes
| the Lincoln view of the contest,
which, as he truly says, has now be-
come the American view both North
and South.
The picture OF Lincoln is inspiring
The glimpses of Sherman, Grant and
Lyon are vivid and true to life.
The book is written in a most enter
tanning style. 1t is charming and sus-
tanned in its interest as a love story.
It is a great historical novel.
Condensed from 1.-THE Crisis" by Wins
ton Churchill, copyright. 1901, by The
Macmillan Company. Used by permis-
sion of author and publisher
| Cartwright 1919 by the Post Publishing
Co. (The Boston Post). Copyright in
the United Kingdom, the Dominions, its
Colonies and dependencies. under inc
copyright act. by the Post Publishing
| Co, Boston, Mass, U. Is. A. All rights
reserved.
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