Chapter IX: Act I: AT FORT LEE, ON THE HUDSON.--News from the war.--The

meeting.--The colonel's strange romance.--Departing for the war.--The intrusted packet.--An honest man.--A last request.--Bitter hatred.--The dawn of love.--A northerner's sympathy for the South.--Is he a traitor?--Held in trust.--La Creole mine for sale.--Financial agents.--A brother's wrong.--An order to cross the enemy's lines.--Fortune's fool.--Love's penalty.--Man's independence.--Strange disclosures.--A shadowed life.--Beggared in pocket, and bankrupt in love.--His last chance.--The refusal.--Turned from home.--Alone, without a name.--Off to the war.--TABLEAU.

ACT II. ON THE BATTLEFIELD.--An Irishman's philosophy.--Unconscious of danger.--Spies in the camp.--The insult.--Risen from the ranks.--The colonel's prejudice.--Letters from home.--The plot to ruin.--A token of love.--True to him.--The plotters at work.--Breaking the seals.--The meeting of husband and wife.--A forlorn hope.--Doomed as a spy.--A struggle for lost honor.--A soldier's death.--TABLEAU.