AUTHOR OF “THE SPRIGHTLY ROMANCE OF MARSAC,” “CHILDREN OF DESTINY,” “MAID MARIAN AND OTHER STORIES” “LITTLE JARVIS,” ETC. One sunny November day, in 1864, Colonel Archibald Corbin sat placidly reading “The Spectator” in the shabby old library at Corbin Hall, in Virginia. The Colonel had a fine, pale old face, clean shaven, except for a bristly, white mustache, and his white hair, which was rather long, was combed back in the fashion of the days when Bulwer’s heroes set the style for hair-dressing. The Colonel--who was no more a colonel than he was a cheese-box--had an invincible placidity, which could not be disturbed by wars or rumors of wars. He had come into the world in a calm and j…
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