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.