William Stephens Hayward

The Star of the South William Stephens Hayward

By the author of "The Cloud King," "Rodney Ray" etc. Excerpt: The story ran that, being on terms of deadly enmity with this planter, Colonel St. Casse (then only a captain) was unable to purchase or liberate the girl from her master, who, with vindictive malice, refused to take for the beautiful slave her weight in gold. George St. Casse, however, was not a man to be so easily baffled. He contrived the escape of the girl, whose name was Nina, and carried her off to a small place he had taken in Pennsylvania, where he hoped she would remain undiscovered by her relentless master. ...