



Produced by Al Haines










OCTAVIA

The Octoroon


BY

J. F. LEE, M.D.




THE

Abbey Press

PUBLISHERS

114

FIFTH AVENUE

London  NEW YORK  Montreal




  Copyright, 1900,
  by
  THE
  Abbey Press
  in
  the
  United States
  and
  Great Britain.


  All Rights Reserved.




CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I.

The Prize Fight


CHAPTER II.

A Baptismal Scene


CHAPTER III.

The Birth of Octavia


CHAPTER IV.

Almost a Watery Grave


CHAPTER V.

The "Underground Railway"


CHAPTER VI.

Mistaken Identity and Escape from Bruin


CHAPTER VII.

Liberated


CHAPTER VIII.

Cotton Prowling--Employing Octavia's Governess


CHAPTER IX.

Progress in Studies


CHAPTER X.

Ready for College


CHAPTER XI.

In the Red Cross Service


CHAPTER XII.

In Foreign Lands--Strategy--Love Conquers




Octavia the Octoroon.



CHAPTER I.

THE PRIZE FIGHT.

Just before the beginning of the civil war between the States there was
a large and valuable plantation on the Alabama River on which there
were several hundred slaves, said farm being in what is known as the
"black belt of Alabama," having a river front of several miles, and
annually producing five hundred bales of cotton, fifteen thousand
bushels of corn, besides oats, wheat, hay, mules, horses, hogs, cattle,
sheep and goats in abundance.

This mammoth farm belonged to Hon. R., then a member of the United
States Congress from Alabama, and afterwards a gallant officer in the
Confederate army, rising from the rank of first lieutenant to colonel,
by which latter title he will be known in this story.  He lived in what
was then one of