Excerpt from The White Druse: And Other Poems The author, very naturally, having been a doctor himself, chose his hero from that generous, ambitious, and consequently, adventurous class of young physicians and surgeons that was so much in evidence in our volunteer armies, during the Civil War. The heroine, or more properly the first heroine, for there are two in the story, each of whom displays an indisputable title to the name, appears to have been the girl-wife Of a Tennessee mountain outlaw, upon whose head a price had been set, so many dollars for his return, alive or dead. Though innocent of complicity in, or guilty knowledge of the crime, the young wife had fled with her doomed lord, and wandered with him, here and there, in hidden corners and along strange waterways, to avoid the fate which was pursuing him in the form of men more murderous than he, who were spurred on by the hope Of gain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.