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THE HIDDEN HAND (Complete, Chapters 1 – 51)
THE HIDDEN HAND (Complete, Chapters 1 – 51)
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"Hurricane Hall is a large old family mansion built of dark red sandstone in one of the loneliest, wildest mountain ranges of Virginia.
"The estate is surrounded on three sides by a range of steep, gray rocks, spiked with clumps of dark evergreens, and called from its horse-shoe form, The Devil's Hoof.
"On the fourth side the ground gradually ascends in the broken rock and the barren soil to the edge of the wild mountain stream known as the Devil's Run.
"When the storms and floods were high, the loud roaring of the wild mountain gorges and the terrific raging of its torrents over its rocky course gave this savage locality its ill-omened names of Devil's Hoof, Devil's Run and Hurricane Hall."
...And so begins 'The Hidden Hand,' one of the famous old thrillers of the fifties, and most popular serial, bar none, that ever raced breathless through the pages of the old New York Ledger.
It is a story of intrigues, robbers, mysticism and heroism: the story of "Capitola, the Madcap," found its way to all hearts. Our great-great grandfathers and grandmothers acknowledge having lost many hours' sleep while unceasingly reading "The Hidden Hand." You will probably recall one very dramatic incident in that book—The incident, perhaps, that gave the story such a theatrical run both in this country and Europe. Capitola, you recall, once took the place of an unwilling bride, and went to the altar closely veiled; she being about the size of her girl friend who was about to be married to the conscienceless black-sheep of a well-to-do family. The ceremony began all right, but when the officiating minister asked: "Do you take this man to be your lawful and wedded husband?" Capitola raised her veil and said defiantly,
"No!" "No—not if he were the last man and I the last woman on earth and the human race were to become extinct—and not if the Angel Gabriel came down and asked me to do this—most certainly—No!"
In later years when Southworth was invited to visit England in regard to foreign copyrights and the dramatization of her books, she found "The Hidden Hand" being produced by three of the leading theaters in London, each playing to crowded houses, and "Capitola" appeared to have struck the fancy of the tradesmen as well; for there were Capitola hats, Capitola suits, Capitola shoes, Capitola race horses, Capitola boats, and commerce seemed to have appropriated the name "Capitola" for an international trademark!
"The estate is surrounded on three sides by a range of steep, gray rocks, spiked with clumps of dark evergreens, and called from its horse-shoe form, The Devil's Hoof.
"On the fourth side the ground gradually ascends in the broken rock and the barren soil to the edge of the wild mountain stream known as the Devil's Run.
"When the storms and floods were high, the loud roaring of the wild mountain gorges and the terrific raging of its torrents over its rocky course gave this savage locality its ill-omened names of Devil's Hoof, Devil's Run and Hurricane Hall."
...And so begins 'The Hidden Hand,' one of the famous old thrillers of the fifties, and most popular serial, bar none, that ever raced breathless through the pages of the old New York Ledger.
It is a story of intrigues, robbers, mysticism and heroism: the story of "Capitola, the Madcap," found its way to all hearts. Our great-great grandfathers and grandmothers acknowledge having lost many hours' sleep while unceasingly reading "The Hidden Hand." You will probably recall one very dramatic incident in that book—The incident, perhaps, that gave the story such a theatrical run both in this country and Europe. Capitola, you recall, once took the place of an unwilling bride, and went to the altar closely veiled; she being about the size of her girl friend who was about to be married to the conscienceless black-sheep of a well-to-do family. The ceremony began all right, but when the officiating minister asked: "Do you take this man to be your lawful and wedded husband?" Capitola raised her veil and said defiantly,
"No!" "No—not if he were the last man and I the last woman on earth and the human race were to become extinct—and not if the Angel Gabriel came down and asked me to do this—most certainly—No!"
In later years when Southworth was invited to visit England in regard to foreign copyrights and the dramatization of her books, she found "The Hidden Hand" being produced by three of the leading theaters in London, each playing to crowded houses, and "Capitola" appeared to have struck the fancy of the tradesmen as well; for there were Capitola hats, Capitola suits, Capitola shoes, Capitola race horses, Capitola boats, and commerce seemed to have appropriated the name "Capitola" for an international trademark!
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