This is Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' last work, Comrades (1911), that was published posthumously.-She died January 28, 1911, in Newton Center, Massachusetts. an excerpt from the story: Time, to the old, takes an unnatural pace, and Reuben Oak felt that the year had sprinted him down the race-track of life; he was inclined to resent his eighty-second March birthday as a personal insult; but April cried over him, and May laughed at him, and he had acquired a certain grim reconciliation with the laws of fate by the time that the nation was summoned to remember its dead defenders upon their latest anniversary. This resignation was the easier because he found himself unexpectedly called upon to fill an extraordinary part in the drama and the pathos of the day. --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.