...im, Averill, who had been such a horror to them, becomes an amiable and kind being. They fled to him, as a sort of Guardian Angel, to shield them from the destruction of the Genius of Desolation. Averill , indeed, has some good parts.--He could not look upon the cruelties and diabolism of Hunter unmoved. He pleaded and remonstrated. He joined Crook and Mulligan in begging that Governor Letcher's h...