Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1858-01-16

TIlR BRIDE OF AN EVENING
BY EMMA d. z. N. soUTHWoRTT.
CHAPTER I.
TIE AsTRohoGER's PREDICTION.

Reading, a few weeks since, one Of De
Quincey's pnpcrs--" Three Memorable
Murders, ,'-rccallcd to my mind the strange
circumstances of one of the most mysterious
domestic dramas that ever taxed the inge.
nuity of man, or required the fight of time
to devolope.
TIE local. y Of our story lies amid one
of the widest and most picturesque regi ms
of the cd Dominion, whore the head wa
tiers of the Rappahannocl wash the base
of the Blue Ridge.
The precise spot--Crcssland lis a Sub.
lime and beautiful scene, where two forest
crowned ranges of mountains cross each
other at oblIquc angles.
At the intersccting point of th Sc ridges
noslles little hamlet, named, from its
elevated position, Altamont.
At the period 1T which our story opens
the four estates, in the four angles of the
irregular mountain cross, were owned as
follows:
The eastern farm, called Piedmont, was
the life property of Madame Auderly, q
Virginian lady of the old school
The western and most valuable estate
was the Inheritance of llonora Paule, an
orphan heiress, grand daughter and ward
of Madame Auderly.
The northern and smallest ono, called
from being the deepest vale of the four
iiawc's Hole-was the property Of old
Hugh Have, a widower of gloomy temper,
parsimorious habits, and almost fabulous
wealth.
The southern farm-named from the
extravagant cost of the elegant mansion
house, elaborate out luildings, and highly
ornamcuted grounds, which had absorbed
the means of the late oEno-, " Farquier'
Foly'-was the heavily mortgaged patri-
mony of Godfrey Farquier Dulanie, the
grandson of Hugh Have, and now young
aspirant for legal honors at the University
of Virginia.
But little benefit to The heir was to be
hoped from the Inheritance of his fathers
burthened property, In the first place
old Hugh Have had bought up in his OH
name all the claims against the estate oi
Farquiers Folly-doubtless to prevent 9
! foreclosure, and to save the property fo
! his grandson.
5 But, unhappily, Godfrey had mortal.
offended the despotic old man by declining
an agricultural life, and pers'stipg in tn
study of Professions course that ha,
resulted in his own disinheritance.
!, 10 make this punishment more bitter t
!, his grandson, the old man had taken int
!, favor his nephew, DR.. Henry Have, whom
he had established near himself at Farquier'
Folly.
{ At this time, the dsinterestcd heir, hav
! ing finished term at the University, ha,
come down to spend a part of his vacation
r in his native place.
1t was upon the Saturday evening of hi
arrival that he found the little hotel, an
indeed, the whole village of Altamont, il
= a great state of excitement, from the fac
n that the celebrated heiress, Miss Honor
Paule, had just stopped there, and passe
3 through on her way home.
S Those who had been SO happy as
catch a glimpse of her face, We'd with cac
u other in praise of her many charms, Will
e those who had not, listened with eagernes
and looked forward to indemnif, ing then
= selves by seeing her at church the neI
morning,