The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1858-01-21

BY EMMA D. Z N. soUTHwoRTH.
TIE AsTRoLoGER's PREDICTION.

TIE AsTRoLoGER's PREDICTION.
8 Reading, 4 few weeks since, one o
= DE Quincsy's papers, Three Memora
9 BILE Murders, '--recalled to my mind tb.
strange circumstances ofone Of the mos,
, mysterious domestic dramas that ever
taxed the ingenuity of man, or required
the flight Of time to develop.
, The locality of our story lies amid one
} of the widest and most picturesque re-
, gious Of the Old Dominion, where the
head waters of the R.ppahsnnock wash
the base of the Blue Ridge.
The precise spot Crossland.-is a
sublime and beautiful scene, where two
forest crowned ranges of mountains cross
each other at oblique angles.
At the interersscting point of these
ridgss nestes little hamlet, named ,
from its elevated position, Altamont.
At the period at which our story op-
ems 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 Au-
derly, Virginian lady Of the old
school.
The western and NEST valuable estate
was the Inheritance of Honora Paule, al
orphan hsiress, granddaughter of Madame
Auderly.
The nothern and smallest one, called
from being the deepest vale of the four
-Hawe's Hole--was the property of
old Hugh Have, widower of gloomy
temper, parsiminous habits, aud almost
fabulous wealth.
The southern farm-named, from the
extravagant cost of the elegant ma nsion-
house, elaborate out. buildings and high
y ornamentsd grounds, which had ab
sorbed the means Of the late owner,
: Farquier's Folly,'-was the heavily
mortgaged patrimony of Godfrey Far
quier Dulaine, the grandson Of Hugh
Have, aud now young aspiIant for 10.
gal donors at the University at Virginia.
But little benefit to the heir was to
be hoped from the Inheritance of his
fathers burihened property. In the
6rst place, old Hugh Have had brought
up in his own name all the claims against
the estate of Farquer's Folly doubtless
to prevent foreclosure, and to save the
property for bis grandson
But unhappily, Godfrey had mortaly
offended the despotic old man by decin-
ing an agricultural life, and persisting in
the study of 4 profes,on-a course that
had resulted in his own disinhsritance.
TO make this punishment more Bit
ter to bis grandson, the old man had ia.
ken into favor bis nephew, DR.. Henry
Have whom be bad established near
himself at Parquier's Folly.
At this time, the disinherited hair.
having finished term at the University
bad come downao spend a part of bis
vacation in bis native place.
1t was upon the Saturday evening of
bis arrival that he found the little hotel
and indeed, the whole village of Ala
mont, in = great state OF excitement,
from the fact that the celebrated hoircss
Miss Honora Paule, bad just stopped
there, and passed through on hor way
home.
Those who had been go happy as to
catch 4 glimpse Of her face, We'd with
zach other IN praise Of her many charms
while those who had not, listened With
nagerness, and looked forward TO indcu-
niiyipg themselves BY seeing her At
,hurch the next morning.
The next day, Godfrey Dulains at.
cpded church, where bs saw aud foil is
owe with the mos. beautiful aud intel .
cciusl looking girl he had ever bebeld '
'rsm the obeappcss aud simplicity Of
,cr attire, he supposed her to be some
poor dependant Of Madame hudeflys ,
u whose pew she sat Godfrey was q
csptivsied, and he resolved d
II once TO WOO, aud, " possible, win this
ovely being for biz wife, poor gifl though
he VAS lie vas glad she wss poor, I,
,ecsose she could for the, rsssop be