Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1858-01-15
THE BRIDE OF AN EVENING.
By EMMA D. E. n. soUTHwoRTH.
CHAPTER /.

BILE Murders, recalled to my mind the
strange circumstances of one the most
mysterious domestic dramas that ever
taxed the ingenuity of man, or required
the fight of time to develop.
The locality OF our story lies amid one ,
of the widest and most picturesque re-
gions of the Old Dominion, where the
head waters of the Rappahannock 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.
Atthe intersecting point Of these ridges
nestles little hamlet, named, from its
elevated position, Altamont.
At the period at 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 Auder-
ly, a Virginian lady of the old school.
The western and most valuable estate
was the inheritance of Honora Paule, an
orphan heiress, granddaughter and ward
of Madame Auderly.
The northern and smallest one, called
from being the deepest vale of the four
-IIawe's Hole-was the property of old
Hugh Have, a widower of gloomy tenn
per, parsimonious habits, and almost fab
ulous wealth.
The southern farm-named, from the
extravagant cost of the elegant mansion
house, elaborate out-buildings, and high
ly oruamented grounds. which had alb
sorbed the means of the late owner
Farquier's Folly was the heavily
mortgaged patrimony Of Godfrey Far
quier Dulanie, the grandson of Hugl
Have, and now young aspirant for lie
gal honors at the University of Virginia
But little benefit to the heir was to b
hoped from the Inheritance of his father
burthened property. In the first place
old Hugh Have had bought up in hi
own name all the claims against the estat
of Farquier's Folly-doubtless to prever
a foreclosure, and to save the propert
for his grandson.
But, unhappily, Godfrey had MORTAL
offended the despotic old man by declir
ing an agricultural life, and persisting
the study of a professional course thu
had resulted in his own disinheritance.
To make this punishment more bite
to his grandson, the old man had take
into favor his nephew, DR.. Henry Haw
whom he had established near himself
Farquier's Folly.
At this time the disinherited heir, ha
ing finished q term at the University, hs
come down to spend part of his vac
ton in his native place.
Il was upon the Saturday evening
his arrival that he found the little hot
and, indeed, the whole village of Alt
mont, in great state of excitement, fro
the fact that the celebrated heiress, NJ
Honora Paule, had just stopped the
and passed through on her way home.
Those who had been so happy as
-vG catch a glimpse Of her face, We'd W
each other in praise Of her many CHAIR
..i POI while those who had not, listened W
sum eagerness, and looked forward to indie
doc nifying themselves by seeing her
warm wa m church the next morning.
He The next day, Godfrey Dulanie
, the tended church, where he saw and fell
! pun pun love with the most beautiful and int
E, the lectual look ing girl he had ever beht
from From the cheapness and simplicity Of
heir heir attire, he supposed her to be some p
Win dependent of Madame Auderly's,
whose pew she sat. Godfrey was &C
pletely captivated, and he resolved
once to WOO, and, if possible, win I
lovely being for his wife, poor girl thol
, she was. He was glad she was pt
because for that reason she could be m
easily won. But on accompanying
y Willou ghby, the clergynan,andhi his brc
er-in-law, Ernest Heine, home a
church, what was his establishment
dismay d; being introduced to the SUPP
ed poor girl, whom he found to be
NJ other than the celebrated Miss Hor
Paule, the greatest heiress and belle
Ill well as the best and nobIest girl, in
in; State of Virginia. She greeted him
daily, and in few minutes the comm
. were busily engaged in conversation
The topic of capital punishment |
ing been started, Godfrey turned to
nora, and said:
lead; " / take an especial personal int
in having capital punishment aboli:
q Miss PauIp do vor, haTav-a =; -,