The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-20
WHY SHE REFUSED THE MINISTER.
Tho Strange story of Young Woman's
Unfortunate Love Ahairs,

Unfortunate Love Ahairs.
81. Louis Giobe Democrat
A few gossips of the southern end OF
st. Louis are Just now discussing tho
strange romance of young woman who
has for something over a year been a
resident among them. The story was
told by clergyman OF the Episcopal
Church, vino has been a sufferer from
the lady's strange fate. The lady in
question is but visitor to America,
whence she came to try and shake Oft
the spell of which she firmly believes
she is the victim.
4 few years previous TO her leaving
historic Caledonia she returned from the
matrimonial estates of the family, nine
and onc-half miles from the Hollywood
Palace, in Edinburgh, to Aberdeen. By
the death of her father, since her arrival
in this country, she has become the
heiress to large estate. She is refined,
graceful and handsome, but the fatality
attaching to her makes her life an I'M
happy one.
When but II years old she became
strongly attached to "a nephew of the
Bishop Of Carlyle. One day, while riding
across the heath in his company she
had presentiment that he would pro-
pose that night and that she accepted.
| She saw him in O momentary vision lying
pale and cold by the roadside. Bewid-
cred, she involuntarly stopped her
horse, and in another moment fell In a
| swoon.
He bore her to cottage near by. and
on her recovery the bashfu young man's
| love had been so intensified by anxiety
that in moment of mutual tenderness
they were betrothed. After escorting heI
home he had to pass the same spot to re-
turn to his domicile. The next morning
they found him dead near where she had
fallen. His horse had evidently throw n
him, and he had been killed by the con
sequent injury to his head.
The lady recovered, and eighteen
months afterward she was betrothed Il
an English naval officer who was sud
denly ordered to the West Indies to joir
II. M. S. Schoolship Eurydice. The mex
spring, on the return of the ship home
she was wrecked, and all on board but
two were lost. The young lover was
not one of the saved.
Time healed the lady's thrice wounded
heart ahd her affections were won by al
English army officer, who was drowned
shortly after the betrothal. The, nigh
he was drowned she was attending {
ball, and, according to her statement
was seized with a sudden attack Of dizzi
ness and tainted. On recovering, she sait
she had seen, in vision, the ballroom
suddenly transformed into a b-marin
cavern, containing nothing but the corps
of her accepted lieutenant. She coul(
never be induced to dance again.
1t took a good deal of persuasion TO in
,duce her to become tiance again. Blu
the persistence of an American sea car
tain conquered her reluctance and sh
accepted him. He returned to Philadel
phia with his ship for the purpose G
putting his affairs in shape for the wed
ding. While his ship was at anchor o.
the Delaware Breakwater he was ais
drowned. The bride-elect came to tn
Quaker City afterward, and, having relt
tives in Carondelet, resolved to make
long visit to them.
The clergyman who furnished the fact
above related met and loved the lady
and she apparently reciprocated, bu
when he proposed she replied by tellin
him her story, and all his eloquenc
failed to change her resolution never
marry. His attentions to her had bee
a matter of society gossip, so that thei
was something of sensation when Their
: appeared in thei society columns of tn
| Globe Democrat an item stating she ha
gone to visit friends in the interior of I'll
/, State, and would soon return to her hon
in Scotland to reside permanently.