Sacramento daily record-union., 1888-11-10
A ROMANTIC STORY.
Why an Expected Wedding in Carondels
Did Not Taka Place

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A few gossips of the southern end of the
city are just now discussing the strange
romance of young woman who has for
something oyer year been resident
among them. The story was told to a
Globe Democrat reporter by clergyman of
the Episcopal Church, who has been suf-
ferer from the lady's strange fate. The
lady in question is but visitor to Amer
lea, whence she came to try and shake off
the spell of which she firmly believes she
is the victim. A few years previous to her
leaving Historic Caledonia she returned
from the patrimonial estates of the family,
nine and one-half miles from the Holyrood
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 unhappy one.
When but seventeen years old she be-
came 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 propose
that night, and that she accepted. She
saw HIM in momentary vision, lying
pale and cold, by the roadside. Bewild-
cred, she involuntarily stopped her horse,
! and in another moment fell in a swoon.
He bore her to cottager's near by, and
on her recovery the bashful young mans
love had been so intensified by anxiety
that, in moment of mutual tenderness,
| they were betrothed. After escorting her
home he had to pass the same spot to return
to his domieile. The next morning they
| found him dead near where she had fallen.
| His horse had evidently thrown him, and
he had been killed by the consequent in
jury to his head.
The lady recovered, and eighteen months
afterward she was betrothed to an English
naval officer who was suddenly ordered to
the West Indies to join II. M. S. school
ship Eurydice. The next spring, on the
return of that 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, and her affections were won by an
English army officer, who was drowned
shortly after the betrothal. The night he
was drowned she was attending ball, and,
| according oher statement, was seized with
| a sudden attack of dizziness, and tainted
On recovering, she said she had seen, in
vision, the ballroom suddenly transformed
| into submarine cavern, containing moth
ing but the corpse of her accepted Lieuten-
ant. She could never be induced to dance
again.
1t took good deal of persuasion to In
duce her to become iancee again. But
the persistence of an American sea captain
conquered her reluctance, and she ac-
cepted hun. He returned to PHILADELPHIA
with his ship for the purpose of putting
| his affairs in shape for the wedding
While his ship was at anchor off the Della
ware breakwater he was also drowned.
The bride-elect came to the Quaker City
| afterwards, and, having relatives in
Carondelet, resolved to make a long visit
| to them.
The clergyman who furnished the facts
| above related met and loved the lady, and
she apparently reciprocated, but when he
proposed she replied by telling him her
story, and all his eloqucnce failed to
| change her resolution never to marry. His
attentions to her had been matter of
society gossip, so that there was something
of sensation when there appeared in the
society columns of the Globe Democrat an
| item stating that she had gone to visit
| friends in the interior of the State, and
| would soon return to her home in Scot
land to reside permanently Globe Dem
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