, 1889-01-03
DEATH INTERVIEWED.
A Young Woman Whose Four Accepted
Suitors Have Died.

SuItors Have Died.
A strange story printed in the st
Louis Globe-Democrat cause consid-
erabIe commotion in the southern end
of that city, where the lady in ques-
ton resided quite awhile.
The story was told by a clergyman
Of the Episcopal church, who has been
a sufferer from the lady's strange fate.
The lady in question is but a visitor to
America, whence she came to try and
shake off n spell of which she firmly
believes she is the victim. A few
years previous TO her leaving His
toric 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
an heiress 10 u large estate. She is re-
fined, graceful aud handsome, but the
fatality~attaching TO her makes her life
an unhappy 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 COM
pany, she had a presentimcnt that he
would propose that night and that she
accepted. She saw him, i'm a moment
airy vision, lying, pale and cold, by
the roadside. Bewildered, she invoi-
UNFAIRLY stopped her horse, and in N
other moment fell in n swoon. He
bore her to a cottagcr's near by, and
on her recovery the bashful young
mans love had been so intensified by
anxiety that, in Il moment of mutual
tenderness, they were betrothcd. After
escorting her home he had to pass the
same spot to return to his domicile.
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
injury 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 H. NJ. S. schoolship Eurydice.
The next spring, on the return of the
ship home, she WIS wrecked, and all
on board but two were lost. The
young lover was not one Of the saved.
Time healed the ludy's twice wound
ed 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 Il hall. and, according TO her
statement, she was seized with a sud
den attack of dizziness and tainted.
On recovering she said she had seen,
in Il vision. tlc ball room suddenly
transformed into a submarine cavern,
]cuntiuiUg nothing but thc corpse of
her accepted lieutenant. She could
never b. induced TO dance again.
II took Il grcat deal of persuasion to
nldacc her 10 bgcu.lc u lance again.
But the persistence Of an American
sea captain conquered her reluctance,
and she accepted him. He returned
20 Philadelphia with his ship for the
purpose OF putting his affairs in shape
for tho wedding. While his ship was
at anchor oil the Delaware Break
water h. was als) drowned. The bride
elect caall to the Quaker City after
ward. and, having relatives in Caron-
dclst, resolved TO make Il long visit to
them.
The clergyman who furnished the
facts above related met and loved the
lady, and she apparently r~eciprocated,
but when he proposed she replied by
telling him her story, and all his elo-
qucncc failed to change her resolution
never to marry. His attention to her
had been n matter of society gossip,
50 that there was something of a SEN
sation where there appeared in the So
ciety columns of The Globe Democrat
item stating that she had gone to
visit friends in the interior of the
state, and would soon return to her
home in Scotland TO reside perma-
ncntly.