Blennerhassett, Or, the Decrees of Fate : a Romance Founded Upon Events in American History
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As they neared the western end of the island, a loud crash was heard and a volume of sparks and burning embers shot upward towards the sky. This was the last farewell of Harman Blennerhassett and his wife, Margaret, to their once beautiful home, for Fate had decreed that they should never see it again. Some years later, Nature, in one of her wrathful moods, sent down upon the Island Beautiful a waste of waters which swept away forever every vestige of the artificial graces that the hand of man ...had added to the original charms with which the hand of God had beau- tified it in its primeval state. CHAPTER XXII GUARDED BY THE GREAT SPIRIT GRAHAM, after arresting Colonel Burr, de- livered him to Colonel Phelps who took him to Marietta for trial. The whole affair was a farce; for, if an indictment had been granted, no jury could have been found to convict him. Burr was released and he proceeded to Frankfort. Here he was again arrested at the instigation of two noted political opponents. This second trial also proved to be a comedy.
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