ttle procession in leaving the village.

In the first carriage rode Mrs. Fanning, Emma Cavendish, Electra and Dr.
Jones.

In the second carriage rode Mrs. Wheatfield, Laura Lytton and Mr. Lyle.

Alden Lytton and Victor Hartman rode on horseback, and brought up the
rear.

Their way lay through the most sublime and beautiful mountain and valley
scenery.

Monticello is built upon a mountain, some three miles south of the
village.

Perhaps there is no private dwelling in the whole country occupying a
more elevated site, or commanding a more magnificent panorama of
landscape, than Monticello.

It is a fine country house of great architectural beauty and strength,
built upon a lofty and slightly inclined plain, formed by grading the
top of the mountain.

It commands a stupendous prospect, bounded only by the spherical form of
the earth. And standing there, with the earth beneath and the heavens
all around, one fully realizes that we live upon a great planet rolling
in its orbit through immense space.

Our party spent a long summer's day up there in the sunshine, and then,
after eating the luncheon they had brought with them, they set out on
their return to the village, where they arrived in time for one of Mrs.
Wheatfield's delicious early teas.

The remaining days of the week were passed in walking, riding or driving
to the most interesting points of the neighborhood.

On Saturday morning they took leave of the bishop's widow and set out
for Richmond, _en route_ for Wendover and Blue Cliffs.

They reached the city late on the same night, and took up their old
quarters at the Henrico House.

They staid over the Sabbath, and went to hear Mr. Lyle preach, morning
and evening, to his old congregation.

On Monday morning the whole party resumed their journey, and arrived at
Wendover early in the afternoon of the same day.

There the party were destined to divide.

There were carriages from Blue Cliffs waiting by appointment at the
railway station to meet Miss Cavendish and her friends; and there was
the hack from the Reindeer Hotel for the accommodation of any other
travelers who might require it.

Mrs. Fanning, Emma Cavendish, Laura Lytton and Electra, attended by Dr.
Jones and Alden Lytton, entered their carriages to go to Blue Cliff
Hall.

Mr. Lyle and Victor Hartman took leave of them at their carriage doors,
saw the horses start, and then set out to walk together to the bachelor
home of Mr. Lyle, whe