The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1885-03-31 00:00:00

THE OTTLEY CABE,

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It 'rill be romembersd tb. BIT. Mr. Ott'ey Mated
in his evidence im received a long abusive letter from
Ma wife. Mr.. Ottley hal thought 6t to publiah the
communication referred to, so that tim public may
judge se to the abuse. It le aa follow§ :

Port Mod, January, MA
My dear Ilueband,—Now that I am learns I mono{ nelet
making one more appeal to your feedogo, nod writing what I
have se often •M I—namely. that I es only too anxious OM
the miserable past shoal I be hostel and forgokon, sad to
entreat you t o leave here as soon th you can, and let us
been life afresh eisowbeth. Oh, Fred, think of our dour
children, our met happy Joys Oh, I beseech you. give that
grilza o
and lot the htpinese come back to our home which
. ln it for 16 happy years, when we loved each other
so mull, Little dill that, when I asked you to tak• I.
Raper to Loudon to the olio otion I h.d found for her, that It
would neat hi ouch omen 1, us MI, but from that time,
Fred, you chimed towards we. although I did not at ffrot
connect it in eny way with her, though you wore continually
prodding me to let her come atid lith hors when she loft her
dtuatioo, which you mid she we. not going to roman In, but
Ilia I no reason fee suppo•ing you had other than kind motives
I wishing her to oasis. end when I poloist' cut te you nod
her, whkh I did by letter, the boopruumbllity of it, Ito It
for granted it was settled, esuctatly as she was In DO way
depending on our kindoess. I =rum you remember, dear
tr.i, how reluctantly I left hoots at that Ume (June, IWO,
Your altered behaviour cast such • clout one: mt., aid I
thought you could not be well, hut you enthral me you wen.,
aod I accepted your mother'. Mutat In to take futile there
1,, a chance of Mr, hut oh I how,l wee lonuja, to aos you
again. But when I returned at theo end of three weeks what
pain our 0014 rooootlo. ir.ve we, I shall
meeting settee station. You were go digerati In your Welcome
o to• to what you had ever been before—so cold and
unnetural, and when we reecha home the charm. WY Sion
mots apparent, and as thnio went on grew worse and Worse.
0.1 only knows what I 'tamed. You had always been ito
tender nod loving, the choose wee most painful, and whon I
bee ought ycu to toll me the eeu e, what mid words you
sommored me with—' People do change and grow colder a.
they am• But, aloe, I was peon to know it was not
that thong. which had corm over you. R. Raper bad returned
from hrr "Ruston while I was at your fathers, and had been
here • great deal, I know ; but lotto dtd 1 think of the
aolvthtoge being taken et my absence. At net I me -
timed any distrait to Mu, lampoon, who saw also how
Utast you were, but neither oh• nor Annie had mod on.
word to me of your attentions to K. Raper, which had
bee, very noUotable to them no well on to other., &vino
my abeenoe, so of course I rental. I unotimicious of your
feoltnu for her, though y• or manner outaioly struck ma
on Ming d fferent towards her. Age hoot not made you
colder during those fair weeks to her, though it had done
on much in nuking it so to me • and so. cacao the know.
ledg• so, the crushing eorrow tiVot wan dawoong upoo toe,
which mammal for all the Menge In your mono." toward.
me ilow Itude do we know what the Suture will Wog on,
and in whet mercy It Is hidden, Could I only have Imo..
its hoar •-brealting sorrow tits,/ woe awaiting me, how d Aided
• I my past days would have boon ; butt I eels thank Ood now
(Cr the 16 intensely heppy year" of our married life. th orb
now I eso so =arable I ten hardly read." such 'stop:nage
ever arm a 1,,; it sums the a dream, the put few year"
have been frthoht wi h ouch bitter trial end arrest. The
painful truth with regard to your f•eliugo for LRefer
lashed upon me all at ona when, IrreSpoCti.• ol .11 my
with ~ you Worsted ot my dianotedog duo, good mim
Simpson Mier eleven years of faithful *entice. •nal tor whom
u o to the lime you material:4d • mincero regard and affection,
and taking IS, Rtptr in her ph., who would have been
uselem toe; ant %hen I resisted sod itoploral you not to
Mao on my carrying out such a pith you thrmtened to
beak up our home and make froth arrangements ; I WY
frightened nod crushed, utterly unable to und•retand you,
or should
Raper to let her daughter e tom, thouoh, ata you know, I saw
Mr, Lther before we did cal. an I a keel her to refuse the
rim 104 yoU were coop. lint toe to Loth.. Ant whole after
Our viol you were on angry w th me for not hiving porsualal
Use mother to 1,5 her daushter Dee, tetloeg coo I oh .tild
Lae, for It, cold you wonder at toy 1 tato y bettor emoted
not th t I Mould attribute the groat Mmooe in you to your
lee Ingo for her, otheraws •hy Axed hero onto, hese hem
nu le • matter of such importance I MI, Fred, no
one knows better then yourself hew nial was my
Catalla for jesionay, or what acute entering your conduct
the. mmtheiel me. How I yearned end 1 tngeff
for your love none can toll, but when I ventured to show
what 1 felt you turns! from me with positive dislike, and
eo
it c ; all our happy Intercom. coated, and him
never be,. ruutnol--everything given up we used to do
together. I m•glit never venter* to ask where you had bees
or whom you hid men. Your silence ant reserve were nit
painfol, anl yet up to that time we had boon so perfectly open
with ouch other. Think of all this, doer Prod, and my what
wan the come of this change if Z. Raper woe not! Only
think ot the cruel bleu you hove given me Mauve I at last
gave op inviting her to the house, and minted out to you
tho indirthtiOn ~f nuking no Noel of one In such a different
poll= I In life and go dig orently alocated to whet our own
children were to be. Why was all this if you were not too
fend of her t sod why were you so often emettng her, all I
wu aware of your doing' knowing the bitter pelts it maga
me I But you persened in it, and, if I dared remonstrate.
treated me meet cruelly, claiming per right and liberty d
action in thus things, looming you should be with her on
much ail you liked. And when deer baby was hu.n...yoit mod
for,iTa me if I wrong you—l really thought it was • dis-
appointment my life wee Scared. Your behaviour was our-
pre ng to all. Since then only think of the cruel declaration"
regarding her and Imo before our children, Oh, Fred, can
you bear to think of all this? Surely your atm et= must
WI you son have boon wrong. You know that for IS naonths
I bore th • misery Moue, and nothing wita known of it in the
parish, but your constmaly tolling we I was mad and that
suety one thought so, and wan talking of my being Mune.
drove me at lut to meth to those I felt I could told. or I
believe I should have become mad in reality, • el I ten
found you had been circulating thie Idea younmif, thus
promoting the maids of other" to raceirs aqy stet month I
might he driven to nuke ail (ho result of • dotontetred
%gun. SIM attar this, you will remember, the p children
rth out. • id told the n• ghb ours id our troubles mad 142111
(ho serythts spoke of whet had both ir ,ong on so long
end yet you moat on' mtly amulet me M b Ong the came of
all the report", though you must be aware tonon,h had mime
place to Justify the reports ; and then cum that awful
Itialloosday night, when you cruelly compelled roe to Imes
the home halfoireised, need emit shelter at Mr Heigh's.
11,111 lonely I felt, how desolate, and heart-broken dile=
from home by the one of all others bound to ehel'tor gad
protect me, and lait of all think of the bitter aggay
Biodtnt of thou letters and photographs methioned ma I
coed my with lb. Psainthit that day, ' Trouble and anguish
hav• taken hold upon me,' Inc my heart was wrong with
grief and sorrow ; but whet have I met with at your hand"
since than, notwithatending all you have mad. me to sole, I
nOliuk;ohlyncfishul:'Llti.told.'dOetbe nb".sonb.ol'oosr.l ntocr"l"eablv.rdieWmYyjnb""lr.otteetlY•thnmdnirki:e'lu4po'n4d ii
it
little? so
Surely not. I have loved y far too much to with . . .. •

to leave rot; without a cause. You did not attempt to call
Urn. hitters forgone. at Ana, Fred, dear. You inaphrod me
t give U, m back, promising to leave Portland If I would,
but I knew it was wales. to give them up till yos dld leave,
Lifting .1.1-6 you would remain new K. aver am long es
poietb'e, and so It hut proved ; but deny those letters ea you
el I lad ire man, Prod, dear, neither you nor the guilty author
of 'hint yen do so before Him from Whom n secrets are kid,
and before Whom you will both have to answer for them.
Oh, I two tch you, game are Itie too led.; think of what
you are doing, blighting your own and your chlldrents lives
by th s terrible Infetuation, Lod whet happiness are you
getting or do you expect to get by it I Nothing real, I
are s ire, and enly bye aid bye tumble remorse ho amass of the
mi. trahle knowledge that you have not only ruined yourself,
but been unfaithful to your charge, and led one of your lock
...tree. • strangarl roor p.plo frothl you, and broken up your
hap,7 home; but all might be recovoreil, &al otos, If you
wosl I eel, leave here. If inn
iOt t gather seek aoi blowing on our saddemod home.
Oh, that God may Incline your heart to taks tills letter kindly:
f q,zivenefis, though you may never esok or dieser. It, le
fully
y-on oedufeer"Pevb:fo wreraan"aend7h."l.simezro:lgy danestymeacrli"floob.l
would not nuke to wars your love ones more, which wee
always so precious to ma I cannot expos.. the Joy It would
give me to be able once more to minister to your comfort and
h .ppiness, and till we meet again. it ever we areP...".d to
do sine earth, my constant woad Prayer Till oe that Got
may re-unlto an Lod bring us Wilber again; hut Lf not,
may we, dear Fred, and ell our dear ones meet In that better
him. above, when An sad sorrow shall never enter, sod
where all teat shall be wiped sway. That OW may Nem you
Is the earnest prayer of still your loving wife, MART OnLat

a ••••ff aaM EMMA!. WILL&Fah
MILL AigootAnoit. —The annual meelbag of the
Bible Society in oommotion with the Piddletrenthide
Amoclation, wee held la the Temperance Ilan, on
W°46•ldoleveolog, March 25th. There wee a very
_....
"lindlutelle hod the addresees were very
cordially received. Mr. Riggs, of Piddishinton,
occult.' the chair. Mimesis' were delivered by the
Rev. T. Roam, of Dorchester, the @screwy of the
D wcheeter auxiliary, who exierseesd regret at the
decline of mbeeriptione fr Piddletreotbide of Into
P.m., and proposed that. few of the frionla the
society mirtit form thetnaelvm int • committee, au I
see to the collecting of Mager sabooripti me. This
proposition WM warmly supported by Mr. Doak end
approved by the manias. The Rev. W. Marshall,
rector of Buford, North Devon, attended se the
deputatioe, mad gm • very ballosigag sift."