Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1847-11-11

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sumed her narrative.
A week was spent by the young maj
in another vain effort to find employ
ment AS clerk. Then he avowed hi
intentions Ia GO to Louisville and see
nothing could be done there.
Try longer here, Joseph. Don't e
away yet. earnestly and tearlully plead
ed his wife. you don't know how hard
il is for me to be separated from you
| am lonely through the day, snd the
nights pass 80 heavily. Something may
turn up Tor you here. Try it for while
longer
But our money is nearly all gone
II | don't onow, shah have no means
OF getting away from this place. feel
sure that | can find something to do
there
The wife pleaded with him but in
vain. To Louisville he went, and there
got work at the first shop to which he
made application. At the end Of a week
he sent his wife money aud told her he
had procured temporary employment. -
She wrote back asking il she might not
join him Immediately. But to this he OBJ
Jec,ed on The score that as his situation
was not "A permanent one, he might in a
few weeks, be obliged to leave Louis
vile and 60 some where else. This, to
his wife, was by no means satisfactory
But she could not do no less than sub
nit.
Thus separated they lived for lhs mex,
three months, Fletcher visiting his wife
aud child every two weeks, aud spend
ing Sunday with them. Daring the
time he made good wages. But
both himself and wife were very unhap-
py. Earnestly did the latter plead with
her husband to be allowed to remove to
Louisville. To this however, he stead
ily objected. Daily he lived in the
hope OF securing clerkship in some
store, and thus being able TO 'ise above
the low condition in which he was place
The moment he reached that consuna-
ton, so much desired, he would instant
ly remove his family.
Al length 1t happened that Fletcher
did not write once instead OF several
times, during one of the periods of two
We, KS that he was regularly absent
The Sunday morning when he was ex-
prcted home arrived but ii did not bring
as usual, his anxiously looked-ior pres
ence. Ills wife was almost beside her
self with alarm. No letter arriving on
Monday, she took her child and started
In | ,lt h.a hn
rived at daylight on Tuesday morning,
IN strange cny, herself total stranger
to all therein, except her husband, and
perfectly ignorant as to where he was
to be fouLd. The captain Of the steam
boat kindly attended her to boarding
house, and there she was left, without
single clue in her mind as to The means
Of finding her husband, inquiries were
made Of all in the boarding house, but
no one had heard even the name Of
Joseph Fletcher. A soon as she could
make arrangements To get out, Mrs
Fletcher visited all the dry-goods stores
IN The city, for in some one OF these she
supposed him TO be employed, although |
he had never stated particularly the kind
OF business IN which he was engaged. =
This search alter being continued for
grea part ot the day, turned out fruit
less.
Nigh: found The unhappy wife in an ago.
ny ot suspense aud alarm. Some one al
the boarding house advised her to have
an advertisement for her husband insert
ed IN morning paper. She did not
hesitate long about this course. In the
a brief advertisement appeared;
md about nine O'clock a man called and
asked to see her. She descended from
her room TO the paIlur with wildly /
hrobbing heat, but staggered for
ward and sank into chair, weak almost
"a an infant, when she saw that the man
was stranger, instead Of her husband /
whom she had expected t. meet.
A-e Won Mrs Fletcher : he asked I
am, she family replied.
You advertised for information in
regard to your husband =
did. Where Is he : oh, sir, has
anything happened to him y
No ma'am, nothing serious, he has
'nly been sick for a week or ten DAYS :,
hat is, the man ! refer to has. Your
husband IS a tailor =
Is The man you speak Of tailor ?
eagerly asked Mrs. Fletcher. Il
He is a'ap, and he has been work !
ng for me at No. - Fourth street. /,
Then he Is not my husband, replied
hn poor VIE bursting INTO tears. My /,
husband - a clerk In the bitterness
II keen disappointment, rendered sharp 4
'r by doubt and fear, Mrs Fletcher
Vept Tor some minutes. When she (
ould command her feelings, to some
xtent, she thanked The tailor Tor calling,
nd repeated what she had said, that
ne man al bIs house could not DO hor
usband III
lie - from Cincinnati, ma an and
Dcs there once In two weeks ] know
lat he has a vile and child there, said
he man.
Still he cannot be my husband re-
lied Mrs. +. for my husband IS not a
allor.' "A
No, not 10 that case certainly And /
he man bowed aud Withdrew. II
AL day long the wife waited for some