Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1848-05-11

J Still, while believing that her mother had be
trayed him, he did not regard her with that I'M
mingled satisfaction and pride with which he
would have viewed her as the ornament and hope
of happy home, in which she might have grown
up honoring, and alike honored by both her faith
err and mother. She had found mother in one
who never gave her occasion to wish for another,
or to fenl the want of one. Mrs. Davis, loving
little Myra as her own child, seemed almost to
forget that she cherished the offspring of a.
mother, and gave her place in her affections Sc
cure from changes or dispute.
While still deceived as to his relations to his
wife, he had made will bequeathing the bulk
OF his property to his aged mother then residing
in Philadelphia under the care of his friends, and
to other persons, legacies of various amounts -
Of this will he named Richard RelGe and Beverly
Cheo the executors and con6ding in their dis
interested attachment TO him, he left to them the
duty and power of effecting his kind purposes
towards his mother, his friends, and dependents
But in process of time it came to pass thst he
first suspected, and thep) learned something of
the monslrous frauds that had been practiced on
him by these too-much trusted proteges, partners,
friends, and their felow-conspirators He salts
fled himself that he had wofully wronged his
wife. Upon investigation, he found that he had
been deceived by studied imputations against
her that she had been honest aud pure, when
he so rashly discarded her in paroxysm of
Jealousy that had been studiously excited by
these " honest lagos"-that she, too, had been as
shamefuly deceived concerning him, and had
been the innocent victim of that deception in
yielding to the temptations of new nlatrimo.
NAL connection in that dreadful moment of her
utter abandonment by him. Thus enlightened.
he sought her, and fielding her, learned too late
the history of the fcions by which she had been
alienated from HIM, as he from her. Over the
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interview, human sympathy willingly casts a veil
threading alike detail of the woful truth, and
an attempt to fill its place by feeble felton,
Fully knowing the frauds that had separated
them, yet feeling the irrevocable doom which
had been thereby brought upon them, they par
ted of necessity and forever she to her strange
lot as the innocent and faithful, though unlawful
wife of another, and he to his paths of gain and
ambition. lonely man he felt himself to be
henceforth. He could not lawfully marry another
while she lived; and probably he had but little
disposition at that tine even to desire another
wife. Her he could never take to himself again.
guiltess though he knew Ter to be. But there
still remained to him one hope in life one inno-
cent object which he could still regard as all his
own, purely and honorbly his own and that was
his own daughter, the child of his cruelty in.
jured and rretrievably lost Zulime and upon
her all the energies of his powerful mind, and
all the unemployed affections of his heart, seem
to have been thenceforth concentrated.
Having ascertained the villainy of Relfe and
CheU, not only in these but in other fra nssc
lions, he at length determined to sunder all his
| connection with them as soon as he could so
arrange his extensive and complicated business
as to dispense with them entirely. Possessed as
they were of the most intimate knowledge of
all his commercial and confidential transactions.
he could not safely cut off all communication
with them at the instant wnen he satisfied him
self OF their unworthiness.
But there was one responsible trust vested in
them, which he did not long delay in removing
from them Knowing the uncertainty of life,
and anxious to place the custody of his proper
ty, and the rights Of his dearest relatives in
more trustworthy hands, in case of his death, he
made new will, written throughout by his own
hand, OF which he constituted three French zen
tlemen OF high character, and bound to him by
the most intimate and friendly relations, the ex-
ecutors. This will revoked the previous one,
and made totally different disposition of his
property. TO his mother it gave a large annu-
ity, and to a few other persons comparatively
small legacies; but by it Myra Clark was for
mally declared his only legitimate child, and the
heir OF all the vast remainder of his great estate.
After his discovery of the almost incredible
misrepresentation by which his wife had been
illuminated and wronged, and lie himself shame
fully deceived into the jeaously whose conse-
quences led to their eternal separation, he could
not but look on the offspring OF that union with
new interest and intensely heightened affection.
He left her still in the family Of Captain Davis
seeking no better security for her being cher.
ished and educated to be all that he could de-
sire, than was to be found in the truly maternal
affection and high qualifications of Mrs Davis.
But he daily visited her, and passed much of his
time in playing with her, and laviShed upon her
habitually such fond caresses and affectionate
terms OF endearment, that though but five years
old when she ceased to see him, she never could
forget him, and always remembered the name Of
Daniel Clark as that of him who used so often
to take her in his arms and call her his little
daughter and to teach her to call him father"
Some years later, when it became necessary to
remove these impressions from her mind, she
was told in answer to her curious and eager in
quirles, that Daniel Clark was her god father
truly manifest "taking the name of God in
vain"
After executing this new will, and exhibiting
it to an unusual number of witnesses, DANIEL
Clark believed that he had fully secured his es-
tate against any interference from Richard Relje
and Beveriy Cdew, after his DEATH however sud
den that might be. To disentangle himself from
all connection from them in business was the
next great purpose of his life. For some rea-
SON, ursing out OF MS long association with
them in business, he did not choose to break
with them at once, and after putting on record
such evidence of destruction of all confidence
IN them, he remained on the same terms of per-
sonal acquaintance with them as before. Men
who are or have been actively engaged in com.
mercal pursuits, can find means Of explaining
this anomaly to tn sc who have never been SO
favored with the means of learning human ma
ture" Through their own experience.
The making of the new will was intended by
Daniel Clark to be kept secret from his treach.
erous and unfaithful partners, the executors
named IN the former one, which remained in full
force except as it might be nullifed by the pro-
ductlon OF that which revoked and virtually can.
ceed it. But the existence of the new will
soon came to the knowledge of ReiG and Chep i;
and, IN consequence, the loss OF the confidence
OF their late patron and employer and present as
sociate. which might have been before sugges-
ted by suspicion of the discovery by him Of all
their viainy, was now placed beyond doubt or
surmise. If Daniel Clark should live long e.
nough to effect a complete severance OF their
! connection with him, and to make himself wholly
Independent of them, (origiually dependents OF
himsef,) their chance of obtaining any share Of
his large estates would be extremely small - not
|, TO say absolutely null. The feelings, hopes, re-.
sentiments wishaa nd ina ri atoms ovo.taJ k,,