The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1848-05-16

tiiulii nuu I'll uhSHlpt w lii up Paw Wy iVc-
ble fclion. Fully knowing the frauds thai
lad separated them, yet feeling the irrevo-
cable doom which had been thereby brought
Ihpon them, they parted Of necessity and for
lever She to her strange lot as the innocent
and faithful, though unlawful wife ofanother,
and he 10 his paths of gain and anibiion.. A
lonely man he, felt himself doomed TO be
hencelorth. He could moi lawfully marry
another while she, lived; and probably he had
but little disposition at that tlmeeven to de-
sire another wife, i Her, he. coud d never take
TO himself again, guiltless though he knew
her TO be-. But there still remained TO him
one hope in life, Que innocent object which
The could still regard as all his o@n, purely
and honorably his own; and that was bis own
daughter, the child of his cruelly injured
and iretrieyably LOST Zuliwe; and upon her
all The energies of bis powerful mind, and
all the unemployed affections Of his heart
seem TO have been thenceforb concentrated
Having ascertained the villainy of Re!fe
and Chen, not only in these but in other
transactions, he at length determined to SUBJ
der all his connections with them as soon as
he could so arrange bis extensive and com.
plicaled business as 10 dispense with them
entirely, Possessed as they were of the
most intimate knowledge of all his CONNER
cal and confidential transactions, he could
not safely cut off all commut ication with
them at the instant when he satisfied him
self of their unworlh'ness. s..
But there was one responsible trust vested
in them, which he did not long delay in re-
moving from them. Knowing ,he uncertain
" of life, and anxious TO place the custody
of his property, and the rights of his dearest
relatives in more trustworthy hands, 10 case
of his death, he made new will, written
throughout by his own hand, Of which he
constituted three French gentlemen of high
character, and bound TO him by the most in
innate and friendly relations, the executors.
This will revoked the previous one, and
made a totally different disposition Of his
property. To his mother it gave large an
nui,y, and to few other persons compara-
lively small legacic'; but by il Myra Clark
was formally declared his only Legitimate
ch' Id, and the heir Of all the vast remainder
of his great estate. ........
After his discovery Of the almost incrodi-
BILE misrep representations by which bis wife had
been ealumniaied and wronged and he him
self sbamefully deceived into the jealousy
whose consequences led TO their eternal
seperation, he cou not bullock OH The off
spring of this union with new interest and in
tensely heightened affection. lie left her
still in the family of Captain Davis, seeking
no better sucurity for her being cherished
and educated to be all that he could desire,
| than was 10 be found in the truly maternal
affection and high qualifications of Mis-. iDa-
Wis. But he daily visited her, and passed
much of his time in playing with her, and
lavished upon her habitually such fond ca
resses and afectionaie terms ofendearment,
that though but five years old when she ceas-
ed to see him, she never could forget him,
and always remembered the name OF Daniel
Clark as thi 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 "fath-
er." Some years later when il BECAME
necessary TO remove these Impressions from
[ner mind, she wss told in answer TO her Gu
rious and eager inquiries, that Daniel Clark
was her god-fathcr--lruly a manlfesl 'taking
the name of God-in vain.' AAns a9 ads,
m After executing this new will, and exbib-
itnq il to an unusual number Of Witnesses,
Daniel Clark believed that he had fully Sc
cured his estate against any interference
from Richard Relfe and BeDe'ly Chen; af-
ter his death, however sudden thatmlght be,
to disenlangle himself from all connection
with them in business was the next purpose
ofhis life. For some reason, arising out of
his long association with them in business,
he did not choose to break with them at
once, and after having put on record such
evidence of destruction Of all confidence
lin them, he remained on the same terms Of
tpersonal acquaintance with them as before.
Men who are or have been actively engaged
in commercial pursuits, can find means of
explaining this anomoly 10 these who have
never been so favored, with the means Of
learning shuman nature" through their own
experience. q ~ rail.
The making Of tile new will was intended
| by Daniel Clark to be kept rsecret from his
I treacherous and unfaithful partners, the eX-
ecu,ors named in the former one, which re-
NAMED in full force except as it miglt be
nullfed by heproduction of that which re-
voked and virtually cancelled it. But the
existence ofthe new viii soon came to the
knowledge of ReIje and Chen; and, in con
sequence, the loss of the confidence of their
Date patron and employer and present asso-
| c;a, a which poitJht have been before sugges-
led by a suspicion Of the discovery by him
of all their villainy, was now placed beyond
doubt or surmise. If Daniel Clark should
Flive long enough to effect complete sever
i .,caf IF their connection with him, and to