The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-07-11

with agony, she sought out her mother
i.-law, who had taken up her residence
with another son, and she learned that
what she had heard was true. The old
Lady informed her that her husband had
indeed taken up his abode with the
housekeeper, but that he had lbs resi-
dence profound secret. In a state
bordering upon frenzy, the unfortunate
woman was about to rush forth in search
of further information, when, singu' a ly
| enough, her faithless husband entered
the room. He quailed before the glance
of his injured wife. whom he had thought
still in Europe, and when sic appealed
to his feelings as ahusband and a father,
and asked 20 know why he had thus de-
serted h4r, he merely replied that he
could not help shimse.f-that he would
place no obstacle between her and a d.
lvorce, and that her best course would be
to marry the young man who had accom-
panied her home, for she had informed
him of the particulars concerning the
passage To this she replied that she
did not wish to part from hini-that he
was her husband and the father of her
children-that if ,ho had done wrong she
was willing to forgive him, to forget the
past, and to think only of the future
He rejoiped that the thing was impossi-
ble-that he would do all he could for,
her in a pecuniary point of view, but
that he never could live with her again !;
and thus the interview ended
Subsequently the husband procured
boarding house for his wife and called
occasionly to see her, but to all her en-
treaties to be allowed to see her child.
ren he turned deaf ear. At length
driven to desperation she determined to
follow him, and as he was about leaving
her at the close of one of his visits, she
put on her bonnet and informed him of
her design. He argued, expostulated
and threatened, but to no effect-go with
him she would. For a long time he
walked up one street and down another,
but at length, when he found it was i'm
possible to shake her off. he told her
that if she was determined to GO, she
must, but that she would regret it,
She replied that she would not suffer
any greater agony Of mind than she al.
ready endured, and shortly thereafter she
found herself in the presence OF her lit
tie ones, and the destroyer cf her hap
piuess. The meeting between the cld-
est daughter and the mother was affect
ing in the extreme. For moment the
poor woman forgot all her sorrow in her
joy at once more beho!ding her children,
but she was soon brought to sebse of
her condition by the housekceper, who
eemn anded the husband to drive her
from the house. Fired with Indignation
the wife retorted' by demanding the keys
of the establishment. The husband
meanwhile was:apparently stricken dumb
and knew not which way to turn, but at
length fed the premises leaving the wo-
men together. After he was gone, the
housekeeper Few a. her former mistress
with the feroeity of a tigcrcss and drove
her from the house. --- .--I r
It was but few days after the above
scene, that tie husband again called up
on his wife, and he then informed her
that-he had sought out and had a con-
with the young man who had ac-
her hithcr from Europe. that
be, the young man, was anxious to make |
her his wife-that not only was he great
lys attached to her, but that he was high |
Iy respectable, and abundantly able to
provide for her; and that if she would |
divorce herself and marry him, she
should have her children, and he would
never trouble her more. Her mother
n-law and the rest of her friends, as we'll
Is her former lover himself, added their
toithose of the husband, and at
length, fearing that if she persisted in
refusing to do as her husband wished her
10, he would steal her children from her.
she consented-the divorce was obtained
md she was a second time married.
The understanding was that the children
we're to be given up to her the next
morning after the marriage, but to her
1ismay she learned upon making appli-
cation for them, that her faithless frs
,onsort had started some hours previous
y for distant city, accompanied by
he houskeeper, and her children. She
llso learned, for the first time that the
guilty couple had been married about
.hree months before. 1E-
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