Litchfield enquirer., 1864-05-05
The Doubtful Heir.
BY W. o. EATON.

Those who, with admiring smiles, attended the wedding of Darius Dole and Fanny Kaw per, and, contemplating the exemplary eharac ter of the bridegroom and the extraordinsry beauty of the bride, predicted charming family as the result of the union, waited pa tieatly for seven years of barren expectation and then had positive proof that their pleas ant prophecy would never be fulfilled. Nsi ther husband nor wife died but during tha, 'olg interval, their affections had been growing more and more deadened toward one another and. at the end of the seven years, died nat ural death, and were buried by mutual consent, husband and wife agreeing to separate forever.
 Dole had led 8 wretchedly jealous life with the woman, whose extreme beauty had not been guarded by the requisite proportion of virtue, and had therefore been curse instead of comfort to him. He had learned to de. spise her whom he had loved so deeply; and as no Sorn pledge of love had made stronger the original tie which bound them together, his wife had passed from guilt to carelessness of shame, and, through long wearinsss, had been taught to loathe him in turn.
 What blessing that they had no chil. dren r was now the exclamation of those who had made such roseate- prophecies before, and
 
 and shame would follow, and conclude what misplaced affection had begun.
 Six months had not elapsed, when Mrs. Dole boldly took to herself second husband, in the enamoured person of one Foster, who, having sinned with his eyes open, was less paineo than Dole had been in respect to his wfes rigid observance of tho rules and pro- prieties of married life r; and it was perhaps owing to his easy judgment of loose ways, that Mrs. Dole, alias Foster, continued her partnership with him for five years longer than she had felt able to dwell with the original Darius. Seven with the firsrand twelve with the second, made nineteen; and then, Mrs. Dole, alias Foster, finding her attractions not all gone, dissolved partnership again, and be. came by the ceremonies of unlawful wedlock, Mrs. Dole, alias Foster, alias Bonton, without having any membranes in the shape of chil. dren, to perPetuate the story of her shame. | Indeed, she seemed to scout at responsibili- ties of any sort, which was in measure illus trated, when, shortly after her third marriage Dole made two frutless attempts to see her where she resided, the which meetings she nnrpose]y avoided nor would she, when she subsequently, heard of his being on his death bed, comply with his written request that she should come to him ere he looked his last up on singularly married world. .,
 So Darius Dole died as well as he could without her, unconscious of what a fuss wa to be made about him several years alter m departure, to try his luck as single man, Il some sphere not subject to the influences o the moon,
 Just previous to her third partnership. l! business, old Mr. Kawper, Fanny's father, lsi , tne world at ripe age and by his will, hl property, which chiefly consisted of severa ne neuses, was oequeathed for her use during he ne; ana Ii she should yet have children, the sh Tsle .S, so succeed to it; and otherwise, whe sAs snoo'a ois and be done marrying, tn