Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-02-16


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George Everett had opened store on
his own account; but he soon found that
he was sadly cramped for the want of
means. He saw that if he had suffi-
cient capital he could make money rap
idly. There was fine opportunity
which he must lose if he could not find
more funds But he at length succeeded
| in making arrangements to his entire
satisfaction and he went to his home
full of glowing anticipation.
II have overcome the difficulty" be
said to his wife, as they sat at the tea
table.
| s'Ah-how ?'' s@
''Do you remember Walter Adamsi"
"What-the one that used to 60 to
school with us in Weston?"
Eyes. That's the one"
"Why, surely I remember him. lie
went off to sea when he was only boy .
Exactly. Well, Ellen he is going
in with me- He has twenty thousand
dollars which he will put into our bust
ness. Only think-I not only get an
excellent partner-one who will have an
equal interest with myself-but one who
can command the capital, With twenty
thousand dollars put into the business
now, we can go light ahead and take the
whole trade"
Ellen was delighted, for she had been
so minutely informed of the particulars
that she knew just how much benefit this
arrangement would bring. She knew
that it would be worth FIVE thousand dol
lars year, at least, in her husband S
pocket. They talked the matter all over
and when they retired the husband saw
only visions of mercantile triumph and
prosperity while the wife was made
glad in view of her companions pros
perity, and she was surely not to blame
perhaps she saw visions wherein were
revealed one or two extra silk dresses,
and so on.
1t was just one week after this-and
in the evening-that George came into
his house looking very pale and agitated.
"Mercy George what is the matter?"
the wife asked, Fastening to his side.
"Oh !" he groaned, heavily and pain
fully, Il am almost ruined -
''But how 2"
adams will not come
"Will not?"
"No-he will not come I Ihave made
all the arrangements-fxed all the busi-
ness and let slide one opportunity which
| might have seized Oh! it will be
hard to go back now AS true as live
| would rather have found my house, and
all it contained save life, burned to the
ground than to have had this thing hap
pen." r 44a
"But why isit? Whyhas Mr. Adams
concluded not to join you?'
because his wife would not come
here to live. She, and she alone, has
persuaded him not to do it."
And why should she have done this
Why should she seek to deter her hus-
band from his own interest 2"
"Ah-there it is. It was not partic-
ularly for his interest to come here
With bis money he can find many in
yestments as profitable as this would
have been. This was the first that pre-
sented itself, and he would have taken
it but for his wife. He was under no
loss or obligation to me, as we had no
writings. But it is sad blow to me" I"
DO you know why his wife objected
to coming here y
eyes, answered George, and as be
spoke his countenance changed.
"And why was it ?" asked Ellen. +
HShe told him she could never feel
that love and friendship toward you
which her own happiness would demand
that she should feel toward the wife Of
her husbands partner" -
ssCould not feel-toward me % uttered
Ellen in establishment. "Why, what
can she mean -
perhaps you don't know who his wife
IS. lie has been married only two weeks.
He married Harriet Anderson.
Harriet Anderson !" gasped Ellen
turning pale.
Yes
"Well, = the wife said, after some hes
itation, Il am sorry and yet I should
not have wished to associate with her. )"
"Why not !" the husband calmly ask
ed.
Because she is not what she ought
to be-"
4And you have said this to others,
have you not y
"Why- yes-I suppose I have"
'Bdt you have expressed your opinion
pretty plainly against her :"
eyes 1 have. And I had good rea-
son, too
"What reason had you ?'
"W hat reason? Why it is generally
known that she had been guilty of some
very dark doings. Mr.. Adams didn't
certainly know her, or be never would
have married her.
"He did know her, Ellen-and much
better than you do. But answer me this