Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1874-08-26

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j. like some forms carved in mar
BILE that / had seen upon monu-
ments in Europe. She made no
motion and gave no sign OF recog-
milton Of my presence, / sat down
near her and said, elizabeth, The
odore has been making very seri-
Gus charges against me and sends
me 10 YOU for confirmation She
made no reply. aud yet it was plain
she was conscious and listening. /
repeated some OF bis statements,
that | had brought di>cord 10 the
family: had alienated her from
him had sought 70 break mp the
family and usurped his influence,
and then as could ! added that he
said that | made improper sugges-
tons 10 her. and that she had al
mirted this fact 70 him last July. !
said: Elizabeth, have YOU made
such statements 10 him = She
made no answer. | repeated the
question. Tears ran down her
cheeks, and she very slightly bow
ed her head in acquiescence. !
said: You cannot mean that you
have stated all he has charged Z!
She opened her eyes and began in
q slow and feeble way 20 explain
how sick she had been. how weari-
ed out with Importantly: that he
bad confessed his own alien loves
and said that be could not bear 10
think that she was better than be /;
that she might win him TO reforma-
ton if she would confess that she
had loved me more than him, and
that they would repent and 20 on
with future concord. cannot
give her language, but only the
tenor Of her representations. Ire
ceived them impatiently. spoke
20 her in the strongest language Of
her course. / said to her, Have /
ever made any improper advances
TO Won p She said, NO Then !
asked, why did you say 50 10
your husband ?" She seemed deep
" distressed. "My friend 10y
that designation she almost always
calld mel, Il am sorry, but could
not help it. What can / do" /
told her she could state in writing
what she had now told me. She
beckoned for her writing material,
which ! handed her from her secre-
tary, standing near by, and she sat
up in bed and wrote a brief coun-
In a sort Of post
script she denied explicitly that
had ever offered any improper So
10 her. That being the
only charge made against me by
Mr.. Tilton, or sustained by the
statement about a confession which
he had read to me, dreamed Of no
worse charge at that time. That
was horrible enough, and the mere
thought that hc could make it and
'ould have cXtorted any evidence
III which 10 base Il was enough 10
AXE away my senses. Neither my
consciousness of its utter false
rood nor Mrs. Tiltou's reitcration
IF her part in il could remove the
shock from my heart. Indeed, her
TO me that she had stat
ed under any circumstances TO her
so wicked a falsehood was
the browning blow of all. 1t SEEM
ed 10 me a. if she was going to die;
that her mind was overthrow and
that ] was in some dreadful way
mixed up in it, and might be left
by her death with this terrible ac-
cusation hanging over me. L re-
turned like one in n dream to Mr..
Moultou's house, where | said very
little, and soon went home. 1t has
been said that | confessed guilt and
expressed remorse. This is utterly
false. Is it likely that with Mrs.
Tilton's retraction in my pocket
should have thus stultiiied myself
On the next day at evening Mr.
Moulton called at my house and
came up into my bedroom. lie
said that Mrs. Tilton, on her hus
bands return to her after our in
terview, had informed him wha
she had done and that | had he
rctraction. Moulton eypostulater
with me and said that the retrac
ton under the circumstances woul'
not mend matters, but only awallel
fresh discord between husband an,
wife and do great injury to Mrs
Tilton, without helping me. Mrs
Tilton, he said had already recant
ed in writing the retraction mad
to me, and Of course there Nigh
be no end to such contradiction:
Mcanewhile Tilton had destroye
his wife's first letter acknowledge
the confession, and Mr.. Moulto
claimed that / had taken a mea
advantage and made dishonorabl
use Of Theodore's request that
should visit her in obtaining froI
her a written contradiction to doc
ument not in existence. He said thu
all the difficulties could be settle
without any such papers, and tha
/ ought to give it up. lie was III
der great excitement. He mad
no verbal threats, but he opene
his overcoat, and with some eli
phatic remarks showed a pist,
which afterwards he took out an
laid on the bureau near which /
stood. / gave the paper to hin
and after few moments talk h
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