Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-06-09
DORICE AND |.

It
for my life.
Every day have sat in crowded
courtroom. amid a sea Of faces, and
listened, while people swore to what
they did not know, and ted what, at
beet, was only shrewd guess.
To night il IL All over, and | am IN q
celI-not Oh mnrderer's row-but safe
enough for ali that
oh, it has been great fun-and to-
night is the greatest fun of all
have laughed till ] can laugh no
more. am absolutely tired Of laugh
ing. | would sleep, but sleep has fled
from me, and cannot WOO her back
again.
used To sleep, but that was when
had Doricc beautiful golden-haired
Dorieel Dorice! Dorieel Why, every
thing begins and ends with Doricel
Here il pen and paper My Jailor
does not forbid me to write. will write.
You can never know the story from
what you have heard hi that hot and
staring courtroom, with it, eyes-thous-
ands of eyes that glowed, and stared,
and awayed and iloated Ia and out of the
mist, in which hung faces-ughi such
faces! No, no. do not listen TO them.
Come back, ! viii tell you my story.
Tomorrow | ana to ~ I'd lunatic
asylum that II what they said, the
twelve men Gle II mad and not res
ponaible for his act they said.
OH, how | laughed. If they could
have seen the little devils leap and play
all around their stupid faces while they
were sitting there, they must have
laughed too, know they would.
Oh what WA ! accnstd2 Did you not
hear? 81 much the better, ! will tell
You. They sand murdered my child
my ehild and Doriee's
| am Homer Ogden, and Dorice-
beautiful Dorice was my wife IL my
wife. BY heaven il my wife What
can separate liz The hoy2 Mo- He is
dead, they say / see him here always,
hut Dorice cannot see him. No one
sees him, save me
Let me be calm. will tell you
clearly enough.
! was inst twenty five when ! first
met Dorice Allen the age when II
mans passions are strongest, and he
loves, III liz ever loves, with all the
force eiod haa gwen hmm and | loved
Dorice with all my heart, with all my
soul, with AL my mind The sun shone
when she smlied, and the flowers
doomed, and the trees nodded only ut
her coming. | was not long in telling
her of my devotion, and claiming her
fiji my very very OWL.
And size we'll she was east III all
other mold Her soul was clear and
limpid stream, with no fierce fall Of
love or hate to break over the rocks of
fate, and fall with the thunder of
mighty passions INTO the great sea Of
TINT unknown possibility which girts in
every life.
Yet she was sweet, and pure, ami no
u, with i beauty God gives only To his
angels And she loved me
Do not come To me, foul iiends Of
darkness Stand back all YOU who
Whisper and gIhhcr 1T my elbow!
will write il again and again, She
loved me- She loved me- Great God,
| THINK 'rnee for The power IL say to
my own sick heart that thrabs ~ fierce
", she loved mo-
We were married, md took her
from hcr friends aud mine lest some
one should gain 4 smile which was
too miserlv Ia lose
Sire WIS happy that il should he SO
content q leave iii world, and live
With me apart.
Two long. hlissiul years passed, aud
not one night but her golden head was
pillowed on my breast, and her lovely
l. Il
ere sinking q sleep Not morning
Int her dear lips returned my kiss,
md her eyes opened MS they had closed,
an ne
I've years Then the little boy was
born noriec- child and mine.
| never loved him. Never Per
haps, mad he been endowed with his
mothers face, | might have found il
III my heart q have given him spark
of tho great larc bore her cannot
toll i may have heen
only know that when | saw my
darllng's white face. and heard the first
wall from the lips Of another. who
should come IN royal bahyhood To
claim kingdom III his mother heart,
! mated HIM
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naad
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huf takiug- even took the hpv in my