Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-05
A ROMANTIC STORY.
An Anonymous Letter Received by
Chicago Man Reveals His Identity.
The Man who Stole Him in HIS Infancy Near
ing Deaths Door. Hence the Revela.
tion-A Story Of Revenge.

young gentleman of twenty
years residing in handsome apartment
on the west side of this city
and its contents revealed q
him his parentage and the
mysterious circumstances connected
with his life-matters which had been
previously hidden secret with him. Mr.
Rosurie has for several years been resid-
ing in Chicago. and recently graduated
from the school of elocution in connec-
ton with the Chicago athenium.
He has for three years held a posi-
| ton in the Chicago board of trade.
The story is curious one, in which sor-
row and villany are strangely mingled
From the earliest time OF his life OF
which he has recollection, he lived
with well-to-do Canadian fsmi-
ly in q small town in
Southeastern Michigan, aud was
brought up to believe that he was an own
child of the family. He was treated in
| every way as such, until, as narrated by
him, which follows below, his supposed
| father in q At of anger declared
that he was an unnatural son, an an
nouneement which so keenly affected his
sensitive disposition that he left his
home never to return. This was In his
tweuty-third year. His life from
that moment until the receipt of
the letter last week was full
| of uncertainty, which he succeeded in
| conquering. He kept it from the notice
| of his acquaintances by persistent at
tention to the work and study which he
had undertaken. No satisfactory ex-
| PLANTATION, indeed no explana-
| ton whatever of the vague
charge made against him by
his foster father came to clear the mys-
terry in which it developed him until the
latter made the history of his life less Of
an enigma than 1t had been. This is q
literal translation of the letter: 81 write
this under the inspiration of moment,
though it is but question
of few months, for my physicians say L
cannot live more than two months. Two
years ago you recit ed at the hospital of
St. Luke. 1 was in the audience. L
recognized you at once. Although L
had been looking for you for
three years, l was not satisfied
to find you again, but 1 had been cured
of my sickness, People like myself do
not suffer with remorse only in the Wiley
of the darkness of death. First, you are
legitimate and was born in marriage. 1
cannot keep the secret, because 1 can
not retain life much longer, and because
all human vengeance is useless. l can
reveal to you almost all your life. You
think that no one in your present life
knows anything about you but your
self, and you have shut them
in the bottom of your heart. To
make sure that the things 1 am about
to tell are true, listen: Until the 9Th of
October, 1884, you believed yourself the
Of Tot hou Of
In q moment of anger he told you that
you was an unnatural son.
That night you left and you
have never spoken, one to
the other, since. They believe you dead.
George Latham, am sure believes you
to be what he has said but he regrets Bit
terly that he has betrayed the confidence
of his sister. l am going to tell
you about your family. Your
grandmother, mother of your mother.
was the Duchess De Saint Allisee of Nor
mandie. Her marriage was very miser-
able. Duke De Saint Allisee, being well
known after having spent the fortune
of your grandmother he commenced
against her suit tor divorce,
having lost love and courage. The
duchess fled to America, taking with her
her only child, your mother, Victoria
De Saint AlIisee. But q little while after
her arrival in Anne RIGA the duchess en-
tered the convent of the Ursulines at New
Orleans, where she died five years later.
Her child, Victoria, remained in the
care of the sisters until the age of eight
teen, when her great talent for music
caused Mother Superior to have her
choice-between the world aud the con-
vent. During her probation she met
and loved a Confederate soldier by the
namr of Claud Hector Rossurie. This
man, your father, was only of French
extraction. tracing his French blood
from his great grand father, who was q
Creole. The 9th of October, 1868,
they were married, as you
viii see by the enclosed certificate.
immediately they fed to Canada. Now
this man Rossurie was not the only man
who loved Victoria De Saint Allisce, but
he was the only man she loved. He
never pardoned the man that
followed them as hunt
ing dog would. In May of
the next year you were born IN Quebec.
Three weeks after your birth 1 stole you
from your nurse and carried you to South
America, among q colony of Cana
dian Quakers. Then l returned
to Quebec to seek my revenge. 1t
resulted with but little satisfaction.
Your father, crazed with grief on ac-
count of your loss, threw himself from
the head of the fort. 1 was
waiting for Victoria to follow
me, but she was made of iron. She
came and went, and with face of iron,
and then suddenly and mysteriously dis
appeared. Inever found trace of her. She |
must have entered the convent, for only |
those walls eluded my vengeance. can t |
write more, because / will not. 1 hate |
you as 1 hated her. 1 have greatly en- |
joyed to see you struggle, knowing that |
it was useless, for my maledictious |
rest on the fruit of their marriage. |
I am foolish to talk of the stain |
that is on you, but man has two |
natures, and 1 cannot resist my better |
nature, which oompels me to try to re- |
pair the wrong done you, IL it is possible; |
besides, there are moments when 1 am
really aud profoundly penitent, and 1t is
IN such moments 'that 1 write this.
You will never be able TO dis
cover me. You have no possible
means of identifying me, and however
your mother guesses-yes, she must |
know, perhaps her child can find her In |
spite of all, but then it will be too late
for your vengeance. -
The letter was unsigned. With it was
the original document certifying to the |
marriage of Rossurie's mother and |