The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-01

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You are touching upon sacred conf
| dences,' said MIR. Eustace finally. 81 q,
not know',-
"One moment" interrupted the old de
tective hastily: IL am not withou
knowledge that the elder Dorison ha(
some relation with woman-just what i
was L do not know, but his portrait, hi:
seal ring and parts Of letters written by
him were found in her apartments. Blu
stronger than all is this; For g. number OF
years, that is to say, for twenty-five years
the title to which was vested in her name
This property was transferred to hei
April 50, 1854, by Richard Basselin, the
consideration being 81, 800. l find among
the papers of the Dorisou estate voucher
CHECK drawn on the Chemical bank for
Sll 800, in favor of Richard Bias
selin, dated April %, 1854, signed
by Reuben Dorison, certified by
the cashier on that day and endorsed by
Richard Basselin. Subsequently, Richard
Basselin removed 10 Buffalo, where he
died little mora than year ago. You
perceive that connection is established
The nature of that connection is what
now desire to ascertain"
Mr.. Eustice had stopped in front OF
Cathcart as the latter talked. He asked
suddenly:
40 udult Vi GuAU
Il prefer to follow my own plan of in
quiry and endeavor to elicit Information
before disclosing it. l have no objection
to giving it and will do 30 before l leave.
The important thing is not to satisfy your
curiosity but to justify my theory"
MIR. Eustace turned an irritable glance
upon the old man, sitting SO calm and i'm
perturbahle at his fireside. He resumed
his walk
II have some information no doubt, that
VIII assist you. What you are telling me
is wholly new. The question in my mind
Is whether should tell that which was
given me under the solemn seal of sec
recy"
Have you the right to ohstruct the
search OF young man leading to the re-
storation of his good name? | appeal to
you as man of justice. / appeal also &c
your recollection OF Reuben Dorison, and
ask, If it were possible for him to appear
here for one moment, whether he would
refuge you permission to unlock your lips,
wren the doug Of 1t would tend to remove
the disgrace from son be thoughts so much
OF, as you have yourself testified. Finally,
say to you, not in the way OF threat, but
as simple statement Of fact, that there is
another phase of this case that sooner or
later the officers of the law must take hold
Of, where you will be summoned to tell all
you know. unless you eyade it by telling me
now"
All of this increased the agitation of Mr..
Eustace, and he said:
The strongest appeal is the one to my
memory Of Reu ben Dorison. l think you
are right there"
He sat himself down in his easy chair and
looked into the fire burning brightly in the
CRATE long time.
Cathcart sat silently by, but presenting a
firm attitude of irresistible pertinacity in
his determination to get the story.
81 have strange tale to tell, " finally be-
gan Mr.. Eustace, land yet only the out
lines of it. When Reuben Dorison was a
young man, subsequent to his fathers
death, perhaps then twenty two or twenty
three years old, before he was married to
Mary Claveripg. distant relative OF mine.
he met and fell in love with q beautiful
young girl in rank of life much lower
than his own. Where be met her. or how,
l never learned; but her father was COS
tuner to one OF the theatres of that day,
and had snop in Chatham street. She re-
turned that love and they desired to marry.
Her father, however, for reasons he would
not give, refused to give his consent, grew
violent when it was talked of and finally
put her away so effectually that Dorison
could learn nothing of her. When next he
heard OF her she was married. and to a man
at the command Of her father. This story
had from his lips.
81 cannot recollect that ever heard her
last name or that Of the man she married
in speaking to her he called her Emma.
Dorlson's mother was bent on his marrying
Mary ClaverinG, and in time brought about
the match. Dorison must have become re-
concill d to it." continued Mr.. Eustace mug
1ngly, more to himself than to Cathcart,
'for IN those days he seemed very happy,
and his home in Blocker street was Ga
pleasant and gay as any in the city. He was
exceedingly prosperous in business, and
the only cloud l could see dimming his hap
piness was the death of four children,
leaving him only one, the youngest, boy
In 1901 DOrison moved from Blocker street
to Twenty third street, and a year later
his wife died, the boy then being four or
five years DID,
MIR. Eustace got up aud going to his desk
took from a pigeon hole little book.
Turning over its leaves he examined q
page OF 1t attentively, and returned.
u am correct in my recollection. One
al ternoOE, three years after the death Of
his wife, he came to me in deep distress,
saying ne must relieve his feelings by talk
ing with some one he could trust. He said
that two years previously he had met his
early love and discovered that she was a
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Ill sill his life, and had several years pre-
V ously gone to another part OF the coun-
try, contributing sufficiently to her sup
port to escape charges Of abandonment;
that she had had advices of his death by
letter from one OF mis- companions who hal
sent her his private papers, and that she
was childless; that he found his love for
her returned, and in haste and without
consequences had mar
ried her. For reasons which he did not
give me, he said he determined he would
not make the marriage known until he
could carry out successfully his retirement
from business and p rmahently invest his
property. So he had rented house, and
was providing Tor her as a husband should,
but still keeping the fact of the marriage
secret. He had retired and was about
ready to announce his second marriage.
two children having been born TO them in
The meantime, when the first husband pre-
sented himself alive and in person.
Though Dorison had been compelled to
pay heavily TO prevent the husband from
making scandal, from prosecuting his
wife for bigamy and and go his way and
cave her in peace, the fact remained that
she was not his wife, and could not be rec
)gnlZed as such. Though he was the father
IT her children, he said the woman insisted
IN an absolute severance Of their relations.
She said they had sinned, but sinned limo
'ently, and that they could repair their
wrong only by separation. He had tried to
combat her resolution, but she was i'm
movable and he was aim ost heart broken,
saying his love for her was never 80 great
IS when she had shown such nobility OF
soul: that she should be surrounded by
every comfort, and that her protection
should be his care. Again he refrained
rom the mention of names, and handing
he securities to the amount Of $50, 900, asked
ne to hypotfecate them on long loan"
"My theory is confirmed" said Cath
art. Ibid he ever refer 10 it again"
No" replied Eustace, except once in
answer to a question, when he said that
affairs had settled into sad and quiet rut
Ind he avoided thought of it as much as
lnsSi bile Not. lnnc- after this