Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-11-20


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.
Il cannot recollect that | ever heard
her last name or that of the man she
married In speaking to her he called
her Emma Dorison's mother was bent
on his marrying Mary Clavering, and in
time brought about the match Dorison
must have become reconciled to it" con-
tinued Mr. Eustace musingly, more to
himself than to Cathcart, for in those
days he seemed very happy, and his
home in Bleecker street was as pleasant
and gay as any in the city. He was ex-
ceedingly prosperous in business and
the only cloud | could see dimming his
happiness was the death of four children,
leaving him only one, the youngest,
boy In eighteen hundred and fifty-one,
Dorison moved from Blocker street to
Twenty-third street, and a year later his
wife died, the boy then being four or five
years old
Mr.. Eustace got up and going to his
desk took from a pigeon hole a little
book Turning over its leaves he exam
ined page of it attentively. and re-
turned.
Il am correct in my recollection.
One afternoon, three years after the
death of his wife, he came to me in
deep distress, saying he must relieve his
feelings by talking with some one he
could trust. He said that two years
previously he had met his early love, and
discovered that she was a widow-that
her husband had treated her i'll all his
life, and had several years previously
gone to another part of the country,
contributing sufficiently to her support
to escape charges of abandonment; that
she had had advices OF his death by
letter from one of his companions who
had sent her his private papers; and that
she was childless; that he found his love
for her returned, and in haste and with
out considering 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 retire.
ment from business and permanently
invest his property So he had rented a
house and was providing for her as a
husband should, but still keeping the
fact of the marriage secret. He had re-
tired and was about ready to announce
his second marriage, two children hav-
ing been born to them in the meantime,
when the first husband presented him
self alive and in person.
Though Dorison had been compelled
to pay heavily to prevent the husband
from making a scandal, from prosecut-
ing his wife for bigamy and to go his
way and leave her in peace, the fact re-
manned that she was not his wife, and
could not be recognized as such. Though
he was the father of her children, he
said the woman insisted on an absolute
severance of their relations. She said
they had sinned, but sinned innocently
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 almost heart
broken, saying his love for her was
never so great as when she had shown
such nobility of soul; that she should be
surrounded by every comfort and that
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he refrained from the mention of names
and handing me securities to the amount
of fifty thousand dollars, asked me tc
hypothecate them on a long term"
MY theory is confirmed" said Cath
cart. did he ever refer to it again"
mo" replied Eustace, except once il
answer to question, when he said tina
affairs had settled into sad and quie
rut and he avoided thought of it as mucl
as possible. Not long after this affai
occurred my own financial troubles, anG
after they had been Strengthened out
upon which he labored much, wen
abroad in the diplomatic service. Will
our warm friendship was never broken
; our condolences, by the fact of separa
ton only, ceased"
'Um," said the detective SIS that al
you have to say?"
mo. One more point. In eighteel
hundred and sixty-nino returned fron
the continent on a short visit, leavin
my family behind me. The night befor
| was to return, Dorison came to me
begging to be excused for trou bling m
J at such an hour and time on such q mat
ter He said he was in great trouble
the causes of which were too many an
involved too long story in explanation
to give them. He had with him a smal
3 tin case in which were contained on
l hundred and fifty thousand dollars c
t government securities, which he said h
! desired me to retain, subject to hi
order, the reason for which he woul
q give me some time. He had a receiI
g prepared, simply reading, Receive
] from Reuben Dorison government sect
! rites to the amount of one hundred an
! fifty thousand dollars which he aske
n me to sign. and did.
r "'I am preparing he said, for
l. storm You know the unfortunate alta
t became involved in. This is intende
n to be some reparation to the childre
e whose paternity am compelled to den
l. one child perhaps it were better to So.
l. In view Of the fact that Emma's fir
l. husband is yet alive and makes demand
It on her, don't think it wise to han
q them to her yet. In view Of certain