St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-29

! prepared to say that the marriage was
arranged by her far more than by my
son; that she did everything to promote
1t; suggested every arrangement; an
ticipated and provided for every emer-
| gency; and that, i'll fact, but for her
personal and untiring agency the mar
| rage would never have taken place. In
this she showed knowledge and fore
thought not to be expected i'll woman
OF twenty-one years. Within ten days
after her arrival in Augusta. within one
week from the day she first met my son,
she was adjuring him thus for several
successive days:
Write nothing until see you. Let
me know at once about the law (of mar
riage). | can't wait TO hear. 1t makes
| me ill.'
Can you come to me moment Am
alone. DO not send up your card"
Did you see the laws? Do not keep
up the suspense"
The Bar Harbor house is perfect,
but L love the dear old place here bet
| ter
Don't ask any questions that may
lead people to suspect anything. Re-
| member that we are in the mouths of
| every man, woman and child in Au-
gusta. Every word you speak is re-
! peated and misconstrued. Every look
Of yours. every flush of your face is
| talked of. Look into the laws only to-
morrow and perhaps one question at
a bank" (where he obtained money for
his marriage Journey on my account by
inducing the cashier to advance him
funds on his memorandum, thing he
had never learned to do before he met
Miss NevinS).
The World Is Vile.
''All else can wait. Oh, do be care
full. L feel now all sorts of dreadful
things are said of us. You do not know
how vile the world is. DO look up the
laws. The rest keep"
Did you look into the laws of MasSa-
chusetts and New York? l am sure not.
Answer this tonight
~ have at last thought of the only
man on earth whom we can both trust
for witness. He is a man | can tele-
graph for to come to Boston. if we find
it necessary. He is man, and he
adoles every member of my family. X
l have known him since l was
a child. He would goany place with US
and none know. He never would
breathe it as long as he lived. If you
say so | will give him a gentle hint that
l will need his services for an emergen-
cy, but not tell him for what"
do write me at once what the New
York law was and the forfeit. Answer
at once"
When they reached New York. after
they had fled from Augusta, she eau
toned my son not to forget the $40 gold
piece in little box for Ducey. and look
in the pocket of his gray clothes for the
ring" In short, she took charge of
every matter. and directed all the pro-
ceedingS to the last minute. 1t was
thus that boy of seventeen years and
ten months, in some respects iheXperi-
enced even for his age, was tempted
from his school books and led TO the
altar by a woman of full twenty-one
years, with entire secrecy contriyed by
herself and with all the instrumentali-
| ties of her device complete and exact.
When my eldest son Walker went to
! New York, as | have related in the
Ducey letter, his object was to see
whether this marriage ofmy youngest
son might not be invalid, or
Could Not BE AnnuIled.
by reason of his youth. 1t was met with
the assertion that it was too late for any
proceedings to set aside the marriage.
because, after the marriage. the bride,
instead Of returning to her mother, had
taken passage for Boston with the groom
on one of the night steamers on Long
Island sound. propose next to show
by somewhat minute statement OF
facts and dates the falSity of the asser.
ton that Mrs. Blaine broke up the mar
riage relations of my son and his wife.
She did not see her daughter-ln-laW
until May, 1887, eight months after the
marriage, when, being in New York, the
latter called upon her twice during
her two days stay. The next time
she saw her was month
later. When about to sail for
Europe on the Sth of June she was a
single day in New York and saw the
young woman on taking leave. At the
end of fourteen months we returned
from Europe and stopped two or three
our absence, my son had not only spent
his entire allowance, but that he was
deeply in debt. 1t was then arranged
that both my son and his wife should
come down to Augusta and have Their
future determined at family council
They arrived in Augusta Saturday, the
18th Of August. Mrs. Blaine was alb
sent from home on visit. and returned
Monday afternoon, the Goth, SO that she
saw James wife
For the First Time
in Augusta on the evening of Aug. 90
Within two or three days | learned the
details of the dismal failure of Their
New York life, and, after full consulta.
ton with Mrs. Blaine. and with her free
approval, L proposed that they should
come to live at Augusta and occupy Oul
old home. | had summer house al
Bar HarDor, and, as intended to spend
all my winters in Washington, this
house would be vacant if they did moi
occupy it. The house being large,
proposed to pay for fuel and light and
the wages of a man servant: and
would furnish them with horse
and carriage. [ also assured
them, in addition, the sum Of
$500 year until my son should be
able to earn an income of that amount
l made the proposition while we were
sittir% on the lawn, with my sons wife
but few feet distant. My son went
Immediately over to her, and | know
that he told her i'll detail just what my
offer was. Her reply was that she
would not stay in Augusta on any con
sideration. He was very much discon
certed by her decision, and Tor the frs
time informed his mother and my SELF
of his discomfort and unhappiness
a fact which was not before
known, but which was no
received with surprise. We then learned
that during our absence in Europe he
mad become gradually eStranged from
her, and her refusal to accept the resi-
dence in Augusta was merely the last o.
a long series of disagreements which
threatened to make their united life i'm
possible, and which led finally to sep
aration. Disaster is the only legitimate
conclusion of such marriage Durins
the two weeks that my sons wife stale
| at Augusta it became patent to every
member OF my family and to every Wis
itor, and to no one more than myself
that separation was the least disaster
to be dreaded. The immediate
Occasion OF Her Departure
was my sons going to Bangor at my re
quest Friday, Aug. 81, with some docu
ments for which telegraphed Il wa
occupied with the campaign of tn,
state), and he continued with me t,
Ellsworth, where | was to speak on Sat
urday, the 1st of September. There be
ing violent rain storm, the meeting