The Glenwood post., 1908-01-18

broke out again. lie told me ne
was hard up, and asked me to
save for him. When | had to go
to the hospital he said | must go
to the county and be charge up
on the public-and |, wishing to
do everything in the world that
was right or would help him-I
went in my shame. Hardly had |
returned to the house, too weak to
stand hard treatment, when l
found letter from Fort Collins
girl-a letter which said such
things that | knew he had been
living with her. He said that he
had forged it and put it where |
could find it, Just on purpose to
catch me in a trap. | begged him
to tell me if he no longer cared
for me, and some other woman
was more to him. but he laughed
and reviled me.
81 said | would 90 away and
never see him again. | begged
him to give me money and let me
90 to California, but he would not.
He insisted on keeping me with
him. And so | stayed on, but l
was nearly mad with trouble most
of the time. | have stood so much
that death would have been a re-
lief.
ga month-two months-ago |
begged him to let me go-1 told
him | had stood all that / could
and that | would no longer sub
nit to his treatment. He begged
me to stay with him. Don't de-
sert me now. Bea," he cried, like
a baby. You who have always
stood by me when no one else
would. You, whom could not
drive away. Do not desert me
now.
He told me the story of the
forged letter. and like the fatuous
fool that I was, | believed him
again.
Another Housekeeper.
"But finally | could stand no
more. He said he would get an
other housekeeper if | would stay
until after Christmas, and l said
| would stay until the first of the
year. He got one, but for some
reason she failed to come Then
he got this one, who came.
81 found letter which no
woman would write to stranger.
| asked him if another was any
thing to him, and he said it was
so. That was last Sunday. We
had anothe- quarrel and then he
said the worst, the most cruel
things he ever said to me. He said
that | had no shame-that | was
not a woman or | would never
have come to his house to live
he. after all l had done for him
all the slavery | had performed.
who had given up everything a
woman holds dear for him.
"Two weeks ago last Sunday ]
tried to kill myself, I got his re.
volver and tried to shoot myself
but he was too quick and jerlled
it from my hand. | said then |
would never harm him, as | would
not bring disgrace upon his boys.
And last night | hardly knew
what | was doing. After supper
he wanted me to meet him at
Scholtz s at Z O'Clock, but | said
[ could not. He said s o clock
md | met him, but we quarreled
md | went back home. But be-
fore | went he asked me to wait
for him on the porch of his house
| said | could not, for what would
the woman now there think of me,
but he insisted and | yielded as
always. | went to the house and
stayed out on the front porch for
| don't know how long. / was
miserable and | must have stayed
for hours in the cold.
FINALLY he came and took me
into the house. He went through
to the kitchen and came back,
saying, That damned fool, mean
ing Mrs. Beroset, has left her
door wide open
81 begged him then to let me
go. / begged him on my knees,
but he wouldn't saying he want
ed me to stay that night with him.
Finally he kneeled down beside
me, little in the rear. l said ]
could stand it no longer and
wished that | were dead, and then
he handed me the revolver and
said: Take this, then, and shoot
yourself, you damned fool, but
don't do it in my house | took