, she generally going with me every
day.

At the end of that time we went back to Keene, and in three weeks we
were married in her father's house, the old folks making a great wedding
for us, which was attended by all the neighbors and friends of the
family. We stayed at home two weeks, and meanwhile arranged our plans
for the future. We proposed to go out to Ohio, where she had some
relatives, and settle down. She had seven hundred dollars in bank in
Keene which she drew, and we started on our journey. We went to Troy,
where we stayed a few days, and during that time we both concluded that
we would not go West, but return to Keene and live in the town instead
of on the farm, so that I could open an office and practice there.

So we went back to her home again, but before I completed my plans for
settling down in Keene, Mary and I had several quarrels which were worse
than mere ordinary matrimonial squabbles. Two or three young men in
Keene, with whom I had become acquainted, twitted me with marrying Mary,
and told me enough about her to convince me that her former life had not
been altogether what it should have been. I had been too blinded by
her beauty when I first saw her in Brattleboro, to notice how extremely
easily she was won. Her parents, too, were wonderfully willing, if not
eager, to marry her to me. All these things came to me now, and we had
some very lively conversations on the subject, in which the old folks
joined, siding with their daughter of course. By and by the girl went
to Keene and made a complaint that she was afraid of her life, and I was
brought before a magistrate and put under bonds of four hundred dollars
to keep the peace. I gave a man fifty dollars to go bail for me, and
then, instead of going out to the farm with Mary, I went to the hotel in
Keene.

The well-known character of the girl, my marriage to her, the brief
honeymoon, the quarrels and the cause of the same, were all too tempting
material not to be served up in a paragraph, and as I expected and
feared, out came the whole story in the Keene paper.

This was copied in other journals, and presently came letters to the
family and to other persons in the place, giving some account of my
former adventures and marriages. Of this however I knew nothing, till
one day, while I was at the hotel, I was suddenly arrested for bigamy.
But I was used to this kind of arrest by this time, and I went before
the magistrate with my mind made up t