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brother and I industriously did for some minutes. It was full four weeks
before I found out where that ten dollar bill came from. Meanwhile, my
wife was received and was living in her new home, being treated with
great kindness by all of us. It was evident, however, that she had
something on her mind which troubled her, and one morning, about a
month after her arrival, I found her in tears. I asked her what was the
matter? She said that she had been deceiving me; that she did not pick
up the ten dollar bill in the road; but that it was given to her by the
clerk in the public house in Bainbridge; only, however, for this: he
had grossly insulted her; she had resented it, and he had given her the
money, partly as a reparation, and partly to prevent her from speaking
of the insult to me or to others.

But by this time my hitherto blinded eyes were opened, and I charged
her with being false to me. She protested she had not been; but finally
confessed that she had been too intimate with the clerk at the hotel.
I began a suit at law against the clerk; but finally, on account of my
wife's family and for the sake of my children, I stopped proceedings,
the clerk paying the costs of the suit as far as it had gone, and giving
me what I should probably have got from him in the way of damages. My
wife too, was apparently so penitent, and I was so much infatuated with
her, that I forgave her, and even consented to continue to live with
her. But I removed to Greenville, Greene County, N. Y., where I went
into the black-smithing business, and was very successful. We lived
here long enough to add two children to our little family; but as time
went on, the woman became bad again, and displayed the worst depravity.
I could no longer live with her, and we finally mutually agreed upon
a life-long separation--she insisting upon keeping the children, and
going to Rochester where she subsequently developed the full extent of
her character.

This, as nearly as I remember, was in the year 1838, and with this came
a new trouble upon me. Just before the separation, I received from my
brother's wife a note for one hundred dollars, and sold it. It proved to
be a forgery. I was temporarily in Troy, N. Y., when the discovery
was made, and as I made no secret of my whereabouts at any time, I was
followed to Troy, was there arrested, and after lying in jail at Albany
one night, was taken next morning to Coxsackie, Greene County, and front
thence to C