I did not tell him of his brother's attempt
to rob and kill. Me-it would have been too great a shock for him. He
stayed with me only a few days and then, complaining of being
homesick, he went to visit his mother again.
CHAPTER XV.
A TRUE WIFE AND HOME, AT LAST.
WHERE WERE ALL MY WIVES?-SENSE OF SECURITY-AN IMPRUDENT
ACQUAINTANCE-MOVING FROM MAINE-MY PROPERTY IN RENSSELAER COUNTY-HOW
I LIVED-SELLING A RECIPE-ABOUT BUYING A CARPET-NINETEEN LAW-SUITS-
SUDDEN DEPARTURE FOR THE WEST-A VAGABOND FOR TWO YEARS-LIFE IN
CALIFORNIA-RETURN TO THE EAST-DIVORCE FROM MY FIRST WIFE-A GENUINE
MARRIAGE-MY FARM-HOME AT LAST.
I remained in Maine nearly two years, hardly ever going out of the
State, except occasionally to Boston on business. Making Augusta my
residence and headquarters, I practiced in Portland and in nearly
all the towns and cities in the eastern part of the State. During
all this time, I behaved myself, in all respects better than I had
ever before done in any period of my life. I began to look upon
myself as a reformed man; I had learned to let liquor alone, and was
consequently in far less, indeed, next to no danger of stepping into
the traps in which my feet had been so often caught. I may as well
confess it--it was intoxicating liquor, and that mainly, which had
led me into my various mad marrying schemes and made me the
matrimonial monomaniac and lunatic lover that I was for years. What
my folly, my insanity caused me to suffer, these pages have
attempted to portray.
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