If a divorce
were thus obtained, her vindication would be complete.
The ranks of the enemy were thrown into confusion by this diversion.
Mr. Dewey was violent, and threatened most terrible consequences.
But when the time set for the case to come up arrived, he failed to
appear.
It was from the other side that the next movement came. A divorce
was applied for on the part of Mrs. Dewey, in a bill carefully drawn
up by Mr. Wallingford. It asked not only for a legal separation from
her husband, but for alimony, and the possession of the two
remaining children. An answer was filed; but it was of so feeble a
character as to amount to scarcely anything in the way of
opposition. The chief argument was directed against the claim for
alimony. The result was as we had anticipated. In the following
spring a divorce was granted, and Mrs. Dewey, with her two children,
left the Allen House and returned to her father's. The maintenance
allowed by the court, was one thousand dollars a year for herself,
and five hundred a year for each of the children during their
minority.
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