CHAPTER XII.
MORE MISPLACED CONFIDENCE--ANOTHER UNFORTUNATE PARTNERSHIP.
Before closing the history of the many trials and troubles which I have experienced during my life, I will here say that I have never found, in all my dealings with men for more than forty years, such an untruthful and dishonest a man as -- -- of a certain town in Connecticut.

In 1858, he induced me to come into his factory to carry on a little business.

My situation was such, in consequence of the failure of the Jerome Manufacturing Company, that I could do nothing in my own name, as he knew.

I had a little money that had been paid me for the use of my trademark in England, and I felt very anxious, as old as I was, to make a little money so that I could pay some small debts which my family had made a short time before the company failed.

I had also two children who looked to me for some help.