VAIN SACRIFICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 58, 9 March 1935, Page 4 (Supplement)

VAIN SACRIFICE.

WOMAN'S TWO MARRIAGBS

More than twenty years ago a young English girl, daughter of a widow living iu the South-west of London, had her dreams of bliss shattered by an accident that crippled her boyhood sweetheart for life. When the cripple's resources ran out and there were no other means of finding funds for the luxuries and the life in the South of France that had been ordered, the girl decided to sacrifice herself by marrying a rich man. For a time all went all with the fortunes of Miss Kose Gaskin, the girl in question, now Mrs. John Proctor, but one clay a blackmailer surprised her secret and under threats of exposure, bled her to such an extent that when the rich husband died the fortune she anticipated was so much mortgaged that she had to contract a new union to enable her to look atter her invalid lover. From the doting second husband the wife obtained for some years enough to provide for the lover and pay tribute to the blackmailer. But recently the position was aggravated by the advent of a second blackmailer. As long as she could the woman paid, placing herself hopelessly in the power of moneylenders. Unfortunately the two blackmailers increased then- demands to such an extent that the unhappy wife had to stand up to them. They then carried out their throats, and when the facts were laid before the husband lie started divorce proceedings which are now in the Paris Courts. And on the very day when slie saw herself cited before the divorce judges, the unhappy woman learned that the man for whom she had sacrificed herself had found a new protector, a rich American woman whom he had met on the Kiviera! In consequence, when the woman who married two other men for love of a third begins her life as a divorced woman at the ago of forty-two, burdened with debts she can never hope to pay, she will have the mortification of seeing the cripple for whom she sacrificed so much united to a woman nearly twenty years older than herself.