TWO DAYS' MARRIED LIFE
Sergeant Charles Bateman had to return to his regiment two days aftey his marriage to an Acton widow in March, 1916. In the following October he received a lotter from her, in which, she wroto:
I expect by this time you must have crossed there was something wrong; but I did not love you enough to settle down with you after the war. When I started on munitions work I forma life much, brighter than I expected. I find the girls good company, and I like their company. I go out when work is done, and like to be free. Now I am as free as possible, and quite able to pay for my boy and help myself. ... lam hot a kid. I must fight my own battles. lam sorry to write like this; bat it is better than living an unhappy lifo after the war is over.
The husband, who was grented a divorce .decree last month, said that in January last he came home and found his wife living with the co-respondout at Shepherd's Bush.
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Evening Star, Issue 16625, 7 January 1918, Page 4
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181TWO DAYS' MARRIED LIFE Evening Star, Issue 16625, 7 January 1918, Page 4
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