A FRENCH MARKTAUE ARRANGEMENT.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7784, 1 July 1887, Page 3

A FRENCH MARKTAUE ARRANGEMENT.

About a month ago a French working jeweller married a laundress, a very handsome woman, who gave herself out as a widow with a family of three children. While the happy pair were still in the honeymoon the husband ascertained that his wife was carrying on a flirtation with an elderly and wealthy individual, an<! he arrived at the conviction that they had been for some time on very iniimate terms. The working jeweller's first impulse was to kill the woman, but he soon determined on treating the difficulty in a more philosophical spirit, and as' he found it hard to maintain his wife and her three children he went to her lover and proposed that he should then and there take the family off his hands. The qfher asrreed, and a contract was made to the effect that the working jeweller abandoned his wjfe to bis rival ns well as her throe children, on condition that he should render l)pr life happy, and bring up the little ones well and honestly. A proviso was aililed that if these conditions were not adhered to tho agreement should be null and void. Oddly enough this contract was actually attpsted by Ihe Mayor in' the department of the Orne. Lately, however, the working jeweller learned / that the bargain bad not turned 'out well either for his wife or her children. The woman was continually beaten by her protector, and the little ones w.^ie utterly neglected. The husband at tmeft returned to Paris, where the party wei;e living, and wont to a police joag'istiftW, and, after explaining the case, implored lniin to intervene and insist on the bond ftefrrg' duly adhered to by his rival. Greatly to Kiia surprise and delight he was informed (Vat the contract was worthless, and tliau ho could take his

wife and her children home with him without a moment's delay. The working jeweller lo;>t no time in following this advice.