NEW ENOCH ARDEN.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 239, 9 October 1907, Page 7

NEW ENOCH ARDEN.

•'DEAD" SOLDTER RETURNS TO GRAVESEND. An extraordinary story of a modern "Enoch Arden" is reported from Gravesend. Among those who went out to the South African war was a local resident named Motley. During the conflict it was thought he was killed; in fact, his name was included in the list of those who lost their lives. Naturally enough, his friends mourned for him, and the " widow " a short/ time ago re-married. To her amazement her husband turned up at Gravesend a few weeks back. He appears, on his arrival, to have walked unconcernedly into the shop of a butcher named Outred, who had been one of his closest friends. Outred gazed at him in bewilderment. "What are you doing here?" he gasped. " Where have you come from?" ■ , . ■» The "dead-alive" briefly explained matters, and to celebrate his return he' enjoyed some refreshment with his friend. ' Then Motley called on some other acquaintances, and, as may be imagined, they also were dumbfounded. Very soon the strange tidings came to the knowledge of Motley's wife, and although naturally she at first refused to believe them she yielded at length to the evidence. Her second husband is a steward on a P. and 0. boat, and is at present at sea—in ignorance of the fact that his wife's first husband has " come to life."