A DIVORCE STORY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11229, 25 November 1899, Page 2 (Supplement)

A DIVORCE STORY.

WHAT THE WIFE HEARD THROUGH THE TELEPHONE. 'According to "Dagonet," in the Referee, the telephone will shortly figure in a case in the Divorce Court. It seems that recently a husband had gone out of town " on business," and given his wife a big hotel at Liverpool as the address at which to write .c him. The day after his departure the wife ■went to sec her brother, a merchant in the j city, and while in the office the brother was rung up from Manchester. " Oh," said the wife, " how wonderful. Can you hear what they say V" Assured that one could hear perfectly, the affectionate wife, thinking to give her husband a pleasant surprise, asked to be put on to the hotel in Liverpool at ■which he was staying. Tho connection was made. Now her husband had taken a private sitting-room, which had a private telephone on the writing-table. The manager of the hotel, ascertaining that the guest was in bis room, instantly switched London through to the private apartment. The husband went to the telephone and said, "Hulloa, what is it?" and at the same time a lady in the room exclaimed, "What! Do you say London is speaking to you? Oh, do let me listen!" The astonished wife at the other end started back with an exclamation of horror. She knew the voice of the lady. The husband listened in vain for London's message. It was never given. After waiting some time he rang off, concluding that . it was a mistake. / But late that night. the ; , mistake was explained to him. His wife arrived at the Liverpool hotel. The rest of the story will be "told before Sir Francis •Jeune. • j.-.i ■ ...