HOW A WIFE SAVED HER HUSBAND FROM PRISON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12740, 17 December 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOW A WIFE SAVED HER HUSBAND FROM PRISON.

Through his wife's awful sacrifice the ashes o$ Charles Cabry's dead passion were quickened into a pure and enduring love. Last .January Cabry, a Paris bookseller's cashier, eloped with Elsie, the pretty daughter of a fellow employee, and married her. His passion soon tooled. He tool- to drink, and shamefully ill-treated his wife, whose self-sacrificing love withstood this disil lusionment, and increased every dav. (rime finally tilted up the cup of her husband's wrong-doing. One evening Cabry came heme in despair, tore his hair, and said that he had embezzled 450 francs of his employer's money, and had been given three days to restore it. in default ot which ho would be prosecuted. Two days passed, and the money was not found*. On the eve of the fata! third Elsie, tear-stained and despairing, handed the money to her husband, saying that .she had borrowed it from an old school friend. The 450 francs were repaid. _ Cabry continued to ill-treat his wife, and finally drove her out of his house. The girl took refuge with her father. Next morning the old man called on his son-in-law, and, after denouncing him us a villain and a thief, exclaimed: " How dc you think my daughter got the money to 'save you from gaol? She told mo "this morning lhe wretched girl sold herself to an old admire!, and redeemed your honout with her own shame." 'Hie horror-stricken husband at last realise! what his misconduct had cost. On his knees he implored his wife to return. Her f.<thcr sternly forbade her deflating that not until Cabry hud lived an honest life for three months would he believe in nis repentance. A few days ago the term of probation ended. Kisie returned to hei husband with every hope of a new life of bappiuoss and love."