LEFT IN THE LURCH.

NZ Truth, Issue 217, 21 August 1909, Page 11

LEFT IN THE LURCH.

" She Seat Around a Note." Like the lady who was left lamenting and "waiting at the church," William Henry George one day received a note. It was waiting foi him when he returned home from toil, and was from the wife of his l?osom. In it she intimated that she had left him "for licvar," and curtly bade him, not au rovoir, but good bye. The sequel was seen on Saturday, when the cove with the same surname as the author of "Progress and Poverty," petitioned to be legally unbound from his .fickle and faithless lady love. Respondent was not present or represented. In the pained little piece he spoke, petitioner explained that he was duly spliced m ftoo South Wales sixteen years agone. They had enjoyed married bliss for only a couple of years when he went home and found the heart-breaking note reforred to. He was as ignorant us a meat-axe p[ her reason for leaving him m the lurch. He dropped her-a line, -m "which he beaeeched her to shed light on his darkness, but the levanting lady replied tersely that LIFE WITH HIM WAS "TOO SLOW." However, their baby was taken ill soon after, and the wanton wife showed that she had fiome internal instincts left, by returning to home and hubby, so as to he able to look after the kiddy. As soon as the youngster was well again, however, she once more sloped over the skyline. Desiring something that would keep her awake and away from moping or pining, she took a billet jerking out joyjuice m a bar. Getting another spasm of remorse, penitence, conscience, or something, ,like that, she again returned to her lawful lord and master m 1898. This was m West Australia. But the lady's craving for excitement soon returned to torment her and mock her "long laborious days-" of humdrum domestic placidity, go she did a get again and never returned. She had written to him once, declaring that she would never return to the connubial cot. Decree nisi granted, to be 'made absolute m three months.