MARRIED NURSE !

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 78, 2 April 1938, Page 14

MARRIED NURSE !

THEN MET HER TWIN EX-SOLDIER LOVED BOTH | i DIVIDED TIME BETWEEN THEM ; A man who loved his wife so much ! that he also married her twin sister •’ died recently in Paris. i During the war a. poor French sol- j dier was badly wounded and was hurried to the base hospital. At first his life was despaired of, but a lovely nurse fell in love with the mutilated man and gave up all her spare lime j to nursing him back to health. When he recovered the soldier returned the devotion the nurse had given him and married her. The couple settled in Marseilles and the ex-soldier got a job as traveller for canned fruit manufacturers. They were ideally happy in their little home. Two lovely children were born. Then the firm ordered their salesman to do some extensive travelling. At first he nearly threw up his job in anxiety not to leave the wife he loved above everything else. But common sense came to the rescue, and, after a tearful parting, he set off to Paris to do his job. As the train steamed out of the station his wife ran alongside the carriage and asked her husband to try to find her twin sister, who was supposed to be in Paris. Withheld Truth. Work over, the gay crowds in the ■ Paris cafes brought back the thoughts ' he had been trying to keep out of his mind. He visualised his wife sitting at home hundreds of miles away in Marseilles. Suddenly he sprang up as if he had been shot, knocked over his glass of wine in his hurry to go over to a table near by, and silenced the whole cafe with his shout. There was his wife sitting alone drinking coffee. “How dare you call me by my dead sisters name! How did you know it?’’ she said. He hesitated; something made him withhold the truth. “I once knew a girl of that name,” ; he stuttered. “You are remarkably like her.” The couple had dinner together, and the ex-soldier with a wife in Marseilles began to fall in love with his wife's twin. At last he had to return home, and when his wife asked if had managed to locate her sister he answered “No.” Trips to Paris became frequent, and on one of them the pair were married, the ex-soldier producing a new set ot identity papers and giving another name. He found that he was as much in love with his latest wife as he was with the one still in Marseilles. Vvhen he got. hcr>.j irom h.s marrl- ; age in Paris he was surprised to find • I hat. hi-: 10-.-e for his first wife ha-.l not I din’-Mshed :n the ; ?as t; in fact he i found il tiiflieull to toil one from the ! other, t.’ney vrere so much alike, even ■ to stirring their coffee in an cxae'.ly ■ . ..’.it:' manner. He arranged matters so that he i spent three -.-.-eoks in Paris rita three weeks in Marseilles. For years the arrangement, went on i with C-.body happy. The Paris wife i gave birth to two children as lovely as i his two children in Marseille.--:. Than one day the ex-soklier did not j turn up at his Paris home or bls home | in Marseilles. He was crossing a Paris street when { a skidding taxi crushed his life out be- i neath it.s wheel.'-. I