AN INJURED HUSBAND.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 8, 20 February 1892, Page 177

AN INJURED HUSBAND.

One day recently, soon after the hour of noon, an individual who seemed to be labonring under considerable excitement, entered a grocery shop, and asked for a private word with the ptoprietor. When the request had been granted, he said : ‘ I believe myself to be an injured husband, and I want to verify my suspicions by watching a house in the next street. This I can do irom the rear of yonr shop. Have you any objection to my taking a seat at the back there by the open window ?’ The grocer granted the favour, and the agitated stranger walked to the back, and took a seat on a box of Pears’ Soap and began his watch. His presence had been almost forgotten, when he returned to the front of the shop with hasty steps and said : •By heaven, I’ll kill her ! Yes, I’ll shoot her through the heart !’ ‘ Your wife ?’ * Yes, my idolised Mary ! I cannot doubt her guilt, and I shall be a murderer in ten minutes !’ The grocer tried to detain him, but he broke away and rushed round the corner. Not hearing anything farther of him for half an hour, the grocer began to investigate ; and he discovered that fourteen rolls of butter, a skin of lard, two hams, and other stuff had left the back end of the shop by way of the window at which the watchful husband had been stationed.