A DEAR BARGAIN.

Evening Star, Issue 3510, 23 May 1874, Page 3

A DEAR BARGAIN.

The following story is related by the Maryborough Advertiser’“Twenty thousand pounds (L 20.000) is rather a stiff figure to pay for another man’s wife in this country, but Sandhurst, it seems, can afford the money for a good article of the kind just named. Some two or three years since a rich Bendigo reefer chanced to fall in love with another man’s wife, and by a curious coincidence the other man’s wife fell also in love with the reefer’s gold. The result was a bargain between the husband, who did not care too much about his spouse, and the gay Lothario, who adored the married woman. I he bond between the parties decreed that the husband, in consideration of the sum of 1/5,000 cash down, was to disappear for ever from the scene, and leave his wife behind him. And so he did. Lothario took her to -Sydney, and married her there, returning afterwards to Sandhurst. Hero the pair lived happily and luxuriously together. But after a couple of years or so the first husband again appeared on the scene with a demand for his wife, or for Lls,ooomore ! Fe would not go away without the L 15.000 or the woman, but the L 15.000 was what he most wanted. A meeting was at length arranged to come to terms. The first husband will not abate a jot of his large demand : and, mereover, says if he does not get the whole sum, he will prosecute his wife for bigamy. And so the matter stands at present: but the probability is that the L 15,000 will be paid to the uttermpst farth|ng, T for . Lothario is very fond indeed of the other man’s wife, and Lls 000 ” husband is ver y fond of the