A PRESTON ROMANCE.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 392, 16 September 1884, Page 3

A PRESTON ROMANCE.

r • : . About years ago, a, young nian and ' ' w^hian wete married at the Parish . Olxurch, ■ - >*'Preston, So it i^ stated, but shortly after they ' aeperated, -both being' out of work,/ The w ~*Jtasbj^'d^en,lif|ted in the army, yet only 1 for a I'jl^tmdtb ' time",' after which he " proceeded" to to seek f fresh woods and' pastures z&gp&r^hl&i^bet&ek Kalfr^emaining, . in taivmJy^Sl® '' following, tfee humble occupation of a ? : i|:|^E6rwoman,^Sj;ill,. the; more strange portion t-\( :^oMh^ffdv^Apjthai>, the other day a gentle--si;;S^an,; %n'd6omely ' attired, put up at the . ;". Tictoiia^- ffbtel^ and after the lapse of per\X haps half , an T hour despatched a messenger to . . ! ■ make, inquiries respecting a woman whom iv< he "once knew to be his wife, The search, though puzzling at the commencement, proTed-, successful, the querist returning with ■njords which " afforded the greatest pleasure to the gentleman at the hotel. The fact ia that his wife had been discovered occupied at her work in a lane adjoining that stretch ; of greensward called the Marsh, yet that it , was true she could not even imagine. However, an interview between the two was ': arranged, when the elderly gentleman declared himself to be her. husband. At first the lady declined to entertain such an idea ; tut subsequent conversation and presents of an auriferous description convinced her that she stood in the presence of her long lost husband. The pair have since left Preston to take up their abode in Belfast. — • Liverpool Poßt/,.; ....:•: