Without Knocking?

NZ Truth, Issue 1149, 8 December 1927, Page 7

Without Knocking?

§ THE beautiful Egyptian bride § | said she took exception to her § | husband's niece entering the bridal § | chamber on board at any old time % 1 "without knocking." But hus- 1 | band Abdo Saraty denied this al- 1 | legation m defence of his young 1 1 niece. His niece had worked 1 | for him for thirteen years, he | I said, with a degree of emphasis. §

PERHAPS, had the scene always been laid m the Land of the Nile,

Abdo and his attractive bride might have lived happy ever after. Abdo, however, had years before adopted New Zealand as his country. I and had merely been on a holiday tour to- his native Syria. The wedding over, he set sail with Laya for Aorangi. Then cropped up the other side of the triangle, his niece Matilda, who had accompanied him on his tour. The bride alleged that the niece was too familiar on the voyage, and the trouble continued after the trio started housekeeping at Blackball. Added to that, Abdo apparently v/as not satisfied with his wife, through no fault of her own. The upshot was that, three years after Laya pronounced the Syrian equivalent of "I will," she left her hubby. But last week she sued him for maintenance at the Greymouth Court. Outside, the honeat-to-goodness West Coast rain fell m sheets. It was a far cry from the burning sands of I old Egypt. With her dark eyes and. regular, olive-tinted features, and her soft voice, Laya made an attractive picture m the witness-box, and it was not difficult to account for the infatuation of Abdo.