PATIENT ADAM

NZ Truth, Issue 1175, 7 June 1928, Page 9

PATIENT ADAM

Clara s Capers Keep Crow Moving (From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchufch Rep.) It was the old, old stdVy 1 of the . star boarder all over again. Adam Meredith Crow, a Kaita'hg'a'ta rriinfer; for years had come home from his work to a cheery hdrWe. Everything m the domestic garden was lovely — untij his wife decided to take m a boarder. TT was to prove' a most unfortunate" decision for Adam, far one day , K'4 returned home from toil only .to find that his Clara had "gone away." That was. m i9'24,, since when Mrs, Crow had been b'acfc to her husband only to leave h'irii again on three different occasions. Crow's patience" petered out. Last week he took his troubles to Judge Adams m Christchurch and secured a decree nisi. : When Thomas Leslie Isitt, a laborer, took up his residence with the Crows at Kaitangata, Adam was hot at all suspicious, not being of a suspicious nature. He was ignorant of 1 the fact that Isitt was ingratiating him&elf into his wife's affections. . When the break did come, no man' was' nWe surprised, than Crow. He heard she had gone to Christchurch. As one of his children became ill, he followed her and advertised m the newspapers for h f er. FREEDOM AND LOVE On. his return.. home,- he received' a' telegram from Clara, asking him' ia forgive her. Adam took" her back and tried to start all over again. Clara, however, was not satisfied arid only stayed a fortnight, when she cleaned out again, telling her husband that she could not live with him. . The next he heard of her wail m Duriedin, whither she. bad gone to seek further distraction's from matrimonial shackles,. Crow found out where she was living and watched the house. He noticed; Wit , leaving the premises one morning about four o'clock. , Crow lost, no time then. He walked up to the house and interviewed his erring wife. She again candidly confessed that she had been giving with" Isitt. Ci-ow's patience w^s far. from being exhausted, however; Re put m ttie soft and, forgiving word once more. ; Clara listened arid' gave m to hia plod. Back home once again, But still Mrs. Crow \yas not satisfied 1 . A fortnight, was quite long enough to keep at her, husband's side, then ishe made. another bold break for freedom* and he? - lover. I . Crow chaised after . her again and found her living m Christchurch with Isitt. As it happened, although Adairi was riow prepared to wash his hands 6"f liis wife, Clara had other views. She , wrote after a while and came bade 'of her ,0-vvn accord, with a request that Crow find a'ri'other home for her. Adam— good, old, patient Adam— did so. , ... For a while it certainly looked as though Clara had abandoned her wanderings, froni the., path of wifely rectitude 1 , but she broke out again m 1926. She disappeared fi*om her home one day , and turned up once more m Christchurch. Crow ca'llect. at the house -where his w v if e was living . with Isiti. When iie was , anno.unced,- both came out to interview the husband. Candor, was the order of the day, rieitlier Clara nor her lover, Isitt, making any attempt to hide their guilt. Crow is . now , fr.ee/, alone . with' his children a|ri<l 4 .frost of 6'piriioiis on the joys of married life.