A FRESH DEAL

NZ Truth, Issue 1189, 13 September 1928, Page 5

A FRESH DEAL

Divorce Evidence In

Triplicate

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rop.) With that wo nd erf a I intuition which women claim as their especial perquisite, it only took Winifred Adelaide Blanche McCormack about four years to discover that her love for her lord and master, John Arthur Conway McCor mack, was not of that degree of intensity which might be I expected of the mother of their two children. pitOM the endless houses of Brixton, London, they had sought the vast territory of the winterless north of Allan Bell fame and settled at that centre of gaiety, Okaihau. There Winifred found her real soulmate, who rejoiced In the romantic name of Smith, Ernest ibeing his front name, and with her true love -ehe vanished into the unknown — so far as her wondering husband was concerned. - ' . ■ . •■■ ,-■■'.;■'• ."■-,'. ■ ■ There was something of the real knight-errant about Ernie, for when he stole his ladye f&yre from her own rightful, man he made a thorough job of it. For over two years John could find no trace 1 whatever of his lost love. Then fate played a hand, as she often does m these affairs, and one day John of the lost wife and the two motherless children' picked up his copy of the "Auckland Weekly News" to study the latest price of pigs, etc. Imagine his astonishment at seeing before 'him m those solemn and sober pages. a photograph of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"— and their triplet girl babies! For Mrs. Smith, the lucky (?) mother, was none other than John's vanished wife! ...■'. ■■.."■ She was living at Westport, hunr dreds of miles away, and had presented her knight-errant, with three bouncing girls. John wrote to his one-time wife, but whatever he may have said there was no doubt aboujt the frame of Winifred's mind or heart. >; She replied to the effect that she was not a bit sorry for the step she had taken; she knew she would not have carried on happily with John, even before she met the •wholesaler, Ernie. There were now four little .Smiths. ■''... ;■ ; . . .■..•■. •. .v. ■" ;. : -./. : Ever ft practical woman, as toehoves a mother of triplets, she said to John: "It is useless, to think of damages, beoause the triplets^ have cost' us more than Ernie can earn.": Poor Ernie; what a' shock he must have got! From his brief, Lawyer Singer handed up the r photograph which had led to the discovery of the lost .Winifred, saying, . as he did co, that he thought these three bits of corroborative evidence would satisfy the court "I suppose they may be called ex-, hibits A, B and C When Justice had sifted out- the three-sided problem, the position stood that John had his freedom m three months' time, with his two children; Ernest Smith has Winifred, the triplet girls, one boy and the costs of the 1 case-to pay, but no damages. : A new deal all round. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure L Rpr Obildren'o Hacking (Sought J