AN INDIGNANT SPOUSE.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4681, 8 January 1884, Page 2

AN INDIGNANT SPOUSE.

The Wanganui . Herald states:—An amusing little tale comes to our ears in * connection with a certain lovable couple who.figured lately in the local Police Court in reference to Sunday trading at an hotel in town. The lady in question appears to have an idea that her husband is enamoured of hotel life, and had suspicions that as he did not come home at, night he stopped at a certain hostelry in town. Accordingly one morning she went to the house in question, and apparently assuming that she knew he was there, naively enquired whether he was up. A little girl, who resides in the house, as naively replied that he was not, aud the virtuous wife being on the right track immediately demanded to see him in his room. Considerable demur* ring followed, but eventually the landlord permitted the interview. The lady, in company with the little girl, accordingly proceeded to the room of the truant husband; but the latter, hearing the wellknown footsteps on the stairs, quietly turned the key in the door. When his wife desired admission, therefore, no answer could be obtained, but .with wonderful persistence of purpose the lady expressed her determination to stop all day till she saw her lord and master. After about two hours' waiting, she reminded the landlord of the hotel that by the Act he must have all his bedrooms cleared out by 11 o'clock, and if the door wa> not opened by that time she would lay an information against him. This somewhat frightened Boniface, who, not liking the appearance of things, took a ladder round the back way, and proceeded through the window to open the door~only alas ! to find the poor husband gone. Finding his retreat cut off by the door, he had tied the sheets together and quietly lowered himself from the window, his discomforted wife having patiently kept watch over the, cage long after the,bird was gone.