| Show MARRYING HIS OWN wife she know that she wan wag rew dewed da ding her own husband Hug band did dia you ever hear of a man marrying his own wife asked a st louis man of a globe democrat reporter 1 I dont mean a divorced couple getting remarried but a couple really going goin 9 through the marriage ceremony a second time with one of the two entirely ignorant of the fact I 1 met a case of that kind last year and am thinking of sellin selling g the idea to some novelist to build a plot on it was in a small ohio town and the bride had been deserted by her husband twenty years before she had long ago come to the conclusion that he was dead and had been looked upon as aa an eligible widow who was fair and forty if not fat w when hen a stranger came to town got himself if introduced to her and finally persuaded her to try the matrimonial experiment peri ment a second time they were married after a short courtship and a few weeks after the honeymoon the husband gave away his story and told his wife that she had married him twice without knowing it his explanation was that on leaving her twenty years before he had gone on a protracted spree and had finally got himself sent to the penitentiary of a distant state for a long term after being liberated he was waa ashamed to look up his old friends and took it for granted that his wife had forgotten an all ab about 0 ut him by that time he accordingly w went ent abroad and it was only on his bis ret return urn after a long period that he heard accidentally that his wife was still living at the old home rather bather than run the risk of being spurned for his heartlessness and relying on his entire change in personal ap appearance arance he conceived the daring plot of winning winding and remarrying his own wife I 1 dont know what the lady said when she was but that is one of the details the novelist I 1 sell the story to can supply for hansell han Wim self |
