It's About Time!

About six or seven years after he lost her love and gained $2,000, Fred Yager finally got around to divorcing his wife.


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Why had he waited so long? — was it just to make his alienation-of-affection case look legit, or was he, deep down, hoping she'd come back to him? Or perhaps he now had his eye on someone new and had to free himself up?

Maybe he just hadn't gotten around to it before. It slipped his mind. You know how that goes.

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From a little item in the following week's Gazette, we gather that Fred's nephew, George Jr., was thus far a more fortunate man. Three years after his marriage to Pearl Severance, they still seemed madly in love and he was still lavishing costly gifts on her:


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Sources:
♦ "Celebrate Wedding Anniversary." Hobart Gazette 20 Sept. 1918.
♦ "Notice to Non-Resident." Hobart News 12 Sept. 1918.