A STRANGE, TRUE STORY.

The Langworthy Marriage.

CHAPTER LXX.

NO COMPROMISE.

Mes Langworthy refused the £1,000. When the order in bankruptcy was confirmed oh appeal Messrs Bircham in Court in creased the offer t0£2,000--£l,OOOin fulldis charee of all claims, and £1,000 to be settled on the child on condition that it was taken from the mother and sent to the Argentine Republic. It was also added that Messrs Lumley's costs would be paid. Then Messrs Bircham announced that they could add £500 from Mrs Langworthy's own pocket in order to settle it. It was like extracting blood from flint. Finally, on the 12th of April, Messrs Bircham an nounced thut they were in a position to increase their offer to £5,000 to cover all claims, including costs, alimony, mainten ance, breach of promise action, or otherwise,, the bankruptcy proceedings to bo stayed and annulled, and the terms agreed on to be so far as necessary embodied in the order of the Divorce Court making the decree absolute.

" The addition to the sum first offered," they wrote the noxt day, "is by our client, Mrs Langworthy (sen.) who will herself find the money out of her own private purse to put an end to the litigation, and so that she may be saved the annoyance of an examin ation." , •

Mrs Langworthy without hesitation re jected the offer, She would not withdraw herself out of the hands of the High Court of Justice, to whom alone she had any right to look for protection. The offer was miserably inadequate, and barely covered, if indeed it did cover, the monetary claim which had been assessed and awarded by the Court, and entirely gave up all claim for the maintenance of the child. According to Mr Justice Butt, the child was to .be pro vided for as if it had been the offspring of a legal marriage. Mrs Langworthy could not for the sake of mere relief from severe personal monetary inconvenience consent to baiter away the rights of her child. Her position was such that she could not assent to any diminvition of her legal claims with out sacrificing to that extent the legality of her position, which was sufficiently slender, in all conscience, not to be further whittled away by any act of her own. As long as Mr Langworthy could not get the decree" made absolute, both Mrs Langworthy and her child had a quasi-legal position which was sufficient to prevent him from marrying again without com mitting bigamy, and, according to Mrs Langworthy's own admission, if he died, her child would, according to the Argentine law, inherit the whole of his property. If she had consented to sacrifice all this, to gether with all contingent claims which she might have for breach of promise if the marriage were really annulled, she would have been unworthy of the sympathy which the narrative of he.r struggle has excited throughout the three kingdoms.

These considerations were imperious, and left her no option but to reject the offer. If, however, there had been any lingering desire on her part to give up the long and weary struggle, instead of prosecuting it in the interests of justice to the end, that desire would have been quenched by the in sulting tone in which the offer was couched. Had the £5,000 been offered as a recogni tion, however tardy and inadequate, of the justice of her claims, it might have appealed to her with some force ; but it was offered on no such ground, but solely in order to relieve Mrs Langworthy, sen., from the inconvenience of being examined in the Court of Bankruptcy. In the eyes of the old lady, all the misery, shame, humiliation, and agony inflicted upon her daughter-i^y ]aw by her worthless son counted but as thistledown in the air compared with the in convenience t>f having to come up from Maidenhead to answer a few questions in a private examination. The offer, which has since been withdrawn, could meet with but one answer. Messrs Lumley and Lumley were instructed to decline the proposal.

Messrs Bircham, before the examination of Mrs Langworthy, sen , began in the Bankruptcy Court, formally withdrew the offer, except so far as relates to the child. The only offer, therefore, is at present that £1,000 shall be settled an the child, on condition that it is separated from its mother and sent to South America, and that Mrs Langworthy shall have nothing. £I,ooo— that is about £30 per annum for the only child of a man who pays one of his French cooks £250 per annum and all expenses !

CHAPTER LXXI.

A FRIEND IS NEED.

When Mrs Langworthy's engagement at Messrs Stuart's stall at the Royal Agricul. tuval Hall, Islington, came to an end, she met with a pleasant surprise. She was grieving over the stoppage of two days' pay from her week's wage, owing to her inevit able absence at the Bankruptcy Court, when a gentleman asked her if she was per manently engaged with Messrs Stuart. On hearing that she was not, he said that Messrs' Homan and Rodgers, of 17, Grace church-street, were wanting some one to take charge of a stall at the Manchester Exhibition, and recommended her to apply for the post. She had often noticed the handsome stand of the firm. The jury had awarded ita gold medal, but she remembered it far more for the occasional kindly courtesies which she had received from the exhibitors than from the beauty aud variety of the exhibits.

That night she wrote, saying that she urgently 'needed immediate work. Mr Ernest Homan replied, sending her 4,000 envelopes to be addressed at 2s per 100, pay ing for the same in advance. About this time comfortable lodgings were secured for her in a pleasant suburb, and she was at last free from the pressure of immediate want.

Seldom was more timely aid more deli cately given. Mr Ernest Homan assured her that when she finished addressing the circulars he could guarantee her sufficient work to bring in £1 a week until something more permanent turned up. Mr Julius Homan, his father, insisted on sending her £10, with which she was able to replenish her wardrobe, and soon after sent her deli cacies, of which in her exhausted state she stood in sore need. In all the troubles of these long years of trial none showed a more considerate sympathy, more practical ben evolence, than the Homans, father and son. Their kindness, their generosity, light up ■with a genial glow the closing chapter of this otherwise mournful history.

CHAPTER LXXII.

HOLDING THE PASS.

Mrs Langworthy, although by the kind ness of the Horaans and of some other friends, strangers to her; but touched with sympathy by the recital of her story, re lieved from the pressure of actual want, is still in a most unenviable position. Her debts amount to about £1,200. Messrs Lumley's bill of costs must amount to a similar "sum; Her child is growing up, What is she to dp ? Her first duty is to secure the recognition of the right/3 of her child. ' Her second is to collect her alimony. Her thil'd is to exact siich compensation as, the courts may.allow for the cruel, jraud to which she was subjected by her husband. The matter has now passed far beyond the stage of private arrangement. When certain offences are. known but to the victim and the evil-doer, the latter may be per mitted to compound for the: injury he has done by adequate pecuniary compensation, i

But when, as in this case, the whole world has become a witness of the outrage, the conscience of mankind, already scandalised by the impunity with which such wrongs can be inflicted, would revolt against the suggestion that by the voluntary action of the victim the way should be made easier for the wrongdoer. Whatever Mrs Laijg worthy might personally in moments of weakness feel disposed. to accept to escape from the terrible strain of this incessant j battle, the sympathy which her case lias ex cited throughout the three Kingdoms forbids all compromise. In the cause of her sex, and for the honour and prestige of English justice, she must fight through Without flinching. There is not a woman in the land, from the Queen on the throne down to the humblest of her subjects, whose cause is not more or less bound up with that of Mrs Langworthy's. It is a great trust that she has to bear, and a perilous post which she has to occupy. She lias to do battle for justice, and defend with unflinching resolu tion the rights and claim's recognised by the courts. There are thousands and tens of thousands of men and woman in England, and Scotland who would feel in dignant, and justly indignant, if one who by so strange a fortune has been told off to " hold the pass" wero to falter at bho last, or suffer herself to bo bought off by one doit or stiver less than the full satisfaction decreed by the Courts,

But Mrs Langworthy will not flinch. In the course of this narrative sufficient has been said to show that she is no ordinary woman—else had she long since succumbed in the unequal strife. Hero, however, is a letter which, on the 14th of April, she ad dressed to Mr Samuel Bircham, of the firm of Bircham and Co,, 46, Parliament etreofc :—

" Mrs Langworthy asks no favour ; the time for that is past. Four years of want, insult, persecution, and defamation are not effaced in a day •' Mrs Langworthy claims the fulfilment of the orders of the honourable English court, and she is now two experienced to be so far her own enemy as to take herself out of the court from whom, and whom alone she has received humane consideration.

"Mrs Langworthy often wonders when she sees Mr Bircham in church, does he ever remember the text, ' Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven,' when he lends the whole weight'of'his firm to aid a woman who has passed the allotted threescore years arid ten to blast the future of her only son's only child. " Mrs Langworthy cannot stoop to refer to the porsonal treatment she received from Messrs Bircham and their unfiled affidavits, but she has treasured up the speeches made by Inderwick at the Appeal, March 3,1886, and by Yate Lee at the Bankruptcy, March 18, 1887, in reference to her own child, to whose support not the price of a pint of milk was ever offered until now, when they offer £30 per annum for this young lady. " This has enabled Mrs Langworthy to bear up against the trials of the past four years, in order to fight for her child, know ing how little justice her daughter will re ceive from its father.

" Mrs Langworthy prefers her lot to her enemies' conscience."

Mr Samuel Bircham made no reply, so the world is left without information as to the range of his memory for the Scripture text quoted by Mrs Langworthy- One thing, however, is clear. The woman who wrote that letter is not likely to strike her flag at an enemy's summons, or sacrifice the interest of her child to the convenience of her mother-in-law, or the selfishness and brutality of its unnatural father.

CHAPTER LXXIII.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE ?

The bankruptcy proceedings are still going on. The cross-examination of the mother in-law has begun. The examination of the sister-in-law has still to take place. Tho courts have still to decide what is the 'allowance which Mr Langworthy ought to make for the maintenance of his child. The principle has been laid down that if either; party to the ceremony regarded the mar riage as valid at the time the maintenance should be fixed at tho same scale as if tho marriage were really valid. But how much that should be has still to bo computed. Meanwhile her alimony is running up at the rate of £100 per mensem. It is now almost £4000. The claim for damages for breach of promise will come on to be assessed in August. But the defaulter is outside the jurisdiction of the court. He is still a mem ber of the United University Club, to which his mother paid his subscription last year. Ho is probably still a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. He is a mem of the Bar. But it may be expected that he will be expelled from his clubs, and the Bencher of the Temple can hardly allow his name to pollute any longer their honorable roll.

Is Mr Langworthy a British subject, born, nurtured, and reared on English soil, educated at our great national school and university to be allowed to defy the de crees of his country's courts merely by re moving himself outside the jurisdiction ? That is the question that is now to be an swered, and everyone will answer it in the negative. If Mr Langworthy can be brought to book no effort must bo spared to compel him, despite all his insolence of wealth, and the remoteness of his domicile, to make what reparation the courts enact to his in jured wife and deserted child. What is wanted, therefore, is a Fighting Fund to enable Mrs Langworthy to prose cute vigorously, both at home and in South America, the proceedings which alone can bring Mr Langworthy to recognise that there is a higher authority than his lawless will, and that civilisation has a curb even for such cruelty as his —a Fighting Fund to provide the ainews of war, and, at the same time, a Subsistence Fund to keep tho poor lady from experiencing the privation, the dread of absolute destitution, from which she has at last, let us hope finally, escaped. Those funds the people of Great Britain and Ireland can provide— and will.

<To he Continued To morrow.)

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Saturday—o,B, 9,9 30 ' ' •do> From Union Bank to Mount Albert and Avm, dalo-y.15,10.15, Urfß. 2 (omitted on sKutJS 3 (omitted on Saturday,, (omitted Saturday, 5.15, 6.10 omitted on Saturdnv* 8 (Mount Albert only), 10.15 (oniittedon Saf.f.' day). Saturday-115,2.30,3145. 9,10, ll.batui" From Ayonda.e and Mount Albert-7,8,9,10.15, ffid*|&a 9 (M°UQt From National Bank to New Lynn—lo.3o /ft™*. Avondale only), 1.30, 5.30. Saturday-iW( Sundays, weather permittmg_io.4s 6. From New Lynn-8.15, 12.if ( f rom Avouaa'e only), 3.10 (omitted on SPturday). SaturaaT— 5.30. Sundays, weather permitting—9 a. m . Special 'Buse3 put on should suffictenendnoft. mentoflor. „___ «-"«uue jm VERYBODY nowadays drynfes Wolfe's



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T. P I A o o-i. t - Spectaclesfe'gSS?*- Telescopes, Binocular "ieWy Drainage Levels, Kla&W*- Abaeyu 7 DrawinglnstpuiSta ffi^'lWaS*•»* Ships' Logs, Soxtantf'n p«aUe?Ri,i Magic Lanterns wd sffife? 1 J^bta* cheap, Us * "-Powerful, p^,. ' OPPOSITE mpon^n^,- Iron Curved for Y^,, (ANY PATCBHO AT SHORTEST HOHO| George Mocaui • Manufacturing Plumber, AND IMPORTER OF ALL TRADE REQClsmj WELLESLEY STREET EAST (opposite New Library), *nd BROWN fcDAVI'OTMansL-fllun \ HAS FOR SALE -50,000 feet Downpipes (all sizes) - I 50,000 feet Galvanized Water Pipes (all ska* ! Lead-head Nails, Lead Washsri' PorWrfi Ovens, Furnace Frames, Copper Boff etc,, etc., etc ™ Larpst and best selectioa of Gas Globes t« As G. MoCAUL is a direct Importer fix cash, he Is to a position to BUpply the biSI at the lowest remunerative prices. v Liberal djseotints to the trade. Otaalw ordera cunctually attended to. GEORGE McCAUL, Mannfacturlne Plnrnoer, and Imtrtrtffltfdl I'rade Roquisites, Welleslcy-st. East (opptaiti Uew Library), and Brown and My-siieei, Tham(a.r :>: rtun.st G'c&fir obHsi Bma Ktrtas REVOLVERS REVOLVERS GUNPOWDER! Shot, Caps, Cartridges,, Wadding, WIKE CARTEIBOES, LOACC'G A&ikM | AMMUNITION Of Eveet DBSCErpnoyi Fishing Tackle, Cutlery, Fireworto, to > The bestand cheapest House in Aucklandte the above is at B. EVTTT'S, 254, QaEEif-STfflßt ; Repairs and every desci'ipUon rfOWgjg 1 tthe lowest possible pnoes.and saUsiacuis guaranteed. D. EVITT, Gotmakeiv ■■■• QUEBN-STE^KT, AJIOKLAP (Opposite Uie Market House) ■■ PRICE^ISTS_SEN7iOANYADS?^ "I"~~CrPELHXM Ladder, gjj and Floor Cramps on HirO' _—^— HORSE COVERS, ~jT GAITERS., *^RIVINfI_APgOS-^^-^ < Illustrated.