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John Haggadorn and today a story from Robert Barr. He was a Scottish

Canadian English novelist and

and short story author who published under the pen name Luke Smart.

He was born in Glasgow, Scotland and emigrated to Canada with his parents in

1853 when he was four years old. In 1881 he relocated to London where he embarked on his most prolific stint of writing

publishing a work a year throughout the 1890s. His favorite genre was crime.

And now a crime story with an unusual twist titled an alpine divorce by Robert Barr

In some natures there are no half tones, nothing but raw primary colors.

John Bodman was a man who was always at one extreme or the other.

This probably would have mattered little had he not married a wife whose nature was an exact duplicate of his own.

Doubtless there exists in this world precisely the right woman for any given man to marry and vice versa.

But when you consider that a human being has the opportunity of

being acquainted with only a few hundred people, and out of the few

hundred that there are but a dozen or less whom he knows intimately.

And out of the dozen one or two friends at most, it will easily be seen when we remember

the number of millions who inhabit this world, that probably, since the earth was created,

the right man has never yet met the right woman.

The mathematical chances are all against such a meeting meeting and this is the reason that divorce

courts exist. Marriage at best is but a compromise and if two people happen to be

united who are of an uncompromising nature, then there is trouble. In the lives of these two young

people there was no middle distance. The result was bound to be either love or

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