Show I r I We Must Mus Live With Ourselves jl I 4 A R ROMANCE that was stranger than fiction came caine clattering over the newspaper telegraph wires just at edition time the other day Dispatches from off far-off Austria brought the news that Dr Ernest and his pretty secretary with whom he had eloped had been found dead in Vienna a hotel victims of a asui sui suicide pact The plot was one that would drive an author or a movie scenario writer into cies des Dr Ernest prominent Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land 0 O. chemist artist and amI clubman di disappeared disappeared dis dis- a appeared mysteriously last last fall on busin business ss trip to Philadelphia his wrecked and burned auto found in rural Pennsylvania footprints footprints footprints foot foot- prints leading to a nearby river river several thousand dollars in his pocket theories theories the the- ories Ones of robbery and murder mystery oblivion and Cj Lien n evidence hinting that Dr still lived Next the subsequent and equally mysterious mys mys- disappearance of Dr pretty young oung secretary and art model and she was married too leaving a husband just as he had left a wife and her young husbands husband's hus bus bands band's suit for divorce Months and arni no trace of either of them S hints that they were vere in South America where they could be e alone together s strange range rumors that both were dead dead mys mys- mystery tery seemingly impenetrable utterly baffling And then the discovery of two bodies in a Vienna hotel a middle-aged middle man and a pretty girl girl bullets from front an Austrian army revolver through the hearts of each each notes left behind to Lo identify them letters explaining the futility of their starred Ill-starred romance to fo their friends back home Dead in in in- each others other's arms miles from home a climax to a tragic advent adventure t ture rc in in defiance of convention This story w was ws s its own editorial It need ed cd no embellishment to present a conclusion or point a moral S Such ch was already there Dr and this girl Kirl fled lIed miles to b be alone They wanted to be free to get ret away from others They rhey did get front from others away 0 a.- a. yes yes yes- CS I but they found a far more vigilant companion hounded them wherever they went They could not get a away way from rom themselves After all conscience is the most relentless of our tormentors tormentors and and remorse the most cruel of all tyrants Vc We can flee from others But we cannot escape living with ourselves oU |