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Show ROMANCE WITH THE CHILL OFF. - A sad, sweet romance comes from Darmstadt. They were a young and pretty couple, whose glory and misfortune it was to love each other. Cruel fate frowned gloomily upon them. The total eclipse of despair darkened the newly-dawned day of their love. Life apart was undesirable; life together was impossible. And so they went out into the thick woods, dusky and dark, where the only sound that broke the oppressive silence was the occasional note of the tree-frog or the weird wail of the rain-crow. In the heart of this ghostly forest they found a lonely tarn. On its banks they tied themselves closely together. Then, taking a last pathetic look into each other's eyes, and clinging, lip to lip, heart to heart, for the last time, they plunged into the slimy pool. But, somehow, to die in the arms of love didn't feel as nice to the young man as he had thought it would. The water was uncomfortably chilly, and besides, it was getting into his ears and nose and mouth. He didn't like it. He freed himself from his companion, floundered out and left her to drown, although she besought him pitifully to save her. The young man is now serving out a sentence of three years and nine months' imprisonment for the part he played in the affair. |
