HUGO'S REVENGE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 3 (Supplement)

HUGO'S REVENGE.

* GERMAN OTHELLO'S JEALOUSY. .."Berlin is laughing at a story of love, jealousy, and revenge, in which the heroine was a girl, called Rosamunde, who ■works in a cafe at Treptow, a suburb of /the capital. This fair Rosamunde's .smile fascinated Hugo, a waited at the cafe, and • ■ she responded <to ' his passionate declaration. But then she smiled quite innocently, she said, at a young man' who •was drinking coffee in the cafe. Hugo made a terrible scene, and smashed up the furniture in her lodging, but after refusing to speak to him ' for ten days his dark looks frightened her into making up the quarrel/ Still, she was really more attracted by another waiter in the cafe, whose name -was Ernst- and when Hugo •saw his rival" and Rosamunde standing hand in hand inti, tramway. car, he persuaded the other young man ia .the case to follow the couple.

■When he returned to say that .they were reclining in idyllic happiness on the grassy bank of the Spree, Hugo tore Øog his apron and armed himself -with a stout stick. Then he surprised the false Eosamunde and the treacherous Ernst in,a tender' embrace, gave ■ his rival a sound thrashing,-and threw him into the Spree.-

Ernst was not drowned'. He got out of the water and did not even catch a cold. And he had the pleasurable feeling that Hugo had placed himself in his power. 'He went to the police and charged Hugo with attempting rto murder him.

The police -only told Ernst' that he deserved what he got if he interfered withthe affairs of other young men,'especially when "they.had an Othello temperament like Hugo. Rosemunde now takes a different view of Hugo, and believes that, after all, he is the one she really loves!