East High School - Exodus Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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- ff. hi .yi i 4 . l ,X H Q T cg, 4.VV ' . 'f Q e .D I Hi' . BLUE AND G-oLD x 3 to the state? sh o ie. If I give seen you before. Sorryl? Why, you're them to the st e ive .hem to you. Athe,l1y3ocrite.-No, tl1at's wrong, she was 1 X Dare you deny You know the outcome of the x - ' i oubtful, and you think to tu1'n tr ' and betray the country. You ' d come to an understanding v' .1 ur enemies and lead an easy life o my lands ever afterwards. You are ll queen. you never were. You do not like the necessary labor of ruling. You hypocrite! You cold-faced hypocrite! Oh, Ilvc been wanting to call you that fo a long time. CPausej. Away! Back! . You'll contaminate this death. Y 1 you-C falls back i11 a stupo1'D. QIICPN-,S faeeg she holds herself besz. e ri -u'ith any 8170I'li. As soon as he has ho ' led, she mares quickly back and goes over: to the left front and talks witla. his ieife. 4 he om-rse meanuhzle has rome to ihe szde the bed During this, fear has crept Eze a.-ml is 'now bathing h is f0'I'0ll6lld. I Queen: How could he 1a'- known? Surely no one told l1i1n. - VVife: Your majesty, , a t are not im- plying that I informed hi 'ax Queen: No, no. But i very strange. Vlife: It was j st 1 g ess, a lucky guess. He was de e . o you think he could know my 'yi- Qneen: Impossi ' The Earl and 1 are the only ones w know it besides yourself-but 1,111 afr . of him. Wife: He is coming und again. It would be unwise for me t to see him, however 11ll1Cl1 I may dread it Qinoving over and kneeling beside his bedj. Man: Wlho are you? VVa.it! I know, you 're my wife. My wife? IVife: Stop, John. You have said enough to the queen. Q beautiful as you., Stop, let nk thilidiefgfgrttzlhtly' youtage lying. Did you lie ffo me ,bbfdgff odayflf uhfoj 1 1 I ,. You're not te. hhot she. .No. Sl1eQyVi'4fj'pf-7 pure and bright, uiftarnished, and for 'll your beauty, you are quite corroded, my dear. I beg your pardon, there's some- thing wrong there, too. I have it! My lDear'? Let me see?, Ah, you're not my dear. Cllis wife startsj. Ha, ha! Of course, it's true. Did you think I was blind? fLoohvs away and his wife goes dll-?'l:'llg' the f0ll0'lC'?ilIg'2. . Vlfas I blind? 0, no, I could see. I saw. Go to your arl. You never loved me. You wanted ny money. You're in with the hypocrite. he hypocrite? Who was she? flooking back to 'the place where h-is wife had been heneelingj Ah, I remember, she was here. fHfis voice has been getting falifu-ter and fa-inte-1',, and at last with a. gesture of pa-in he puts ll' ha-nfl on eaeh. temple and sinks Bach on his bed. All is quiet for a- moment, loitlz. the queen. and his wife on- the left, the bed in. the center, and the ?11H'Sl2 at the foot. Il'hen he catches sight of the 'nm'se. His hcmds fall away from his head and he raises slightly, staffing intently at heztj I Man: Cin a totally different voice, low and full of emotionl Mother, I thought you were dead, mother. Mother, dear, come to me. Come! Qnurse approachesl loser, mother, oh, much closer Cnurse neelsj. VVhy did you stay away from e so long, mother! I've needed you, oh, o much. I have been very sick, but I'll oon be better and then we will go away rom this together, mother. Dearest, be- ore you came I saw a girl. She was like We ge -5, l I px . ef 2 o-'fl I Q 1 Man: The queen? I don't understand. ,ou, dear. Her face had the same purity IVife: No consequence. John, Iilll that yours has. I thought she was Very y sorry it is so bad with you. I'1n sorry- eautiful. She used to bathe my fore- i Man: Sorry!? Hah! I thought I'd ead when I was fevered. Mother, noth- I J 7 ees five? ee ' E f ---.L-fy ff Y Sify. f- 'Lad p A . A f , ' ' 1 ., f- V f 5 . 'W I x V Ji! ' , . i W 57. f ee Cuff! 'Wk . Q JL j

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' - Y-1-----Q -- - - - - --- - - V Y - . V, -3-NAfbJ.q,.'Qf, lk I ' I , ' I x QAAJ ' ' ' . . f jfjdlefdp f TI 2 E - G H s c H o o L - f g q X 7 ' . , ! ' ' Orderly: And why? 9' fl he queen and the dying man. s uizife come , 'Y Nurse: Ah, there you l1ave 1 eg as the in, the orderly goes ou-t. The queen- has a I X English put it, but I suspect is to re- haughty, arrogant beaa-iviig. Her face ' Cx ceive l1is 1nedal of honor 10 , inec there cruel and heard and her eyes glitter -wit! 's 110 hope of his recover ' ytre of the eyes of a cobra and the b ,J of Orderly: The do not even two impossible ClI.Cl7'lZ.0l'lC,S 'in a 5' fieent, oder hope? He is i V way. yet formal setting. TheA,u , 'otal per- Nurse: He's b eding internally. The feciiou-5 her beauty -is sd? 5 not a flaw surgeon said t 1 g that l1e had at best mars the e.rqu'z'site fax cot a line fin, 'lter only a day 1 to live. body is out of ilt' n. But sh.e,seems Orderly: P r fellow. 'i-nert, listless, lif . The truth. is that s e Nurse: P sibly. Yet i11 a way, l1e has has no -will., vife stands at the HT' jf lived his l' What more is there in store be 1 -nd the 'man an lla. qi .eeu fO1'hl1lln yborn, well educated, having s nd . de him. He pay f o it,6'7ll1t'i0lL. 'perf sique, high ill the court of our A ' iarfa le chan-ge h. ile 1 i over him. 'P 'C sq, Q22 5 J little H u1 ry, i11 favour with the queen, Rlld married to the most beautiful woman in the realm! He had all these, and then to die heroieally for his country! Could there be more? He is at the apex of his life. From 11ow O11 l1e would have decayed, and, though I have witnessed much during this war, I shudder to think of the falling back of an old 1112111 to l1is grave. Better far, to die as he has done. Orderly: Tush, girl, romance has you. Nurse: No doubt, no doubt, but I- Man: Nurse, nurse,-nurse- Nurse: CAt his bedsideb Sir? Man: Nurse, am I dying? Nurse: I-I do not know Csilence for a IHOIDQIIID. NO!-No! Oh, sir, you can- 11ot die! - Man: Ceonversationallyj Doe's given me up, eh? I Nurse: No, ol1, no That is-I n1ea11- I did not say he had, sir. Man: No matter, girl. I compliment your lying. Very poor. That 's all. Nurse: Cat door againj I told him, l told him! He knows, Orderly: Steady, child. He would have to sometime. fi-l knock is heard and as the orderly opens the door the 'nurse goes to the foot of the bed. . . , His face has become rel H , mls has have taken on a brilliianey ,fi zey gfaee toward the foot of the bed bu 'verkgelz-earl, of the izurse. The que it f uts her hand on his should ir, but 11, es 'not seem to feel- it. At last s 1 'lh I.l,lh'll.fd-1'dIQj beside h-im, thus bring er face ei-nite the bightj Que : Lord John, do you not recog- nize me? Man: Knot looking at herb You? R.ecog11ize--'Q I-don't- know. Recog- nize-you? Queen: I am your queen. Man: Cin a monotone this and follow- ingj Queen-you- V Queen: Lord John, you have done a very brave thing. You saved a IIIHHIS life at the cost of your ow11. The 8111- pire always rewards extreme bravery by tl1e Golden Triangle, and I am going to give you 0116 Cshe puts it on the Coverlet over l1is heartj. , Man : VVhat-reward--? Queen: It is for you and your heirs. And, Lord John, your estates? Ha.ve you left them to the state? ' Man: Estates ?-the state-lands-my lands-to the state if-No. My lands-to you-? Yes, yes-to you Clooking at her for the first tirnej. You? Give Bly lands Z e . new-H I , ,cw- ek b'7,a '1,LMf LGI' . Q if al

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K - V ..-.4 If f3glr:llwe- - f 4 EAST HIGH SCHOOL ing ever made me feel so happy since I was a boy, when you used to put your hand upon my forehead as I went to sleep. Put it there now, mother. Please, mother, now. fN'urse looks shyly toward his wife and than pats her hand on his bro-w.j While I was sick I grew to love that child. Imagine me with five years more than twice her age, yet loving her. But she does not love me, I know it, and it's best that way. Remember how, when I first went to school, you told me to divide my lunch with teacher, and after what a joke that always was with us. And how you used to rim my face with both your hands and kiss me as I went away. Mother, kiss me like that now. Quick, mother, quick. I feel-I the me-rse hesi- tates, blu-shes the ruddy color of youth., but with the trcmsyig-mfaiion of love on hor face she takes his face 'inn both her hands afnd kisses him as simply as his mother 'woulcU. Man: lVith that upon my lips, oh, mother dear, ,twould not be hard to die. fHc falls back Z-ifelessj , THE WINGED WONDER. By Ray Neal. It was all the result of a violent dis- cussion over at Tomlinson's, during the intermission at eleven o'clock. Jones held that four miles an hour was an easy walking gait. Ryan and Gray said it wasn't. 'UI tell you, said the latter, When you are doing better than three and a half, you are hitting her up pretty well, and you' couldn't keep it up for any length of time. Don't you remember, Jim, we timed ourselves last fall when we walked down to Gordon Park to foot- ball practice? Yes, and we went at a pretty good pace, too, added Ryan. U That was probably after that East Tech game when you were down-hearted and all bruised up after that twenty to nothing defeat, Jones explained. NUn- der those circumstances it would un- doubtedly take you an hour to walk a mile. No'it wasn't anything of the kind, we're not like you, and we were not down-hearted and all bruised up after that East Tech game, returned Gray. No, sir, you couldn't walk four hours that pace to save your neck. 'tI'm betting I could, Jones replied, I have done it often while out shoot- ing. I dare say you thought so, have you ever tried it at a measured stretch? No, but I can guess at about what rate I am walking, and four miles an hour is a good easy swing. I'll bet you a V that I can walk sixteen miles in four hoursf, I'll take that, answered Ryan promptly. So will I if you oifer the same, said Gray. Yes, I'll bet you too, said Jones. Just then Bill Bailey came in giving the door a thump as he opened it. NVhat are you fellows betting on now? he asked, Jones thinks that he ca.n walk six- teen miles in four hours, answered Ryan, and we each have tive dollars worth of opinion that he can't. lVhat do you think about it? I don 't know, he is a pretty fast man.