Monterey High School - El Susurro Yearbook (Monterey, CA)

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EL SUSURRO pulled out a stick of dynamite. Then, hunting among the bombs, he finally found one that had a fulminate cap in it. Very gently he extracted 'the cap from its position and set it in the dynamite. Next, taking a fuse from one of the rockets, he fixed it onto the cap. He then, with the greatest care. set the stick back in its box. Leaving the door open, he moved to another door that he knew opened into the playground a short distance from the woods. Opening this door very slowly, he saw a German standing close to him. Carr stepped back away from the door. And in doing so his foot hit a short bar that lay there. He stooped and picked it up. i , Then he did that which was most to be avoided. He sneezed! But, step- ping quickly to the side of the door, he raised the bar over his head. The German stepped to the door and opened it, putting his head inside to get a better view. Before he could draw it away, Carr brought the bar down with crushing force on his helmet. As the German hit the floor, Carr was already at his makeshift bomb. It was the work of an instant to hold a match to the end of the fuse. A second later he had sprung to the door, while back of him the fuse was burning with a faint crackle. 1 He stooped over the dead sentry and. as he arose again, he .had a pistol in his hand. A moment later he was racing across the playground. He was about fifty feet from the belt of trees when he saw little spurts of dust Hy up around him. Turning, he raised his pistol and emptied it into the group of Germans that were running toward him. Three of them fell and threw the rest of them into confusion. A second later Carr was hid by the friendly branches of the trees. One minute, two minutes Carr ran. Had his fuse failed? Had somebody discovered his work? Had all his work been in vain? His brain was in a whirl with doubt and fear. He stopped in a little clearing where he could see the red-tiled roof and cream walls of the school. Then slowly, gently, gracefully, the walls fell outward: the roof was lifted up, up, like a ball on a stream of water. Then they were dissolved in a great flame, a flame that mounted above the tallest pines around it, and disappeared in a cloud of black and white smoke that billowed up and, spreading, blotted out the whole sky like a blanket. ' Carr could not hear, but he saw and felt the pieces that fell around him. Goodbye, he whispered huskilyg I have learned a great deal within your walls and I am sorry that it had to be. But you have served your country even more in this way. For we can now beat back the Germans, who have lost their scant supply of shells. You have helped defeat Germany. Farewell, dear old Monterey High, farewell. And, turning, he stumbled toward his own lines. 28

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