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Barstow School - Weathercock Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

 - Class of 1914

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Page 19 text:

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A VALENTINE If grew more plaintive and at last with a muttered oath he crept to the childs side again: her lips were dry now and the hand he timidly touched was hot. Shaking his head helplessly. he held the glass of water to her lips but she weakly turned her head away. For a moment he thought rapidly, or as rapidly as one whose instincts were all brutal could think. Twice he turned toward the stairsg twice he hesitated and looked down at the bag he carried. Surely it could not have been the good in the man that triumphed and led him to the telephone to call a doctor, for the father had said that there was no good in such a specimen and was, even at that moment. claiming that a sagging mouth always showed that a mans controlling impulse was always self-preservation, The man himself opened the front door for the doctor and met his suspicious glance sullenly: told him where the child was, showed the bell that would call the nurse. Then he waited till the doctor had reached the top of the stairs before he again entered the library: as he crossed the room to the window he stooped and picked up bits of something that shone white in the darkness. Then he let himself and his bag out of the window and closed it silently after him. ESTHER CONNELLY. IQI4. A Valentine SENSELESS scrap of airy fairy lace. Midst glistn'ing gauds of tinsel and of gold. How can this tiny billet e'er enfold My minds sweet rapture, and my heart's swift race. Whene'er I hear thy voice or see thy face? The wide. wide ocean seems a tiny drop. Compared to this sea-restless soul of mine. XVhich thou dost govern by thy grace divine: O fair and pure and sweet beyond compare, I pray thee harken to my ceaseless prayer! Doms Howiss. IQI4.

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Page 18 text:

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I4 THE WEATHER-cock at it a minute. she pushed it aside distastefully and amused herself by tearing paper into tiny bits and stuffing them into thc brass dogs head that served as a paper weight. But somehow tonight the table top wasn t as thrilling as usual1 she climbed slowly down from the chair, loitered across the room and paused at the door to snap the light on and off several times before she left the library dark and wandered out to a seat on the stairs. l-ler head had begun to feel queer and light like a toy balloon. She laughed a little to think how she would look with a red balloon for a head. Why hadn't she taken that last glass of water at dinner? It would taste so nice and cool now. She wondered if nurse would mind very much if she didn't bathe and undress but just went to sleep on the stairs. But no! probably mother would stumble over her and repeat that the nursery was the place for little girls. So. wearily she climbed the stairs, dragging one foot up after another and stumbled into the nursery, When nurse came up she found a feverish little girl with shaky lingers fumbling over stiff buttons and button holes. She hurried her to bed. answered her plea for water- lots of water. -and left her with a quick. unheeding kiss on her hot little cheekg for there was a gallant young policeman on that block that even now was Ending the back porch a con- venient resting place. And in the dark library? There was a scratch-scratch-scratch as of a diamond cutter being run over glass: the snap of a lock as it sprang back: and the soft sliding of a window casement carefully raised, A Hash light flitted over the room and a dark hgure stepped swiftly to the table and switched on the light. Tne mans quick glance appraised the tables contents1 suddenly he snatched up the photograph lying there and looked at the pictured face and the inscription below. 'iConvict 8430. In sudden rage he ripped it in pieces and flung it on the Hoor. Then glancing about to be sure no valuable had escaped his eye he turned the light out, passed into the hall and silently up the stairs. A door opened noiselessly and he found himself in a room dimly lighted by a shaded globe. I-le stepped toward the dressing table and stood silently alert. gun in hand. as a half moan came from the bed on the other side of the room. He peered through the shadows until he made certain that only a child lay there. Still alert to danger he went to the bedside and leaned over. The childs hair clung to her forehead in damp rings and breathing was heavy and uneven. She murmured something about a red balloons being hot and turned restlessly. The man looked down at her a secondg then straightened up with a shrug of his shoulders. l-le went to the dressing table. picked up a trinket or two and dropped them in the bag he took from his pocket. He passed from room to room ransacking drawers and rapidly piling up his loot. Several times the sound of the childs soft moaning drew him to that room but each time after a quick glance he came back to his work. But the moaning

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