Ben Avon High School - Novaneb Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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UJWL'JWL'JUL'JWL'JWL'JW uwwwww 3 wwwwwww WUWWQWUWUWWNWWWWWWWWW 7726 Boamemng In the early seventies a freckled-faced lad of twelve had his head of stiff, orange-colored hair pushed into a ruin-harrel by another young felluw ot' the same age. Now this might be thought, by some, to be sufficient punishment for snatching an apple from the hands of a young lady of ten. But the second boy, who had black hair, also had a determined little chin, so he ended the chastisement of his playmate by changing- the mlur of one at his blue-gray eyes, and making him promise to let t'hertt alone. The maiden herself was a shy little thing, not yet very mueh interested in boys, except as tormenters. Consequently she was somewhat surprised when her wrong was avenged by one. Thereafter, she smiled at hlaek-eyed Larry and ignored the vanquished Jed. The next evening Larryis father was shot by Jed's older brother, after a quarrel about the boys. The winds of public feeling- fanned the hauling anger into a raging feud. All the countryside was armed. As the boys grew older, Marion Rutledge wound her two yellmv hruids around her dainty head and pinned her curls out of sight. She lowered hei- skirts and wore shoes and stockings. At eighteen she became Mrs. Lawrence Hhillips, and the Rutledges were made certain members of the Phillips army. Then, merely for spite, Jed married Peggy Henry, nne 0t Marion's rivals in beauty. Down through the generations swept the consuming fiames of revenge, Wiping out sons, husbands, fathers, until but one son was left in each family. These were Tom Scott, a notorious trouble maker, and Ted Phillips. a revenue agent of the United States government. A Year after he had received his appointment, Phillips, who had vainly tried to make a friend of his enemy, captured a still, run by him. The culprit escaped, and was thought to have left the vicinity. However, he had slll'X:1Veld many, scrapes With Phillips, and the 121w, and he knew several obseme hiding-places. One evening, while most of the villagers were e came up a side street, moving from shadow to shadow. first time he had come since his hight from justice, and neatly evesi'l visit had brought him food stolen from a doorstep 01' iv111doxirl-si'.rev approached the Phillips, store, for Phillips was grocer as w: h ldtth-Yountr agent, he saw two boys playing behind it. He had seen theseD . eaino: lieai'e: children of his enemy several times before, but never alone. law D , - . , , New to a he heard their hearty laughter, and the deglre f01 , lei??? g1 A sting: suppery TOIIL Scott 7 This was not the previous As he enue ' Sixtyseve'n DVELMHM u i 1 3615me m1

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. eh. Z wwLUL'JlWJUJWWWW !l'Jl'JWW lel'JL'll'Jl'lL'JL'JKUL'IWWWUWWWWWUWWWWWWWWUWWWWWMWWWWWU K I l I l guuuu 'ut'l w I 1h II V - V ' Jilt- ???3, darh'ng! Shouted the mUHlGJ', lmeelmg' beside him. ttWhutls the 'l ngattegi Recelvmg no answer from the white lipS, she 1mm him to 3;? t e ta e. HRun for Daddy, Jimmy. He's ilCl'USN the street. Hurry: oh, hurry dearll, ' t ' l: y , V . E HB:ut I can t mother. My teet wnn't work. My homtls all big and sir-kf' E The chlld, staggered toward a chair and fell uvross it. v: E ttOh, my baby, tool Jimmle E Terrified, She placed his limp form beside his lJl'UTllel' uml Hm. sm-oum- mg, across the Street. The crowd before the hotel arose at her ttlllCN and h hastened to meet her. C: y HOh, Ted, the boys! Theylye heen poixunetll They're dying! llut't'y, l : someone, and get a doctor! Run!H E- .G The crowd separated some seeluno a doctor, others going with the parents. C: By the time the children were put to bed, a neighbor arrival with Dr. E Rowland. After an examination, during- which the vhihh'on were brought to E consciousness only to drift into wild delirium, the tltN'TtJl' mnmunml. '- Poisoned Looks llke alsenic t, E All night the fever raged. With conditions one minute hopeful. the next i '5 discouraging, they struggled on. The mother had been overcome by grief, but by nine olclock she had gained control at herself. With TM and Dr. E Rowland, the only physician for twenty miles, she kept her sm'rmvt'ul vigil. .: At dawn the younger boy grew 21 little quieter. but the older grew vonstantly 1: worse. -: Th Village was searehed before nightfall and the following morning, but 5 in vain. Phillips was sure Scott had come back. He had never really hated E: the scoundrel; he had had pity, impatience contempt, disgust, but never he- V: fore, hatred. Some people thought that he was a1 hundred miles away hldmg- g somewhere. A few thought he had perhaps come back to deal lns last blow g to his life-long enemy. g: As Jimmyls delirious cries subsided t0 mumbles and murmurs, Joseph's g grew to shouts and screams, and at ten otelock, despite the frantlc efforts at g the doctor and the parents, his little soul took flight. g G By afternoon the babyts fever had grown worse. HLet me gay? bsolllle, g5 J0e-I want some, tOOr-Da d dy said we musth go near- that mane ffe 5E act E- but Mother. says he doesxft know how to be goodel hked that stut; Iyitlelu- G . . . . - , w- e 1 - - thmg 1s Jumpmg, MothereWhy d1d he run my 213? He went up g G R Sixty-nine