Camden High School - Megunticook Yearbook (Camden, ME)

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, .K My dream has answered all those selfish things I was thinking yester- dwy. How could I ever have been so stupid as to wish for anything more qalendid than what I have? I em really the most fortwmnte girl in the worlds' You see, Mary had really been dreaming of her own little home end family. She was in reality the Mary Jrne of her dream, Bob ond Jock were reelly'her brothers, and the sweet-faced ledy was her mother. Behbfra Dwinal, '54. SACRIFICE . It was late in the afternoon. The sun, Q golden ball of fleme pmrod its hot reys down on the desert. The send dunes shimmered and danced under the awful he t. Over the bro st of n tell dune stegxered two figuresi They wflkcd with logging steps and occasionally one stmeeered and almost fell. Sometimes one or the other or beth would give e glad cry end run o few steps forward hopefully only to find that they were pursu- ing n mirage. These two men were clod in rags and tettersg the withered heet distorted remains of whet hed been neat, white, sun helmets, the rugged soiled tetters of whit had been trim khaki shirts end breeches, end worn battered heat-cracked boots which hed ence been of fine leather. A piece of squore stone, curiously curved, rose out of the send about six feet. It was the remains of some ancient ruins. The two men flung themselves into the slight shade efferded by this stone. Wwell, Chorley, we'll rest here till midniaht end then go on.N The speaker was Q slender blonde men, burnt e dark brown by the sun. He was very young--little more then e boy and his face was still hendsome end boyish in spite of the hollow, sunken cheeks end the sun-wrinkles about his eyes. Hia compenion was e short, large-framed mon with curly block heir end ole blue eves. His fece toe was derkened end drown. It hed . A s s once been e breed jvviel face. nHow much more weter we get?N mumbled Chrrley thickly. His cempnnion arose on one elbow, unscrewed the stopper of the canteen, and looked in. WWell,W he replied, Wwe may be able tv make it lost two deys more.N 12.

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WTWQ days morern groaned Charley. WIt'1l take four days anyway to reach the nearest oesis.n Both men remained silent for a moment, thinking. NSay, Kerl,n said Charley, breaking the silence. NWhnt?N NI wesjust thinking--one of us could make it. Sce?' If two of us could go two days on e certain amount of water it stands to reeson that one of us could so twice as for--don't it?' WPrecisely,N replied Karl. Nwell then--,N Charley looked down et his side, towards his hol- stered revolver. The holster et Kmrl's side was empty. UNO--not thHt,N siid Knrl. nL1sten-LI hxve e plen,N continued Charley. He reached in e tattered pocket ard pulled out two pearls. One was e white peerlg the other was e shimmerine bleck. NThese pearls ere exactly the same size and shape. I will place them in my empty canteen--there! New then, in this revolver, in my holster, I have exactly one bullet. We will each teke 5 pearl from the canteen. The one that nets the black pearl takes the fun ind shoots the other through the heert er the brain. W at's the difference?' NNo! No! That would be murderin cried Kerl. NOn the centrery, I'e consider it an not of mercy.N NNe! Nelu NIt's our only hope.N Karl remained silent, rubbing his blonde heir, his brown eyes troubled. He steeled himself with en effort end scid, WI Will, Charley--I will we threufh with it 'nd I hone to G-d I Cot the white peerlln T ey each tilted the centeen end poured into their helf-clenched fist n smooth round pearl but sit still, rewarding one another for e few moments, heldinn the pe rls in their respective tiehtly clenched fists. Desperately Karl spread open his hind and the black pearl stared up at him bnlefully! Hu arose, dropped the cursed to the sind, end stepped on it, Chfrley held out the revolver. .Acting on Q desperete resolve, Karl fresped the gun. He stepped backward three pfces. Slowly his erm came up end he took careful dim nt f spot between Chnrley's eyes. 15.