Camden High School - Megunticook Yearbook (Camden, ME)

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Charley merely grinned. Karl's trigger finger tightened. Chnrley's grin broadened. NOkoy, Karl boy, get it over with,W he said cheerfully. WThis is os easy as follin' off n log.W The trimger finger tivhtened very perceptibly. Another second und it would ell be over. Then the revolver drooped to the send with.a thud. Karl shook his heed weurily, WI cen't do it, Chnrley,N he murmured. NYou went back on your word, Korl,n Charley sfid. Ult Wes the first time.H Port 2. When the sun hed dropped beneeth the rin of the horizon and the derkness had closed in, Chorley and Karl ewch unrelled o ragged blon- ketg for though the desert dfys are hot, the nirhts ore very chill. Each rolled up in his blanket. NGodd nirht, Ch2rley.N NGodd night, Korl.N In spite of himself, Kerl fell inst ntly fsleep. When he awoke, hours leter, there nts no moon, but the sky was dotted with countless stars. He lifted himself on one elbow :nd peered in his comrode's direction. By the stvrs' dim light he could meke out the huddled mound of blanket. Karl reeched in his shirt pocket and produced Q soiled, tattered, scrap of paper. From fnother pocket he took n pencil stub. He busied himself for several minutes, scrihblinm on the paper. When he was throumh writing he crept over to the square stone. 1 Around the bnse nf this stvne there were Q erect mfny chips which had been eroded from the stone block by the elements. Karl took four of the largest of these end crawled rs ncer es he dored towards Chcrley's sleeping plrce. He plfced the scrap of poper on the send and nlrced s rock on o'ch of the four corners of the pnper so thot it ceuldn't blew nwfy. He stuffed send under his blon- ket to moke it look as if he were still lying there. Then he walked off into the desert to meet his fate. Part 5. x It was several days leter that e caravan stumbled across the camp near the square rock. Here is what they found: 14.

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Two tattered blankets, each stuffed with send to make the semblance of a sleeping human being. Two pathetic notes, each weighted with rocks end lying near the blankets, which reed as follows: To my best friend Charley: I am going away--into the desert. You will go beck--to life. Don't make my sacrifice vein by trying to follow me. I'm glad I couldn't keep my word. Your humble friend, Karl. My deer little fair-haired Karl: With the remaining water you can reach civilization. I'm going out into the desert. Don't follow me because it would be of no use. We'd both be goners. New be e nice little boy and run along home. So long. Charley. John A. Knight, '54. THE LOCKET When Beverley was sixteen years old her grandmother, who was very ill, called her to her bedside and told her she had something very important to tell her. She held in her hend e black velvet box and it was in the shape of e heert. Beverley was ell excited end so the grandmother, to soothe her, told her sho must listen first to the story end then she might see what was in the box. Here is the story which Beverley's grandmother told her: Wwhen my greet grandmother was e smell girl, she lived in Eng- lend. She was very fond of jewelry, especially lockets, but her family were too poor to get these smell luxuries for her and thus she was deprived of her heert's desire. WSho had the habit of going fer into the forest to pley and one dey she discovered e min lying on the ground, apparently hurt. She ren heme end get her older brother to help her. The two of them together get the men to the house end then, es her mother end father were both nwey, bathed his wounds end gave him some nourishe ment. In e short while the man beceme conscious and soon regained his strength. Then, without one word of acknowledgment for helping him, he arose and went upon his wey. Lorraine, ns her name was, was very much disewnointed, because he hed never even told her his name. NA month later, one evening, there came Q knock et the door and when the mother answered it, she received from the hands of n 15.