Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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11. . cer ainlv glad that his friend had gone and he could enjoy himself at college. He didnt dare to refuse his aunt's invitation ior tear she would leave her minev to some old maldA1 institution. Aunt umah was like that. He understood that her mansion was beautiful, and S? ?®8 dfea?ed of th« time when he would inherit her wealth! He ana his fiancee, Betty White, would perhaps reside there after they were married. , rather shv and bashful, was wondering what to do when he reacned Baltimore. As soon as he arrived he hired a taxi to take him to the home of Richard's Aunt Dinah. While he rang the door bell and Wf?T,Wfrti admitted, he thought he simplv couldn't go through witn it. As he was on the verge of turning away, a tall , smiling butler opened thedoor. The butler, who had been instructed by Mts. French, ushered him into her private sitting room. John, with so.e hesitation, was, her n®Phew • She was very pleased to see him and ■arprised bim with a light kiss on the cheek. John then decided that per- haps he had . better kiss her too. This pleased her so much that she be- gan thinking what a nice nephew she had, and told hi so. She also told him tnat she had never pictured him as very tall and light. He replied that he had not thought of her as she really was , but that he was not at all disappointed. A® ’ie wealthy aunt was anxious to show off her precious nephew, she had a party for him on the very night of his arrival. Everyone was only too glad to come and meet the much talked about Richard Greene from Massachusetts. .Then the time for the party drew near, John decided that he was really glad he had come. It wasja gre t treat to be pampered. The + ifgenSrfW,,n?-, r?2m was °Pened for the occasion, and Aunt Dinah had hired v :f‘e -13d Pallet orchestra, the best in the country, to furnish the music ihe dining- room table was set with the most beautiful crystal dishes LSterli?S,SllVer The rooms wer® attractively decorated with hot house flowers and ferns. The flowers alone cost one hundred dollars. What an enormous amount for flowers! And for only one occasion! All the floors in hiusfrldlUtS they 3hme llke nlrr°rs- anything in the - T e P®0?1® at the party were evidently used to wealth, for they seem- ed perfectly at ease, and were attired in expensive clothes. As the party- was drawing to a close, a girl by the name of Irene Foster entered. She Xf »?Uch surPr 8ed- to see John Smith at the home of Mrs. French as she didn t suppose they were acquainted. She began asking John how he happened to be there. Mrs. French, entering the room at that moment, over- neard part of the conversation and became suspicious. In the meanwhile, the boys back at college thought it would be great fun to have Ricnard show up in Baltimore about the time that John was impersonating him; so one of the boys had a fake telegram sent, stating that hi8 aunt was very sick and ending with - Please come at once. Rich ard, very much disturbed, started for Baltimore lmmedladetly without once thinking about John's taking his place there. He rushed into the house asking for his aunt. When Aunt Dinah saw a different person call- herl unt she peevishly demanded, Who are you? How dare you sail me , Aunt Dinah7 2 ’

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12. By this time Richard hadn't the faintest notion what the whole bung was about. He blurted out that he was Richard Greene, her nephew Aunt Dlnan was furious to find that her only nephew had tried to win her favor by letting someone else take his place, for she thought he snould have considered it an honor to spend a week-end with her. Some- how the news got around about the ther engagement . The aunt said she was glad she had discovered what Richard was like before she made her will, for the principal reason why she had invited him wasto see whether or not she might conside» him capable of taking care of her wealth properly, after she had finished with it. A few years later when John married Irene Foster , Mrs. French gave them her beautiful mansion as a wedding present. It was also rumored that most of her money and property was willed to Mr. and Mrs. John Smith. Wanda West '40 The Irony of Fate Chet Foster leaned out and reached for the telephone. Hello , he said. What. Trouble over at the chicken house? I'll be right over.. It was a very depressed Chet that drew on his clothes. He had worked hard all day trying to keep the rising flood waters from carrying away the chicken houses, and now at eleven, in a high wind, he was called to duty again. Well, anyway , thought Chet, what chance has a fellow on a chicken farm? For two years he had worked , for none too high wages, wuthout a sign of promotion, and now his four year old son was sick with pneumonia and his devoted wife nearly exhausted from work and worry. The doctor had said that Sonny Boy's chances were one in a thousand. Chet kissed his wife and took one look- perhaps his last in this world - at his son, and slioDed out the door. ’When he reached the chicken house in a boat, he found about half »he chickens dead and the water rising steadily. One wall was buckled and the other badly washed. The only possible chance of saving the chick- ens was to put them in bags and carrv them to higher ground. The electric lights had long since been out, the wires broken bv the weight of fallen trees. The only light Chet had was a five cell flashlight. The climax of Sonny Boy's sickness was drawing near. His wife was carefully following the doctor's orders, but little did it matter for only Providence could save the life of Chet's little boy. meanwhile, Chet struggled to save the chickens. The hurricane had abated somewhat, and he was en route to the building on higher land with his last load of feathered freightjfchen he would go back to his home, his wife, and his sick son. After safely depositing his chickens on high land, Chet started home. He had reached the road in front of his home, content with the thought of having saved as many chickens as possible, when his foot caught on something. He took one step. There was a blinding flash of blue, and Shet dropped in his tracks, his foot in- twined in a high voltage wire.