Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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 Ynu ’-no-’ o ■ cc -c a L t it of cutting chalk or the end Mice Blue did go: so she got the poison instead of 11cq, because sne too put the chalk into her mouth. Janes was glad that Frank was not the murderer, but he waa sad that Nancy was. Yet this being her first offense an the poifloni: 6 being partly accidently, he thought that she woidU get off with a light sentence. Leo West ’49 AFTER I JUMPED I took a long bre. th, hold ny nose and jumped. This was the -oot 1 hadn’t thought the map would lead me anywhere. When I xouna it dd th t s' rb''dv had made it up end planted it for a joke. Yet, when I£had followed it a little and found the lay of the land just as it was on the map. I changed my mind. The “JP had been t°m ana had looked old; that was the only reason I hau follower it t -ii, $ov here I was, eight feet under, and I hadn’t hit bottom yet. It said 5n the map th .t it was only 3ix feet deep, I thought, a little scared. Suddenly I struck something hard.Then I felt myself gliding alonfr in an unknown river, at le st it was unknown to me. On one bank areat trees loomed up and on the other a geeat wall of rock came right up to the water. Oh! I exclaimed as I turned from gazing at the rock wall and noticed a clearing at the edge cf the river. There were many thatched roof huts and several Indians in the clearing. Some of the Indians were cooking meals over small fires outside the huts, some were weaving rugs, and some were making pottery. Out of the corner of my eye I caught sight of a couple of canoes down the river. I saw thern about the same time Jthat the Inuians saw me. Wahoo! Heap big stranger come down river, makum good feast, one of them called, pointing his finger at me. That made all of the Indians, (both on shore and in the canoes) look at me. Several of the ones on shore came down to the water and climbed into the canoes. TheJ all had great long spoars. As they paddled towards me, spears in hand and yelling at the ton of their lungs, I realized that they wore cannibals. When they got within range of mo, and spears hit the water all around, I figured Ghat I had bettor start swimming for the raft didn't float fast enough 'or me. I swam about a hundred feet to a bend in the river and came nr-a some rapids! It was too late. Down I went, right into a mass of rocks with water swirling every which way.

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11. Blue, feeling thirsty, had asked hin for cone water, which he had. brought her. Frank woe arrested, because he had supposedly poisoned Miss Blue, Janes felt that Frank was not guilty and , even though they were such bitter rivals, he decided to help Frank all ho could. He wondered who would have wanted to kill Miss Blue, Everyone liked her. He - fait quite cure that it must have been Tonny, licc, or Nancy - they being the only oncs£ besides Miss Blue, Frank, and him- self; who were in the building at the tine of tie death. Searching for a motive, he ran through the names of the suspects. First he took JJLice. She doesn't have any grudges against anybne as far as I know, he thought. She liked Miss Blue, and was a very good friend of both Frank and himself. Next he took Nancy. Nancy ,too, liked Frank, but that wouldn't make her want to kill Miss Blue. Finally he took Tonny• He was a quiet fellow who never seemed to have any en- emies, but ho could have had some secret quarrels. After running through the names previously mentioned without finding a clue, James hit uoon an idea. It was a long chance but it might work. The scheme was to call together the suspects,and tell then ho knew who the guilty party was but ho would give hin another chance to confess. This he did; then he dismissed them, after having announced that he knew who the murderer was and would name him in the morning. That night after James had gone to bod he still thought of the murder. Then he heard a faint squeak of his bedroom door. he lav tense in the dark , waiting. This visit had been expected. Su Hendly a moonbeam lit the room, and its light gleamed from a long pointed knifopoisod ever him. He reached up, grabbed his assailant'c wrist, and twisted. His opponent, screaming in pain, dropped the knife, James snapped on the lights, and to his surprise the murderer was a girl. t was Nancy. Why did you do it? demanded James. I didn't mean to kill anyone, far less Miss Blue',1 sobbed Nancy shakily. Tell log Just how it happened, urged James. Well, began Nancy, you know that Frank and I are real good friends, or I should saw 'were' good friends before -ALice cane along. During the game yesterday I put a weak, slow acting,poison in the chalk, not strong enough to injure fatally. I didir t know then that when a larsc quantity of cold water was added the wSak poison became deadly. That poison was meant for Alice, I didn't intend to kill her, but only to scare her a little and punish her for stealing Frank. How did you know that Alice would get the poison, not some- one else? questioned Janes,

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I felt ono 'Cf't lc frocks catch ao in tho mid loj and then it was os if the pressure of the watertyas slackening, ’ ml then increasing, slackening and again increasing against ny body. Then I realized that it had been only a drear., A 3hort stout mar. was kneeling over me giving me artificial respiration. After I had como too, ho told me how ho had w at clied ne jump and. when I hadn't come uo, had come down after ne. He found me .by a stone a,l the bottua and had brou.'ht me up. I told hin how I happened to be there and we both laughed. I .felt so foolish that I started for home assoon as I thought I was able to make it. It was a good thing that little ponl was in the country or I'd never have heard the end of it, but as it was no one heard about it but my mother. .Then I got home ny mother aske d, here did you get that aw- ful bump on your head? I told her all I knew about it, but I get no sympathy at all. 3he sent ne to bod without my supper for telling her one of the big- gest lies she had ever .heard. Odin Sanson '50 IIC ONE JILL E'ddR KNOW Connie Fay Walker turned and walked slowly s.way from the fa - Vorite corner drug store, .Ihat is wrong with ne?,!she thought, ± a ’not too h.ard to look at blonde1, I’m over five feet tala, ar.a I don’t weigh over one hundred and twenty pounds; yet, why doesn t that .new boy, Ted Weems, even look at me? Those wore tne thoughts running through Connie’s mind , as she hurried tiome through the bright sun- shine. Ever since the red-headed Ted Weems had come to town Connie and every other girl in school had done her best to get his attention, but the only girl he ever looked at was the darling of tho town, red- hc led Ruth Ann Fields. Connie hurried up the steps of her home. She hurried past the gtchen, and ran up the stairs to her room. She dug out a good book .roa under her bed, and began to read. • ■» The next morning , at breakfast, Connie's brother, Ronnie, an- nounced tha.t he had bought an old jalopy of a car -much to the disap- pointment of his parents.