Freeport High School - Clarion Yearbook (Freeport, ME)

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LITERARY no light to he seen 11111l there was no one zl1'Olllltl. As the girls wo11ld not go up into the tower and refused to he left downstairs alone fill? hoys l1ad to content theniselves witl1 looking 2l,1'0l11lCl O11 tl1e lirst tloor. They found 1111 oil stove and after hunting a while fl1l'f' 'lilllllltl some kerosene. They lit tl1e stove and made some t'0l'lt't' which tl1ey found i11 21 euphoa1'd. To their surprise they found the other eupho11rds full of supplies. Evidently there l1a1l heen sonieone living there lately. After two hours, when they finally get ready to go honie, they opened the door and to tl1eir llll'ltlZOI11011f found it was snowing hard 1111d tlll'l1' hoat was go11e. Chris looked at her watch and found it was nine oleloek. lVh11t would tl1ey do? After much persu11sion tl1e girls 1-o11se11t1-1l to stay i11 tl1e liglithouse, though to tell the truth. there was nothing else they eould do. It was going to he 11 Nlglllill' blizzard and no one knew tl1ey were go11e. liven it tlll' hoat had been there, they C0l1ltlI1it have gone ill that Sf0l'll1. Ql'erl111ps it was tl1e most restless night that any of fllC111 experieiieed, hut when tl1e gray light hroke in tl1e morning it was still snowing hard with no sig11 of ever stopping. All that 1l11y it snowed an1l hy Illltl-11ffF51'l10011 they eould not see the llltllll land. FO1'fll1li1fi'ly there were enough provisions to last them two or three weeks though they all hoped they wo11ld not he 1lltlI'00llCd lfllilt llqlgtll of tiine. Another long night passed during whieh 110110 of fl1C1I1 got any sleep. The next niorning it lliltl stopped snowing and when tl1e girls XVC1lf o11t into tl1e kitchen whieh they had eleaned, the boys were shoveling so111e of the snow away from tl1e 1loors tlllil windows. liven tllflllflfll they were shut away f1'Ull1 tl1e rest of the world they l1a1l got along very well. Thus far none of fllK'Il1 had ventured 11p those n1yst1-rious stairsg the girls, heeause tl1ey were afraid of XVlltlt tl1ey woul1l 'Find at tl1e top, and the hoys heeause the girls nearly Went i11to liysteries every time tl1ey mentioned it. That night just 11s tl1ey were ahout to retire, they heard a noise and looking out of the VVl1ltl0XV tl1ey saw tl1e reileetion of tl1e ligl1t o11 the snow. They looked at one another, ll1l'11 at tl1e tower stairs and hy tl1e ti111e they looked o11t of tl1e window again the light was gone. 'l'h1-y stared at each other alnazedly and fearfully and tl1en the girls heing very tired went to bed inaking tl1e hoys P1'011llS0 to sit outside their door and watch. 23

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T HIL' CLA RION ated writing' whieh ean be used on all oeeasions is a time-saver and a personal aeeonipllshment. Mixniox li. LKNIJICIISON, 728. the 1031116 light lf'redl Fredl llihy lookl There7s a light in the old light- house over on the pointf' lVith this ery Beatrice Benson ran upstairs to her hrother's den where he, hearing her ery, was already peering out through the fast gathering darkness. i t'Why, Sis, you niust he erazy, I donlt see any lightf, Mliut Fred, there was. Well inayhe, hut there isn't any 11ow. Why-why there is tool l.ook lv Sure enough there was a hlue light in the old tower over on l'erkin's Point. See, fl told you so hutvhut it's gone now. Nome on, Bee, let's go over and investigate. hllut, Fred, it's awful dark and if Guardie l.ud were here, he eouldnit let us go and you know itf' '4Oh. well, Guardie l.ud isn't here and anyway, we eau ask Chris and Holi, they'd love to gel So Christine Sllllfll, Boh llurnhani, lleatriee, Zllltl Fred Ben- son started ott for the island in Fred's launch. While they are on their way l will tell you a little of their life history. ilieatriee and Fred were hrother and sister. Fred was seven- teen and Hee was lifteen. 'llen years previous their mother had died and two years later their father died leaving them to the eare of his friend Charles Ludingrton whom they ealled Guardie liud. 'llhey lived on the niain land about three iniles from Per- kin's Point on whieh stood the deserted lighthouse where the old keeper had hung hiniself niore than ten years previous. At the present time Mr. l'.uding'ton and his wife were away visiting, leaving the house to the eare of Fred and Hee whose friends, Christine Smith and Robert Burnham, were staying with theni. VVhen they arrived at the island about an hour later there was 7? 22

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ll 'HE CLA R1 ON The next day the boys overruled all of the girls' protests' Zllld wont 11p into the tower to ll1Vl'Sl'lg2lf0 and the girls too fright- ened to stay downstairs alone tagged along in the rear. To their surprise they found nothing Ill! there l'b11l7 some old broken bottles, a c-hair, and an old desk full of papers. lT1lf01'l2Il1l2ll2Oly they neglec-ted to look at the papers thinking' they wo11ld go up after them later and read them that evening. .liust before dark they we11t up after the papers. YN hen they got 11p there, there were no papers in sight. They we11t all over the desk but eould not lind them. The dusty desk was covered with linger prints whieh tl1e boys and girls were sure had not 7 been there that morning. All that tl1e old desk contained was an inkwoll, half full of frozen i11k, two or three old pencils, an old photograpli of il girl and boy, two cigars, half il dozen old let- ters and a pair of glasses. As they we1'e tLll0llt to descend the stairs, Beatrice obse1'ved something that none of them had noticed before. It was a door. They supposed it would ereak and stiek and be hard to open, but to their surprise it opened at the slightest toueh, showing a pair of stairs, very steep and narrow. Finally it was decided that Fred should go down and Open the door at the foot of the stairs. Slowly he deseended the ereaking stairs and p11shed the door. It was looked from the outside. They all went downstairs, pllt o11 their wraps and went around to the rear of tl1e lighthouse. They found large foot-prints leading from the baek door to the shore. Evidently, they were not the only Robinson Crusoes on the island. Returning to the house they sat down and talked it over. lVho had taken the papers? The same person who had left the traeks in the snow. But who was that? WVho had flashed the light? lt was a mystery and NV0llld probably be hard to solve. The next morning Fred was awakened by a stealthy step overhead. Awaking Bob, they hurriedly dressed, called the girls and told them not to make a so11nd. Fred went around and locked the back door. Then they all tiptoed upstairs. Standing in tl1e tloor reading a paper was a man whom they 24