Freeport High School - Clarion Yearbook (Freeport, ME)

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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

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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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l,l'l'l9'Hzl 13 l ' all recognized at once as Red Fisher, the escaped convict for Wl10l1l there was a live hundred dollar reward. Stranffel enough the l1lll1lltC he saw tl1e111 he surrendered. e .Y They went downstairs, got some hreakfast, and then asked for explanations. VVhen Red had escaped from the prison nearly three weeks ago, he had gone to tl1e city opposite Perkins, Point where he found some of his pals. 'llliey provided l1i111 with a rowlmoat. 801110 IIIUIIUIY7 Zllld provis- ions, illlll direeted l1in1 to this lighthouse Oll l'c-rkins' Point. He had arranged signals witl1 illlllll hiv the use of the light which the hoivs and girls had previousllv seen. 'lle llilll used the baek door so that lie would lltli' he seen hiv people o11 tl1e Illilllllllllll. lle llzld taken Fred's hoat as l1is had gone adrift. The papers that he llllil taken illlx 11igl1t before told where some nionetv had been lett lu' the old lightkeeper. While the lioys watelied their prisoner, the girls found the inoiiev, about 344,000.00 in all. That afternoon they took their prisoner and went l1o111e. ilix- cept for the loss of sleep they were lllllll' tl1e worse off as eaeh had a thousand dollars and tl1e satistaetion of solving a 111'VSil'1 V. lQs'1'111-11: Osoooo. 720. Gem Green fllbountain x 1 1 'o o 1' iv s. o IU .o o' 1' eve 1 . ul,lll,1'lll t ry ll I e ' l tl t 1 t tl1el1ll r'vbcd.vl To tl1e top of the hilll 'llhe river is rising, rising fast l So like a seeoud l'aul lievere, 'l'on1 Green Mountain warned the good people of Maelcville of the ilPlll'1l21ClllllQ danger. ,lt might interest you to know how Vlllilll received a nalne so appropriate to the New lqllglillltl distriet i11 Whieh l1c' lived. llis lnother wished to 1-all lllxl' son 'llll0lIl2lS Green after his grandfatlier, and tl1eir last 1lZllll0 being Mountain, he lmeeaine Tliouias Green Mountain. 'lltllll Green Mountain for short. 'l'0111, while i11 an up-river village. had reeeived word that the dani at flreenshoro had lrroken, illltl the river, usually a quiet stream. was rushing ll1lWll lllltlll the helpless villages-a raging torrent. l'pon hearing this, illtllll illllllilllg' only ot' the safety of ' 25