Freeport High School - Clarion Yearbook (Freeport, ME)

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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

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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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'l'll IJ CLA IH UN the people who were in the path of the river, juniped upon a horse which was standing nearby, patiently awaiting its niaster, and rode to warn the unsuspecting inhabitants ot the valley. Uloppity, eloppity, eloppittv, down tl1e road galloped the horse as anxious as its rider to warn the people. liunl run for your livesl The river is rising l rang over the hillsides as 'l'oin galloped past towards Maekville, and it was ,iust in time for already he heard the terrihle roar of the waters like the great rushing of a tornado On it t'2lll1l', that great wall of water, leaving destruetion in its path, on it eaine rushing and roaring, wiping away great huildings as a ehild would knock down his tower of hloeks. Froni the people huddled together on the hill eaine a ery, Look what's Utlllllllg, a house all lighted up l .Xnd sure enough, Ullllllllg down the river was a house with all the lainps lighted and with people inoving ahout in the rooms. What a strange sight it was, this river with the living and the dead tloating helplessly down its rushing eurrentl But while the people had heen watehing the river. what had illtllll heen doing! Regardless of the warnings of his friends, illlllll, having fixed an old hoat whieh he had eaught as it was floating hy, had eontinued his work of resc-ue. 'l'here were many houses, whieh, although they had not heen in the path ol' the river, were surrounded hrv water. Toni with his old dugout reseued the people who had heen left in these houses and earried thein from their rather danip apartnients to the top of the hill. All night illfllll kept this up and when everrvone was safe he hegan eolleeting from the water household artieles that niight he of some use to thein. Baeli and forth hetween the houses and the hill he went. ldaeh tiine he was away the people would wait anxiously for his return with fear that something might happen to hiin. 'l'hen eaine a time when he didn't return for a half hour, an hour, two hoursg daylight eauie and still he hadn't eonie and there was no sight of hiin. llis friends guessed his fate and mourned llllll, hut illO1ll Green Mountain will always he reinein- hered in that litle village as 'l'he nian who gave his life for the people of Maekvillef, liirru 1IAZl'II,'l'UN, '2il. 26