Fryeburg Academy - Academy Bell Yearbook (Fryeburg, ME)

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I6 THE ACADEMY BELL lfinally the younger man said, Well, I rlonlt suppose it is so very alarming after all. lt simply means that we nmst get ollt of he1'e as soon as possible or there will be bullets singing in our ears. Hut remember your funds are gone. interposed the other. 1 shall have the jewels which Dad gave me in case of an emergency. 'l'hose will be of no use to you here. Xu one will care to spend money on such luxuries now. The only thing lo do is for me to go directly to Marseilles and horrovv money for the voyage home from your uncle. 'l'hus llarvey left llerlin on the 10:1-3 train leaving Sherman to follow in the 1tflCl'llUul1. Sherman spent the morning in paclz- ing. About noon he decided to call on the landlord. lle might not accept the proposition of their leaving kindly. Un hearing that his tenant intended to take the afternoon train he said, 'l'here has been a notice posted in the square saying that all foreigners must have a passport before leaving the city. Thank you. sir, said Sherman. l will go to headquarters at once for . have no time ln lose, 'l'he judge was about to sign his name to the passport when he noticed a slight linglish accent in Sherman's speech. lnstantly he sprang to his feet. .'Xhl my line fellow. So you thot you'd fool us did you? You are the linglish spy we have been seeking for the past week. Your passport will l.e made out to yonder prison. The amazed .Xmerican was hand- cuffed and dragged roughly across the street into a damp, dirty cell. XYhen the guard locked the door Sherman sat down to think. XYhat a predicament he was in to be sure! Unless he could get out of llerf lin before the following noon the liner would have left l,yons. lf he did not arrive in Marseilles on the midnight express llarvey would be frantic. 'l'he thot of llarvey suggested a plan. llc called to the guard and asked to be allowed to send a telegram. lfor an- swer the guard pointed to a sign on the wall of the cell. It read: NU tfUMINlLfNlCA'l'lUN IS Al, l.UXY1',lD XX'I'lill AXYUNIC Ulfll Slllli 'l'lllS llL'll.l7lNtl. llarvey gave up in despair. llc knew that spies were hanged in Kier- many. l'rohably hy this time tomor- rovv he would be dead. About eight o'clock that evening a little girl went along the passage by the cell. She was a pretty little thing about eight years of age. .Xs she passed the door of Sherman's cell she felt sorry for the poor man within and stopped to push a blossom through the bars. Sherman looked up. lilval he cried. Uh, you are the dear man that gave us money for food, she cried. XX'hy are you here P Sherman told her his story. lilva asked the guard if she might go into Sherman's cell. 'l'he guard hesitated but the wistful look in the ch.ld's eyes softened his heart. lle

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THE ACADEMY BELL I5 of our school and hope that you may be in part, repaid by the honor which lfryeburg Academy reflects upon you. Teachers: It is under your guid- ance that we have grown in wisdom and understanding. lf our lives prove noble, if we become in any measure useful to the world, we owe to you thanks for the molding of our youthful character. No distance. h o w e v e r great, can ever make us forget the help and encouragement you have given us. l'arents and friends: To you we owe a great deal. You have borne equally with us the joys and sorrows of school life: by your tender care you have guided us through many a narrow strait and past many jutting rocks. May the joy which you now have never grow less, but may it increase as we launch out into the world. You have made many sacrifices that we might be here today and we hope that we may prove worthy of such sacrifice. Undergraduates: To you we can only say farewall and hope that the re- mainder of your school life may be as happy as ours has been. Classmates: The close of this school year has been a long expected event. VVe can hardly realize that to- night we part, never to meet again as students of Fryeburg Academy. Four years ago some of us were strangers but there has sprung up a friendship so strong we wish it might last forever. The four happy years have passed all too quickly. As we leave Fryeburg Academy let us resolve to try and make a mark in the world and by so doing bring honor not only on our- selves but on our school and the Class of 1924. We have shared together our hard- sh.ps and we trust that from our con- stant comradeship in the past, and from jthe consciousness of unfilled as- pirations, each of us has obtained something helpful to him in the future. VVhatever hath been written, shall remain, Nor he erased nor written o'cr again: The unwritten only belongs to thee: Take heed, and ponder wcll what that shall bcf' i,RIULli Mel Nrnui. TRAPPED AMONG THE HUNS liarly on the morning of September twenty-fifth, a young American mil- lionaire, Sherman Berkeley by name, sat in the sitting room of his apartment in Berlin reading. Ile picked up a newspaper. glancing leisurely at the headlines. Suddenly he started. Harvey l he shouted. A middle-aged man, seated o-1 other side of the room, raised his eyes from his book. VVhat's the matter now ? he asked calmly. He had not lived with a ha- rum-scarum like Sherman Berkeley for five years without learning that such sudden outbursts of feeling were apt to be of little consequence. Read that! was the answer. llarveyl took the paper. This is what he read: FRANCE HAS D E C L A R E IJ VVAR ON GERMANY. He looked at his employer in dismay.

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THE ACADEMY BELL 17 silently unlocked the door to admit her. You poor man, I will try to help you, lisped the little girl. Then she whispered something in his ear. Sher- man's face brightened. Very soon Elva departed to visit her worthless father who was imprisoned there. About midnight a door in the back of Sherman's cell opened as if by mag- ic. Little lilva appeared wrapped in a gray cloak. Putting her Finger on her lips she motioned him to follow her. They had left the secret passage and were almost to the street door when a voice called, Halt! VVho goes there ? A guard swung his lantern full in their faces. Alas! 1 thought there would be trouble when Herr Von Mor- ton showed you that secret passage. As for you, sir, l will put you where you will be safe for tonight. Tomor- row night you will need no shelter, he said. Next morning Sherman was brought before the court. He was tried and pronounced guilty of spying. lie was to be hanged at sunset. just as the judge was about to dis- miss the court a messenger entered. XYhat joy he brought to the innocent prisoner no one can tell. Anyway he saved Sherman's life for he bore a let- ter from llarvey telling of the plans for sailing. This letter persuaded the court that Sherman was no spy. The young man arrived in America just in time to escape the terrible sub- marine warfare. RUT11 Suww, '26, TIMBER THIEVES And furthermore, if 1 ever catch those rascals who are stealing my logs up on the llaynes lot, l'll punish them to the full extent of the law. The following conversation was giv- en by Mr. john C. Cooper as he closed the door of his house after a friendly neiguoor nad Just mane ms departure. And now, he said, turning to h.s twelve-year-old son, who was standing beside him, l want you to take this note up to Mr. VVard's and keep on go- ing tmtil you come to the postolllcc. then 1 want you to mail this letter and get the 111ail. You need not hurry. only be home in time for supper. ln a short time jimmy arrived at Mr. W'ard's and upon leaving the note he walked along the road towards the postoliice and also by the Haynes lot. As he neared the Haynes lot a dog came bounding out of the bushes, wag- ging its tail in a friendly way. jimmy stopped and patted the dog, wondering as he did so to whom it belonged. Suddenly the dog walked slowly towards the woods, whining as he did so. That dog wants me to follow it. thought jimmie, remembering a book that told of the same thing which he had been reading. l might just as well follow it, for l have plenty of time, mused jimmy as he plunged into the thicket after thc whining dog. They had gone hardly a quarter of a mile when jimmy heard voices and peering into a clearing jimmy saw