Higgins Classical Institute - Scroll Yearbook (Charleston, ME)

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H.C.I.SC R O L L 17 MCKENNEY, FREDERICK S. Mac Bangor H. S. I, 2, 8, 45 H. C. I. 55 Orch- estra 5. 'l'here are limes when one cannot express him- self in Written worcls.', Your shyness is only skin deep, Mac. POWERS, SHIRLEY P. Shirl Medway H. S. 1, 2, 8, 4g ll. C. I. 55 Girl Re- serves 55 Basketball 55 Softball 5. Who that -has a heart ever fails lo recognize fthe silent presence of another. You've been a quiet classmateg we'wish you loads of success, Shirley.

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18 H. C.I.SCROLL nj, . ,.. n,,.,.... -M. ' -l 1 -I-1 -, . L64 aft THE PILKES' MANSION Overdecorated in the fanciful, ssmewhat grotesque style of the late Eighties, the Pilkes' Mansion st:-od like a solemn old judge watching over the remains c-f a once prosperous town. Withdrawn from the street at the top of a. low mound, the sentinel stzod shielded by mighty oaks cn one side and obscured on the other by a tall, wild hedge. The gray facade was open to the street. The exterior was Well preserved by a recent coat of dull paint. Three columns rose directly in front, two supporting the eaves, the third in the center. High, ornate win- dows showed behind these massive columns. 'Ihe Pilkes' Mansion represented portions -of Greek, Gothic and Southern Colonial Archi- tecture combined in an impressive manner. Inside the house lived the sole daughter and heir of the honorable Judge Pilkes who had once directed Graytown bef:re its fall into obscurity. The faithful child had lived al:-ne in the great hcme after her mother's death which came soon after the Judges. She would have lived in this self inflicted solitary confinement for thirty years, come spring. Following her mother's death she, never a mixer, had fallen into a dull round of routine that filled all her waking hours. Each year she seemed to Withdraw further into the innermost recesses of her soul. Each year marked the advancement of her re- moval from life's activities, those with which so many people try to cram their own lives. Life was a series of steps or rises, she once decided. At the time, she felt she could look forward to nothing more than a continua- tion of these steps. Her first few steps were entirely forgotten now: childhood, public school, and an unsuccessful year at a young ladies' foundation academy. Then came a secluded, sheltered existence as a young lady. Never on any of these steps was there a man, except for the hen:-rable Judge Princeton Pilkes who was a closer compan- ion and director than her mother of her daily life. She had loved her father deeply: he was the only love in the building of her stairs. Following his demise, she had gone on, broken in heart, living in a rnotdy state cs. with her grieving mother. The mother failed to realize her daugh- ter's condition because of her interest in her own intense feelings. Try as she might, the honorable Judge's wife never succeeded in throwing aside the veil that her daughter had succeeded in placing between them. The mc-ther, too, became a veiled soul and the two szrrr:-wing ladies were as two planetary bodies, revolving in a definite plane about one another. Their communication was hardly adequate to break the silence in the mansion and when one disappeared int: obscurity the other went on unobservant -cf the change. That is, inwardly the death and funeral cf the mother had no effectg out- wardly, a pitiful indifference was apparent. 'The pattern went on unchanged actually. Her singular life still followed a twisting, obscure plan. Looking at her destiny from a distance the same gloomy atmosphere shrouded it from beginning to end. The church had no place in her plan, she even stopped .saying her devotions after her father's death. For a few years after her mothers death she had a maid servant in daily but had suffered no conversation with her. Eventually this service was discontin- ued. For the past twenty years she had done her own meager cooking and housewc-rk. Twice a year cleaners came in to repair and to clean the house, in September and in March. Twice a year she kept to her racing, allowing nothing to break her fast of silence. Food was brought once a, week and left in the entry at the rear of the house. Her confinement became more and more complete. As she withdrew ever increasingly her destiny she led an ever simpler e':ist- into ence. She had come during the last five years to be partially blind. Her sight was failing from lack of prcper fc-od and, too, since she never used her eyes, from the perpetual dusk which she maintained in thc mansion. The shades and heavy drapes that covered the great tall windows had been drawn for a decade or more. The dark, silent interior remained in unnatural shad- cws constantly. Night was master here. The end of the stairs of Old Maid Pilke's