Lewis and Clark High School - Tiger Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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THE LEWIS AND srll aunrta my beloved had dred wrth that horrrble accusatron rn her eyes And that rs why I am here I escaped that nrght It was srmple for the servants were m therr quarters asleep I ran to the church and sent the pnest to her He could do no good I knew but she would have wrshed rt so After that I hrd myself from the authorrtres For many months I hrd rn the musty towns of old Mexrco I mr t have hrdden longer but those eyes those ever reproachful eyes haunted me rn all my hours I slept only to dream of them m my wakrng hours they appread before me as I gazed mto vacant space always always they were before me It was the judgment of God So at last thmkrng that rn allowrng man to mete out hrs Judgment I mrght be spared that of God I came here to confess Why they drd not klll me I know not I only CLARK JOURNAL know that every hour of my lrfe rs torture Yet I fear oh I fear to dre No power on earth can stay thrs pam Forever forever must I look mto those eyes shnnkrng and reproachful Ever must I dread those eyes I love so well uanrtal aunrta' forgrve me' The tale was done My companron lay back coughrng spasmodrcally Suddenly he rarsed hrs hands to Heaven and crred Those eyes those eyes I can see them now The eyes of aunrta' Mercrful God' They are the eyes of aunrta and they have relented aunrta aunrta my beloved Im comtng I m comrng So the end came The face that lay there so cold and strll was now as calm and beau trful as rt had been so long ago The lrnea of suffermg were gone and he was rn death as he once had been m lrfe Roger De Foe the handsome the magnrfrcent the won derful ALL FOR GRATITUDE By Mrldred Porter HE rntcnse heat of the noonday sun had crushed everythrng trees drooped leaves wrthered and the r grass rustled and tossed rn th hot currents of wmd rrsrng from the baked earth An Indran boy hrdden rn the grass watched furtrvely the far drstant camp No srgn of agrtatron or un rest rn rt assured hrm that hrs absence had not been drscovered He crept on through the grass movmg raprdly easrly and wrth out a sound At a drstance when hrs camp seemed only a speck he rose and walked on swrftly He apparently experrenced no rr convenrence from the heat but kept unwearr edly on hrs way A rrse on a hrll brought mto vrew a few scattered log houses of a border settlement The Indran stopped and gazed back over the rollmg country He left behmd hrm race fnends and tradrtrons and before hrm what3 He was an alren mhuman and even cruel and always would be Yet under all was a gratrtude whrch never farls to repay a krndness the typrcal gratrtude of an In dran Hrs face showed no change no sentr ment as he turned and strode across the plam Hrs advent rn the sleepy town was un notrced and drsregarded by anyone The men lolled rn the shade chrldren played m the doorways and shrrllvorced women drs cussed the troubles of the day Straight through the town he walked to a larger cleaner and more habrtable cabrn than the rest He stopped before the door and looked ln A whrte harred kmd faced prrest sat wrrtrng but as the shadow of the Indran fell across the doorway he looked up The prrest showed no srszn of recognrtron but greeted the Indran krndly The Indian spoke wrthout preface m hrs own natrve tongue The Indrans attack you tonrght The prrest paled but mqurred for more partrculars The only answer was a repetr tron of hrs former speech As to what trrbe of Indrans they were and where they were srtuated he would tell nothrng In thrs much the mherent tacrtumrty of the Inclran was uppermost The prrest seerng the travel worn condrtron of hrs strange vrsrtor mo Zl t..J ., .r . . - , ., J .. . 2. : J, . . l t ': I I l l : ' :U .A - l . .. ' . . - .

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THE Lawns AND began to speak agaln m a qulck nervous voxce Ten years ago I left New York and after travelmg about the country for a few years I hnally came to Elmana Thats about a hundred mlles south of here near the Mexlcan llne It s not much of a place merely a general store and a few houses are there Why I came to Elmana I know not but once there I remamed For aumta was there and aumta was an angel from Heaven She was beautiful ack and as good as sh was beautiful Her eyes were as black as the mldnlght skres and as bnllrant as the stars yet as wxde and mnocent as those of a child But I cannot descnbe her She was the most beautiful creature Cod ever created and I loved her Oh how I loved her And she she sand she loved me ack It was such a wonderful thmg our love far too wild to end happily Her father was the proud descendant of some Spanlsh house and he would have none of m Finally there came a terrible struggle between hxm and me And he forced her to marry a worthless young Mex rcan Mantella aumta was young too happlness such a Lmlon must cause And her father was strong too strong for her and for me So she marrled hrm a mercenary rascal who cared more for her father s rancho than he drd for my lovely aumta After the marnage I left Elmana for I love almlta far too dearly to be near her when she was the wlfe of another I went away I say I went to far countries and trled to forget But I could not aumta was everythmg aumta was llfe itself Any man would struggle for lxfe At last when the pam became unbearable I returned to Elmana and to aumta For she was llfe to me When I returned how I found my lovely aumta I-low frail how pale she was how her proud head was bent how her lnttle hands trembled For her father had died and Man tella was master now And such a master to guard my gentle aumta' She sadly told me of the little chrld that had come and had been burled ln the church yard yonder of the neglect of the cruelty of the faithless ness of that monster Mantella CLARK JOURNAL And I3 I loved her and she was lxfe to me So I begged her to come away to leave It all to forget the man who treated her thus to come with me who loved her who adored her But my aumta was far too good far too noble How proudly she lifted her won derful head and bade me go But I knew she loved me And she had sand that which had set my poor bram m a whirl As long as my husband llves I am hrs wlfe I can not desert the father of my dead chlld No not even for you As long as my husband lxves she had sard and the words kept rmgmg ln my mmd If he were dead' If he were dead' A mad plan was forming rn my poor shattered brain I was mad mad' I know lt now But twas for more than llfe I fought for love and for aunlta That nlght was starless The road by whxch Mantella must come home was guarded on both sides by hugh thxck brushes Behmd these my body was hidden My soul had been lost m a passionate struggle wrth self I awaxted the comlng of Mantella dagger rn hand After long dreary hours lmg a quamt old Spamsh alr In a moment lt was all over Mantella lay dead at my feet I dragged hlm to a lake nearby and dropped hrm mto Its bottomless depths Ah rt was hornble' AndI Roger De Foe dud lt I was mad to thmk that she would even touch me after such a deed But I went to her For I loved her Oh how I loved her' I found her Sllfllllg rn the lirellght gaz mg mto the flames with a strange terrlhed expression on her pale beautiful face uamta I crled and that was all M God she moaned you have done lt You have done rt She looked full at me hex eyes those mnocent mldnlght eyes filled wlth reproach and horror And that that was the last glance that I beheld m those dear beloved eyes For before I could utter a sound before I moved from my positron by the door her frail body swayed gently and fell to the floor I ran to her and looked mto her beautiful face There strll lingered m her eves that look of horror and reproach But her hands were cold and her heart was 20 ' . I . c ' . . . . D - 1 - e. ' ' ' ' I , ' young to realrze the great, the terrible un- of waiting, he came, staggering along whist- . . D . . . .D A, ,A 4 J ' I - . .I . . I . , . ' , a I - , , . . 1 ,I . ' , I

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THF Lawns AND tloned hrm to rest and leavrng hrm water and food departed to rouse the town All was soon bustle and actrvrty The men moved expedrtrously and effectrvely under the leadershrp of the venerable prrest The settrng sun found all the houses vacant and every one safely ensconsed rn the block house of the town All preparatrons havrng been made the prrest returned to hrs cabrn Across the door way the lndran boy lay one amr thrown above hrs head rn the utter relaxation of rest The prrest started then looked rntently at the arm Long ragged scars traced therr course down rt The prrest s eyes grew mrsty H understood a trapprng party returnrng from the moun tams brought ln lacerated N the boy so no was ever made boy rn cared for hrm and kept hrm untrl the arm had healed an Indran boy arm horrrbly one knew the language of explanatron of the accrdent The prrest had taken the The Indran s eyes opened and he jumped up qurckly The prrest recorled no tender ness no mrst rn hrs eyes only unconquered savagery glrttered there The prrest spoke to hrm and told hrm of hrs recognrtron but re cerved only a grunt m response The In drans mrnd had worked raprdly He had a darrng scheme wherern he would not suffer CLARK JOLJRNAL yet would have payed off hrs debt H moved away from the prrest and wrth a word of farewell started off raprdly The startlei prrest called after hrm but the lndran drd not stop Although he drd not understand the actron of the lndran he made no attempt to stop hrm but enterrng the cabrn gathered hrs few belongrngs to carry to the fort Strrdrng along towards hrs camp the In dran moved srlently The orange glow of the rrsrng moon softened and glrdrng out rnto the heavens cast a srlvery lrght on the dusky frgure on the prarrre Suddenly a twrg cracked the Indran paused He had hoped to make camp and wrth a story hrs cunnrng bram had rnvented tell of a frurtless chase after a deer rn the mountarns He lrstened Yes there were steps comrng from the canyon rn front of hrm He threw hrmself flat or hrs face and glrded away rn the grass Ar a safe drstance he watched Comrng rnto vrew were the foremost war rrors of hrs trrbe the cruelest warrest and most darrng One a lrthe tall specrman ot brute strength knelt rn the grass a moment He spoke rn gutteral tones They all looked on the ground Hrs tracks had been found They have been made recently Yes he must be nearby Frncl hrm ff- -rs vs rr- is vt- as Years after the tale was told how ln Indian boy rrsked and lost hrs lrfe all for gratrtude 22 , ' ' . It had not been many years before, that . ' ' . o . '