Liberty High School - Lion Yearbook (Brentwood, CA)

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or noL, nliC plorc ' ' i, Miss CaxtoHj you spoic r j v,eli lasb nigh ' . at oi;r grad iation, JacI: soloirinly rcis ' oor c. d., Ouiotness volTued for q ( t ' cv; minutas, I ha o porr.o Lh.in -; to tell yoUp Vepao I v;?.nt | your opinion on the suDjeoti, Tiie tv i ' i-ikle of fun Iracl left his: | eyes: the soft raorry blue had c iannel to - ' Gooly hnr.lnesso I Mother has suppoi-ted iT.e fo:: ' Ih- - -se nin ' jtecii -cars. She I has made it possible for :ne to attend and graduate from hi h school. You knov that father died when I was lees than a year o2-dc Mother has had a hard struf gle to make ends meet v ith the money he has earned by working for the neighbors. She is not going to Y{ov . any morel Mr. Johnson has offered me a job in his grocery, and will pa - me fifteen dollars a eek if I clerk in the :store and run the delivery wagon. V hat do you think of it? Vera immediately responded with much enthusiasm, Jackie, you are a real boy, 1 am proud to have you for a pal, Thanks, little girl, I knew you would see it my v ay, but what w.ill your parents say to a bankei ' ' s daughter travel- ing about v ith a poor grocery clerk? We vi ill manage that obstacle seme way, and be the happier for it. It v ill teach us to ])e more true. Money is not much any ' Yay, and father is only the president of a one-hoi ' se- town bank, -We haven ' t -ory much money, and v e arjn ' t any better in social standing than other people, Monday morning Jacl : took his p]acG in the Johnson grocery, I Ho liked his position fairl: - vrell after a week ' s trial, Mr, I Oaxton nodded very coldly to him instead of greeting him with i I the cordial, How ' s my boy, that he had recently used, j The months passed by in a hu.rried succession for Ja ck.

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Vei ' a ,and Sport, Thoy Gponi: Tnany liappy hours on picnics on j sunny days, and evenings by tnc fireplace in the Caxton homo ' ■ i v;hen it v;as cold, ! J About a year and a half after Jack had started to work, he j I picked Vera and Sport up on the road and invited them to g(P» j with him on the delivery. He wanted to talk with Vera on ser- | , i ious business. She had been graduated from a teachers ' prepar- ( I atory school in the mean time, Vera, Mr. Thomas has discharged Miss Adams, and he says that the job of teaching the tov n school is open to you, Vera did not answer, Aren ' t you glad? She still did not answer. Jack looked at her, V hat is bothering you. Vera? I noticed that you hesitated about getting in to ride. Are you getting too good for me? His body stiffened v ith resentment, No, Jack, I ' m not too good for you, but I don ' t want that school. Mother aid father want me to go to Glendale to teach. Uncle John has a school located there for me, Why don ' t you go, then? I ¥;on ' t hold you. Our engage- I ment is broken now. You may keep the ring though, in memory t of the happy days that we have had, I Jack, you don ' t mean it, I Jack believed that there was a note of relief in her voice, • Yes, I do mean it with all my soul, [ We can stil]. be friends, can ' t we? We can get engaged |[ again someday if v;e want to, can ' t we? I don ' t think anybody I i should marry before he is twenty-five years old, anyivay, j Vera ' s lane was reached, So-long, Jack. See you some j other time ' she called gayly, I I Farewell, old pal, he retorted downhcartedly.