Noblesville High School - Shadow Yearbook (Noblesville, IN)

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Without another. word, they climbed into the car and were off down the road. For a fewvminutes neither spoke, Dick being busy with the car. What is this important thing which you have to tell me?'f coming from Rosalind, were the first words to break the silence. ' I wished to tell you alone and could not wait any longerj' were Dickls words. We must persuade your father to let you marry me immediately, because I have just received word that my uncle, a very peculiar man, has died in Colorado and has bequeathed me his entire for- tune, on the condition that I marry one of the girls of our set before the month is up. But you know that father will never consent to our marriage until I am twenty. But, perhaps, we can think of some plan to change his mind. Silence ensued while both searched their brains for some plan. HI have itf' cried Dick. HWell, please hurry up and tell me, as I can't think of anythingj' said the girl. Is your father at home now? asked Dick. Receiving an afiirmative answer, Dick turned the car around and directed it toward the summer home of Mr. Hallowell. . Why don't you tell me your plan? Perhaps I will not consent to it, and I certainly will not if you don't tell me.'7 '6Well, it is this. I am to play the part of a hero for onceff And thus saying he told her' the plan. It pleased her exceedingly and she joyfully consented. 'Q Arriving within a short distance of her home, they ran the car to the side of the road and started across the field to the orchard behind the house. Reaching the banks of the lake, which bordered the orcliard, Dick quickly unfastened the canoe and turned it over. Taking off her large sun-hat,'Rosalind threw it out upon the water. Then they turned and ran into the garden. Rosalind seized the garden-hose from its rack and turned the water upon Dick. I-Ie squirmed and twisted, but stood it until he was thoroughly soaked. Then he took the hose and with a little more mercy than Rosalind had shown him, he turned the spray uponher. S'Hurry! hurry! exclaimed Rosalind, here comes Pete, the gardener, and you know he will tell father, if he sees us? But the admonition came too lateg for Pete had already seen them and had started toward them at a rapid pace. Dick saw that the only way out of it was to take Pete in- to their secret and secure his promise not to tell. A bright silver dollar, added to their persuasions, won the day and Pete gave his promise. I-Ie turned toward the house to do his part while the happy couple started toward the lake. Pete approached the porch where Mr. Hallowell sat leisurely smoking and reading. '

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HO! Mr. Hallowelllw cried Pete, something has happened to Miss Rosalind, because the canoe is upside down on the lake and Miss Rosa- lind's hat is floating near it.', Mr. Hallowell wasted no time in questioning Pete, but made as much haste as possible toward the lake, since an elderly man of his ample pro- portions, who was accustomed to walk at a slow and digniiied pace, would have found it physically uncomfortable to run very fast, even if he thought that it accorded with his personal dignity. They arrived at the edge of the water and Mr. Hallowell searched around with much excitement, but could not iind any evidence of his daughter's presence, except her hat floating on the lake. Just as he sank to the ground, worn out by sheer exertion and excitement, Dick and Rosalind crept quietly from be- hind a tree near by. Grabbing Rosalind up in his arms, Dick carried his precious burden to where her father sat on the sand and deposited her beside him. He began to restore consciousness by raising and lowering her arms and by rubbing her hands. After a few seconds Rosalind opened her eyes and gazed around her. Perceiving her father bending over her with anxiety in his eyes, she threw her arms around his neck and shook, not with sobs as one would suppose, but with silent laughter. Glancing over Mr. Hallowells shoulder, she saw Dick standing there making a most ridiculous picture with his drenched clothes, but not-with-standing this fact, also shaking with laughter. Mr. Hallowell tried to console his daughter for a while and then turn- ing to Dick asked him to explain. Dick sobered down and undertook to tell his story. He told a probable story of their ride on the lake, of the sudden capsizing of the canoe and of his rescue of Rosalind. Mr. Hallo- well seized his hands and exclaimed, What can I do to repay you, my boy? 'Here Rosalind decided to take a hand in the affair and cried, i'Father, why not repay him by consenting to our marriage, immediately? Dick has certainly won that right by his bravery. The father was so happy that he gladly consented without further questioning., I need not say that Dick fulfilled the conditions of his unclels will in less than the appointed time and presented the vast for- tune to his wife. Mr. Hallowell never discovered the deception of his son-in-law and daughter. MARGARET HULL, 12.