Palouse High School - Kernel Yearbook (Palouse, WA)

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:wwe ? cw!! it FROM LFFT TO RICHT Sharon Lazelle, Darrell Herrmg jack Redman Hank Schwartz, Isla Nlaryott Fred Sayer Patsy Kuehner Donna Sheppard, Kay Henderson Nancy Schwartz DRUMS OF DEATH by Howard Reed A group of oddly contrastmg people arrxve at mrdnxght at the half turned mans1on IH the desolate lagoon They have been summoned by a telegram whrch they qurckly drscover rs false but the drscovery comes too late for them to escape from the place where werrd forces and malrgn people threaten thexr very lrves Barley the relatrve of most of them, has drsappeared They questron the others the half mad housekeeper, the octoroon girl whose strange trances frrghten them half out of therr wrts the surly Hartlan negro and Harley, whom they scarcely know whether to trust or fear the most of all They struggle to solve the mys tery of the place the cabrnet that IS death to open the hooded frgure that appears from trme to trme, the ghost that creeps from the shadows, the monster that lurks and threatens and back of rt all the rnsrstcnt dull throbbing srgnal of the my SIGIIOUS drums Yet always, to break the tensron there rs the crackle of laughter at the absurd1t1es of the sherrff and the saucy Amella, and there rs the vfarmth and glow of the romance that develops rn sprte of the Sunless terror of the place ' 6 or A ' . ,.., A 2' me v Q u S ls - r T, r l 5 . . 1 I . , , T A Y T Y k , , ' If 71 ' 1 I , - . v . . v. , .. , V , D l Y . . .1 . .K A , y . . Y . . , Y .