Park City High School - Kalendar Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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ea, p KALENDARW Benmfs Adventure QFirst Prize Storyl. All his friends looked upon Benny with awe. Though they had always known that he was the bravest boy among them, yet they could scarcely believe their ears, when his last daring deed was announced. It was simply unbelievable that anyone, even Benny, could consent to sleep in Mason 's haunted house, at any time, but especially on that night, the thirteenth anniversary of the great tragedy occurring there. They feared Benny did not fully understand what he was about to do. Therefore they urged him to go to Gran 'pa Franklin, down the street, and let him tell the story, in all its terrible weirdness. But Benny was determined, and nothing could move him. With a superior smile on his face, he listened as Gran'pa Franklin told how, thirteen years before, on just such a day as this, old lllr. Mason and his closest friend had quarreled, how Mason in a rage had killed his friend, had hidden him in the cupboard, and started to run awayg but, suddenly overcome by remorse. he had shot him- self. Ever since, on hot summer nights, and sometimes in winter, at intervals two shots could be heard, and sometimes, it is said, blood was found on the Hoor. The house passed into the possession of a real estate company, but no one would live there more than a few days. A little while before, a family had moved in, stayed two weeks, and left in such a hurry that they left part of their house- l1old goods there. Wlien the other boys knew that Benny intended to make good his boast, they went with him to the old house to see if there were 50