Polytechnic High School - Caerulea Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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22 CAER'L'LEA hcr's into the desk at which she was sitting, Jack Sawyerk dunk. In aTl four years: Jack's scat had been across from Suzanne's. Slowly Suzanne came back, slowly piled up her books and went down with Celia 10 get cunts: and ham Then it was that Celia smi- dt'nly remembered that she had forgotten her Latin composition hook and must run up after it. It tank her rather a long time to fmd iL scelllingly fm- she was; gone almost five minutes. and when she tunic hack. there was a wicked lililc gleam in her black eyes. Suzanne never noticed it. for she was: too busy with her own thoughts, Hall he found the Imte? How would he. take it? Would he he snuhhish? W'uultl hc laugh? KVnulrl he answer hilllsclf. u? nuulrl he write? She almost wished Shchd asked jacky. Ht? wouitl Fccl awfully hail.hprolmhly wnultln't J30 at all, and she rlrcw :L picturu of herself aml john either walking silently to the party Ur worse still. Hhc. Suzanne. jnhhcring m 1311 up the E-iiicncc and 110, John Sin- clairc. looking: horribly hnred. If she hadnl told Celia that sh..- wnnleln't ask jacky. , - . . well. juhn Siilclairc never mm m schnnl curly she could take the invitation back before he had huen it. C1 in let her think. The next mnrining Suzanne's mother was surprised and even :1 hula worried. for Suzanne gut up early. gnlpcd Ilown her breakfast ; .Hl rushed off to HChK'IUL almmat on a run. She was the First one in thl' H. cmbly anll her lycart heat high with hu'pc. She felt in john SinclaireT-z desk ; 1hr lcttm' Wm: mihssing. Then she rummagctl through all the paperr'u hook:- and fnlins. but she cmlhl not Hml it. She wai in despair. He hall gut it the night bufnrc. Suzanne wenl back In her own desk mul them fight un top in plain sight was a large CIH'LL lope. not any tun clezm cithcn Hzlstily hhc tore it open and fmmd: Hear Suzanne: Certainly Jack. 1'. S. But why in the deuce ditlnH you do it before? I've been scared :wtiFf iur the last week ior fear you'd ask another fellow. Anti hcing Suzanne. and knowing Coliah Suzanne caught on. K. Head. .091

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CAERUIJCA t 21 There. there, Llun't fly off the handle. I'll sit down here and Hanslatc Latin until ytm'rc ready to go home. and Celia Cartwright Huppml clnwn in thc scat across the aisle. while Suzanne settled tlUWll ln think. Hrcamily she sat chewing the end of her pen; the clock seemed In Iirk faster aml faslur, but it didlft keep up with Celia's thoughts which rim smnclhing like this; Fact 1. Tlicrcfs only two boys besides Jacky who haven't been invited. and Suzanne knows it. One is Jnlm Slau'laire aml the other ih that crazy Frenchman, Louis Chapell. Fact zl Suzanne wouldn't be caught with Louis. Conclusion. She's guing to ask Juhn Sinclairc. If she does itlll break Jack all up. and I wnuldn't have that happen for the world. But how to kccp her from it. 1 don't know, ll she'd only be reasonable, but she wont WelL 1 could 7 7 7 7 yes, thatls what I'll do. Shelll know 1 did it any way I can fix it, and she probably wmft speak to me fur a week. But here goes: We can't lose that game fur all the SUZEUFHL'S in the world. u-cn ii this nne does happen to be my own particular Suzanne. Suzanne. give me a piece of that papcr and an envelope. I guess. l'll write my tinvitef too. Suzanuc dropped her pen and turned quickly Io look at Celia. MWhat are you up to now? Same thing you are. answered Celia. H1 dunk see what fault yum can Hnd with that. Here, take it, and Suzanne flung over a sheet and envelope of her cherished two tlollar box of paper. then went hack to staring into space and chewing the pen. Celia, however, little impressed by tho solemnity of the occasion, quickly scribbled: Ucar Jacky: May l hau- the pleasure of cscurting yum tn the party to- mnrrnw night, Suzanna Suzanne. all unsuspecting, hut not to be nutdnne even by Celia, siuwly wmtc on her own paper. taking; care to dot her 1'5 and crux: her 1'5. then folded it. tucked it into tlu- tiny envelope, and addressml it And. as if to get it over while her courage lasted, marched hack and put it into john Sinclaire's desk Vt'hile she was gone. Celia put

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CAERULEA ' ' '31 0.115155 Mill XVu. thy: Sculurs ol the Class nf log. 01' Lung Hutch High Scllunl. in the City uf Lung llcach, C'nunty of Lo: Angulcst Statc of Califor- Ilia,heit1gufsounrl miml. 21ml in full p05 ll1l5.tlltl' last will 11ml testament. ll'e give. devise. 21ml hL-qucath all our property. real and persnual: 21R follows. that is to say: To the. Class 0f llO. wt: give and hL-rlneath the last four rows ml scam; cm the south side of the Aqscmhly 112111; along with them: seam WC give 10 them the zLiSlua wherein they may throw all waste papcl: unles. withered llowers. and the likE. To the Stuinr English Class WC. bequeath the exclusive right 10 Cut away purtimls 0f the curtain strings with which to fawten 1hr immcmun English hinders which thcy will have. Also to this class we leave the exclusive care of the Faculty. with privilege Lu wm'k the same in any way possible. To the girls of L. IL ll. S. we :ch most willingly bequeath all the oiled Hours in the building: and the laundry bills Caused by the same. Tn Mr. lhlrcham we leave all of our report cards and excux'mz. and all forgcrlcs 0n the sauna so that ht may use them as a guide to 'sion of our faculties. maln- rlctect others in their crinws. ch fondly bequcath that old yellow and white cat's fur. which has. improved with age. in the students. of the next Physics Clasp. H'c leave all unused current events tupics. ponies. hicyclcx motor QTICS. etc, to Miss Harnutt. To Miss Paine, we bequeath our airplus pencils. to he med as drmn-sticks lm' keeping order in the Assembly Hall. We fondly bequeath all of our taHt-DE lovers to M 55 Picrmn. Nil; she cherish them as we have. We lttu'e all of our leVCtlAUp pennies 1.0 Mrs. lYellbDrnt and all uur coy manners and a4lc-lnst5 to Miss Carroll Tu Hi Kimball wc hcqumth all our annotated editi'ons 0f Clccrn 21ml Vergil. . Lastly. having a fuw possessions With which we are grieved tn bnrt, wc solemnly hulucath said valuahlc pmseSaimm to the lulluwi 511g persmm: Ruth AJMhTw's Fluffy guldcn hair 10 Marjorie Rica