Potter School - Shield Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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THE POTTER SHIELD B tl l e told me this afternoon that the formula was completed and he had y .ic way, 1 . . I f d ' 't t .t 'mdv for Commercial appllcgmong but I suppose he s alrea y given 1 0 ygu, 1 I ' d th lace was in darkness. Then a .. Il dasnapan CP Q .. J ust as I ieached the stePS, 5E the Steps on the Opposite Slde of the buddmg, - S- . ed and a man ran , , . . dom elemm h ther side just in time to see someone , , L .f , I otaroundtot eo . . I enum In the blick earl, etginto a roadster and drive off, speeding as if de Palma P 1 tl t 03 g . ' ' 1 aiecieliiim elrwerit in and turned on the lights and-well, sir, nothing s been touched. Stanley nodded his head. n . 4 I haven't the formula, he said quletly- The foreman stiffened and let out an oath. l You see, that's what they came for-the formula. But who could it be? None of our rivals are dirty enough for a job like that, andlyet-Oh, h-ll With Mal, he returned to where Dave lay and examined the face and head closely. Finally he straightened up and strode to the end of the room where, out of a case, he took a bottle of aluminum powder and a spatula. He carefully sifted a little of the powder on the space just between the temple and the ear, then blew it off. It stuck in streaks but with no definite pattern. Stanley shook his head. f'Too clever, he said. Even erased his finger prints. See that slight bluish spot there, just a little to one side of the temple? The scoundrel, whoever he was, probably waited and watched Dave for some time, hoping to see if he could find where Dave kept the formula. Then, when he was discovered, he jumped on him and pressed these two arteries, one on each side of the head. It shuts off the blood supply to the brain, causing instant unconsciousness and then death. Have you notified the coroner? No-o-o, slowly responded Mal. I thought I had better wait for you. Well, send for him now and ask him to try to keep the affair as quiet as he can. I am going to town right away. Stanley knew it was no use to hunt for the formula, because when Dave wanted to hide anything it took more than brains to find it. And besides, he had absolutely nothing to work on. Two days later, in the morning, the telephone again brought startling news. Someone had visited the laboratory during the previous night and had apparently started to wreck the sink. One of the night-shift men in passing had entered, engaged in a fight with the intruder, and got knocked Out, th tstanley 'Ullgought for a .moment and then smiled grimly. He rang up a firm a were ma ers of scientific instruments, placed an Order and then drove down to the 1ab0f3t01'Y, Where he spent the rest of the afternoon. That night, under cover of darkness, and with Mal's help he strung a bunch of Wires '50 31 Shafflk SQIIIG eight hundred feet distant, burying them for the most part about three inehes in the gF011I1d. The next day, on a table in the shack, he put 13 ' - . PP e T range mlxtufe Of TCMYS, batteries and electric bulbs. Two detectives work- mg 2L.'06I'11ately, were hired to watch the thing constantly from early evening to morning. Th k t , , out of existeneeivor Wen on as usual end Stanley Fofdme Seemed to have dI'0PPed After two weeks of watchful and tedi - , d t t. . n ous waiting, at about three in the morn- bllenkein e -ec We Sew one ef the little heme glow UP and in a minute th ere all 3 lfrcgularly. A little later th ' - ey W GY steadied and blinked rhythmically and Forty A

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THE POTTER SHIELD The Silver Cup Mr. George Sabine Potter was in his comfortable Office l d t f School building. The office. was a remarkable one. . It hacill been IED2lf6i1I1Zb51E1dOYl1ZI3, carefully in Mr. Potter's mind before the old bulidmg ha even e . h d t . and as a result it contained a number of conveniences for .the bbuibil Gad H1215 Eg' By far the most unusual of these was a little ticker standing Y 9 S1 9 V0 9 desk, and labeled School News. The ticker waslprovideydgwitlg a Isftlpfpbutlilons, some of Whlch 1-93.51 f'Mr. Damon, 'Miss Adams, Eddy, S1011 Y 3 .9910 eff, .Shield Editor and Secretary By means of this convenient appliance Mr. Potter could find out the latest news from one of the personages named on his buttons, for after a minute the proper news would come out of the tlcker. Also anyone might communicate with Mr. Potter through the Same tlckef- Having examined the most interesting feature of the office, let us pass on to its owner. Mr. Potter was at peace with the world for two reasons: first, the parents of his pupils had all paid their bills, and, second, he was asleep 1n his big chair. . i , t This happy condition of affairs did not last long, for the little ticker Jumped, so did Mr. Potter. In a moment the following news came out: 12:30 P. M. THE CLASS CUP WHICH WAS WON BY THE CLASS OF NINETEEN-TWENTY, HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM ITS PLACE IN THE MAIN ROOM. DETAILS UNKNOWN. DORIS MCLOUGHLIN. in the new Potter Mr. Potter rushed out of his office, bounded up the stairs, and in another minute was standing in front of the glass case in which the cup had been kept. It had disappeared lv The glass cabinet was still locked, but the pane in front had been smashed, and the fragments were scattered over the floor. All the other cups were in their usual places. Hal said Mr. Potter, who had just been reading a detective story, this is a recent crime, for no one would smash that glass in front of a whole study hall- no, it must have been done during the lunch hour. Besides, what criminal would take one cup and leave so many? There must be some reason for this. Perhaps it is some enemy of the class of 1920. The school must not know of this. They must be kept out of this room. Let me see-I must put a sign on the door. I will say, 'The Chemistry class is operating below you.' By the way, someone is in that l2lb01'al301'Y-I can smell something now,-and no one has any business there at this hour. I must see about this. He prepared to leave the room. First he hid the rest of his cups in the waste- paper basket, covering tkiem with crumpled yellow paper. Then he threw the glass out of the window, so that any watcher would believe that he was a playful student. After that he pQaced a sign over the large doorg HSPECIAL PENMANSH 'fThere, said he, Mtn Cautiously he stole C IP CLASS Fon ALL THosE wHo w1sH TO ATTEND. at will keep them out. And now for the laboratory! ,own the fire-escape to the second floor, but to his dismay des of the laboratory had been pulled down. Still, he remamed OH the Outer P 3tf01'1T1, h0Pi11g that he would hear something. He had he found that all the sha re an uHSPeakable odor attacked him. not been there long befo Forty-two