Remington High School - Mirror Yearbook (Remington, IN)

Page 67 text:

42 The Mirror lI7'IiI'l1.l'lli lll l l l ll l l ll i1iilllllI'll.l4..Il.!lIlI'll'illllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllll lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllli the number on the operator. ln a few minutes a voice answered: I-Iello! ' It was not his sister's voice but it was one almost as sweet. Is that you, .Iessie? He knew it wasn't, but he eouldnot hang up the receiver without making a bluff at wrong number. Yes, who is speaking? came the surprising answer in an inviting tone. Leo Colbert, from back home, he half gasped. From lYishright she asked quickly. You bet, he replied, although he had never heard of XYishright before. How are you, Leo? she inquired, and how is everybody? l am just dying to hear news from home. I'm great and everybody is line. He seemed just as eager to tell her the news as she was to hear it. Is Tiny I.ewis alive and how is Martha Blaker's rheumatism? Oh Leo, tell me quickly. No, poor Tiny is dead and Martha- 5 So on right down the list, she asked questions about people he had never heard of before, and he answered them as if they were life-long friends of his. Of course she thought he was someone else, but he was not going to miss talking to her because of a little thing like that. Cant I come up and see you? he chimed in during a short pause in the questioning. XYe can talk things over so much better. Certainly, come. XYhere are you I-Ie told her the name of his hotel. It was just a short distance to where she lived, and he would be there in time to take her to the theater. As I.eo stood at the door of the address she had given him. his heart sank a trille, This -lessie would know at once that he was a stranger to her and would have nothing further to do with him. Perhaps he was foolish to spoil it all by calling on her personally. That voice had attracted him, and he made up his mind right there that it would take some rebufling to crush his aspirations for its owner's friendship. Instead of turning him away, there she was at the door with an out- stretched hand, and her smile of welcome was more wonderful than her voice. You have changed almost as much as I have, she told him. I would hardly have known you. You have changed, too, he smiled back, but I would have known you anywhere. Uh, Jessie, you are too wonderful for anything. Cleverly he avoided topics that might unmask him. She was interested in other things beside the old folks at home. They spent a most enjoyable evening, and he left with an invitation to come again. It was a strange courtship they launched out on. After he had been calling on 'lessie for three months, Leo realized that he was very much in love with her. Her friendship had filled so much of his life that he had no chance to think over the deception he had been playing, but now that he reached the point where he was going to ask her to become his wife the ll ll l l I l l l l lll l l lll l l ll l ll ll ll lllll llVlfll!Illl1lliP1lllll'lillilllllll'lllIIllIllllllllllllllll lll IlllllllllllllllllllllIIllllllllllllllillllllliliblill.

Page 66 text:

The Mirror 5. . f '

Page 68 text:

The Mirror 43 llf' I l l' ' l' l l lid thought troubled hiin. .Xfter all was it he that 'lessie loved, if she did love? XYas it not another Leo in whose person he had masqueraded who had won his affections? The thought of a rival worried him. lf the other fellow won out he would go back to loneliness, back to his life of drudgery-to what he had been pleased to call fame and fortune. Oh, no, he would not. He could not stand it. lf .lessie loved this other man, then it was back to the old home city for hini'back to his little two-by-four job, with nothing, but hard work and little pay to look forward to. There was only one thing' to do-confess to ,lessie and leave his fate in her hands. hlessie listened calmly while he poured out his tale like a repentant school boy. He was almost on his knees to her. I have known it all along, she smiled. I was blufiing too. My name isn't Jessie, and I never heard of Leo Colbert until you told me your name over the telephone. XYishrig'ht does not exist, and those people I asked you about and you knew so much about never lived, so far as I know. I was homesick and lonely, too, that night, so I was ready to listen to any voice that had a friendly note in it. It was all in a life-time, I thought, so I let you come. I was terribly afraid at first, but now I know it was all for the best. And-there isn't a Leo Colbert that you love F he asked, hardly able to control himself. - Uh-yes,-there is, she smiled into his face. I-am in his arms now. -TIl,I.IE REED, 'Zl. GEMS FROM EXAMINATION PAPERS One of the characteristics of American poetry was general tendencies. The forum at Rome consisted of little suares of glass stuck into cement. Crassus paid for L'aesar's political cahmpagne. Cerberus was a food substanee eaten by the tiods. ll lll l 4 lll.llHlliiil'ili,il ll lll ll ll