Santa Rosa High School - Echo Yearbook (Santa Rosa, CA)

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HESECHIO FIRST PRIZE Earl Kuykendall SECOND PRIZE Kruneth Schafer THIRD PRIZE Bobert Gardin HONORABLE MENTION Francis Piazzi Ellen Golm John Massarek Twenty-seven

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tesco OK PS Che Nivht © Ht Rained ING-A-LING! Ding-a-ling! I awoke with a start. How long had that pesky telephone bell been ringing? Out of patience, I answered it. ““Hello!’? ‘Hello!’? The answering ‘‘hello’’ was in a woman’s voice— sweet but teary. “‘Oh Jim, please come down to the station at once! I am in terrible trouble!’’ ‘But, Madame, | !’? But I heard the click of the receiver and I knew that I was alone on the line. Having been christened Archibald by a doting parent and having never had the honor of being called ‘‘Jim’’ in my en- lire life, I knew I was not the rightful recipient of that pleading message, out [ pulled back the curtain and looked out. Tt was certainly a wet world that I beheld. The rain was beating down pell-mell and the eutter’s and ear tracks were miniature Mississippis at the flood season. The dull street lamps sent out their sickly gleams through the mist of the downpour, but added no light to the dripping world. No living mortal was in sieht. Gad! What a beastly night! How I would hate to be out there! But a woman—alone and in trouble. I turned and looked at the bed. The eover’s were thrown back where I had left them in a hurry, the pillows were piled in an anviting heap, and moreover, the chills were running up and down my spine. Well, taken altogether, the bed was the most enticing thine I could see. so I jumped into it, pulled the cover’s over my head and tried to resume my slumbers, but my conscience troubled me, trying to tell me it was a gentleman’s place to help a lady in distress. The clock, chiming twelve, added the last drop in the bucket and I arose, dressed, and hurried to the station. cursing the rain, vet with my innate adventurous spirit at its highest. Twenty-eight