Seth Low Junior High School - Spectator Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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mad with jealousy, drew his dagger and slashed Artois face. Arto, full of rage and pain, leaped at Prah but was pulled back by some of the lesser priests and with Thora was thrown into a dungeon. Thora continued to be cheerful and upon being asked by Arto for the reason of her cheerfulness since they were going to be put to death, she answered: ii cI did not intend to tell you so abruptly but since time is valuable I will tell you the entire truth without any preliminaries. I am an emissary from another planet, Allos by name. The men from Allos are to be here to- day and they will save usf Thora had taught Arto that nothing was impos- sible and therefore he took this news and accepted it as the truth. Suddenly they found themselves out of their prison room and in a space-ship. The men of Allos had found out where they had been hidden and had taken them through the fourth dimension to the ship. The ship then set out for home, the blue planet of Allos. Arto learned many things here and in a few years tAllos timey he made ready to go back to the Earth. When he came back he was in another century. Astonished, he went back to Allos to seek an ex-' planation. This was it. Allos was a planet of a lower density, the Vibration of the atom was therefore retarded. A person would grow old more slowly. It was sometime before he could recon- cile himself to the loss of his family and his friends but he soon forget his loss in study? The story was finished and I gazed at him with astonishment, as he rose I saw that he wanted me to leave. I bid him a friendly good-bye and he walked away with his strange story still ringing in my ears. I never saw him again. Elaine Rubenstein', RD5 LET BEAUTY LIVE Un the style of Thomas Hoody Stalking so silently, Went a man stealthily Through forest land. Birds were to be his prey During the hunt that day. Such sport was grand! Song-giving soaring friends Were now to meet their endse Innocent of fear. Dreary the land would be, Filled with melancholy. Birds were not here. THE SPECTATOR Beautiful woodland green, You make a pretty scenee Not any more; Covered by dead birds blood, As by a crimson flood, Marred by the gore. Man! why so selhsh be? Do let the proud beauty F ly through the air. Give him a chance to live And unto us to give Beauty so rare! Ida Progoff, RDI Page Twenty-three

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THE RELATIVITY 0F TIME T is difficult for me to state the real beginning of the events that led up to the relating of one of the strangest stories ever propounded by man. Suf- fice it to say that I met, was introduced to, and soon became Close friends with Mr. Thicourt. One day, he invited me to his apartment. I was admitted by a bowing Hindu whom I followed through a maze of oriental rugs and strange drapes to the cozy library. Ob- viously it was the apartment of a rover. A stone god from Yucatan frowned at a coolie hat on the opposite wall, while the fat green Buddha of unfathomable age sat smiling on a curiously woven rug. As the Hindu left to notify his master of my presence, my attention became riveted upon a picture on one of the walls. It was a painting of a Roman galley slave, Chained to his bench, drooping with toil and marked with the stripes of the driver,s whip. As I stared at those tired, anguished eyes from which all hope seemed to have died, I suddenly, with a wave of horror recognized the face of Mr. Thi- court. There was but one difference, Mr. Thicourtls Cheek had a scar that seemed to have been deliberately made, while the face of the slave was smooth and in no way marred. IiYou are startled at the likeness ?i' I whirled about to face the doorway where Thicourt was standing with a faint smile on his lips and answered: III am more than startled, I am sim- ply shocked by the likeness? IIThere is a story to that painting, would you like to hear about it ?l, I nodded in assent and we both took Chairs and made ourselves com- fortable. He began his story. iIIt was a warm night in the year Page Twenty-two of 523 B.C. A man whom we shall call Arto, was walking along the sea- shore of ancient Greece that bordered on the Mediterranean. He was too ab- sorbed with his thoughts to notice that a boat had been beached behind him. A moment later, there was a fierce wild struggle with the band of ruflians who finally knocked their victim uncon- scious. When he regained his senses he was made a galley slave. One day, the ship came to port at a city that was a trade secret, and of which only a few merchants knew. Here, the slave saw a Chance to escape. He waited until the men on board had fallen into a drunken stupor and then dived over- board. His escape was immediately noticed by an alert guard who in- stantly gave chase. The slave soon out- distanced his pursuers, and he ran for his life while they merely ran to recap- ture a runaway slave. Suddenly he ran into a temple before him to ask sanctuary. As he ran toward the wood- en image of a goddess, he noticed in its shadow, a young woman, beautiful beyond description. He hastily im- plored her aid and as the capturers ran up the stone steps that led to the temple she touched a hidden spring and a trapdoor opened at the base of 7 the huge image. Arto stumbled for- ward into the opening and the door instantly shut behind him. The search- ers soon tired of the Chase and left the temple. In this manner did Arto meet the Priestess, Thora. clIn the following weeks, Thora im- parted all her knowledge to Arto. All went well until Prah, the head priest of the temple discovered Arto. The scene that followed, changed the en- tire course of Artds life. The priest, THE SPECTATOR

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THE KIDNAPPING OF JOHN BOWERS , Characters Jack Smith .................................... Detective Joel Hardy ........................ Retired Sailor John Bowers .............................. Millionaire Donald Brown ......... English Instructor Morris Black ......... Radio Repair Man Scene I Place: Home of John Bowers after being returned by a kidnapper for $7 5,000. Time: 10 oiclock in the morning. Bowers: Smith, I've lost a large piece of my fortune. I must get it back. Smith: 111 do my best to get it back for you. Now can you describe your kidnappers. Bowers: No, he wore a mask. Smith: Do you know where you were taken? Bowers: Yes, I was taken to 550 Chester Avenue. S mith : Now give me the two ransom notes you received. Bowers: tGoes out and returns in a few minutes and returns with the ransom notesy Here you are but I donTt see what you can get from them. Smith: I think 111 go to 5 50 Chester Avenue. Scene II Place: 550 Chester Avenue. Time: 12 oiclock noon. Smith: There are three people living in this house. I must eliminate two of them. The other one will be the kidnapper. Smith: tDeep in thoughtsy Whafs this I have in my pocket? Oh, the ransom notes; the first one says: JOHN BOWERS: IiSend me $75,000 in five 81 ten dollar bills. If you do not you will be kidnapped. Hand the money to a man wearing a brown suit and hat. He will be at 550 Chester Avenue? The second one says: John Bowers: iiDo not give the man the money. Instead in the left side of the yacht Norfolk. In New York Harbor? Smith: tTelephoning to the policey Capt. White arrest Morris Black for the kidnapping of John Bowers. Scene III Place: Home of John Bowers. Time: 4 oiclock in the afternoon. Bowers: Smith, why did you arrest Black for my kidnapping? Smith: Hereis the story Mr. Bowers. In the first note kidnapped was spelled K-I-D-N-A-P-E-D. It was spelled wrong. The English Instructor would spell it right. That eliminates the instructor. In the second note it said left hand side of the yacht. That eliminaes the sailor who would have said star- board. So that leaves the Radio Repair Man guilty. Seymour Comassar, RB6 Page Twenty-four T H E S P E C T A T O R