Yeshiva University High School For Boys - Elchanite Yearbook (New York, NY)

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lmspiiaf-wow By Morris Marg olies Ever since ThaT unTorTunaTe caTasTrophe which Tor quiTe some Time perplexed noT only his reIa+ives and Triends buT also The enTire police Torce, I have been repeaT- edly aslced To shed some IighT on Borden's mysTerious suicide. For reasons which I won'T boTher To enumeraTe, I was aT TirsT reIucTanT To reveal whaT I knew abouT The aTTair and as a resulT aroused The ire oT many misundersTanding persons. Now, ThaT obiecTions have been removed, owing To The TacT ThaT more Than a year has elapsed since The incidenT, I am in a posiTion To saTiaTe The more curious. When I was awalcened one morning by The doorbell and Tound myselT con- TronTed by a Telegram boy, I own I was noT a liTTle sTarTled. I could noT undersTand who would wire me aT This unearThly hour,6 A. M. I had long esTablished a repuTaTion as an unsocial and misanThropical auThor. My repuTaTion was achieved because oT The TacT ThaT I was very moody. I would someTimes Tall inTo Trances Trom which I could be exTricaTed only by a sound box on The ear, which some oT my closer com- panions were loaThe To do. I am Told ThaT I someTimes wenT Through The moTions of dancing wiTh a lady wiThouT once opening my mouTh To uTTer a syllable. Thus, iT was noT long beTore people began To avoid me, noT, I shame To admiT, wiThouT some inner hilariTy on my parT. Accordingly, I removed myself enTirely Trom The depressing ciTy environmenT and selecTed as a home a liTTle coTTage on a Tarm less Than 50 miles Trom Town. My amazemenT, ThereTore, upon receipT oT The Telegram, is well To be imagined and I was even more sTupeTied aT iTs conTenTs. IT read as Tollows: MeeT me Grand CenTral Tomorrow 7:00 A. lvl. sTop UrgenT We're leaving on Trip. Borden. Now Borden and I had been liTelong Triends. I readily recall our days To- geTher in elemenTary school. We seemed To acquire an exTreme Tondness Tor each oTher righT Trom The sTarT-which TacT can be explained by The sTriIcing similariTy OT our naTures. As a maTTer oT TacT, iT was he who influenced my enTire career. I-lad he noT chosen iournalism as a vocaTion I should have pursued my proTessional sTudies aT The I-Iarvard school oT medicine, ThaT being my inclinaTion aT The Time. Owing To The TacT, however, ThaT upon graduaTing Trom college, we did under no circumsTances wish To be parTed, he decided ThaT l, Too, Tollow his calling. In ThaT manner we en- Tered a souThern school oT journalism whence we boTh graduaTed wiTh high honors, AT This poinT ineviTabIe TaTe came beTween us, TransTorming him inTo The Tamed George Borden, novelisT and newspaper columnisT, and leaving me a sTruggling young auThor desTined To be chased Trom publisher To publisher, in an eTTorT To geT a sTory Twen Ty-eighT EiLCl-IAN ITE