Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1897-08-19
For KATY Delaney
BY EMMA A. oPPER,

studying her history on the veranda-
Tim going to give a party next
week." he announced.
Irene turned down a leaf and shut
her book with an excited snap. "Why!
Not with your mother and Madeline
gomez" said she, but Dwight nodded.
Eyes, 1 am. They're going to be
gone month. 1t will be hot weather
by the time they get back, and you
can't dance when it's hot. / think
they'll be glad to be rid of the bother
of it, for that matter. Father thinks
can manage it, and he's given me 1915
for it l shall have the hotel people
serve the refreshments, and TIL have
three or four pieces from the opera
house orchestra. And if you and
your mother" said Dwight, twill
help me about it"
''Of course we willr' Irene prom
Used, delightedly. and she joined him
in an enthusiastic discussion of de-
tails. She forgot her studying, and
they made out list of the guests, and
of the dances, on a hyleaf of her his
tory.
When Dwight went home, he went
down to the back entry, to clean his
bicycle.
Katy Delaney came through the
entry from the kitchen, where she had
been calling on the cook. She was a
distant connection of the cook's-the
cooks cousin had married Katie De-
laney's uncle.
Katy Delaney went to . the high
school She was in this years gradu-
ating class ''How do you do?"
Dwight said He had considerable
respect for her. She was pleasant
girl, and she was bright scholar,
too.
Katy Delaney murmured Glow do
You do?" and went out hastily, her
face averted. Dwight looked sharply
after her. whats the matter with
Katy?" he inquired of the cook, who
was pairing potatoes in the kitchen.
'4What have you been saying to her?
She's been crying, hasn't she?"
"'Twasn't anything l said to her, !"
the cook answered. "It's what she's
been saying to me-" She pared an
other potato before she went on.
''She's feeling terrible bad because
she can't graduate said she. '.She
hain't got any dress to wear, and she
can't get any. She'd have to have a
white dress like the rest of the girls,
and all the other fixings; and she
cant have 'em, and she's got to give it
all up. She's got pride and she won't
wear dress that amt suitable. Her
father died last winter, you know, and
they've had an awful hard time to get
along. There amt any money for any
graduating dress for Katy, and Katy
knows il. She amt making any fuss
about 1t, but she feels terribly bad.
She'll get her diplomacy, Is'pose, same
az the rest, but she'll miss all the fun
and all the part that's worth having
j offered to let her have the money,
but she wouldn't take it. l dom
s'pose / would in her place. Well,
it's pity. Poor folks do have it aw
full hard" said the cook, turning the
cold water on the potatoes.
ga pity! should say it was" said
Dwight. He bent sober face over
his wheel.
And he continued to think of it.
"Katy Delaney's first-rate girl. It's
pretty tough If she's got to miss COM
mencement. She's one of the best
scholars in that class. Margaret Cary
and Grace Belden, and all those girls,
will be on hand, dressed up like any
thing, and some of them have only just
sque aked through on their examina-
tions."
He finished with his bicycle aud
went ont on the piazza with maya
zine. 1t made no difference. He
could not get Katy Delaney out of his
mind. cit wouldn't be so bad for a
fellow" he thought, "but girls are
different about such things. She'll
feel awful"
He sat and tared hard at a syringa
bush, in full white bloom. He did not
sit there long. He jumped up, with
sudden impetuosity.
81 don't care" he said, aloud, ''it's
a shamel And if can't turn my hand
over for somebody once in while
Tn going to do itl''
ic ran upStdiIS, anu iouuu LIE pOC-
ket book, and took from it little roll
of bills-.the S25 his father had given
him. He folded them in sheet of
letter paper, and on the paper scrib-
bled, ''From a friend; for your grad
uating dress" And he sealed it in an
envelope, directed it to Katy Delaney,
and ran out with it to the letter box.
And five minutes later he startled
Irene Winslow by second appear
apce before her. He planted himself
with his feet apart and his arms fold
ed.
81 cant have any party, Irene" he
said
Dwight Hopkinsl'' said Irene, with
a struggling suspicion that Dwight
had lost some portion of his senses.
Z. .'It's so,'' said Dwight. IL suppose
father would give me some more
money, il leased him, but shan't."
He told Irene all about it. "You
see," he explained, cit was q plagued
shame, and couldn't stand IL think
ing about IL. She's always stood
higher in. her class than Margaret
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