Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-08-19
KATY Delaney.
py EMMA A. OPPER.

fll 1IO Nv.
4 their lawn and the Winslows,
1T and Joined Irene, who was
Fo her history on the veranda.
Going to give a party next
he announced.
/ tnrned down leaf and shut
H. with an excited snap. "Why!
IL your mother and Madeline
Tgaid she, but Dwight nodded.
/. I am. They're going to be
.month, It will be hot weather
kime they get back, and you
! lance when it's hot. [ think
he clad to be rid Of the bother
N that matter. Father thinks |
hage it. and he's given me $25
shall have the hotel people
he refreshments, and I'll have
1 four pieces from the opera
Orchestra. And if you and
hother," said Dwight, evil
! about j.. it." .,,,,,
t6iirS9 Ne will" Irene prom
kIightedIv, and she joined him
Enthusiastic discussion of de-
She forgot her studying, and
hde out a list of the guests, and
hanccs, on a fyleaf of her his
4 Dwight went home, he went
j the back entry, to clean his
Delaney came through the
kom the kitchen, where she had
3lling on the cook. She was a
connection of the cook s-the
eousin had married Katie De-
uncle.
Delaney went to the high
4 She was in this years gradu-
FIass. How do you do?"
] said. He had considerable
j for her. She was a pleasant
IA she was a bright scholar,
i Delaney murmured elbow do
q" and went out hastily, her
erted. Dwight looked sharply
Rr. "What's the matter with
8 he inquired of the cook, who
ring potatoes in the kitchen.
q have you been saying to her?
Zen crying, hasn't she?"
Fasn't anything [ said to her,
n answered. cts what she's
lying to me" She pared an
potato before she went on.
s feeling terrible bad because
8 t graduate said she. 'sShe
Bot any dress to wear, and she
Pt any She'd have to have a
Press like the rest of the girls,
the other tixings; and she
I've EN-, and she's got to give it
She's got pride and she won't
dress that amt suitable. Her
Pied last winter, you know, and
had an awful hard time to get
There amt any money for any
ing dress for Katy, and Katy
t. She amt making any fuss
/, but she feels terribly bad.
et her diplomacy, Is'pose, same
Fest but she'll miss all the fun
the part that's worth having.
d to let her have the money,
wouldn't take it. I don't
would in her place. Well,
y. Poor folks DO have it aw-
sad the cook, turning the
Rr on the potatoes.
ty: l should say it was," said
tie bent a sober face over
ne continued to think of it.
oelaney's tirst-rate girl. It's
oNSn II She got to miss COM
Pent. She's one of the best
IN that class. Margaret Cary
ce beiden, and all those girls,
on hand, dressed up like any
M some of them have only just
u through on their examina-
a'shed with his bicycle and
- On the piazza with maya
made no difference. He
~ get haty Delaney out of his
II wouldn't be so bad for a
lie E, thought, "but girls are
n, '"' such things. She'll
t ana stared hard at a syringa
1nlI white bloom. He did not
;n lOOs' He jumped up, with
vaFe. he said, aloud, ssit's
so AND II [ can't turn my hand
somebody once in a While
8 to do it," nii
Upstairs, and found his poe
~tS SnG Ito took from it a little roll
h. D ~ 80 his father had given
lpar '.uea them in a sheet of
F rom and on the paper scrib-
r ,on "a a friend; for your grad
d.. And he sealed it in an
oa atlF s;ts i to Katy Delaney y,
70 with it to the letter box.
minutes later he startled
aS'Os by a second appe es.