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By PEARL HOWARD CAMPBELL =
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Commencement week was over. The girls who
for four happy years had made Grafton Hall ring
with songs and laughter, had said their last good
bys and scattered for the summer vacation.
Alone in the little chamber with its quaint, old
fashioned furniture, Elizabeth Copley slipped out of
the pretty, fry graduating dress and buttoned her
self into her favorite blue Bingham. Then she paused
for before her mirror. From the gilt
frame there smiled forth a grlish face healthily
brown with square, determined chin and saucy
mouth The eyes were brown, and ldughter-light
ed; the hair, by her pride and torment was
deepest auburn
eff I can't climb mountains in the West with the
other girls, shall have to surmount whole ranges
OF them right here at home, if go to Wellesley
this fal1.' she was saying to herself
Catching up her skirts with both hands she made
deep courtesy to the figure in the mirror "Eliz-
abeth Alice Copley," she said, you to be hung
away in the closet with the Commencement gown
and the brand diploma while little, red-haired
'Bess' earns the wherewithal to go to college"
With ripple of laughter she down the stairs
to the dining room where the family waiting
for her, her mother looking like bit of fragile
china as she bent above the tea cups; her father,
tall and gray, with kindly eyes; the boys, Spencer
and Garrison; and ffteen-year-old Grace
1--WE waited for you, DEAR" said Mrs. CoPley.
"Your father a little hurried, but daughter
doesn't graduate every day"
Launched, but whittier bound?" quoted Spencer
from his sisters Grafton How does Miss Copley
by smashing family traditions into little pieces"
SWhe-ewT' Spencer exclaimed. THAT is rank
sa5s5 zoa cars of speak TO R 9td
your faulily's position in the past, shall be glad
II don't" Eiizsbeth ' answered with what her
brothers called her Betsy look Sometimes I think
having rsS: any sr to live up to"
Good Tor you. Bess." this from Garrison ct
reIzssanIy think we. could spare Jew W., NJ
ley Il trust it Is one that would meet with your
The Copleys were poor, though they owned the
rambling old house filed to the roof with furniture
ing, they were rich in eccentricities herooms and
ancestors Chisf among the latter, the young Peo-
h9 lived alone II sat spend9d in her houSe IN
family tree every day for exercise
She had taken a fancy to Elizabeth in her baby
e was sAce for r mhe
mother, instead of Anne. True. she had sent the
Of little Copieys had slipped their milk, and robe
of rare old lace Since then she%had held no inter
cred in the background spelling their good times
with her oldfashioned ideas of decorum
reason given for abandoning many an unconven-
fo .t2a but really harmless plan 1-:e.a ,..s
for instant" was Mr. Copleys decision, when
grocer during the summer vacation, though the
father afterward gave his consent.
her great-aunt's dispeasure had something to do
with fostering in Elizabeth intense dislike for
her finger tips she forever setting the family
traditions at naught. Merry self-reliant, she had
long ago transferred the burdens of the housekeep
ing from her mothers frail shoulders to her own
robust ones. Yet she. found time with all her
school work be her brothers chun. her fathers
conhdant, and the little sisters best friend.
What IS your plan, Betty?" queried Spencer
"You win have all on tiptoe. guessing, if you
keep in suspense much longer"
She looked at them, laughter Drumming in her
eyes. 81 warned you Now listen: I going to
start restaurant at Berwicl-bv-the-Sea."
"'What do suppose your Aunt Elizabeth will
to that?" asked Mr. Copley with luminous
twinkle in his eyes
"'That il Is vulgar and commonplace: but don't
care if can only go college this fall"
"She might help you" said Mrs. Copey. hope