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A SOCIAL METEOR. 91 coming, though? We might both have been out; as it is, it’s only by chance that I am at home.” “Why, Georgie telegraphed me yesterday to come. Surely she received my reply,” he re- turned with surprise. “She never said anything at all to me about it.” ‘“That’s strange,” he observed, “and she’s out now, you say ?”’ She nodded. “Oh, well,” he said, with the air of confidence in his fiancee so usual with a man in love, “I suppose.she’ll soon be home now, and then she can tell us why she neglected to tell you. She expected me. Of course she has some good reason.” | “She’ll have her reasons no doubt,” replied Ray, “but what good there can be in such fool- ishness as she has displayed on this occasion I can’t quite understand.” She was provoked to think that he had walked in upon her in this unceremonious way when she knew she must be looking far from her best. As for Georgie, she would have enjoyed noth- ing better than slapping her face at that minute. But, as it was, she was powerless to express her opinion, for she knew Lee would resent the first Eomichbooks Go