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A SOCIAL METHOR. 189 rate, and a person in my desperate strait must not be too particular as to means.” So saying she went to her desk and wrote the following lines: DEAR LEE:—I left New York this noon, and reached home about an hour ago. When I said good-by to Georgie, she gave me the inclosed note, asking me to hand it to you. But as I cannot get out this afternoon, and think- ing perhaps it may be important (as lovers’ mes- sages generally are), I take this means of getting it to you. Hoping it contains something very pleasant, and also to see you soon, I am, as ever, Then she carefully sealed up, in a plain envel- ope, the note she had received from Georgie, and put both into a larger one, upon which she inscribed his name. It was the work of but a moment to ring for the footman and send him away to deliver it, and she did so without falter- ing. “Tt seems a cruel thing to do,” she whispered, “but there is no reason why she should have all and I nothing. If Providence arranges things badly, each of us poor mortals must do what we can to make them a little more endurable, even if it affects somebody else.” Eomicbooks (E(@)