A Social Meteor — page 230: what you’re looking at

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220 A SOCIAL METEOR. This went on for about two months, when one day she disappeared, without a word of warning. I was nearly distracted; I inquired for her at the theater and at her boarding-house, but all in vain. She had gone, leaving no trace behind her. I went around like a madman for a week, unable to eat or sleep. I put pathetic personals in all the papers, hoping that some one of them’ might reach her. But it was of no use; I could get no clew of her. ‘At last, one day in spring I went to see one of the men in our office off to Europe, and as I was about to leave the steamer, I suddenly spied her leaning over the rail, looking down at the crowd below. She was in traveling costume, and carried a bunch of roses in her hand. She was going to Europe. My heart sprang up into my throat, and my knees knocked together. I .started to rush toward her, but she waved me back. ‘Then, looking cautiously around her, she came forward to meet me. “I was furious at her for having led me such a chase, and had intended, if I ever found her again, to scold her roundly; but at sight of her my anger vanished, and I could only press her Eomicbooks (Ee)