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226 A SOCIAL METEOR. feared her efforts would be of less avail even than mine. “(T believe she is possessed of the very devil,’ said I pointedly, and Mrs. Snow solemnly agreed with me. “One afternoon, about a month after my mother- in-law’s arrival, I saw her slip a letter into my wife’s hand, when she thought I was not looking. I turned hastily, and demanded it. ““T gave her no letter,’ asserted Mrs. Snow in an aggrieved tone. “Vou lie,’ I exclaimed, ‘I saw you with my own eyes.’ “Why, how could you?’ asked Edith quickly, ‘your back was turned.’ ‘““T know it was,’ I cried, “but you forget there is a mirror over the mantel.’ ‘Both women looked frightened, but still in- sisted that I was accusing them unjustly. Mrs. Snow flounced from the room in a huff. When we were alone I grasped my wife by the shoulders and again asked for the letter. but she broke | from me and ran upstairs. Neither of them ap- peared at dinner, and so little Pierre and I took it alone together. That night I expressed my opinion of her mother in pretty plain terms to (E(o) Gomichooks