A Social Meteor — page 271: what you’re looking at

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A SOCIAL METEOR. “But what reason did she give?” “None; you mayread the note yourself. I brought it to show you.” And with hands that trembled, he took it from his wallet and handed it to her. She read it calmly, placidly, without betraying 261 herself by so much as the quiver of an eyelid, although she was possessed with a frantic desire to laugh aloud. “My poor Lee!” she simply said when she had finished. JOO SS (E(o)