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266 A SOCIAL METEOR. down into her face, “you will gratify me about this money, will you not? I really wish you would; the knowledge that I am doing something to make somebody else a little less miserable, © may help me forget my own unhappiness, perhaps.” Ray returned his glance with a long, grateful one. “Nous verrons,” she replied, lightly. Late the next afternoon, Mrs. Thorne appeared at Lee Grant’s private office. She was plainly dressed in gray, with a heavy vail drawn across her face, and she had come on foot every step of the way. She started timidly at her own footfalls, as she passed quickly down the silent, dimly lighted hall, and her heart beat so wildly when she reached the door, that her limbs nearly gave way from under her. She was about to play her last card, and what if she should lose, after all? She was trembling so that shé could scarcely knock, and glad enough she was that John (Mr. Grant’s man) delayed two or three minutes before opening to her. He did not recognize her, and looked at her rather doubt- fully. But when she gave her name he was pro- fuse in his apologies, ~ Gomicbooks (E(o)