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276 A SOCIAL METEOR. of yours again, or else that ‘Monseigneur’ had been up to his old tricks.” “Oh, no, I haven’t been on the water to-day, and IJ imagine that new bit has taught ‘Seignie’ a lesson or two,” he answered. ‘“He’s as quiet as a lamb. I’m later than usual because I met those two Scotchmen we ran across so many times in Paris, McDonald and Graham}; you re- member them, don’t you? They are traveling with their wives and are ‘doing’ Italy. ‘They say they detest guides, and get along without them whenever they can, so they asked me what there was to seein Naples. ‘Vesuvius,’ said I. ‘What else?’ asked McDonald. ‘The Museum.’ ‘What then?’ inquired Graham. “The Bay,’ I answered. ‘But have you no churches, no picture-galleries to go through ?’ they asked in a breath. I told them no, thank Heaven we hadn’t, but that the fishing was excellent. They seemed quite dis- gusted, and said they hardly thought it paid to stop here. But they wanted to go through the Museum, and insisted upon my accompanying them. SolI went. And now they are anxious to have us join them on an excursion to Pompeii, some day this week. What do you say, shall we go? ‘They’re rather nice, you know.” “If you like; I suppose I can stand seeing it again, although I am getting rather sick of it.” Eomicbooks co