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80 A SOCIAL METEOR, ones who don’t bore me. When I’m with them I cast off every care I have in the world, and forget there is such a thing as trouble.” “That’s the difference between our dispositions, then.” “Ves it is, certainly, and either you’ve changed a great deal in a few years (for you were a very merry school-girl), or else I’m getting in my dotage.”’ The next three mornings they spent in shop- ping, and the afternoons in driving in the park. Ray continued in the best of spirits, and was unusually lively, buying everything she fancied, and trying to urge Georgie to do the same. “Why, if I had your money, I wouldn’t deny myself a single thing,” she said, just after having made a most extravagant purchase. Georgie smiled. “I don’t see that you do now,” she responded. “T’m positive you spend four times as much as any woman of your acquaintance. You must be poorer by hundreds of dollars this morning than you were yesterday.” “Well, if Iam, I haven’t gotten one unneces- sary article. I needed all I bought.” Gomicbooks (E(@)