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A SOCIAL METEOR. 13 I don’t want to drag every word out of you.” “It’s a very commonplace story, I assure you. Still, if you insist-——” “T do insist, and remember what an old friend I am.” ‘Well, then, you know, for two months after I became engaged, I fairly lived in the clouds, for I loved Jack, and he was devoted to me. Besides, both families (that is, Aunt Margueret and his parents) approved so entirely of our marrying, and society in general thought it such an excel- lent idea, for me, with my money, to take him with his splendid prospects, just the thing, 1n fact. So our course of true love promised to run very smooth indeed.” “Yes, it was a case of ‘beauty and the boodle,’ as Charley said, when we first heard of it,” inter- rupted Mrs. Thorne. “He didn’t restrict me in any way, and was so attentive—I had only to express a wish, and it was gratified; he loaded me with the most beautt- ful presents, you remember some of them, per- haps. I often used to tell him that there would be nothing left to give me when we were married, but he always laughed, and said I would find something to long for, or | was no woman. CONNIE KOOKS (EO)