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A SOCIAL METEOR. 223 minutes. So I hurried Edith along to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, while I went to make arrange- ments for our marriage, and by four o’clock we were man and wife.” ‘So, then, you’ve actually been married,” ex- claimed Georgie, “and no one has ever known of it ?” “No, for I guarded the secret jealously, and am sure Edith never knew who any of my relatives were. She understood perfectly that in marrying her I had stooped considerably, and either she was governed by a sense of delicacy or else she was not particularly interested in my family affairs, for she never attempted to pry into them. ‘We traveled for a month and then settled down in Baltimore, as Edith fancied that city especially,and I did not care about living in New York with her, for I knew a hundred questions would be certain to be asked if we did.” ‘‘And the mother ?” inquired Georgie. “Oh, we sent her a line of explanation, and after that we heard nothing of her for months and mouths. Whether she raved and tore around the steamer when she became aware of her daughter’s disappearance, or whether she took it philosophi- cally, I never heard. But to continue: We lived Gomilcboo SS (Eo)