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14 A SOCIAL METEOR. ‘He allowed me to have as many men come to see me as before our engagement, and was never sulky when he found callers at the house, even on his especial evenings.” “What bliss,” exclaimed Ray, “what on earth did you find to quarrel about ?” “Vow ll soon hear. At last, about three months before we were to have been married, a certain young Scotchman began to come to the house with one of Jack’s especial friends. He seemed to be a very nice little fellow, and every one liked him—except Jack; he took a violent dislike to him almost immediately. Why it was, though, I never could find out, exactly. He said he was ‘airish,’ ‘snobbish,’ and a ‘lady-killer,’ which I thought very unjust, and one day I told him so, pretty frankly. Then he got angry and said that perhaps he was a better judge of men than I was, and that he could see no reason why I should wish to have that little “bull-dog’ trotting after me all the time. I told him I was perfectly in- different as to whether Mr. St. John ever called on me again or not, only I thought he was acting foolishly to be jealous of the poor little fellow, who was in this country all alone, and who didn’t call on me oftener than any one else. EONNIE DOOKS (EF)