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260 A SOCIAL METEOR. highly, and to which you are so accustomed. If I had any respect for Charley, I would never think of making you such a proposition, but I haven’t: I consider him a lout and a cad who 1s not fit to be married to a decent woman. So you won't refuse me ?” She shook her head again, this time with a mournful smile. “T must, she murmured, “but nevertheless, I will acknowledge that your offer 1s a great tempta- tion to me. Please,” pleadingly, “if you have any regard for me, say nothing more on this subject. It pains.me to say no to you when youre so good, and yet I cannot say yes. - Besides, she continued, in a low voice, “you must recollect that there is another whose wishes ought to be consulted in matters of this kind.” He turned his head away and a sort of spasm seemed to run through his huge, powerful frame. When he spokeagain his lips were quivering. ‘There is no one whose wishes J have any reason to consult,” he said in a husky voice. Ray opened her eyes as if in astonishment. “And Georgie?” she uttered, inquiringly. “Tt is all over between us.” “Whiy, Lee ‘Yes, he went on rapidly, “the letter you sent me from her, contained my conge—nothing more or less.” (Eo) Eomichbooks