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270 A SOUIAL METEOR. knowing how I sympathized with you in your trouble, I did not see how you could turn a deaf ‘ear to me. And now,” plaintively, “you are going away, and I do not know what to do. Mamma cannot take care of me, she has barely enough to support herself upon, and she would try to make me return to him. But I cannot, I cannot—I will never put my foot inside of his door again,’ and she burst into tears. “Surely something can be done about it,” asserted Lee, “you would have no difficulty in obtaining a divorce.” “T have no money,” she rejoined, tearfully, -“and besides, I don’t. want my name dragged through the courts. I only want to go away out of all this misery. Oh, Lee,” clasping her hands, and looking at him imploringly, “if you have any pity, take me with you. “That is out of the question,’ he uttered, promptly. “Think of the consequences; think how your name would be tossedabout. It would be a thousand times worse than a divorce. Charley is the one who would be sympathized with, then, and I would be pointed out as a scoundrel.” ‘We need never come back to this country.” “My dear girl, you don’t know what you are talking about,” said Lee, impatiently. “If I were to let you come with me, I would never dare to look any of my fellow-countrymen in the face Gomichbooks (Eo)