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278 A SOCIAL METEOR. would find fault with paradise, and after all, perhaps I’m better off here than anywhere, if it 2s a little dull. We'll stay then.” “Not if you wish to leave, Lee,” returned Ray. “Speak the word, and we'll be off to-morrow.” “No, we’ll wait a little longer, and go to Paris or Vienna, later on, where you can get some clothes, for I don’t suppose you can find anything here to suit you. Apropos, I bought that fan you wanted, to-day. I gave it to Annette.” ‘How good you are!” ‘Nonsense, if I can only give you a little pleasure to compensate, in part.” His voice sank almost to a whisper, and a look of care came into his eyes. She went over to him and laid her arms around his neck. ‘‘Pleasure ?”’? she repeated tenderly, “why Lee I never imagined, even in my wildest moments, that I could know such happiness as I have experienced during the last few months. It has been like one long delicious dream. Every night when I go to bed, I pray that it may last, and that] may not awake with a start and find my- self back ¢here again. Sometimes when I stand out here alone in the moonlight and see all around me so bright and unreal, I cry for very joy. If I have given you a tenth part of the. happiness that you have given me, I am content.” GomicbooksiGo .