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A SOCIAL METEOR. 281 you for weeks, but I haven’t had the courage, until to-night. It’s very hard for me, but my mind will never be at rest until I do. Besides, it’s your right to know it.” “Yes?” He said this quietly, as though he had little interest in what she was saying. She seemed to struggle with herself for a moment, and then resumed: “You know that note I sent you from Georgie, the one I told you she gave me in New York He sprang to his feet impatiently. “Why will you keep bringing that up?” he cried. “Because,” she answered steadily, she “never sent it to you.” “She never sent it to me?” he repeated in a dazed fashion. ‘No, she sent it to me.” “Explain yourself.” “T will, if you'll give me a chance. Sit down please, and listen to what I have to say, if you don’t you may never hear it, as I’m not often in a repentant mood. Perhaps I’m making a fool of myself now, but I’m going on at any rate, for the sake of my own conscience. Of course you remember how foolishly I behaved at the dinner that night at Mount St. Vincent, and how the absinthe affected my light, unaccustomed head ? No need of dwelling on that, is there? Well, it Gomichboo SS (Eo)