A Social Meteor — page 69: what you’re looking at

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A SOCIAL METEOR, 59 CHAPTER V. A PLEDGE OF SECRECY. Two weeks later Georgie went to the theater with Lee and Mr. and Mrs. Wolcott. It had been agreed upon that they were all to return to the Thornes’ for a little supper, as Mr. Thorne was fond of playing the host and considered his cook the finest in town. “What’s the use of eating all sorts of myste- rious mixtures when you can sit down to your own table and feel satisficd that you’re in no danger of being poisoned?” he would say when his wife found fault with him for accepting so few invitations to dine out with her. When they reached the house, however, they were met by Mrs. Thorne’s maid with a note which she gave Georgie. “My Dear Georgie,” she read. ‘Charlie has been seized with one of his old fits of in- digestion and is so ill I am afraid I cannot join you for supper. It is nothing serious, but as he will not let anyone give him his CONNIE XCOOKS EO