"Nor I you," said he. And he put me in a chair and opened the door. I somehow couldn't look up, though I knew she was there. "I don't know whether to laugh or cry," said "ma" Burke. "So I guess I'll just do both." And then she seated herself and was as good as her word. [Illustration] TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Text in italics is surrounded with underscores: _italics_. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. End of Project Gutenberg's The Social Secretary, by David Graham Phillips