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common. In passing up one street, I saw a Union Jack floating 

 from the window in a tall house and, immediately, I took off my 

 hat and made a bow, a profound one, and said: "God bless the 

 Old Flag." The others in the cab looked serious, but did not 

 second my exclamation. A tall man, however, who sat beside 

 me began, after that, to converse with me about various matters. 

 This gentleman was very much interested in many of the state- 

 ments that he heard from me and, when we reached my hotel, he 

 said that, if he were allowed, he would like to sit with me and have 

 some conversation and I told him I would be most happy to have 

 his company, as I was alone. 



After some conversation on various subjects, I said to him: 

 "Are you going to the ball tonight?" He said: "Oh, no, they 

 would not let me in because I am not in agreement with their 

 ideas." He then told me that he had come over from England 

 with us the preceding night and was on the boat that I was on. 

 I told him that I had received a ticket to the ball while in Lon- 

 don and, since I arrived in Dublin, I had got another. The first 

 one had my name on it and the second was just a formal one with 

 'Admit the Bearer," and I said that if he wished to go to the 

 ball, I would give him my second ticket and he agreed to come 

 and, in the evening, a little before the ball opened, he reached my 

 hotel and he was now dressed in the pink of fashion and carried 

 himself like a man of position. 



The Rotunda, where the ball was to take place, was only 

 about fifty yards above my hotel, on the same street, and we 

 walked up. When we entered the Rotunda, by the porch, there 

 were two places where they received the tickets and each man 

 went up to the office and gave his ticket before he was permitted 

 to pass the usher who stood at the folding doors. My companion 

 walked boldly up to one receptacle and I went up to the other, 

 giving my ticket, which had my name on it. We passed into the 

 hall and that was the last I ever saw of my friend, except on the 

 ball-room floor. 



Late in the evening, as I was wandering along, alone, after 

 after having satisfied myself with seeing the sights, a Parsee gentle- 

 man from Bombay Indian Service, with whom I was acquainted, 



