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came up to me and said : "Did you know, there is great excitement 

 here to-night ?" I asked him how that was and he said: "Why, 

 one of the chief men of the Secret Service of England is here and 

 no one can tell how he got into the ball." Of course, I said that 

 I would like very much to see him, and so he took me upstairs to 

 the gallery, which ran around the hall, and here I saw my man 

 dancing with one of the ladies and the Parsee pointed him out 

 and said: "There is the man." I saw at once what the whole 

 thing had meant all day. By my bowing to the Flag, I had shown 

 that I was not a sympathiser and, in our later conversation, he 

 found that, with my assistance, he could go to the ball and see 

 what was going on. 



We had a few days of sight-seeing in Dublin, but I will only 

 mention one other expedition we had. Forty-seven jaunting cars, 

 and gigs and conveyances of one kind and another, were started 

 from Dublin to the Dargle in Wicklow and, on the way back from 

 the Dargle, we stopped at Powerscourt and there was a labyrinth 

 and a number of us went into it and some had considerable diffi- 

 culty in getting out again. Others of the party were partaking of 

 refreshments, chiefly Irish whisky, of which there was no scarcity. 

 On our way back to Dublin, we made a great procession, forty- 

 seven conveyances all strung out, one behind the other, on a 

 narrow road. The cart I was in had, besides myself, a number of 

 Australians who were flush of money and who had imbibed all 

 they bargained for and began to bargain with our driver to get 

 us farther ahead and they would pay him a certain amount for 

 every carriage they passed. He immediately accepted the bargain 

 and, with a flourish of his whip and cheers from us, made a rush 

 and passed quite a number of carriages and fell into line quite a 

 piece further on. As soon as the others saw what we had done, 

 they followed suit and we had a terrible mix up, as we rushed 

 down the narrow road, but, as far as I remember, there was no 

 particular injury done to any of us. 



Our stopping place was Bray, where we were to have supper, 

 and I remember, distinctly, that I was placed between two Irish 

 sympathizers, who were teachers in institutions in Dublin. 



Shortly after, I left Dublin for the north and reached Kilmore 



