"That I am."

"Then why turn round and walk up the aisle in full view of the audience ? If you want to remain unnoticed, you must sit still with your face forward."

He was struck by this absurd speech, and sat down. Was he convinced, or did a slight uriosity -?

And there he sat through it. It was like seeing a child at a pantomime, to watch him. He would laugh at the comic songs, and, ye Gods! he cried at the sentimental ones.

At the end of the first part he made a faint movement towards going out.

"Don't," said Jack; "they 'II think you 've gone out to take something."

He shuddered. "But if I don't come back?"

"Sometimes men take too much to come back," said I. And he was glued to his seat after that.

This was all he said during the whole performance, but I never saw anybody enjoy anything as he did that.

After it was over, he insisted on waiting till the gas was turned down before he went out. As we passed through the vestibule, he turned to me, and said, -

"But what is there wrong in it?"

And I said I did not know.

M. B.