It was more for the sake of talking than anything else that I kept up with him, I'did not really doubt his care and conscientiousness, but it is always pleasant to chat about one's self. " My five shillings' subscription to the Daily Gramaphone's Sixpenny Fund for the Unemployed—got that down all right Lasked him. "Yes," he replied, "it is entered." "As a matter of fuct, now I come to think of it," I added, "it was ton shillings altogether. They spelt my name wrong the first time." Both sub-ions were down, he told m Thave been to four charity reminded him: "I torget wi were for. I know I suffered the next morning. Champagne never does agree with me. But, then, if you don't order it, people think you can't afford it. Not that I don't like it, It's my liver, if you understand. If I take more—He interrupted me with the assurance that my attendance had been noted. "Then I sent a dozen photographs of myself, ned, to a charity bazar, He said he membered my doing so. "Then let me see," I continued, "1 have been to two ordinary balls. I don't care much about dancing, but a few of us generally play a little bridge. And one fancy dress ball, I wont Sir Walter Raleigh. Some men cannot afford to show their legs. What I say is, if a man can, why not It isn't often one gets the opportunity of looking one's best." He told me all three balls had been duly entered and commented upon, "Than 1 played Talbot Champneys in 'Our Boys' the week before last," I went "I don't know whether you saw the notice in the ' Morning Post'—"
He terrupted me to remark that what the "Morning Post" man said would be entered, one way or the other, to the critic of the " Morning Post," and had nothing todo with me. It occurred to me afterwards, thinking things over, that may be Thad been boring him a trifle. "I don't think the charity got very much," I explained. " Expenses, when you come toadd refreshments, and one thing and another, mount up, you know; added to which the author's executors were mean enough to insist upon their fee. But think it was something over a pound.I replied that he had been present at the performance, and made his own report. I also reminded him of the four balcony seats I@ad taken for the monster show at the Frivolity, in aid of the Fund for the Destitute British in Johannesburg. Not all the celebrated actors and actress ses announced on the poster had appea ed, but all had sent letters full of kindly wishes; and the others—one had never heard of—had fumed up to a man. Still, on the whole, the show was well worth the money: there was nothing to grumble at. There -were other noble deeds of mine. I could not remember them at the time in their entirety. As I have mentioned, the amount of good I have been doing this Christmas has surprised ey But I did remember the rama, which I sent some of my old clothes, in-eluding a coat that had got mixed up with them by accident, and that I believe Tcould have worn again. And also the raffle I had joined for a motor-car. The Angel said that I really need not be alarmed, that everything had been noted, together with other matters I had forgotten.
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