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An uneasy feeling stole over me, which I could not shake off. I endeavoured to reason with myself that no end of mistakes took place at every masked ball, and that the two dominos who persisted in hovering near us were on the wrong scent. But this did not quite set my mind at rest. I took Peter aside and told him that I thought we were watched! "What fun! Let's go and ask them to dance!" was all the reckless man answered. No sooner said than done; he went up to the ladies and requested that honour for himself and friend, but they shook their heads in reply, and put themselves in the care of their tall friend. Peter, not a whit abashed, suggested that they thought themselves too respectable to do anything but look sarcastically on other people's folly, and departed in search of fresh adventure.

As the heat was stifling, I went out of the theatre and entered a restaurant close to it. What I saw there astonished me. There was the tall man who had been in conversation with the two dominos, without his mask, and he turned out to be the worthy individual who owed me the hundred pounds!