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 I said I occasionally smoked cigarets. He then took out his cigaret case, offered me one, and I took it and thanked him. He struck a match and lit my cigaret, and his cigar. He asked me how I liked the play, and I said I did not care for it much. I thought it slow and not the sort of play for a roof-garden.

"He said, 'It is different from those you usually see on the roof-garden. It is a relief to see it, and I think it will be a success.' I said I doubted it.

"A few moments later he said, 'What are you doing in Wall street now—any speculating?' I answered that I did not speculate in Wall street. He said he thought there was a great chance in copper; he mentioned Amalgamated and one other.

"And he also said Steel was good; he could not see why steel stocks were kept down; the company was doing a bigger business than ever. He said if he had any money he would put it in steel and copper, particularly copper."

"Then suddenly he said: 'Where are you going this summer?' I told him that I was going to Europe on Thursday. He wanted to know what ship I was going on, and when I told him he said he did not like the ship.

"He said he was going on the Amerika because he could get on that ship a large suite of rooms, where he could have his meals served in his apartments.

"Then he said: 'Are you alone over here?' I told him that I had left my wife in Paris.