RATHER VAUGHAN'S DREAM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 20, 18 October 1907, Page 10

RATHER VAUGHAN'S DREAM.

Speaking before a large and .fashionable' audience, at the Mansion House, Dublin, Father Vaughan,. said tliat a story was told \ of a certain noted gambler who ' died and found himself) by some good luck;' in heaven. 1 Boirig out of'place there, he asked leave to : go down to his own quarters, and there, he'"" gambled away his return' 1 ticket; the lady 1 ' cheat who woii it getting'thereby to heaven.' Father Vaughan said that - lie, too,-had had ' L a dream about the -subject. -He fancied that lie saw in ono'of the outer courts of heaven the_ well-known. London gamblor: referred to pacing to and fro in search of a ''pal,"'but none suelv came.; ;At last, ' being able to' stand the lonely situationno longer,.he-went to St. Peter at the golden gate, and, confessing that it, was by cheating: that lie had passed through, lie begged ; for a. pass-out ticket, to see what his old friends were doing:,; down below. There ho found an enormous crowd of wellknown ■ betting men': and women in-.a-lowr.and-. suffocating room—all being forced to play,' - bridge with no; stakes and in dead silonea. For some time he watchcd at..tho.. various, tables the faces.of the players, in'which.rage,', despair, and hatred were depicted. in every.' feature.; At .length the passion to play ' awoke once more in him, ho Idrew forth hit "/ return ticket to heaven, he, played,\'and lie 'lost. , . , ' '" i The return ticket was secured by a noted and fashionable woman in society, who was known to "be a '.confirmed cheiit; She' dashed •' with the release ticket from, the gambling' saloon, making for'the iron gates. : There she" was mot by Satan, Who; after congratulating; hereon her luck, pointed to tho words, "Not'' transferable;" She' screamed, and tore ttiu ticket to shreds, when the tievil led'her back'' to the tables to resume her everlasting play."See," lie exclaimed, "those letters of firoi " 'All hope abandon ye who enter herel' " '