A PAIR OF BLUE
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EYES.
forgotten a similar performance with Ste-
phen Smith the year
Elfride
before.
not; but she had begun
had
take for her
to
maxim
the undoubted truth that the neces-
sity of
continuing faithful to Stephen with-
out suspicion, dictated a fickle behaviour
almost as imperatively as fickleness a
fact,
itself;
however, which would give a
start-
ling advantage to the latter quality, should it
ever appear.
Knight, oversio^hts
by one of those inexcusable
which
will
sometimes
afflict
the
best of players, placed his rook in the arms
of one of her pawns.
vantage.
It
was her
first ad-
She looked triumphant
— even
ruthless.
'By George! what was
I
thinking of?'
Knight quietly; and then relinquished
said
concern at his accident. '
Club laws
we'll have, won't
we,
Mr.
Knight?' said Elfride suasively. '
0, yes, certainly,' said Mr. Knight,
thought however just occurring to his mind
