A PAIR OF BLUE
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Knight smiled
and they Avent on
EYES.
as pitilessly as
before,
in silence.
Checkmate,' said Knight.
'Another game,' said torily
Elfride,
peremp-
and looking very warm.
'With
my
all
heart,' said Knight.
Checkmate,' said Knight again, at the
'
end of forty minutes. 'Another game,' she returned resolutely.
you the odds of a
ril give
'
bishop,'
Knight said to her kindly. '
No, thank you,' Elfride replied, in a
tone intended for courteous indifference; but, as a fact, very cavalier indeed.
'Checkmate,' said her opponent, without the least emotion. the
Elfride,
purposely
your
mind now, and when you
of
condition
between
difference
made blunders
that
Stephen
Smith might win It
was bed-time.
would throb went
oft'
to
itself
out
Her mind
as
if it
of her head, she
her chamber,
full of mortifica-
