"What do you say, Engleton ?" Engleton hesitated for a moment.

The Princess turned and looked at him.
He was standing upon the hearthrug smoking, his face as expressionless as ever.
"Let us cut for partners," he drawled.

"I am afraid of the Princess and Forrest.

The last time I found them a quite invincible couple." There was a moment's silence.

The Princess glanced toward Forrest, who only shrugged his shoulders.
"Just as you will," he answered.
He turned up an ace and the Princess a three.
"After all," he remarked, with a smile, "it seems as though fate were going to link us together." "I am not so sure," Cecil de la Borne said, also throwing down an ace.
"It depends now upon Engleton." Engleton came to the table, and drew a card at random from the pack.
Forrest's eyes seemed to narrow a little as he looked down at it.
Engleton had drawn another ace.
"Forrest and I," he remarked.