But here's a new element, a new page which makes interesting reading." The man twirled the ends of his mustache.
"What a curious game of chess life is! Here's a simple play made complicated.

How serenely I moved toward the coveted checkmate, to find a castle towering in the way! I came in here to await young Montaigne.

He fails to appear.

Chance brings others here, and lo! it becomes a new game.

And D'Herouville will be out of hospital to-morrow or next day.