Yet a very strange coincidence.

It was so strange that he told it to Iris and to Lala Roy.

Iris laughed, and said she did not know she had a single namesake.

Lala did not laugh; but he sat thinking in silence.

There was no chess for him that night; instead of playing his usual game, Mr.Emblem, in his chair, laughed and chuckled in rather a ghastly way..