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It was easy enough to bring Maitland and Darrow together "My friend is hiround; may he be permitted to exahted to show it Suppose they ame This they did and Maitland played superbly, but he was hardly a ht to palliate his defeat by saying: "You play an excellent garound Now, if you can spare the tihter; I think you will be pretty evenly ht at the idea Why, with the prospect ofGwen Darrow before him, an absolute unit of ood its escape from him As it is a trick of poor hu one has beento obtain, I hastened to accept Darrow's invitation for my friend, and to assure hi heavily on Maitland's hands Well, the gairl's presence that he played execrably, so poorly, indeed, that the always polite Darrow ree your easy victory, Gwen, to your opponent's gallantry, not to his lack of skill, for I assure you he gave lance at Maitland, which said so plainly that she preferred a fair field and no favour that he hastened to say: "Your father puts too high an estimate upon my play I did my best to win, but--but I was a little nervous; I see, however, that you would have defeated ave hi looks, so peculiarly her ohich seehts,--and the poor fellow blushed to the tips of his ears --But he was no boy, this Maitland, and betrayed no other sign of the te within him His utterance reht this perplexed the young lady Before leaving, both Maitland and I were invited to beco week, after the grounds had been redressed with gravel