There is fine precedent for our little enterprise." The swift flush on the face of the other man made his answer.
Dunwody went on mercilessly: "He played then much as you do now.

There was against him then, as there is now against you, a man who admired not so much just one woman in all the world as, let us say, one particular woman then and there present.

Perhaps you remember his name--Mr.Parish--later ennobled by the German government and long known as a land baron in New York.

Come! Think of it! Picture that snowbound train, that great citizen, and Parish, playing and playing, until at last it came to the question of a woman--not so beautiful as this one here, but in her own way shrewd, _the same sort of woman_, I might say--mysterious, beautiful, and--no, don't protest, and I'll not describe.

You remember very well her name.