"May I have that in writing?"
He handed me a rejection form.
"There you are. And I'll do anything you like on Friday."
I went back to Henry and told him the good news.
"I wonder if he'll mind being black," said Henry. "That's the chap that always gets mated so quickly."
"I expect they'll arrange it among themselves. Anyhow, we've done our best for them."
"It's an awful business, getting up a team," said Henry thoughtfully. "Well, we shall have two decent sets of bridge, anyway. But you ought to have arranged for twelve aside, and then we could have left out the chess professors and had three sets."
"It's all the fault of the rules. Some day somebody will realise that four doesn't go into eleven, and then we shall have a new rule."
"No, I don't think so," said Henry. "I don't fancy 'Wanderer' would allow it."
III. IN THE TRAIN