[CHAPTER X.]
THE GAME AT CHESS.
A few more words passed, then Margaret said:
"Miss Chase, let me present Mr. Hinchley to you."
The lady bowed slightly in return to the stranger's salutation, looked keenly from under her long eyelashes, and turned again toward Miss Waring, who, in spite of her assertions, was greatly terrified and shaken, as Sybil plainly detected through all her forced spirits.
"By the luckiest chance in the world, Hinchley rode up at the very moment Margaret fell," said Laurence.
"I was very fortunate in being so opportune in my arrival," replied the young man.
"We have not even asked how you happened to get here so unexpectedly," said Margaret.