corner, in New Oxford Street—rooms which have long since disappeared, together with Horwitz, Harrwitz, Loewenthal, Williams, and other great chess lights of those far-away times, who were to be seen there, night after night, prepared for all
'Hallo, Robinson!' he exclaimed in his surprise, 'you don't mean to say that you—— '
And then he stopped and regarded my youthful appearance very critically.
'Yes, Mr. Kenny—it's a novel,' I said modestly; 'my first.'
'There's plenty of it,' he remarked dryly. 'I'll send it upstairs at once. And I'll wish you luck, too; but,' he added,
'Ye-es, I suppose so,' I answered, with a sigh.