Part 2

FOOTMAN. Your excellency rang?

ALEXIS. Go into the garden and find Mr. Constantine. Tell him I am ready to finish our game of chess.

[_The FOOTMAN bows and withdraws._]

ALEXIS. [_Studying the moves on the chess board._] So! So! The bishop--the queen! No! Yes, yes! I have it! I have it! Body of St. Michael, not in five moves, not in five moves tonight! Ah! Ha, ha! So! So! Well, well, well!

[_He rubs his hands softly and looks up just as CONSTANTINE enters._]

CURTAIN.

_This first edition of THE GAME OF CHESS, printed from type by The Lancaster Printing Company, Lancaster Pennsylvania, in April, 1914, for VAUGHAN & GOMME, New York, consists of one hundred and fifty copies on Japanese Vellum, of which one hundred only are for sale, and one thousand and fifty copies on laid paper._

_ADVERTISEMENT_

Messrs. VAUGHAN & GOMME take pleasure in announcing that they have perfected an arrangement whereby, in future, they will act as publishers for THE STAGE GUILD, Railway Exchange Building, Chicago. All, or nearly all future plays, masques, etc., produced by THE STAGE GUILD will be printed and published by Messrs. VAUGHAN & GOMME, and they will act as agents to the book-trade and to the public for the distribution of the single plays in paper wrappers, and later in book form.

The editorial management of THE STAGE GUILD will, however, continue with headquarters in the Railway Exchange Building, Chicago, where all applications for permission to perform the plays and masques, and other inquiries of a kindred nature, should be addressed, as heretofore.

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Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

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