Chapter 13

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​​​‌​​‌‌‌​​⁠Dear Lord Peter—When I was a young man I used to play chess with an old friend of my father’s. He was a very bad, and a very slow, player, and he could never see when a checkmate was inevitable, but insisted on playing every move out. I never had any patience with that kind of attitude, and I will freely admit now that the game is yours. I must either stay at home and be hanged or escape abroad an