... accommodate a fourth of their number. Miss Nikita is said to be engaged to marry Mirza Riza Khan, an aide-de-camp of the Persian Shah, and has made it one of the conditions of her espousal of him that she shall be free to follow her profession during ire ...

... “chose” is derived, boro reference to the king or chief piece, whose “clieckmate” is merely an Knglish version of the Persian “ shah-mat’’—that is, the king is dead. Chess and cards alike come to the West from the East; for centuries tho Italians spoke ...