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Show The Baron Himself, A great Turkish player at a big hotel In Constantinople' had been jJ beating everybody within a wldo ra-dins ra-dins at chess. One day a mean-look- fl lng stranger watched the game. Ho qulotly offered to play. Tho. Turk re- marked, "I'll play you for a hundred sequins I" The strangor said: "Very well." An unusual "gambit" was of- fl fered by the stronger. Its acceptance by tho Turk caused tho latter to lose Jt the game. Ho said: "Sir, I thought there wan only ono man In Europo who understood how to tako advan- tago of that move Baron von Moltko." "Sir," retorted tho stranger, "I am jH Baron von Moltko, at your service." aWl |