They play as if life itself were the issue of
the game and I hear the umpire call-fifteen-
thirty- forty-game ! Of course Dr. Hart



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will win. What set has he not won? Who
stands before a god ? Not they — ^mere men
— so how should I, a poor, frail woman ? I,
yes, I, Bei Li, have lost to him a love-set,
and for me, it was the game of life. So
I do not sue for further work at Kenwood.
As for Isadore, I could not trust her with
a half -story. Do you remember the tale the
foreign lady used to tell her children in the
evening on the porch? (She did not mind
the presence of Chinese girls in her audi-
ence.) It was about "Little Redcoat."
There comes a line of it to mind:
" Grandma, what makes your eyes so big? "
" To see with, my child ! " Well, those red-
brown eyes of Isadore were made to " see
with," my child.
Kenwood, May 12.
