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While
she
was
signing
in
,
she
could
hear
a
deep
voice
coming
through
one
of
the
double
doors
that
stood
open
to
the
Taft
Room
,
where
the
games
would
be
.
She
looked
that
way
and
saw
part
of
the
big
ballroom
,
with
a
long
row
of
empty
tables
and
a
few
men
walking
around
.
When
she
walked
in
,
she
saw
a
strange
man
slouched
on
a
sofa
with
black
-
booted
feet
resting
on
a
coffee
table
.
“
…
and
the
rook
comes
to
the
seventh
rank
,
”
he
was
saying
.
“
Bone
in
the
throat
,
man
,
that
rook
there
.
He
took
one
look
at
it
and
paid
up
.
”
He
leaned
his
head
against
the
back
of
the
sofa
and
laughed
loudly
in
a
deep
baritone
.
“
Twenty
bucks
.
”
Since
it
was
early
,
there
were
only
half
a
dozen
people
in
the
room
,
and
no
one
was
at
the
long
rows
of
tables
with
paper
chessboards
on
them
.
Everyone
was
listening
to
the
man
talking
.
He
was
about
twenty
-
five
and
looked
like
a
pirate
.
He
wore
dirty
jeans
,
a
black
turtleneck
and
a
black
wool
cap
pulled
down
to
his
heavy
eyebrows
.
He
had
a
thick
black
mustache
and
clearly
needed
a
shave
;
the
backs
of
his
hands
were
tanned
and
scraped
-
looking
.
“
The
Caro
-
Kann
Defense
,
”
he
said
,
laughing
.
“
A
genuine
bummer
.
”
“
What
’
s
wrong
with
the
Caro
-
Kann
?
”
someone
asked
.
A
neat
young
man
in
a
camel
’
s
hair
sweater
.
“
All
pawns
and
no
hope
.
”
He
lowered
his
legs
to
the
floor
and
sat
up
.
On
the
table
was
a
soiled
old
beige
-
and
-
green
chessboard
with
battered
wooden
pieces
on
it
.
The
head
had
fallen
off
the
black
king
at
some
time
or
other
;
it
was
held
on
with
a
piece
of
gritty
adhesive
tape
.
“
I
’
ll
show
you
,
”
the
man
said
,
sliding
the
board
over
.
Beth
was
now
standing
next
to
him
.
She
was
the
only
girl
in
the
room
.
The
man
reached
down
to
the
board
and
with
surprising
delicacy
picked
up
the
white
king
pawn
with
his
fingertips
and
dropped
it
lightly
on
king
four
.
Then
he
picked
up
the
black
queen
bishop
pawn
and
dropped
it
on
queen
’
s
bishop
three
,
put
White
’
s
queen
pawn
on
the
fourth
rank
and
did
the
same
with
Black
’
s
.
He
looked
up
at
the
people
around
him
,
who
were
by
now
all
paying
close
attention
.
“
The
Caro
-
Kann
.
Right
?
”
Beth
was
familiar
with
these
moves
,
but
she
had
never
seen
them
played
.
She
expected
the
man
to
move
the
white
queen
’
s
knight
next
,
and
he
did
.
Then
he
had
the
black
pawn
capture
the
white
,
and
took
the
capturing
pawn
with
the
white
knight
.
He
played
Black
’
s
king
knight
to
bishop
three
and
brought
White
’
s
other
knight
out
.
Beth
remembered
the
move
.
Looking
at
it
now
,
it
seemed
tame
.
She
found
herself
speaking
up
.
“
I
’
d
take
the
knight
,
”
she
said
quietly
.
The
man
looked
at
her
and
raised
his
eyebrows
.
“
Aren
’
t
you
that
kid
from
Kentucky
—
the
one
who
wiped
out
Harry
Beltik
?
”
