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She
sighed
and
sat
upright
.
When
she
pulled
her
face
away
from
her
fists
,
her
cheeks
were
sore
and
her
shoulders
stiff
.
She
looked
at
her
clock
.
Forty
minutes
had
passed
.
Watts
was
yawning
.
She
reached
out
and
made
the
move
,
advancing
a
knight
in
a
way
that
would
force
the
first
trade
.
It
looked
innocuous
enough
.
Then
she
punched
the
clock
.
Watts
studied
the
board
for
half
a
minute
and
started
the
trade
.
For
a
moment
she
felt
panic
in
her
stomach
:
Could
he
see
what
she
was
planning
?
That
quickly
?
She
tried
to
shake
off
the
idea
and
took
the
offered
piece
.
He
took
another
,
just
as
she
had
planned
.
She
took
.
Watts
reached
out
to
take
again
,
but
hesitated
.
Do
it
!
she
commanded
silently
.
But
he
pulled
his
hand
back
.
If
he
saw
through
what
she
was
planning
,
there
was
still
time
to
get
out
of
it
.
She
bit
her
lip
.
He
was
studying
the
board
intently
.
He
would
see
it
.
The
ticking
of
the
clock
seemed
very
loud
.
Beth
’
s
heart
was
beating
so
strongly
that
for
a
moment
she
feared
Watts
would
hear
it
and
know
she
was
panicked
and
—
But
he
didn
’
t
.
He
took
the
trade
just
as
she
had
planned
it
.
She
looked
at
his
face
almost
in
disbelief
.
It
was
too
late
for
him
now
.
He
pressed
the
button
that
stopped
his
clock
and
started
hers
.
She
pushed
the
pawn
up
to
rook
five
.
Immediately
he
stiffened
in
his
chair
—
almost
imperceptibly
,
but
Beth
saw
it
.
He
began
studying
the
position
intently
.
But
he
must
have
seen
he
was
going
to
be
stuck
with
doubled
pawns
;
after
two
or
three
minutes
he
shrugged
and
made
the
necessary
move
,
and
Beth
did
her
continuation
,
and
then
on
the
next
move
the
pawn
was
doubled
and
the
nervousness
and
anger
had
left
her
.
She
was
out
to
win
now
.
She
would
hammer
at
his
weakness
.
She
loved
it
.
She
loved
attack
.
Benny
looked
at
her
impassively
for
a
moment
.
Then
he
reached
out
his
hand
,
picked
up
his
queen
,
and
did
something
astonishing
.
He
quietly
captured
her
center
pawn
.
Her
protected
pawn
.
The
pawn
that
had
been
holding
the
queen
to
her
corner
for
most
of
the
game
.
He
was
sacrificing
his
queen
.
She
could
not
believe
it
.
And
then
she
saw
what
it
meant
,
and
her
stomach
twisted
sharply
.
How
had
she
missed
it
?
With
the
pawn
gone
,
she
was
open
to
a
rook
-
bishop
mate
because
of
the
bishop
on
the
opened
diagonal
.
She
could
protect
by
retreating
her
knight
and
moving
one
of
her
rooks
over
,
but
the
protection
wouldn
’
t
last
,
because
—
she
saw
now
with
horror
—
his
innocent
-
looking
knight
would
block
her
king
’
s
escape
.
It
was
terrible
.
It
was
the
kind
of
thing
she
did
to
other
people
.
It
was
the
kind
of
thing
Paul
Morphy
had
done
.
And
she
had
been
thinking
about
doubled
pawns
.
She
didn
’
t
have
to
take
the
queen
.
What
would
happen
if
she
didn
’
t
?
She
would
lose
the
pawn
he
had
just
taken
.
His
queen
would
sit
there
in
the
center
of
the
board
.
Worse
,
it
could
come
over
to
her
king
rook
file
and
press
down
on
her
castled
king
.
The
more
she
looked
,
the
worse
it
became
.
And
it
had
caught
her
completely
off
-
guard
.
She
put
her
elbows
on
the
table
and
stared
at
the
position
.
She
needed
a
counterthreat
,
a
move
that
would
stop
him
in
his
tracks
.
There
wasn
’
t
any
.
She
spent
a
half
-
hour
studying
the
board
and
found
only
that
Benny
’
s
move
was
even
sounder
than
she
had
thought
.
