ReadOasis Step 2
By W.W. Jacobs
(Part 1)

Outside the night was cold and wet. But inside the sitting room of the Whites' house, the curtains were shut and the fire burned brightly. Father and son were playing a game of chess.

The son always took big risks when he played. He often put his king in sharp and unnecessary dangers. This made his mother, the white-haired old lady sitting peacefully by the fire, to say, I've never seen such careless play."

But the old man didn't want his son to see hi...