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Off the billiard-room, in the extreme right wing, was a den, or card-room, with a small hall opening on the east veranda, and from there went up a narrow circular staircase. Halsey had pointed it out with delight. "Just look, Aunt Rachel," he said with a flourish. "The architect that put up this joint was wise to a few things.
Half-a-dozen men seemed to be talking at the same time words floated to Vera's ears; then suddenly the noise ceased, as if somebody had clapped down a lid upon the meeting. Vera guessed exactly what had happened. The billiard-room door had been closed for fear of the servants hearing what was going on.
"You're a good boy, Piers," he said. "You may do any damn thing you like." Piers' eyes kindled in swift response. He gripped the extended hand. "You're a brick, sir!" he said. "Look here! Come along to the billiard-room and have a hundred up! It'll give you an appetite for dinner." He hoisted the old man out of his chair before he could begin to protest.
Single rooms from 2-1/2 guineas, double from 4 guineas weekly. 250 Queen's Gate." And below this he saw another piece of news: "Not a boarding-house. A magnificent mansion. Forty bedrooms by Waring. Superb public saloons by Maple. Parisian chef. Separate tables. Four bathrooms. Card-room, billiard-room, vast lounge. Young, cheerful, musical society. Special sanitation. Finest position in London.
"Shall we go up into the billiard-room?" said Barling, as they turned from the white marble counter at which they had been drinking. "I don't care. Have you time to play a game?" replied Henry. "Oh, yes. We're not very busy at the store to-day." So the two young men ascended to the billiard-room, and spent a couple of hours there. Both played very well, and were pretty equally matched.
The rich bottom land about the Trevor place had been rented out to a truck gardener for years now; the comfortable house with its billiard-room annex a wonder for that part of the country in its day remained closed, its windows boarded up. It sat on the top of a round knoll, a fine cottonwood grove behind it.
The touch of gloom was contributed by his brother Bob to a certain extent, and by his father more noticeably. Bob looked slightly thoughtful. Mr Jackson seemed thoroughly worried. Mike approached Bob on the subject in the billiard-room after dinner. Bob was practising cannons in rather a listless way. 'What's up, Bob? asked Mike. Bob laid down his cue. 'I'm hanged if I know, said Bob.
Sir David was full of friendliness and hospitality, and insisted on keeping them to show Gilbert and Miss Nowell some pictures in the billiard-room and in his own private snuggery, apartments which were not shown to ordinary visitors.
Paradine's face as he met Paul's eyes with a knowing wink, which the latter did not at all understand. Such audacity astonished him, for he could hardly believe that Paradine, after his perfidious conduct in the billiard-room, could have the clumsy impudence to try to propitiate him now. "Here he is, my boy," shouted Paradine; "here's the scamp who has given us all this trouble!
He took leave soon after, and went to his own quarters with the D.A.A.G., while her ladyship, with infinite relief, getting rid of her feminine guests, repaired with Captain Bingham Wrynche, familiarly known to a wide circle of friends as "Bingo," and several chosen spirits to the billiard-room, for snooker-pool, and whisky-and-soda.
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