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BilliardsBilliards is a game consisting of three or more billiard balls[?], one or more cues[?], and a particular table. The intention is to use the cue to make a particular ball move, which then should hit other balls to get a desired effect. Some billiard games by type of table:
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Sir Richard Devine. A miserly old curmudgeon, with a scapegrace son."
Rufus Dawes bit his lips to avoid showing his emotion. This was
in his hearing. "I think.html">think.html">think I remember something of him," he said,
"Amongst other matters, I dabbled a little in the Private Inquiry
who had gone abroad--a wild young dog, by all accounts--and he wanted
from Brussels to Antwerp, from Antwerp back to Paris. I lost him there.
but a portmanteau with a lot of letters from his mother. I sent
for he died not long after."
"And the son?"
"Came to the queerest end of all. The old man.html">man had left him his fortune--
and was lost in the Hydaspes. Frere was his cousin."
"Ah!"
"By Gad, it annoys me when I think of it," continued re/rex.html">Rex, feeling,
I had, too. Oh, a miserable failure! The days and nights I've spent
The old man gave me his son's portrait.html">portrait, with full particulars
for nearly three months, pulling it out to refresh my memory.html">memory every half-hour.
I could have sworn to him if I'd met him in Timbuctoo."
"Do you think you'd know him again?" asked Rufus Dawes in a low voice,
had put himself that awakened memory, or perhaps the subdued eagerness
of the theme, that caused John Rex's brain to perform one of those feats
the likeness to the portrait--the mystery of Dawes's life!
and a vivid flash revealed to him--THE MAN.
Warder Troke, coming up, put his hand on Rex's shoulder.
added with a grin, "Curse you two; you're so much alike one can't tell
and a strange hope made his heart leap. "Gad, Troke's right; we are alike.
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