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Commonwealth GamesCommonwealth Games is a multi-sport event held every four years involving the elite athletes of The Commonwealth. The first such event, then known as the British Empire Games, was held in 1930. The name changed to British Empire and Commonwealth Games in 1954, to British Commonwealth Games in 1970 and assumed the current name in 1990.As well as many Olympic sports, the Games also include some sports that are played mainly in Commonwealth countries, such as lawn bowls[?] and netball.
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quandary tonight, and amongst those thus unfortunately situated, M.
knew--none other than the delightful am/american.html">American whose conversation
She was accompanied by a charming companion, who, although she was
disconsolately as she and her friend.html">friend watched the interminable
off from any chance of obtaining a cab.html">cab.html">cab for themselves.
M. Max acted promptly.
"Drive into that side turning!" he directed the cabman, leaning out
heedless of the inclement weather, descended from the cab, dodged
light of a taxi, and stood bowing before the two ladies, his hat
resting upon the gold knob of the malacca.
"Why!" cried Miss Ryland, "if it isn't . . . M. Gaston! My dear
furiously--"you will be . . . simply drowned."
M. Max smilingly complied.
"This is M. Gaston," said Denise Ryland, turning to her companion,
Paris. This is Miss Helen Cumberly, and I know you two will get
served to place the oddly met trio upon a mutually easy footing.
the corner yonder, and it is entirely at your service."
"Now that . . . is real good of you," declared Denise Ryland. "I
deprive M. Gaston of his cab on a night like this!"
"I had hoped," said the Frenchman, bowing gallantly, "that this
me if I intrude upon other plans, because I am speaking selfishly;
pleasure which your company would afford me, you would be such very
fascination of M. Max, exhibited a certain hesitancy. She was no
had been an old friend of her companion's, she should have accepted
a Continental railway train, and her natural prudence instinctively
views.
"My dear girl," she said, "you are not going to be so . . . crack-
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