Chapter

 1 1|      stifled groans of ruined players, as they passed out, their
 2 1|     The rooms are filled with players and onlookers, with poverty-stricken
 3 1|      round about at the other players, who all knew each other. ~"
 4 2|     hands, prowling about the players like a sparrow-hawk round
 5 2|  criminal. Between me and the players stood a wall of onlookers
 6 2|    heard the words of the two players by a gift accorded to the
 7 2|    who had gathered about the players with the quickness of an
 8 2|      head in triumph upon the players. After I had returned the
 9 3|       alone, all the billiard players had gone. ~"I have only
10 3|        The attention of other players was drawn to the matter;
11 3| Delightful music, from unseen players in the next room, drowned