He slipped back to the club to play “snookers” and black pool

Nottinghamshire Guardian, Saturday 20 October 1894

He waited until he saw Mark go into his room and close the door, and then he slipped back to the club to play “snookers” and black pool. He was not home until three o’clock in the morning; and when he awoke about noon, and shouted for his bearer and his teas he was informed that the “chotah sahib,” as the servants called Jervis, “had been gone many hours.”