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`` If you please , sir , the gentlemen in No. 16 send their compliments , and would be obliged to you if you will let them have their lights on full for an hour or so for a game . And they want a couple of bottles of Usher 's and a dozen of soda . '' `` Why ca n't they play cards in the-smoking-room on deck ? '' grumbled the chief steward ; `` there 's a man on duty there until two o'clock -- they know that well enough . Who 's going to wait on them , and see after the lights ? '' `` I will , sir , if you do n't mind , '' replied Swires , a clean-shaven , deferential young man with shifty eyes . `` Well , it 's against the rules .