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Marse Henry
Complete

CHAPTER the Twenty-Sixth
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"If ever I am President again you shall be Secretary of the Treasury.

But don't you make that four-card draw too often." He was President again, and Mr.Carlisle was Secretary of the Treasury.
III There had arisen a disagreeable misunderstanding between General Schenck and myself during the period when the general was Minister at the Court of St.James.In consequence of this we did not personally meet.

One evening at Chamberlin's years after, a party of us--mainly the Ohio statesman's old colleagues in Congress--were playing poker.

He came in and joined us.

Neither of us knew the other even by sight and there was no presentation when he sat in.
At length a direct play between the newcomer and me arose.


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