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The President

CHAPTER V
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No two were worded alike, albeit each commanded and demanded the Speakership for Mr.Frost.When they were done, nearly four hundred of them, the taciturn one endowed them with those quirleyques and symbols and hieroglyphics which belong with genuine messages, and finished by sealing each in an envelope properly numbered and addressed.

Then the taciturn one made a delivery book to match the messages.
"There!" exclaimed Senator Hanway, when at four in the morning the taciturn one tossed the last forged message upon the pile and said that all were done; "that's finished.

Now at two o'clock put on a messenger's uniform and come to the Capitol.

It's 4 a.m.now, and this is Saturday; the caucus convenes at two o'clock sharp.

It will be held in the House chamber.


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