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Were it not to shun prolixity, I could enumerate a thousand such like adventures, which, conform to the dictate and verdict of the verse, have by that manner of lot-casting encounter befallen to the curious researchers of them.
It is scarce necessary to tell who were the two men who had been thus plotting in whispers. The first speaker was, of course, the Frenchman, Le Gros, the other being the confederate who had assisted him in the performance of his unfair trick in the lot-casting. Their demoniac design is already known from their conversation, nothing more nor less than to murder O'Gorman in his sleep!
This new judicial power extended to "controversies between citizens of different States." Never again would the cumbersome machinery of Federal commissioners to hear disputed claims to territory be called into service a kind of Platonic lot-casting phantasy because the new national judiciary system covered "controversies between two or more States."
Thomas, the press agent, insisted that the usual method of drawing written slips from a hat be followed, and on this second lot-casting Maitland lost his place in the car, but won his life. The ascent was made about 5 p.m., the prevailing wind carrying them out over Lake Michigan.
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