Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 451
to less thana dozen votes. Men were looking out sharply every-where, calculating every chance and straining everynerve. Those twenty-odd votes from Egg Islandmight be the votes to decide the matter. And if theywere, Lorrimer would get his reelection. It was cer-tain that the ship-carpenters, for… … fOV GET EM HERE ! CALLED CAPTAIN BRLCE, SHAKINGi FINGER AT THE DEPARTING SMACK. All at once, by a very simple combination of cir-cumstances, he found the political fate of the mem-ber of Congress in his very hands, — he, the poor,friendless fellow who, three months before, hadbeen despised and…
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