A Daughter of the Gods: Or How She Came Into Her Kingdom (Classic Reprint)

Foot 76th Street, E. R. PKEFACE. Ootb evening at Knebworth a year before the death of the late Lord Ljtton after a very singular nm of the cards during several games of whist the playing ended in a desultory discussion of the Occult Sciences. The conversation began with this observation of one of the players :W ehave played ten games. In each game some one of the players has held seven spades. Invariably the winning hands have held the four honors. Five times the five of a red suit has won the odd trick, and three times there were eight trumps in the dealers hand. I have never seen such a curious combination of numbers in an evenings play. Our host was shuffling the cards for another game; but he let them fall upon the table as he said :HW bwill stop with the Procession of Ten. We are in the House of the Magi, in the Stall of the Gnostics.
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