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the party, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, repaired to the dining-room for dinner.
All the preliminaries had now been successfully arranged.
The special train, ostensibly to take the officers of the railroad company back to Philadelphia, was waiting upon a side track just outside of the town.
The telegraph operators had performed their work admirably.
Walking out of the city nearly two miles, Mr. Wynne climbed the poles and placing fine copper ground wires upon the regular lines, the city was soon entirely isolated from her neighbors.
No message could possibly be sent from Harrisburg, and the capital of Pennsylvania was cut off temporarily from the rest of the world.
The preparations in Philadelphia had also been fully made.
Mrs. Warne had succeeded in engaging the rear half of a sleeping-car for the accommodation of her invalid brother, and that portion of the car was to be entirely separated from the rest by a curtain, so arranged that no one in the forward part of the car would be aware of the occupants of the same coach.
In order to detain the Baltimore train until the arrival of Mr. Lincoln, the conductor was directed not to start his train until he received personal instructions to that effect from Mr. H. F. Kinney, the superintendent, who would hand him an important parcel, which President Felton desired should be delivered early on the following morning to Mr. E. J. Allen at Willard's Hotel, in Washington.
(E. J.
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