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Some weeks before, on the 13th of June, on the morning after the / sitting during which the Weldon Institute had been given over to such / stormy discussions, the excitement of all classes of the Philadelphia / population, black or white, had been much easier to imagine than to / describe.
From a very early hour conversation was entirely occupied with the / unexpected and scandalous incident of the night before. A stranger / calling himself an engineer, and answering to the name of Robur, a / person of unknown origin, of anonymous nationality, had unexpectedly / presented himself in the club-room, insulted the balloonists, made fun / of the aeronauts, boasted of the marvels of machines heavier than air, / and raised a frightful tumult by the remarks with which he greeted the / menaces of his adversaries. After leaving the desk, amid a volley of / revolver shots, he had disappeared, and in spite of every endeavor, no / trace could be found of him.