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Some weeks after these occurrences I was on my way South, and again found myself within reach of the sleepy old park and the gruesome court-room.
I was the only passenger in the Pullman. I had traveled all night in this royal fashion -- a whole car to myself -- with the porter, a quiet, attentive young colored man of perhaps thirty years of age, duly installed as First Gentleman of the Bedchamber, and I had settled myself for a morning of seclusion when my privacy was broken in upon at a way station by the entrance of a young man in a shooting jacket and cap, and high boots splashed with mud.