He in turn did not know, and I bade him find out, as I had immediate and important business with the general.
The sergeant entered the house by the front-basement door, and after ten or fifteen minutes the main front-door above was slowly opened from the inside, and who should appear but my old San Francisco acquaintance Isaiah C.Woods, whom I had not seen or heard of since his flight to Australia, at the time of the failure of Adams & Co.

in 1851! He ushered me in hastily, closed the door, and conducted me into the office on the right of the hall.

We were glad to meet, after so long and eventful an interval, and mutually inquired after our respective families and special acquaintances.
I found that he was a commissioned officer, a major on duty with Fremont, and Major Eaton, now of the paymaster's Department, was in the same office with him.

I explained to them that I had come from General Anderson, and wanted to confer with General Fremont in person.

Woods left me, but soon returned, said the general would see me in a very few minutes, and within ten minutes I was shown across the hall into the large parlor, where General Fremont received me very politely.