My duties, I thought, had ended at Springfield, and I was prepared to start home by the evening train, leaving at nine o'clock.

Up to that time I do not think I had been introduced to Governor Yates, or had ever spoken to him.

I knew him by sight, however, because he was living at the same hotel and I often saw him at table.

The evening I was to quit the capital I left the supper room before the governor and was standing at the front door when he came out.

He spoke to me, calling me by my old army title "Captain," and said he understood that I was about leaving the city.