Pushing the bed aside, we opened it, and found ourselves on the back staircase of the premises.
Clearly the President had noiselessly opened this door and got out.
But how had Carr got in without noise?
The sentry came up, and said: "Every five minutes, sir, I looked and saw him on the bed.

He lay for the first hour in his clothes.

The next look, he was undressed.

It struck me he'd been pretty quick and quiet about it, but I thought no more." "Depend upon it, the dressed man was the President, the undressed man Carr! When was that ?" "About half-past two, sir; just after the doctor came." "The doctor!" we cried.
"Yes, sir; Dr.Anderson." "You never told me he had been here." "He never went into the President's--into General Whittingham's room, sir; but he came in here for five minutes, to get some brandy, and stood talking with us for a time.

Half an hour after he came in for some more." We began to see how it was done.