18/22 They were on the very steamer we passed in the inside passage. If we had only known that! They telegraphed the moment they reached Fernandina, and proposed stopping at St.Augustine, but it was thought they could make better time by keeping right on to Fernandina. The telegram reached Savannah after we had left on the tug. He bought them of a man--a passenger, I believe--who had an extra suit. I don't know whether these were his weekday or his Sunday clothes. |