CHAPTER XVII. 



FOUR DAYS AT DETROIT. 



FTER a much-needed rest of a day and 

 two nights at Ecorse, I left that quiet re- 

 treat on the afternoon of July thirty- 

 first, with Detroit as my evening object- 

 ive. At Fort Wayne, I was met by 

 Babcock, who brought me the sad intelli- 

 gence of the death of my little Detroit 

 friend, Kitty Murphy, who had failed very 

 rapidly after her brief visit to Toledo. 

 We rode forward together, reaching the Russell House 

 at five o'clock, and there I was met by General 

 William A. Throop and others, who were appointed 

 as a committee to receive me. In the evening I lec- 

 tured at St. Andrew's Hall, being introduced by 

 General L. S. Trowbridge and was accompained on the 

 platform by several Grand Army comrades. 



Immediately after the lecture, I hurried to the 

 home of my bereaved friends, where I found the 

 mother and sisters of the dead girl completely pros- 

 trated with grief. Tiie one who had gone was their 

 favorite, for whom they had the lijghest hopes, and it 

 was hard to be reconciled to the passing away of a 

 life so full of promise and noble purposes. I was 



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