CHAPTER X 



" OFF TO PHILADELPHIA IN THE MORNING " 



We took our final departure from Washington for 

 Philadelphia by the 11.40 train on the morning of 

 Wednesday, February 29. Sir Lionel West, Spring 

 Rice, Arthur Herbert (who had just come to the 

 Legation as Second Secretary), and Monsieur 

 Gennadius, then, as now again, the Greek Minister 

 in London, and at that time on some special business 

 in America on behalf of his Government, came to see 

 us off. When we reached Wilmington, a little more 

 than halfway between Baltimore and Philadelphia, 

 Captain Clipperton, then our consul in " the 

 Quaker City," accompanied by a deputation of 

 four members of the St. George's Society, boarded 

 the train and travelled with us to Philadelphia. The 

 deputation consisted of Mr. Samuel Lees, President 

 of the Society ; Mr. George Dixon, Secretary of the 

 Society ; Mr. J. H. Williams, Secretary of the 

 United Lodges of the Order of the Sons of St. 

 George ; and Mr. John Lucas, one of its most 



prominent members. 



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