After the incident in the death-room I may mention one detail, and that is this.
When I arrived in St.Louis with the casket it was about eight o'clock in the morning, and I ran to my brother-in-law's place of business, hoping to find him there, but I missed him, for while I was on the way to his office he was on his way from the house to the boat.

When I got back to the boat the casket was gone.

He had conveyed it out to his house.

I hastened thither, and when I arrived the men were just removing the casket from the vehicle to carry it up-stairs.

I stopped that procedure, for I did not want my mother to see the dead face, because one side of it was drawn and distorted by the effects of the opium.