terwards said that as he and Mrs. Grant were riding
along Pennsylvania avenue to the railway station a horseman rode rapidly
by at a gallop, and, wheeling his horse, rode back, peering into their
carriage as he passed.

Mrs. Grant remarked to the general: "That is the very man who sat near
us at luncheon to-day and tried to overhear our conversation. He was so
rude, you remember, as to cause us to leave the dining-room. Here he is
again, riding after us."

General Grant attributed the action of the man to idle curiosity, but
learned afterward that the horseman was John Wilkes Booth.

LAMON'S REMARKABLE REQUEST.

Probably one reason why Mr. Lincoln did not particularly care to go to
the theatre that night was a sort of half promise he had made to his
friend and bodyguard, Marshal Lamon. Two days previous he had sent
Lamon to Richmond on business connected with a call of a convention for
reconstruction. Before leaving, Mr. Lamon saw Mr. Usher, the Secretary
of the Interior, and asked him to persuade Mr. Lincoln to use more
caution about his personal safety, and to go out as little as possible
while Lamon was absent. Together they went to see Mr. Lincoln, and Lamon
asked the President if he would make him a promise.

"I think I can venture to say I will," said Mr. Lincoln. "What is it?"

"Promise me that you will not go out after night while I am gone," said
Mr. Lamon, "particularly to the theatre."

Mr. Lincoln turned to Mr. Usher and said: "Usher, this boy is a
monomaniac on the subject of my safety. I can hear him or hear of
his being around at all times in the night, to prevent somebody from
murdering me. He thinks I shall be killed, and we think he is going
crazy. What does any one want to assassinate me for? If any one wants to
do so, he can do it any day or night if he is ready to give his life for
mine. It is nonsense."

Mr. Usher said to Mr. Lincoln that it was well to heed Lamon's warning,
as he was thrown among people from whom he had better opportunities to
know about such matters than almost any one.

"Well," said Mr. Lincoln to Lamon, "I promise to do the best I can
toward it."

HOW LINCOLN WAS MURDERED.

The assassination of President Lincoln was most carefully planned, even
to the smallest detail. The box set apart for the President's party was
a double one in the second tier at the left of the stage. The box had
two doors with spring locks, but Booth had loosened the screws with
w