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That day Ishmael wrote to Bee , announcing the speedy return of himself and his party , and Judge Merlin wrote to his manager , Reuben Gray , to have the house at Tanglewood prepared for the reception of himself and daughter on or before the 1st of March . Early on Thursday morning our party took a most affectionate leave of their friends at Cameron Court , and set out in one of the countess ' carriages for the railway station at Edinboro ' , which they reached in time to catch the ten o'clock express for London . A twelve hours ' flight southward brought them into that city . It was ten o'clock , therefore , when they ran into the King 's Cross Station . There they took a fly to Morley 's Hotel , in the Strand , where they arrived about eleven o'clock . They engaged a suite of apartments , and settled themselves there for a week . A very brief epitome must describe their life in London during that short period .