noon
No. 22 brought in McDowell , a division superintendent on the C. & S.C. and other less important employees of the same road came in on every train . All over the city was the exciting premonition that something was going to happen . The army , as Katherine had called it , was reenforced by two fresh detachments brought in on the C. & S.C. from no one knew just where , but they were carefully guarded from being too much in evidence , and there was not the least disorder . When noon came and nothing had happened the tension relaxed a little , and the town returned to its accustomed quiet . At the M. & T. station , however , the excitement increased , manifesting itself in many ways . The trains came in and went out on their scheduled time , and the routine work went on without variation , but there was a nervous alertness evident everywhere . Train crews stood in little knots about the platform and yards , speculating about the fight whose issue meant much to each of them , but in which they had not as yet been able to take a part .