about noon
The implication of Judge Lyman in the affair of Green and young Hammond had brought him into such bad odor in Cedarville and the whole district from which he had been chosen , that his party deemed it wise to set him aside , and take up a candidate less likely to meet with so strong and , it might be , successful an opposition . By so doing , they were able to secure the election , once more , against the growing temperance party , which succeeded , however , in getting a Maine Law man into the State Legislature . It was , therefore , Judge Lyman 's last winter at the Federal Capital . While seated in the reading-room at Fuller 's Hotel , about noon , on the day after my arrival in Washington , I noticed an individual , whose face looked familiar , come in and glance about , as if in search of some one . While yet questioning my mind who he could be , I heard a man remark to a person with whom he had been conversing : `` There 's that vagabond member away from his place in the House , again . '' `` Who ? '' inquired the other .