The road show left Fort Wayne the next morning before 6:00 a.m. and spent almost six hours traveling 115 miles to Lafayette, Indiana, where Sam and Cable appeared that evening at the Grand Opera House to mixed reviews [From Page 446 The Life of Mark Twain - The Middle Years 1871-1891]

In the afternoon, Sam wrote from Lafayette, Indiana to Livy:We rose at 5.45 this morning & took a train which ought to have had us here at 10.30, but it lost 2 hours on the road. I slept a couple of hours on the way, & I feel rusty & seedy, now. I have not eaten for 12 hours & it will doubtless be another 12 before I do eat; for I got up with a sour stomach. Pond has just been in, mad. He went in to dinner with Cable, who was shown to a table where some children sat; & he whirled on his heel & marched out before everybody in grandiose style & told Pond to have his dinner sent to his room. Pond was deeply mortified at this fantastic exhibition of petty magnificence [MTP].

The Lafayette Courier, p. 1: “Mark Twain Interviewed / His Views upon Subjects of Interest.” Sam joked about the local canal, the courthouse, and George Cable’s effect on audiences [Scharnhorst, Interviews 81-2].

You have a very fine city here. I particularly admire the grand canal. I was attracted to it by some invisible influence the moment I arrived.  In fact, before I had left the train I knew there was one here. It reminds me forcibly of Venice. Anyhow, there is something familiar like about it. Perhaps it's the odor.  “I thought I saw a gondola fast in the lee, but it proved to be only some misguided animal that had found its way into the water. As Hood remarked:

Oh, it was pitiful,
In a whole city full.

“with the cholera so nigh, or words to that effect. The animal was dead—quite dead—at least I fancied so. There was something peculiar about it

That said as plain as words could tell
—This place is haunted.
 

The Wabash, St Louis and Pacific Railroad departed Fort Wayne at 6:30 am.  Fort Wayne Daily Gazette, February 6, 1885, Page 1

This lecture was mention in Scharnhorst's, The Middle Years, pg 446. They lectured at the Grand Opera House and stayed the night at the Lahr House.