February 22 Saturday – Sam, Isabel V. Lyon, H.H. Rogers, and William Evarts Benjamin sailed again for Bermuda. Rogers brought along his valet. Lyon noted in her journal that “Mr. Rogers came feebly onto the boat, a sick sick man” [MTHHR 645n1; D. Hoffman 102].

In his A.D. of Feb. 19, Sam had said:

“It is as I said, I am not leaving for Bermuda to build up my health, for there is nothing the matter with it; I am going because a change of scene and climate is absolutely necessary for H.H. Rogers, and he won’t go unless I go too” [D. Hoffman 103].

The New York Times, p. 6, “H.H. Rogers Off to Bermuda” reported the departure on the Bermudian of Rogers and Twain for a Bermuda vacation of “two or three weeks.” They actually stayed 47 days.

Isabel Lyon’s journal: Headache / We sailed at 10:30. A full cargo of folks & I’m musing over a fellow cabiner. But she has proven herself a sweet & gentle Bermudian, a Mrs. Williams, who lets me alone. I must not forget that AB came to my rescue by first packing the King’s trunk last night & then soothing my spine & then helping me out of the house with a seething head.

Mr. Rogers came feebly onto the boat, a sick sick man. AB came up to me to say that Maurice one of the editors of the Bookman was aboard with what he called a “jag” & he introduced him to me that I might keep him away from the King. After luncheon I went to my cabin & slept for 4 hours, weak from headache, weary from my sleepless nights [MTP: IVL TS 25-26].