June 6 Saturday – In Durban, S. Africa, Livy and Clara took a tug and boarded the Athenian, captained by W. Martin of the Union Steam Ship Co. The ship left Durban at about 4 p.m., headed for Port Elizabeth with a stop on June 7 at East London.

Sam spent some time at the Queenstown Club enjoying wine and sharing speeches [Philippon 20; Parsons, “Clubman in S.A.” 249].

Sam wrote to H.H. Rogers, worried again about the publication of JA:

I find myself well scared. The May Harper (London edition) is here. Evidently Joan has finished appearing in the magazine, but I hear nothing of its being published in book form. Is it possible that there is a hitch there, and that it hasn’t been issued in book form? If so, I don’t think it is of any use for me to struggle against my ill luck any longer. If I had the family in a comfortable poor-house I would kill myself.

Sam related they were “poking along from town to town, from village to village.” He figured they’d be in East London the next day where they might have “a glimpse” of Livy and Clara as they passed by on the Athenian headed for Port Elizabeth. He added he’d enjoyed being in Pretoria and Johannesburg “in the thick of this political storm,” and would have made money on stocks since after the prisoners were released the “best stock in the lot jumped up 33 points when the news came” [MTHHR 216]. Note: the Joan of Arc articles ran serially from Apr. 1895 through Apr. 1896, and the notice of a forthcoming book of the tale ran in the April issue [n1]. So, Sam wouldn’t have gathered either notice from the May Harper’s.