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Following the Equator
Part 5

CHAPTER XLVIII
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Without a word, she hoisted the satchels into the hanging shelf, and took possession of that lower berth.
On one of our trips Mr.Smythe and I got out at a station to walk up and down, and when we came back Smythe's bed was in the hanging shelf and an English cavalry officer was in bed on the sofa which he had lately been occupying.

It was mean to be glad about it, but it is the way we are made; I could not have been gladder if it had been my enemy that had suffered this misfortune.

We all like to see people in trouble, if it doesn't cost us anything.

I was so happy over Mr.Smythe's chagrin that I couldn't go to sleep for thinking of it and enjoying it.

I knew he supposed the officer had committed the robbery himself, whereas without a doubt the officer's servant had done it without his knowledge.


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