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Following the Equator
Part 5

CHAPTER XLVIII
8/21

The closet door slammed all night, and defied every fastening we could invent.

We got up very much jaded, at dawn, and stepped out at a way station; and, while we were taking a cup of coffee, that Englishman ranged up alongside, and somebody said to him: "So you didn't stop off, after all ?" "No.

The guard found a place for me that had been, engaged and not occupied.

I had a whole saloon car all to myself--oh, quite palatial! I never had such luck in my life." That was our car, you see.

We moved into it, straight off, the family and all.


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