To Be Used Against Him
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A TRAVELLING COMPANION
When the train left Liverpool Street, he and I were the only occupants of the compartment. I was in one corner, he was directly opposite me in the other. He appeared to have purchased the same evening papers which I had purchased. I noticed, too, a certain similarity in his movements to mine. When I lowered my paper he lowered his. When I turned a page he turned one also. This coincidence of action I supposed, at first, was accidental. But I perceived, ere long, that, if it was accidental, the accident was of a peculiar kind. Whatever I did he did. When I exchanged one journal for another, he exchanged one also. I noticed, in this respect, that the imitation was so close, that when I relinquished the Pall Mall for the St. James’s, he r
