Excerpt from Follow the Little Pictures As I crossed the gangway that connected S. S. Sphinx with the quay, my mind was occupied with speculation as to the nature of my cabin mate. So much depends upon this chance association that it is of supreme importance to the pleasure and comfort of the voyage. Will he be old or young - taciturn or companionable? It is a pure lottery. He may be drunken and loathsome: on the other hand the acquaintance, so casually begun, may develop into a life-long friendship. It was in some such vein that my thoughts ran as I boarded the Sphinx. "Forty-two, sir? This way, sir, please.

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