After the narrator’s savings are stolen, this second porter offers him $15, advice about finding hotel work, and secret passage in the laundry basket of his train car. Years later, at a party in Jacksonville, the narrator sees this porter wearing a tie that was also stolen from his bag and realizes that he was the one who stole the savings.
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The Second Pullman Porter Character Timeline in Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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Chapter 4
...reached the school’s gates and hesitated before turning around and returning to the boarding house . A different porter told him to look for a hotel job in Jacksonville, lent him 15 dollars, and...
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Chapter 5
At one ball, the narrator saw the second porter who had loaned him the money to get to Jacksonville and eagerly paid him back—although...
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