Answer:
C. Thompson addresses the deceased" with increasingly higher titles -- Colonel, General, etc.
Explanation:
Sec, 29; "The Governor wants to travel alone, and he's fixed so he can outvote us."
During the train trip Thompson speaks in a rustic American dialect, and refers to the corpse in various titles of increasing military and civil rank—Colonel, Gen’rul (an abbreviation of “General,” Commodore, and Governor. He also refers to the narrator informally as Cap, an abbreviated version of “Captain,” another military title.
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