AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS



Chapter I

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PASSEPARTOUT ACCEPT EACH OTHER
THE ONE AS MASTER THE OTHER AS MAN


Mr Phileas Fogg lived in 1872 at No 7 Saville Row Burlington
Gardens the house in which Sheridan died in 1814  He was one of
the most noticeable members of the Reform Club though he seemed
always to avoid attracting attention an enigmatical personage
about whom little was known except that he was a polished man
of the world  People said that he resembled Byron  at least
that his head was Byronic but he was a bearded tranquil Byron
who might live on a thousand years without growing old

Certainly an Englishman it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg
was a Londoner  He was never seen on  Change nor at the Bank
nor in the counting rooms of the City no ships ever came into
London docks of which he was the owner he had no public employment
he had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court either at the Temple
or Lincoln s Inn or Gray s Inn nor had his voice ever resounded
in the Court of Chancery or in the Exchequer or the Queen s Bench
or the Ecclesiastical Courts  He certainly was not a manufacturer
nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer  His name was strange
to the scientific and learned societies and he never was known
to take part in the sage deliberations of the Royal Institution
or the London Institution the Artisan s Association or the
Institution of Arts and Sciences  He belonged in fact
to none of the numerous societies which swarm in the English capital
from the Harmonic to that of the Entomologists founded mainly
for the purpose of abolishing pernicious insects

Phileas Fogg was a member of the Reform and that was all

The way in which he got admission to this exclusive club
was simple enough

He was recommended by the Barings with whom he had an open credit
His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current
which was always flush

Was Phileas Fogg rich  Undoubtedly  But those who knew him
best could not imagine how he had made his fortune and Mr Fogg
was the last person to whom to apply for the information  He was
not lavish nor on the contrary avaricious for whenever he knew
that money was needed for a noble useful or benevolent purpose
he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously  He was in short
the least communicative of men  He talked very little and seemed
all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner  His daily habits
were quite open to observation but whatever he did was so exactly
the same thing that he had always done before that the wits
of the curious were fairly puzzled

Had he travelled  It was likely for no one seemed to know
the world more familiarly there was no spot so secluded
that he did not appear to have an intimate acquaintance with it
He often corrected with a few clear words the thousand conjectures
advanced by members of the club as to lost and unheard of travellers
pointing out the true probabilities and seeming as if gifted with
a sort of second sight so often did events justify his predictions
He must have travelled everywhere at least in the spirit

It was at least certain that Phileas Fogg had not absented himself
from London for many years  Those who were honoured by a better
acquaintance with him than the rest declared that nobody could
pretend to have ever seen him anywhere else  His sole pastimes
were reading the papers and playing whist  He often won at this game
which as a silent one harmonised with his nature but his winnings
never went into his purse being reserved as a fund for his charities
Mr Fogg played not to win but for the sake of playing
The game was in his eyes a contest a struggle with a difficulty
yet a motionless unwearying struggle congenial to his tastes

Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife or children
which may happen to the most honest people either relatives
or near friends which is certainly more unusual  He lived alone
in his house in Saville Row whither none penetrated  A single
domestic sufficed to serve him  He breakfasted and dined at the club
at hours mathematically fixed in the same room at the same table
never taking his meals with other members much less bringing
a guest with him and went home at exactly midnight only to retire
at once to bed  He never used the cosy chambers which the Reform
provides for its favoured members  He passed ten hours out of the
twenty four in Saville Row either in sleeping or making his toilet
When he chose to take a walk it was with a regular step in the
entrance hall with its mosaic flooring or in the circular gallery
with its dome supported by twenty red porphyry Ionic columns
and illumined by blue painted windows  When he breakfasted or dined
all the resources of the club  its kitchens and pantries
its buttery and dairy  aided to crowd his table with their most
succulent stores he was served by the gravest waiters
in dress coats and shoes with swan skin soles who proffered
the viands in special porcelain and on the finest linen
club decanters of a lost mould contained his sherry
his port and his cinnamon spiced claret while his beverages
were refreshingly cooled with ice brought at great cost
from the American lakes

If to live in this style is to be eccentric it must be
confessed that there is something good in eccentricity

The mansion in Saville Row though not sumptuous was exceedingly comfortable
The habits of its occupant were such as to demand but little from the
sole domestic but Phileas Fogg required him to be almost superhumanly
prompt and regular  On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed
James Forster because that luckless youth had brought him shaving water
at eighty four degrees Fahrenheit instead of eighty six
and he was awaiting his successor who was due at the house
between eleven and half past

Phileas Fogg was seated squarely in his armchair his feet close together
like those of a grenadier on parade his hands resting on his knees
his body straight his head erect he was steadily watching a complicated
clock which indicated the hours the minutes the seconds the days
the months and the years  At exactly half past eleven Mr Fogg would
according to his daily habit quit Saville Row and repair to the Reform

A rap at this moment sounded on the door of the cosy apartment where
Phileas Fogg was seated and James Forster the dismissed servant appeared

The new servant said he

A young man of thirty advanced and bowed

You are a Frenchman I believe asked Phileas Fogg and your name is John

Jean if monsieur pleases replied the newcomer Jean Passepartout
a surname which has clung to me because I have a natural aptness
for going out of one business into another  I believe I m honest
monsieur but to be outspoken I ve had several trades  I ve been
an itinerant singer a circus rider when I used to vault like Leotard
and dance on a rope like Blondin  Then I got to be a professor of gymnastics
so as to make better use of my talents and then I was a sergeant fireman
at Paris and assisted at many a big fire  But I quitted France
five years ago and wishing to taste the sweets of domestic life
took service as a valet here in England  Finding myself out of place
and hearing that Monsieur Phileas Fogg was the most exact and settled
gentleman in the United Kingdom I have come to monsieur in the hope
of living with him a tranquil life and forgetting even the name
of Passepartout

Passepartout suits me responded Mr Fogg  You are well recommended
to me I hear a good report of you  You know my conditions

Yes monsieur

Good  What time is it

Twenty two minutes after eleven returned Passepartout
drawing an enormous silver watch from the depths of his pocket

You are too slow said Mr Fogg

Pardon me monsieur it is impossible  

You are four minutes too slow  No matter it s enough to mention
the error  Now from this moment twenty nine minutes after eleven am
this Wednesday 2nd October you are in my service

Phileas Fogg got up took his hat in his left hand put it on
his head with an automatic motion and went off without a word

Passepartout heard the street door shut once it was his new
master going out  He heard it shut again it was his predecessor
James Forster departing in his turn  Passepartout remained
alone in the house in Saville Row




Chapter II

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS CONVINCED THAT HE HAS AT LAST FOUND HIS IDEAL


Faith muttered Passepartout somewhat flurried I ve seen people
at Madame Tussaud s as lively as my new master

Madame Tussaud s people let it be said are of wax and are much
visited in London speech is all that is wanting to make them human

During his brief interview with Mr Fogg Passepartout had been
carefully observing him  He appeared to be a man about forty years of age
with fine handsome features and a tall well shaped figure
his hair and whiskers were light his forehead compact and unwrinkled
his face rather pale his teeth magnificent  His countenance possessed
in the highest degree what physiognomists call repose in action
a quality of those who act rather than talk  Calm and phlegmatic
with a clear eye Mr Fogg seemed a perfect type of that English
composure which Angelica Kauffmann has so skilfully represented on canvas
Seen in the various phases of his daily life he gave the idea of being
perfectly well balanced as exactly regulated as a Leroy chronometer
Phileas Fogg was indeed exactitude personified and this was betrayed
even in the expression of his very hands and feet for in men as well as
in animals the limbs themselves are expressive of the passions

He was so exact that he was never in a hurry was always ready
and was economical alike of his steps and his motions  He never took
one step too many and always went to his destination by the shortest cut
he made no superfluous gestures and was never seen to be moved or agitated
He was the most deliberate person in the world yet always reached his
destination at the exact moment

He lived alone and so to speak outside of every social relation
and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction
and that friction retards he never rubbed against anybody

As for Passepartout he was a true Parisian of Paris  Since he
had abandoned his own country for England taking service as a valet
he had in vain searched for a master after his own heart
Passepartout was by no means one of those pert dunces depicted by
Moliere with a bold gaze and a nose held high in the air he was
an honest fellow with a pleasant face lips a trifle protruding
soft mannered and serviceable with a good round head such as one
likes to see on the shoulders of a friend  His eyes were blue
his complexion rubicund his figure almost portly and well built
his body muscular and his physical powers fully developed by the
exercises of his younger days  His brown hair was somewhat tumbled
for while the ancient sculptors are said to have known eighteen methods
of arranging Minerva s tresses Passepartout was familiar with but one of
dressing his own three strokes of a large tooth comb completed his toilet

It would be rash to predict how Passepartout s lively nature would agree
with Mr Fogg  It was impossible to tell whether the new servant
would turn out as absolutely methodical as his master required
experience alone could solve the question  Passepartout had been
a sort of vagrant in his early years and now yearned for repose
but so far he had failed to find it though he had already served
in ten English houses  But he could not take root in any of these
with chagrin he found his masters invariably whimsical and irregular
constantly running about the country or on the look out for adventure
His last master young Lord Longferry Member of Parliament
after passing his nights in the Haymarket taverns was too often
brought home in the morning on policemen s shoulders  Passepartout
desirous of respecting the gentleman whom he served ventured a mild
remonstrance on such conduct which being ill received he took his leave
Hearing that Mr Phileas Fogg was looking for a servant and that his life
was one of unbroken regularity that he neither travelled nor stayed
from home overnight he felt sure that this would be the place he was after
He presented himself and was accepted as has been seen

At half past eleven then Passepartout found himself alone in
the house in Saville Row  He begun its inspection without delay
scouring it from cellar to garret  So clean well arranged
solemn a mansion pleased him  it seemed to him like a snail s shell
lighted and warmed by gas which sufficed for both these purposes
When Passepartout reached the second story he recognised at once
the room which he was to inhabit and he was well satisfied with it
Electric bells and speaking tubes afforded communication with
the lower stories while on the mantel stood an electric clock
precisely like that in Mr Fogg s bedchamber both beating
the same second at the same instant  That s good that ll do
said Passepartout to himself

He suddenly observed hung over the clock a card which upon inspection
proved to be a programme of the daily routine of the house
It comprised all that was required of the servant from eight in the morning
exactly at which hour Phileas Fogg rose till half past eleven
when he left the house for the Reform Club  all the details of service
the tea and toast at twenty three minutes past eight the shaving water
at thirty seven minutes past nine and the toilet at twenty minutes before ten
Everything was regulated and foreseen that was to be done from
half past eleven am till midnight the hour at which the
methodical gentleman retired

Mr Fogg s wardrobe was amply supplied and in the best taste
Each pair of trousers coat and vest bore a number
indicating the time of year and season at which they were
in turn to be laid out for wearing and the same system
was applied to the master s shoes  In short the house
in Saville Row which must have been a very temple of disorder
and unrest under the illustrious but dissipated Sheridan was cosiness
comfort and method idealised  There was no study nor were there books
which would have been quite useless to Mr Fogg for at the Reform
two libraries one of general literature and the other of law and politics
were at his service  A moderate sized safe stood in his bedroom
constructed so as to defy fire as well as burglars but Passepartout
found neither arms nor hunting weapons anywhere everything betrayed
the most tranquil and peaceable habits

Having scrutinised the house from top to bottom he rubbed his hands
a broad smile overspread his features and he said joyfully
This is just what I wanted  Ah we shall get on together
Mr Fogg and I  What a domestic and regular gentleman
A real machine well I don t mind serving a machine




Chapter III

IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE WHICH SEEMS LIKELY TO COST
PHILEAS FOGG DEAR


Phileas Fogg having shut the door of his house at half past eleven and
having put his right foot before his left five hundred and seventy five times and his left foot
before his right five hundred and seventy six times reached the Reform Club
an imposing edifice in Pall Mall which could not have cost less than
three millions  He repaired at once to the dining room the nine windows
of which open upon a tasteful garden where the trees were already gilded
with an autumn colouring and took his place at the habitual table
the cover of which had already been laid for him  His breakfast consisted
of a side dish a broiled fish with Reading sauce a scarlet slice of
roast beef garnished with mushrooms a rhubarb and gooseberry tart
and a morsel of Cheshire cheese the whole being washed down with
several cups of tea for which the Reform is famous  He rose at
thirteen minutes to one and directed his steps towards the large hall
a sumptuous apartment adorned with lavishly framed paintings
A flunkey handed him an uncut Times which he proceeded to cut
with a skill which betrayed familiarity with this delicate operation
The perusal of this paper absorbed Phileas Fogg until a quarter before four
whilst the Standard his next task occupied him till the dinner hour
Dinner passed as breakfast had done and Mr Fogg re appeared in the
reading room and sat down to the Pall Mall at twenty minutes before six
Half an hour later several members of the Reform came in and drew up
to the fireplace where a coal fire was steadily burning
They were Mr Fogg s usual partners at whist Andrew Stuart an engineer
John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin bankers Thomas Flanagan a brewer
and Gauthier Ralph one of the Directors of the Bank of England  
all rich and highly respectable personages even in a club which
comprises the princes of English trade and finance

Well Ralph said Thomas Flanagan what about that robbery

Oh replied Stuart the Bank will lose the money

On the contrary broke in Ralph I hope we may put our hands
on the robber  Skilful detectives have been sent to all the
principal ports of America and the Continent and he ll
be a clever fellow if he slips through their fingers

But have you got the robber s description asked Stuart

In the first place he is no robber at all returned Ralph positively

What a fellow who makes off with fifty five thousand pounds no robber

No

Perhaps he s a manufacturer then

The Daily Telegraph says that he is a gentleman

It was Phileas Fogg whose head now emerged from behind his newspapers who
made this remark  He bowed to his friends and entered into the conversation
The affair which formed its subject and which was town talk had occurred
three days before at the Bank of England  A package of banknotes to the
value of fifty five thousand pounds had been taken from the principal
cashier s table that functionary being at the moment engaged in registering
the receipt of three shillings and sixpence  Of course he could not have
his eyes everywhere  Let it be observed that the Bank of England reposes
a touching confidence in the honesty of the public  There are neither guards
nor gratings to protect its treasures gold silver banknotes are freely
exposed at the mercy of the first comer  A keen observer of English customs
relates that being in one of the rooms of the Bank one day he had the
curiosity to examine a gold ingot weighing some seven or eight pounds
He took it up scrutinised it passed it to his neighbour he to the next man
and so on until the ingot going from hand to hand was transferred to the end
of a dark entry nor did it return to its place for half an hour  Meanwhile
the cashier had not so much as raised his head  But in the present instance
things had not gone so smoothly  The package of notes not being found when
five o clock sounded from the ponderous clock in the drawing office
the amount was passed to the account of profit and loss  As soon as
the robbery was discovered picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool
Glasgow Havre Suez Brindisi New York and other ports inspired by
the proffered reward of two thousand pounds and five per cent on the sum
that might be recovered  Detectives were also charged with narrowly watching
those who arrived at or left London by rail and a judicial examination
was at once entered upon

There were real grounds for supposing as the Daily Telegraph said
that the thief did not belong to a professional band  On the day
of the robbery a well dressed gentleman of polished manners
and with a well to do air had been observed going to and fro
in the paying room where the crime was committed  A description
of him was easily procured and sent to the detectives and some
hopeful spirits of whom Ralph was one did not despair of his apprehension
The papers and clubs were full of the affair and everywhere people were
discussing the probabilities of a successful pursuit and the Reform Club
was especially agitated several of its members being Bank officials

Ralph would not concede that the work of the detectives was likely
to be in vain for he thought that the prize offered would greatly
stimulate their zeal and activity  But Stuart was far from sharing
this confidence and as they placed themselves at the whist table
they continued to argue the matter  Stuart and Flanagan played together
while Phileas Fogg had Fallentin for his partner  As the game proceeded
the conversation ceased excepting between the rubbers when it revived again

I maintain said Stuart that the chances are in favour of the
thief who must be a shrewd fellow

Well but where can he fly to asked Ralph  No country is safe for him

Pshaw

Where could he go then

Oh I don t know that  The world is big enough

It was once said Phileas Fogg in a low tone  Cut sir
he added handing the cards to Thomas Flanagan

The discussion fell during the rubber after which Stuart took up its thread

What do you mean by once   Has the world grown smaller

Certainly returned Ralph  I agree with Mr Fogg  The world
has grown smaller since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly
than a hundred years ago  And that is why the search for this thief
will be more likely to succeed

And also why the thief can get away more easily

Be so good as to play Mr Stuart said Phileas Fogg

But the incredulous Stuart was not convinced and when the
hand was finished said eagerly You have a strange way Ralph
of proving that the world has grown smaller  So because you
can go round it in three months  

In eighty days interrupted Phileas Fogg

That is true gentlemen added John Sullivan  Only eighty days
now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad on the
Great Indian Peninsula Railway has been opened
Here is the estimate made by the Daily Telegraph

 From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and
   Brindisi by rail and steamboats   7 days
 From Suez to Bombay by steamer  13  
 From Bombay to Calcutta by rail   3  
 From Calcutta to Hong Kong by steamer  13  
 From Hong Kong to Yokohama (Japan) by steamer   6  
 From Yokohama to San Francisco by steamer  22  
 From San Francisco to New York by rail  7  
 From New York to London by steamer and rail  9  
    
   Total  80 days

Yes in eighty days exclaimed Stuart who in his excitement
made a false deal  But that doesn t take into account bad weather
contrary winds shipwrecks railway accidents and so on

All included returned Phileas Fogg continuing to play
despite the discussion

But suppose the Hindoos or Indians pull up the rails
replied Stuart suppose they stop the trains pillage
the luggage vans and scalp the passengers

All included calmly retorted Fogg adding as he threw down the cards
Two trumps

Stuart whose turn it was to deal gathered them up and went on
You are right theoretically Mr Fogg but practically  

Practically also Mr Stuart

I d like to see you do it in eighty days

It depends on you  Shall we go

Heaven preserve me  But I would wager four thousand pounds
that such a journey made under these conditions is impossible

Quite possible on the contrary returned Mr Fogg

Well make it then

The journey round the world in eighty days

Yes

I should like nothing better

When

At once  Only I warn you that I shall do it at your expense

It s absurd cried Stuart who was beginning to be annoyed at
the persistency of his friend  Come let s go on with the game

Deal over again then said Phileas Fogg  There s a false deal

Stuart took up the pack with a feverish hand then suddenly
put them down again

Well Mr Fogg said he it shall be so I will wager
the four thousand on it

Calm yourself my dear Stuart said Fallentin  It s only a joke

When I say I ll wager returned Stuart I mean it  All right
said Mr Fogg and turning to the others he continued   
I have a deposit of twenty thousand at Baring s which
I will willingly risk upon it

Twenty thousand pounds cried Sullivan  Twenty thousand pounds
which you would lose by a single accidental delay

The unforeseen does not exist quietly replied Phileas Fogg

But Mr Fogg eighty days are only the estimate of the least possible
time in which the journey can be made

A well used minimum suffices for everything

But in order not to exceed it you must jump mathematically
from the trains upon the steamers and from the steamers upon
the trains again

I will jump  mathematically

You are joking

A true Englishman doesn t joke when he is talking about so
serious a thing as a wager replied Phileas Fogg solemnly
I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes
that I will make the tour of the world in eighty days or less
in nineteen hundred and twenty hours or a hundred and fifteen
thousand two hundred minutes  Do you accept

We accept replied Messrs Stuart Fallentin Sullivan
Flanagan and Ralph after consulting each other

Good said Mr Fogg  The train leaves for Dover at a
quarter before nine  I will take it

This very evening asked Stuart

This very evening returned Phileas Fogg  He took out and
consulted a pocket almanac and added  As today is Wednesday
the 2nd of October I shall be due in London in this very room of
the Reform Club on Saturday the 21st of December at a quarter
before nine pm or else the twenty thousand pounds
now deposited in my name at Baring s will belong to you
in fact and in right gentlemen  Here is a cheque for the amount

A memorandum of the wager was at once drawn up and signed by
the six parties during which Phileas Fogg preserved a stoical
composure  He certainly did not bet to win and had only staked
the twenty thousand pounds half of his fortune because he
foresaw that he might have to expend the other half to carry out
this difficult not to say unattainable project  As for his
antagonists they seemed much agitated not so much by the value
of their stake as because they had some scruples about betting
under conditions so difficult to their friend

The clock struck seven and the party offered to suspend the
game so that Mr Fogg might make his preparations for departure

I am quite ready now was his tranquil response  Diamonds are trumps
be so good as to play gentlemen





Chapter IV

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG ASTOUNDS PASSEPARTOUT HIS SERVANT


Having won twenty guineas at whist and taken leave of his friends
Phileas Fogg at twenty five minutes past seven left the Reform Club

Passepartout who had conscientiously studied the programme of his duties
was more than surprised to see his master guilty of the inexactness
of appearing at this unaccustomed hour for according to rule
he was not due in Saville Row until precisely midnight

Mr Fogg repaired to his bedroom and called out Passepartout

Passepartout did not reply  It could not be he who was called
it was not the right hour

Passepartout repeated Mr Fogg without raising his voice

Passepartout made his appearance

I ve called you twice observed his master

But it is not midnight responded the other showing his watch

I know it I don t blame you  We start for Dover and Calais
in ten minutes

A puzzled grin overspread Passepartout s round face
clearly he had not comprehended his master

Monsieur is going to leave home

Yes returned Phileas Fogg  We are going round the world

Passepartout opened wide his eyes raised his eyebrows
held up his hands and seemed about to collapse
so overcome was he with stupefied astonishment

Round the world he murmured

In eighty days responded Mr Fogg  So we haven t a moment to lose

But the trunks gasped Passepartout unconsciously swaying
his head from right to left

We ll have no trunks only a carpet bag with two shirts
and three pairs of stockings for me and the same for you
We ll buy our clothes on the way  Bring down my mackintosh
and traveling cloak and some stout shoes though we shall
do little walking  Make haste

Passepartout tried to reply but could not  He went out
mounted to his own room fell into a chair and muttered
That s good that is  And I who wanted to remain quiet

He mechanically set about making the preparations for departure
Around the world in eighty days  Was his master a fool  No
Was this a joke then  They were going to Dover good
To Calais good again  After all Passepartout who had
been away from France five years would not be sorry
to set foot on his native soil again  Perhaps they would
go as far as Paris and it would do his eyes good to see Paris once more
But surely a gentleman so chary of his steps would stop there no doubt  
but then it was none the less true that he was going away
this so domestic person hitherto

By eight o clock Passepartout had packed the modest carpet bag
containing the wardrobes of his master and himself then
still troubled in mind he carefully shut the door of his room
and descended to Mr Fogg

Mr Fogg was quite ready  Under his arm might have been observed a red bound
copy of Bradshaw s Continental Railway Steam Transit and General Guide
with its timetables showing the arrival and departure of steamers and railways
He took the carpet bag opened it and slipped into it a goodly roll of
Bank of England notes which would pass wherever he might go

You have forgotten nothing asked he

Nothing monsieur

My mackintosh and cloak

Here they are

Good  Take this carpet bag handing it to Passepartout
Take good care of it for there are twenty thousand pounds in it

Passepartout nearly dropped the bag as if the twenty thousand pounds
were in gold and weighed him down

Master and man then descended the street door was double locked
and at the end of Saville Row they took a cab and drove rapidly
to Charing Cross  The cab stopped before the railway station
at twenty minutes past eight  Passepartout jumped off the box
and followed his master who after paying the cabman
was about to enter the station when a poor beggar woman
with a child in her arms her naked feet smeared with mud
her head covered with a wretched bonnet from which hung a tattered feather
and her shoulders shrouded in a ragged shawl approached
and mournfully asked for alms

Mr Fogg took out the twenty guineas he had just won at whist
and handed them to the beggar saying Here my good woman
I m glad that I met you and passed on

Passepartout had a moist sensation about the eyes
his master s action touched his susceptible heart

Two first class tickets for Paris having been speedily purchased
Mr Fogg was crossing the station to the train when he perceived
his five friends of the Reform

Well gentlemen said he I m off you see and if you
will examine my passport when I get back you will be able
to judge whether I have accomplished the journey agreed upon

Oh that would be quite unnecessary Mr Fogg said Ralph politely
We will trust your word as a gentleman of honour

You do not forget when you are due in London again  asked Stuart

In eighty days on Saturday the 21st of December 1872
at a quarter before nine pm  Good bye gentlemen

Phileas Fogg and his servant seated themselves in a first class carriage
at twenty minutes before nine five minutes later the whistle screamed
and the train slowly glided out of the station

The night was dark and a fine steady rain was falling
Phileas Fogg snugly ensconced in his corner did not open his lips
Passepartout not yet recovered from his stupefaction
clung mechanically to the carpet bag with its enormous treasure

Just as the train was whirling through Sydenham
Passepartout suddenly uttered a cry of despair

What s the matter asked Mr Fogg

Alas  In my hurry  I  I forgot  

What

To turn off the gas in my room

Very well young man returned Mr Fogg coolly it will burn  
at your expense





Chapter V


IN WHICH A NEW SPECIES OF FUNDS UNKNOWN TO THE MONEYED MEN
APPEARS ON  CHANGE


Phileas Fogg rightly suspected that his departure from London
would create a lively sensation at the West End  The news of the
bet spread through the Reform Club and afforded an exciting topic
of conversation to its members  From the club it soon got into
the papers throughout England  The boasted tour of the world
was talked about disputed argued with as much warmth as if the
subject were another Alabama claim  Some took sides with Phileas
Fogg but the large majority shook their heads and declared
against him it was absurd impossible they declared that the
tour of the world could be made except theoretically and on paper
in this minimum of time and with the existing means of travelling
The Times Standard Morning Post and Daily News and twenty other
highly respectable newspapers scouted Mr Fogg s project as madness
the Daily Telegraph alone hesitatingly supported him  People in general
thought him a lunatic and blamed his Reform Club friends for having
accepted a wager which betrayed the mental aberration of its proposer

Articles no less passionate than logical appeared on the question
for geography is one of the pet subjects of the English
and the columns devoted to Phileas Fogg s venture were eagerly
devoured by all classes of readers  At first some rash individuals
principally of the gentler sex espoused his cause which became
still more popular when the Illustrated London News came out
with his portrait copied from a photograph in the Reform Club
A few readers of the Daily Telegraph even dared to say
Why not after all  Stranger things have come to pass

At last a long article appeared on the 7th of October in the bulletin
of the Royal Geographical Society which treated the question from
every point of view and demonstrated the utter folly of the enterprise

Everything it said was against the travellers every obstacle imposed
alike by man and by nature  A miraculous agreement of the times of departure
and arrival which was impossible was absolutely necessary to his success
He might perhaps reckon on the arrival of trains at the designated hours
in Europe where the distances were relatively moderate but when
he calculated upon crossing India in three days and the United States
in seven could he rely beyond misgiving upon accomplishing his task
There were accidents to machinery the liability of trains to run off the line
collisions bad weather the blocking up by snow  were not all these against
Phileas Fogg  Would he not find himself when travelling by steamer in winter
at the mercy of the winds and fogs  Is it uncommon for the best ocean steamers
to be two or three days behind time  But a single delay would suffice to
fatally break the chain of communication should Phileas Fogg once miss
even by an hour a steamer he would have to wait for the next
and that would irrevocably render his attempt vain

This article made a great deal of noise and being copied into
all the papers seriously depressed the advocates of the rash tourist

Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men who are
of a higher class than mere gamblers to bet is in the English temperament
Not only the members of the Reform but the general public made heavy wagers
for or against Phileas Fogg who was set down in the betting books as if
he were a race horse  Bonds were issued and made their appearance on  Change
Phileas Fogg bonds were offered at par or at a premium and a great business
was done in them  But five days after the article in the bulletin of the
Geographical Society appeared the demand began to subside  Phileas Fogg
declined  They were offered by packages at first of five then of ten
until at last nobody would take less than twenty fifty a hundred

Lord Albemarle an elderly paralytic gentleman was now the only advocate
of Phileas Fogg left  This noble lord who was fastened to his chair
would have given his fortune to be able to make the tour of the world
if it took ten years and he bet five thousand pounds on Phileas Fogg
When the folly as well as the uselessness of the adventure was pointed out
to him he contented himself with replying If the thing is feasible
the first to do it ought to be an Englishman

The Fogg party dwindled more and more everybody was going against him
and the bets stood a hundred and fifty and two hundred to one
and a week after his departure an incident occurred which deprived him
of backers at any price

The commissioner of police was sitting in his office at nine o clock
one evening when the following telegraphic dispatch was put into his hands

Suez to London

Rowan Commissioner of Police Scotland Yard

I ve found the bank robber Phileas Fogg  Send with out delay warrant
of arrest to Bombay

Fix Detective

The effect of this dispatch was instantaneous  The polished gentleman
disappeared to give place to the bank robber  His photograph which was
hung with those of the rest of the members at the Reform Club
was minutely examined and it betrayed feature by feature
the description of the robber which had been provided to the police
The mysterious habits of Phileas Fogg were recalled his solitary ways
his sudden departure and it seemed clear that in undertaking a tour
round the world on the pretext of a wager he had had no other end in view
than to elude the detectives and throw them off his track




Chapter VI

IN WHICH FIX THE DETECTIVE BETRAYS A VERY NATURAL IMPATIENCE


The circumstances under which this telegraphic dispatch about
Phileas Fogg was sent were as follows

The steamer Mongolia belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company
built of iron of two thousand eight hundred tons burden and five hundred
horse power was due at eleven o clock am on Wednesday the 9th of October
at Suez  The Mongolia plied regularly between Brindisi and Bombay via
the Suez Canal and was one of the fastest steamers belonging to the company
always making more than ten knots an hour between Brindisi and Suez
and nine and a half between Suez and Bombay

Two men were promenading up and down the wharves among the crowd
of natives and strangers who were sojourning at this once straggling village  
now thanks to the enterprise of M Lesseps a fast growing town  One was
the British consul at Suez who despite the prophecies of the
English Government and the unfavourable predictions of Stephenson
was in the habit of seeing from his office window English ships
daily passing to and fro on the great canal by which the old roundabout
route from England to India by the Cape of Good Hope was abridged
by at least a half  The other was a small slight built personage
with a nervous intelligent face and bright eyes peering out
from under eyebrows which he was incessantly twitching
He was just now manifesting unmistakable signs of impatience
nervously pacing up and down and unable to stand still for a moment
This was Fix one of the detectives who had been dispatched from England
in search of the bank robber it was his task to narrowly watch every
passenger who arrived at Suez and to follow up all who seemed to
be suspicious characters or bore a resemblance to the description
of the criminal which he had received two days before from the
police headquarters at London  The detective was evidently inspired
by the hope of obtaining the splendid reward which would be the prize
of success and awaited with a feverish impatience easy to understand
the arrival of the steamer Mongolia

So you say consul asked he for the twentieth time that this steamer
is never behind time

No Mr Fix replied the consul  She was bespoken yesterday at Port Said
and the rest of the way is of no account to such a craft  I repeat that
the Mongolia has been in advance of the time required by the company s
regulations and gained the prize awarded for excess of speed

Does she come directly from Brindisi

Directly from Brindisi she takes on the Indian mails there
and she left there Saturday at five pm  Have patience Mr Fix
she will not be late  But really I don t see how from the
description you have you will be able to recognise your man
even if he is on board the Mongolia

A man rather feels the presence of these fellows consul
than recognises them  You must have a scent for them
and a scent is like a sixth sense which combines hearing
seeing and smelling  I ve arrested more than one of these gentlemen
in my time and if my thief is on board I ll answer for it
he ll not slip through my fingers

I hope so Mr Fix for it was a heavy robbery

A magnificent robbery consul fifty five thousand pounds
We don t often have such windfalls  Burglars are getting to be so
contemptible nowadays  A fellow gets hung for a handful of shillings

Mr Fix said the consul I like your way of talking and hope
you ll succeed but I fear you will find it far from easy
Don t you see the description which you have there has
a singular resemblance to an honest man

Consul remarked the detective dogmatically great robbers
always resemble honest folks  Fellows who have rascally faces
have only one course to take and that is to remain honest
otherwise they would be arrested off hand  The artistic thing is
to unmask honest countenances it s no light task I admit
but a real art

Mr Fix evidently was not wanting in a tinge of self conceit

Little by little the scene on the quay became more animated
sailors of various nations merchants ship brokers porters fellahs
bustled to and fro as if the steamer were immediately expected
The weather was clear and slightly chilly  The minarets of the town
loomed above the houses in the pale rays of the sun  A jetty pier
some two thousand yards along extended into the roadstead
A number of fishing smacks and coasting boats some retaining
the fantastic fashion of ancient galleys were discernible on the Red Sea

As he passed among the busy crowd Fix according to habit
scrutinised the passers by with a keen rapid glance

It was now half past ten

The steamer doesn t come he exclaimed as the port clock struck

She can t be far off now returned his companion

How long will she stop at Suez

Four hours long enough to get in her coal  It is thirteen hundred
and ten miles from Suez to Aden at the other end of the Red Sea
and she has to take in a fresh coal supply

And does she go from Suez directly to Bombay

Without putting in anywhere

Good said Fix  If the robber is on board he will no doubt
get off at Suez so as to reach the Dutch or French colonies in
Asia by some other route  He ought to know that he would not be
safe an hour in India which is English soil

Unless objected the consul he is exceptionally shrewd
An English criminal you know is always better concealed
n London than anywhere else

This observation furnished the detective food for thought
and meanwhile the consul went away to his office  Fix left alone
was more impatient than ever having a presentiment that the
robber was on board the Mongolia  If he had indeed left London
intending to reach the New World he would naturally take the
route via India which was less watched and more difficult
to watch than that of the Atlantic  But Fix s reflections were
soon interrupted by a succession of sharp whistles which announced
the arrival of the Mongolia  The porters and fellahs rushed
down the quay and a dozen boats pushed off from the shore to go
and meet the steamer  Soon her gigantic hull appeared passing
along between the banks and eleven o clock struck as she anchored
in the road  She brought an unusual number of passengers
some of whom remained on deck to scan the picturesque panorama
of the town while the greater part disembarked in the boats
and landed on the quay

Fix took up a position and carefully examined each face
and figure which made its appearance  Presently one of
the passengers after vigorously pushing his way through the
importunate crowd of porters came up to him and politely asked if
he could point out the English consulate at the same time showing
a passport which he wished to have visaed  Fix instinctively took
the passport and with a rapid glance read the description
of its bearer  An involuntary motion of surprise nearly escaped him
for the description in the passport was identical with that of the
bank robber which he had received from Scotland Yard

Is this your passport asked he

No it s my master s

And your master is  

He stayed on board

But he must go to the consul s in person so as to establish his identity

Oh is that necessary

Quite indispensable

And where is the consulate

There on the corner of the square said Fix pointing to
a house two hundred steps off

I ll go and fetch my master who won t be much pleased however
to be disturbed

The passenger bowed to Fix and returned to the steamer




Chapter VII

WHICH ONCE MORE DEMONSTRATES THE USELESSNESS OF PASSPORTS
AS AIDS TO DETECTIVES


The detective passed down the quay and rapidly made his way to
the consul s office where he was at once admitted to the presence
of that official

Consul said he without preamble I have strong reasons
for believing that my man is a passenger on the Mongolia
And he narrated what had just passed concerning the passport

Well Mr Fix replied the consul I shall not be sorry to
see the rascal s face but perhaps he won t come here  that is
if he is the person you suppose him to be  A robber doesn t quite
like to leave traces of his flight behind him and besides
he is not obliged to have his passport countersigned

If he is as shrewd as I think he is consul he will come

To have his passport visaed

Yes  Passports are only good for annoying honest folks
and aiding in the flight of rogues  I assure you it will be quite
the thing for him to do but I hope you will not visa the passport

Why not  If the passport is genuine I have no right to refuse

Still I must keep this man here until I can get a warrant to
arrest him from London

Ah that s your look out  But I cannot  

The consul did not finish his sentence for as he spoke a knock was heard
at the door and two strangers entered one of whom was the servant
whom Fix had met on the quay  The other who was his master
held out his passport with the request that the consul would do him
the favour to visa it  The consul took the document and carefully read it
whilst Fix observed or rather devoured the stranger with his eyes
from a corner of the room

You are Mr Phileas Fogg said the consul after reading the passport

I am

And this man is your servant

He is a Frenchman named Passepartout

You are from London

Yes

And you are going  

To Bombay

Very good sir  You know that a visa is useless and that no passport
is required

I know it sir replied Phileas Fogg but I wish to prove
by your visa that I came by Suez

Very well sir

The consul proceeded to sign and date the passport after which
he added his official seal  Mr Fogg paid the customary fee
coldly bowed and went out followed by his servant

Well queried the detective

Well he looks and acts like a perfectly honest man replied the consul

Possibly but that is not the question  Do you think consul
that this phelgmatic gentleman resembles feature by feature
the robber whose description I have received

I concede that but then you know all descriptions  

I ll make certain of it interrupted Fix  The servant seems
to me less mysterious than the master besides he s a Frenchman
and can t help talking  Excuse me for a little while consul

Fix started off in search of Passepartout

Meanwhile Mr Fogg after leaving the consulate repaired to
the quay gave some orders to Passepartout went off to
the    Mongolia in a boat and descended to his cabin
He took up his note book which contained the following memoranda

Left London Wednesday October 2nd at 845 pm
Reached Paris Thursday October 3rd at 720 am
Left Paris Thursday at 840 am
Reached Turin by Mont Cenis Friday October 4th at 635 am
Left Turin Friday at 720 am
Arrived at Brindisi Saturday October 5th at 4 pm
Sailed on the Mongolia Saturday at 5 pm
Reached Suez Wednesday October 9th at 11 am
Total of hours spent 158 or in days six days and a half

These dates were inscribed in an itinerary divided into columns
indicating the month the day of the month and the day for the
stipulated and actual arrivals at each principal point Paris
Brindisi Suez Bombay Calcutta Singapore Hong Kong Yokohama
San Francisco New York and London  from the 2nd of October
to the 21st of December and giving a space for setting down
the gain made or the loss suffered on arrival at each locality
This methodical record thus contained an account of everything needed
and Mr Fogg always knew whether he was behind hand or in advance
of his time  On this Friday October 9th he noted his arrival at Suez
and observed that he had as yet neither gained nor lost
He sat down quietly to breakfast in his cabin never once thinking
of inspecting the town being one of those Englishmen who are wont
to see foreign countries through the eyes of their domestics




Chapter VIII

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TALKS RATHER MORE PERHAPS THAN IS PRUDENT


Fix soon rejoined Passepartout who was lounging and looking about
on the quay as if he did not feel that he at least was obliged
not to see anything

Well my friend said the detective coming up with him
is your passport visaed

Ah it s you is it monsieur responded Passepartout
Thanks yes the passport is all right

And you are looking about you

Yes but we travel so fast that I seem to be journeying in a dream
So this is Suez

Yes

In Egypt

Certainly in Egypt

And in Africa

In Africa

In Africa repeated Passepartout  Just think monsieur
I had no idea that we should go farther than Paris and all that I
saw of Paris was between twenty minutes past seven and twenty
minutes before nine in the morning between the Northern and
the Lyons stations through the windows of a car and in a
driving rain  How I regret not having seen once more Pere la Chaise
and the circus in the Champs Elysees

You are in a great hurry then

I am not but my master is  By the way I must buy some shoes and shirts
We came away without trunks only with a carpet bag

I will show you an excellent shop for getting what you want

Really monsieur you are very kind

And they walked off together Passepartout chatting volubly
as they went along

Above all said he don t let me lose the steamer

You have plenty of time it s only twelve o clock

Passepartout pulled out his big watch  Twelve he exclaimed
why it s only eight minutes before ten

Your watch is slow

My watch  A family watch monsieur which has come down from
my great grandfather  It doesn t vary five minutes in the year
It s a perfect chronometer look you

I see how it is said Fix  You have kept London time
which is two hours behind that of Suez  You ought to regulate
your watch at noon in each country

I regulate my watch  Never

Well then it will not agree with the sun

So much the worse for the sun monsieur  The sun will be wrong then

And the worthy fellow returned the watch to its fob with a
defiant gesture  After a few minutes silence Fix resumed
You left London hastily then

I rather think so  Last Friday at eight o clock in the evening
Monsieur Fogg came home from his club and three quarters of an hour
afterwards we were off

But where is your master going

Always straight ahead  He is going round the world

Round the world cried Fix

Yes and in eighty days  He says it is on a wager but between us
I don t believe a word of it  That wouldn t be common sense
There s something else in the wind

Ah  Mr Fogg is a character is he

I should say he was

Is he rich

No doubt for he is carrying an enormous sum in brand new
banknotes with him  And he doesn t spare the money on the way
either he has offered a large reward to the engineer of the
Mongolia if he gets us to Bombay well in advance of time

And you have known your master a long time

Why no I entered his service the very day we left London

The effect of these replies upon the already suspicious
and excited detective may be imagined  The hasty departure
from London soon after the robbery the large sum carried by Mr Fogg
his eagerness to reach distant countries the pretext of an
eccentric and foolhardy bet  all confirmed Fix in his theory
He continued to pump poor Passepartout and learned that he really
knew little or nothing of his master who lived a solitary
existence in London was said to be rich though no one knew
whence came his riches and was mysterious and impenetrable
in his affairs and habits  Fix felt sure that Phileas Fogg
would not land at Suez but was really going on to Bombay

Is Bombay far from here asked Passepartout

Pretty far  It is a ten days  voyage by sea

And in what country is Bombay

India

In Asia

Certainly

The deuce  I was going to tell you there s one thing that worries me  
my burner

What burner

My gas burner which I forgot to turn off and which is at
this moment burning at my expense  I have calculated monsieur
that I lose two shillings every four and twenty hours exactly
sixpense more than I earn and you will understand that the longer
our journey  

Did Fix pay any attention to Passepartout s trouble about the gas
It is not probable  He was not listening but was cogitating a project
Passepartout and he had now reached the shop where Fix left his companion
to make his purchases after recommending him not to miss the steamer
and hurried back to the consulate  Now that he was fully convinced
Fix had quite recovered his equanimity

Consul said he I have no longer any doubt  I have spotted my man
He passes himself off as an odd stick who is going round the world
in eighty days

Then he s a sharp fellow returned the consul and counts on
returning to London after putting the police of the two countries
off his track

We ll see about that replied Fix

But are you not mistaken

I am not mistaken

Why was this robber so anxious to prove by the visa
that he had passed through Suez

Why  I have no idea but listen to me

He reported in a few words the most important parts
of his conversation with Passepartout

In short said the consul appearances are wholly against this man
And what are you going to do

Send a dispatch to London for a warrant of arrest to be dispatched
instantly to Bombay take passage on board the Mongolia follow my rogue
to India and there on English ground arrest him politely with my warrant
in my hand and my hand on his shoulder

Having uttered these words with a cool careless air the detective
took leave of the consul and repaired to the telegraph office
whence he sent the dispatch which we have seen to the London police office
A quarter of an hour later found Fix with a small bag in his hand
proceeding on board the Mongolia and ere many moments longer
the noble steamer rode out at full steam upon the waters of the Red Sea





Chapter IX

IN WHICH THE RED SEA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN PROVE PROPITIOUS
TO THE DESIGNS OF PHILEAS FOGG


The distance between Suez and Aden is precisely thirteen hundred
and ten miles and the regulations of the company allow the
steamers one hundred and thirty eight hours in which to traverse it
The Mongolia thanks to the vigorous exertions of the engineer
seemed likely so rapid was her speed to reach her destination
considerably within that time  The greater part of the passengers
from Brindisi were bound for India some for Bombay others for Calcutta
by way of Bombay the nearest route thither now that a railway crosses
the Indian peninsula  Among the passengers was a number of officials
and military officers of various grades the latter being either attached
to the regular British forces or commanding the Sepoy troops
and receiving high salaries ever since the central
government has assumed the powers of the East India Company
for the sub lieutenants get 280 pounds brigadiers 2400 pounds
and generals of divisions 4000 pounds  What with the military men
a number of rich young Englishmen on their travels and the hospitable
efforts of the purser the time passed quickly on the Mongolia
The best of fare was spread upon the cabin tables at breakfast
lunch dinner and the eight o clock supper and the ladies
scrupulously changed their toilets twice a day and the hours
were whirled away when the sea was tranquil with music dancing and games

But the Red Sea is full of caprice and often boisterous like most long
and narrow gulfs  When the wind came from the African or Asian coast
the Mongolia with her long hull rolled fearfully  Then the ladies
speedily disappeared below the pianos were silent singing and dancing
suddenly ceased  Yet the good ship ploughed straight on unretarded by wind
or wave towards the straits of Bab el Mandeb  What was Phileas Fogg
doing all this time  It might be thought that in his anxiety he would
be constantly watching the changes of the wind the disorderly raging
of the billows  every chance in short which might force the Mongolia
to slacken her speed and thus interrupt his journey  But if he thought
of these possibilities he did not betray the fact by any outward sign

Always the same impassible member of the Reform Club whom no
incident could surprise as unvarying as the ship s chronometers
and seldom having the curiosity even to go upon the deck he passed
through the memorable scenes of the Red Sea with cold indifference
did not care to recognise the historic towns and villages which
along its borders raised their picturesque outlines against the sky
and betrayed no fear of the dangers of the Arabic Gulf which the old
historians always spoke of with horror and upon which the ancient
navigators never ventured without propitiating the gods by ample sacrifices
How did this eccentric personage pass his time on the Mongolia  He made his
four hearty meals every day regardless of the most persistent rolling
and pitching on the part of the steamer and he played whist indefatigably
for he had found partners as enthusiastic in the game as himself
A tax collector on the way to his post at Goa the Rev Decimus Smith
returning to his parish at Bombay and a brigadier general of the English army
who was about to rejoin his brigade at Benares made up the party and
with Mr Fogg played whist by the hour together in absorbing silence

As for Passepartout he too had escaped sea sickness and took his meals
conscientiously in the forward cabin  He rather enjoyed the voyage
for he was well fed and well lodged took a great interest in the scenes
through which they were passing and consoled himself with the delusion
that his master s whim would end at Bombay  He was pleased on the day after
leaving Suez to find on deck the obliging person with whom he had walked
and chatted on the quays

If I am not mistaken said he approaching this person with his most
amiable smile you are the gentleman who so kindly volunteered
to guide me at Suez

Ah  I quite recognise you  You are the servant of the strange Englishman  

Just so monsieur  

Fix

Monsieur Fix resumed Passepartout I m charmed to find you on board
Where are you bound

Like you to Bombay

That s capital  Have you made this trip before

Several times  I am one of the agents of the Peninsular Company

Then you know India

Why yes replied Fix who spoke cautiously

A curious place this India

Oh very curious  Mosques minarets temples fakirs pagodas tigers
snakes elephants  I hope you will have ample time to see the sights

I hope so Monsieur Fix  You see a man of sound sense ought not
to spend his life jumping from a steamer upon a railway train
and from a railway train upon a steamer again pretending to make the tour
of the world in eighty days  No all these gymnastics you may be sure
will cease at Bombay

And Mr Fogg is getting on well asked Fix in the most natural
tone in the world

Quite well and I too  I eat like a famished ogre it s the sea air

But I never see your master on deck

Never he hasn t the least curiosity

Do you know Mr Passepartout that this pretended tour in eighty days
may conceal some secret errand  perhaps a diplomatic mission

Faith Monsieur Fix I assure you I know nothing about it
nor would I give half a crown to find out

After this meeting Passepartout and Fix got into the habit
of chatting together the latter making it a point to gain
the worthy man s confidence  He frequently offered him a glass
of whiskey or pale ale in the steamer bar room which Passepartout
never failed to accept with graceful alacrity mentally pronouncing
Fix the best of good fellows

Meanwhile the Mongolia was pushing forward rapidly on the 13th
Mocha surrounded by its ruined walls whereon date trees were growing
was sighted and on the mountains beyond were espied vast coffee fields
Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place and thought that
with its circular walls and dismantled fort it looked like an immense
coffee cup and saucer The following night they passed through the Strait
of Bab el Mandeb which means in Arabic The Bridge of Tears and the
next day they put in at Steamer Point north west of Aden harbour
to take in coal  This matter of fuelling steamers is a serious
one at such distances from the coal mines it costs the Peninsular
Company some eight hundred thousand pounds a year  In these
distant seas coal is worth three or four pounds sterling a ton

The Mongolia had still sixteen hundred and fifty miles to traverse
before reaching Bombay and was obliged to remain four hours at
Steamer Point to coal up  But this delay as it was foreseen
did not affect Phileas Fogg s programme besides the Mongolia
instead of reaching Aden on the morning of the 15th when she was due
arrived there on the evening of the 14th a gain of fifteen hours

Mr Fogg and his servant went ashore at Aden to have the passport
again visaed Fix unobserved followed them  The visa procured
Mr Fogg returned on board to resume his former habits while Passepartout
according to custom sauntered about among the mixed population of Somanlis
Banyans Parsees Jews Arabs and Europeans who comprise the twenty five
thousand inhabitants of Aden  He gazed with wonder upon the fortifications
which make this place the Gibraltar of the Indian Ocean and the vast cisterns
where the English engineers were still at work two thousand years after
the engineers of Solomon

Very curious very curious said Passepartout to himself
on returning to the steamer  I see that it is by no means useless
to travel if a man wants to see something new  At six pm
the Mongolia slowly moved out of the roadstead and was soon
once more on the Indian Ocean  She had a hundred and sixty eight hours
in which to reach Bombay and the sea was favourable the wind being
in the north west and all sails aiding the engine  The steamer
rolled but little the ladies in fresh toilets reappeared
on deck and the singing and dancing were resumed  The trip
was being accomplished most successfully and Passepartout
was enchanted with the congenial companion which chance had secured
him in the person of the delightful Fix  On Sunday October 20th
towards noon they came in sight of the Indian coast two hours
later the pilot came on board  A range of hills lay against the
sky in the horizon and soon the rows of palms which adorn Bombay
came distinctly into view  The steamer entered the road formed by
the islands in the bay and at half past four she hauled up at the
quays of Bombay

Phileas Fogg was in the act of finishing the thirty third rubber
of the voyage and his partner and himself having by a bold stroke
captured all thirteen of the tricks concluded this fine campaign
with a brilliant victory

The Mongolia was due at Bombay on the 22nd she arrived on the
20th  This was a gain to Phileas Fogg of two days since his
departure from London and he calmly entered the fact in the
itinerary in the column of gains




Chapter X

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT IS ONLY TOO GLAD TO GET OFF
WITH THE LOSS OF HIS SHOES


Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land with its
base in the north and its apex in the south which is called India
embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles upon which is spread
unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls
The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the
larger portion of this vast country and has a governor general
stationed at Calcutta governors at Madras Bombay and in Bengal
and a lieutenant governor at Agra

But British India properly so called only embraces seven
hundred thousand square miles and a population of from
one hundred to one hundred and ten millions of inhabitants
A considerable portion of India is still free from British authority
and there are certain ferocious rajahs in the interior who are
absolutely independent  The celebrated East India Company
was all powerful from 1756 when the English first gained a foothold
on the spot where now stands the city of Madras down to the time
of the great Sepoy insurrection  It gradually annexed province
after province purchasing them of the native chiefs whom it seldom paid
and appointed the governor general and his subordinates civil and military
But the East India Company has now passed away leaving the British
possessions in India directly under the control of the Crown
The aspect of the country as well as the manners and distinctions of race
is daily changing

Formerly one was obliged to travel in India by the old cumbrous methods
of going on foot or on horseback in palanquins or unwieldly coaches
now fast steamboats ply on the Indus and the Ganges and a great railway
with branch lines joining the main line at many points on its route
traverses the peninsula from Bombay to Calcutta in three days
This railway does not run in a direct line across India
The distance between Bombay and Calcutta as the bird flies
is only from one thousand to eleven hundred miles
but the deflections of the road increase this distance by more than a third

The general route of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway is as follows
Leaving Bombay it passes through Salcette crossing to the continent
opposite Tannah goes over the chain of the Western Ghauts
runs thence north east as far as Burhampoor skirts the nearly
independent territory of Bundelcund ascends to Allahabad
turns thence eastwardly meeting the Ganges at Benares
then departs from the river a little and descending south eastward
by Burdivan and the French town of Chandernagor has its terminus at Calcutta

The passengers of the Mongolia went ashore at half past four pm
at exactly eight the train would start for Calcutta

Mr Fogg after bidding good bye to his whist partners left the steamer
gave his servant several errands to do urged it upon him to be at the station
promptly at eight and with his regular step which beat to the second
like a astronomical clock directed his steps to the passport office
As for the wonders of Bombay its famous city hall its splendid library
its forts and docks its bazaars mosques synagogues its Armenian churches
and the noble pagoda on Malabar Hill with its two polygonal towers  
he cared not a straw to see them  He would not deign to examine
even the masterpieces of Elephanta or the mysterious hypogea
concealed south east from the docks or those fine remains of Buddhist
architecture the Kanherian grottoes of the island of Salcette

Having transacted his business at the passport office Phileas Fogg
repaired quietly to the railway station where he ordered dinner
Among the dishes served up to him the landlord especially recommended
a certain giblet of native rabbit on which he prided himself

Mr Fogg accordingly tasted the dish but despite its spiced sauce
found it far from palatable  He rang for the landlord and
on his appearance said fixing his clear eyes upon him
Is this rabbit sir

Yes my lord the rogue boldly replied rabbit from the jungles

And this rabbit did not mew when he was killed

Mew my lord  What a rabbit mew  I swear to you  

Be so good landlord as not to swear but remember this
cats were formerly considered in India as sacred animals
That was a good time

For the cats my lord

Perhaps for the travellers as well

After which Mr Fogg quietly continued his dinner  Fix had gone
on shore shortly after Mr Fogg and his first destination was
the headquarters of the Bombay police  He made himself known
as a London detective told his business at Bombay and the
position of affairs relative to the supposed robber and nervously
asked if a warrant had arrived from London  It had not reached
the office indeed there had not yet been time for it to arrive
Fix was sorely disappointed and tried to obtain an order of arrest
from the director of the Bombay police  This the director refused
as the matter concerned the London office which alone could legally
deliver the warrant  Fix did not insist and was fain to resign himself
to await the arrival of the important document but he was determined
not to lose sight of the mysterious rogue as long as he stayed in Bombay
He did not doubt for a moment any more than Passepartout that Phileas Fogg
would remain there at least until it was time for the warrant to arrive

Passepartout however had no sooner heard his master s orders
on leaving the Mongolia than he saw at once that they were to
leave Bombay as they had done Suez and Paris and that the journey
would be extended at least as far as Calcutta and perhaps beyond
that place  He began to ask himself if this bet that Mr Fogg
talked about was not really in good earnest and whether his fate
was not in truth forcing him despite his love of repose around
the world in eighty days

Having purchased the usual quota of shirts and shoes he took
a leisurely promenade about the streets where crowds of people
of many nationalities  Europeans Persians with pointed caps
Banyas with round turbans Sindes with square bonnets Parsees
with black mitres and long robed Armenians  were collected
It happened to be the day of a Parsee festival  These descendants
of the sect of Zoroaster  the most thrifty civilised intelligent
and austere of the East Indians among whom are counted the richest
native merchants of Bombay  were celebrating a sort of religious carnival
with processions and shows in the midst of which Indian dancing girls
clothed in rose coloured gauze looped up with gold and silver
danced airily but with perfect modesty to the sound of viols
and the clanging of tambourines  It is needless to say that Passepartout
watched these curious ceremonies with staring eyes and gaping mouth
and that his countenance was that of the greenest booby imaginable

Unhappily for his master as well as himself his curiosity
drew him unconsciously farther off than he intended to go
At last having seen the Parsee carnival wind away in the distance
he was turning his steps towards the station when he happened
to espy the splendid pagoda on Malabar Hill and was seized with
an irresistible desire to see its interior  He was quite ignorant
that it is forbidden to Christians to enter certain Indian temples
and that even the faithful must not go in without first leaving their
shoes outside the door  It may be said here that the wise policy
of the British Government severely punishes a disregard of the practices
of the native religions

Passepartout however thinking no harm went in like a simple tourist
and was soon lost in admiration of the splendid Brahmin ornamentation
which everywhere met his eyes when of a sudden he found himself sprawling
on the sacred flagging  He looked up to behold three enraged priests
who forthwith fell upon him tore off his shoes and began to beat him
with loud savage exclamations  The agile Frenchman was soon upon his feet
again and lost no time in knocking down two of his long gowned
adversaries with his fists and a vigorous application of his toes
then rushing out of the pagoda as fast as his legs could carry him
he soon escaped the third priest by mingling with the crowd in the streets

At five minutes before eight Passepartout hatless shoeless
and having in the squabble lost his package of shirts and shoes
rushed breathlessly into the station

Fix who had followed Mr Fogg to the station and saw that he
was really going to leave Bombay was there upon the platform
He had resolved to follow the supposed robber to Calcutta
and farther if necessary  Passepartout did not observe the
detective who stood in an obscure corner but Fix heard him
relate his adventures in a few words to Mr Fogg

I hope that this will not happen again said Phileas Fogg coldly
as he got into the train  Poor Passepartout quite crestfallen
followed his master without a word  Fix was on the point of entering
another carriage when an idea struck him which induced him to alter his plan

No I ll stay muttered he  An offence has been committed on Indian soil
I ve got my man

Just then the locomotive gave a sharp screech and the train passed out
into the darkness of the night



Chapter XI

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SECURES A CURIOUS MEANS OF CONVEYANCE
AT A FABULOUS PRICE


The train had started punctually  Among the passengers were
a number of officers Government officials and opium and indigo
merchants whose business called them to the eastern coast
Passepartout rode in the same carriage with his master and a
third passenger occupied a seat opposite to them  This was
Sir Francis Cromarty one of Mr Fogg s whist partners
on the Mongolia now on his way to join his corps at Benares
Sir Francis was a tall fair man of fifty who had greatly
distinguished himself in the last Sepoy revolt  He made India
his home only paying brief visits to England at rare intervals
and was almost as familiar as a native with the customs history
and character of India and its people  But Phileas Fogg who was
not travelling but only describing a circumference took no pains
to inquire into these subjects he was a solid body traversing
an orbit around the terrestrial globe according to the laws
of rational mechanics  He was at this moment calculating in his mind
the number of hours spent since his departure from London and
had it been in his nature to make a useless demonstration
would have rubbed his hands for satisfaction  Sir Francis Cromarty
had observed the oddity of his travelling companion  although the
only opportunity he had for studying him had been while he was
dealing the cards and between two rubbers  and questioned himself
whether a human heart really beat beneath this cold exterior
and whether Phileas Fogg had any sense of the beauties of nature
The brigadier general was free to mentally confess that
of all the eccentric persons he had ever met none was comparable
to this product of the exact sciences

Phileas Fogg had not concealed from Sir Francis his design of going
round the world nor the circumstances under which he set out
and the general only saw in the wager a useless eccentricity
and a lack of sound common sense  In the way this strange gentleman
was going on he would leave the world without having done any good
to himself or anybody else

An hour after leaving Bombay the train had passed the viaducts
and the Island of Salcette and had got into the open country
At Callyan they reached the junction of the branch line which
descends towards south eastern India by Kandallah and Pounah
and passing Pauwell they entered the defiles of the mountains
with their basalt bases and their summits crowned with thick
and verdant forests  Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty exchanged
a few words from time to time and now Sir Francis reviving the conversation
observed Some years ago Mr Fogg you would have met with a delay
at this point which would probably have lost you your wager

How so Sir Francis

Because the railway stopped at the base of these mountains
which the passengers were obliged to cross in palanquins
or on ponies to Kandallah on the other side

Such a delay would not have deranged my plans in the least
said Mr Fogg  I have constantly foreseen the likelihood of
certain obstacles

But Mr Fogg pursued Sir Francis you run the risk of
having some difficulty about this worthy fellow s adventure
at the pagoda  Passepartout his feet comfortably wrapped
in his travelling blanket was sound asleep and did not dream
that anybody was talking about him  The Government is very severe
upon that kind of offence  It takes particular care that the
religious customs of the Indians should be respected
and if your servant were caught  

Very well Sir Francis replied Mr Fogg if he had been
caught he would have been condemned and punished and then would
have quietly returned to Europe  I don t see how this affair
could have delayed his master

The conversation fell again  During the night the train left
the mountains behind and passed Nassik and the next day
proceeded over the flat well cultivated country of the Khandeish
with its straggling villages above which rose the minarets
of the pagodas  This fertile territory is watered by numerous
small rivers and limpid streams mostly tributaries of the Godavery

Passepartout on waking and looking out could not realise
that he was actually crossing India in a railway train
The locomotive guided by an English engineer and fed with English
coal threw out its smoke upon cotton coffee nutmeg clove
and pepper plantations while the steam curled in spirals around
groups of palm trees in the midst of which were seen picturesque
bungalows viharis (sort of abandoned monasteries) and marvellous
temples enriched by the exhaustless ornamentation of Indian architecture
Then they came upon vast tracts extending to the horizon with jungles
inhabited by snakes and tigers which fled at the noise of the train
succeeded by forests penetrated by the railway and still haunted
by elephants which with pensive eyes gazed at the train as it passed
The travellers crossed beyond Milligaum the fatal country so often
stained with blood by the sectaries of the goddess Kali  Not far off
rose Ellora with its graceful pagodas and the famous Aurungabad
capital of the ferocious Aureng Zeb now the chief town of one of the
detached provinces of the kingdom of the Nizam  It was thereabouts
that Feringhea the Thuggee chief king of the stranglers held his sway
These ruffians united by a secret bond strangled victims of every age
in honour of the goddess Death without ever shedding blood there was
a period when this part of the country could scarcely be travelled over
without corpses being found in every direction  The English Government
has succeeded in greatly diminishing these murders though the Thuggees
still exist and pursue the exercise of their horrible rites

At half past twelve the train stopped at Burhampoor where
Passepartout was able to purchase some Indian slippers
ornamented with false pearls in which with evident vanity
he proceeded to encase his feet  The travellers made a hasty breakfast
and started off for Assurghur after skirting for a little the banks
of the small river Tapty which empties into the Gulf of Cambray near Surat

Passepartout was now plunged into absorbing reverie  Up to
his arrival at Bombay he had entertained hopes that their journey
would end there but now that they were plainly whirling across
India at full speed a sudden change had come over the spirit of
his dreams  His old vagabond nature returned to him the fantastic
ideas of his youth once more took possession of him  He came to regard
his master s project as intended in good earnest believed in the reality
of the bet and therefore in the tour of the world and the necessity
of making it without fail within the designated period  Already he began
to worry about possible delays and accidents which might happen on the way
He recognised himself as being personally interested in the wager
and trembled at the thought that he might have been the means of losing it
by his unpardonable folly of the night before  Being much less cool headed
than Mr Fogg he was much more restless counting and recounting the
days passed over uttering maledictions when the train stopped
and accusing it of sluggishness and mentally blaming Mr Fogg
for not having bribed the engineer  The worthy fellow was ignorant that
while it was possible by such means to hasten the rate of a steamer
it could not be done on the railway

The train entered the defiles of the Sutpour Mountains which separate
the Khandeish from Bundelcund towards evening  The next day Sir Francis
Cromarty asked Passepartout what time it was to which on consulting
his watch he replied that it was three in the morning  This famous timepiece
always regulated on the Greenwich meridian which was now some seventy seven
degrees westward was at least four hours slow  Sir Francis corrected
Passepartout s time whereupon the latter made the same remark that he had
done to Fix and up on the general insisting that the watch should be
regulated in each new meridian since he was constantly going eastward
that is in the face of the sun and therefore the days were shorter
by four minutes for each degree gone over Passepartout obstinately refused
to alter his watch which he kept at London time  It was an innocent delusion
which could harm no one

The train stopped at eight o clock in the midst of a glade some
fifteen miles beyond Rothal where there were several bungalows
and workmen s cabins  The conductor passing along the carriages
shouted Passengers will get out here

Phileas Fogg looked at Sir Francis Cromarty for an explanation
but the general could not tell what meant a halt in the midst
of this forest of dates and acacias

Passepartout not less surprised rushed out and speedily returned crying
Monsieur no more railway

What do you mean asked Sir Francis

I mean to say that the train isn t going on

The general at once stepped out while Phileas Fogg calmly followed him
and they proceeded together to the conductor

Where are we asked Sir Francis

At the hamlet of Kholby

Do we stop here

Certainly  The railway isn t finished

What not finished

No  There s still a matter of fifty miles to be laid
from here to Allahabad where the line begins again

But the papers announced the opening of the railway throughout

What would you have officer  The papers were mistaken

Yet you sell tickets from Bombay to Calcutta retorted Sir Francis
who was growing warm

No doubt replied the conductor but the passengers know
that they must provide means of transportation for themselves
from Kholby to Allahabad

Sir Francis was furious  Passepartout would willingly have knocked
the conductor down and did not dare to look at his master

Sir Francis said Mr Fogg quietly we will if you please
look about for some means of conveyance to Allahabad

Mr Fogg this is a delay greatly to your disadvantage

No Sir Francis it was foreseen

What  You knew that the way  

Not at all but I knew that some obstacle or other would sooner or later
arise on my route  Nothing therefore is lost I have two days
which I have already gained to sacrifice  A steamer leaves Calcutta
for Hong Kong at noon on the 25th  This is the 22nd and we shall
reach Calcutta in time

There was nothing to say to so confident a response

It was but too true that the railway came to a termination at this point
The papers were like some watches which have a way of getting too fast
and had been premature in their announcement of the completion of the line
The greater part of the travellers were aware of this interruption and
leaving the train they began to engage such vehicles as the village
could provide four wheeled palkigharis waggons drawn by zebus
carriages that looked like perambulating pagodas palanquins ponies
and what not

Mr Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty after searching the village
from end to end came back without having found anything

I shall go afoot said Phileas Fogg

Passepartout who had now rejoined his master made a wry grimace
as he thought of his magnificent but too frail Indian shoes
Happily he too had been looking about him and after a moment s hesitation
said Monsieur I think I have found a means of conveyance

What

An elephant  An elephant that belongs to an Indian who lives
but a hundred steps from here

Let s go and see the elephant replied Mr Fogg

They soon reached a small hut near which enclosed within
some high palings was the animal in question  An Indian came
out of the hut and at their request conducted them within
the enclosure  The elephant which its owner had reared not for
a beast of burden but for warlike purposes was half domesticated
The Indian had begun already by often irritating him and feeding
him every three months on sugar and butter to impart to him
a ferocity not in his nature this method being often employed
by those who train the Indian elephants for battle  Happily
however for Mr Fogg the animal s instruction in this direction
had not gone far and the elephant still preserved his natural
gentleness  Kiouni  this was the name of the beast  could
doubtless travel rapidly for a long time and in default of
any other means of conveyance Mr Fogg resolved to hire him
But elephants are far from cheap in India where they are becoming
scarce the males which alone are suitable for circus shows
are much sought especially as but few of them are domesticated
When therefore Mr Fogg proposed to the Indian to hire Kiouni
he refused point blank  Mr Fogg persisted offering the excessive
sum of ten pounds an hour for the loan of the beast to Allahabad
Refused  Twenty pounds  Refused also  Forty pounds  Still refused
Passepartout jumped at each advance but the Indian declined to be tempted
Yet the offer was an alluring one for supposing it took the elephant
fifteen hours to reach Allahabad his owner would receive no less than
six hundred pounds sterling

Phileas Fogg without getting in the least flurried then proposed
to purchase the animal outright and at first offered a thousand pounds
for him  The Indian perhaps thinking he was going to make a great bargain
still refused

Sir Francis Cromarty took Mr Fogg aside and begged him to reflect
before he went any further to which that gentleman replied that
he was not in the habit of acting rashly that a bet of twenty thousand
pounds was at stake that the elephant was absolutely necessary to him
and that he would secure him if he had to pay twenty times his value
Returning to the Indian whose small sharp eyes glistening with avarice
betrayed that with him it was only a question of how great a price
he could obtain  Mr Fogg offered first twelve hundred then fifteen hundred
eighteen hundred two thousand pounds  Passepartout usually so rubicund
was fairly white with suspense

At two thousand pounds the Indian yielded

What a price good heavens cried Passepartout for an elephant

It only remained now to find a guide which was comparatively easy
A young Parsee with an intelligent face offered his services
which Mr Fogg accepted promising so generous a reward as to materially
stimulate his zeal  The elephant was led out and equipped  The Parsee
who was an accomplished elephant driver covered his back with a sort
of saddle cloth and attached to each of his flanks some curiously
uncomfortable howdahs  Phileas Fogg paid the Indian with some banknotes
which he extracted from the famous carpet bag a proceeding that seemed
to deprive poor Passepartout of his vitals  Then he offered to carry
Sir Francis to Allahabad which the brigadier gratefully accepted
as one traveller the more would not be likely to fatigue the
gigantic beast  Provisions were purchased at Kholby and
while Sir Francis and Mr Fogg took the howdahs on either side
Passepartout got astride the saddle cloth between them
The Parsee perched himself on the elephant s neck and at nine o clock
they set out from the village the animal marching off through the
dense forest of palms by the shortest cut




Chapter XII

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND HIS COMPANIONS
VENTURE ACROSS THE INDIAN FORESTS AND WHAT ENSUED


In order to shorten the journey the guide passed to the left of the line
where the railway was still in process of being built  This line
owing to the capricious turnings of the Vindhia Mountains
did not pursue a straight course  The Parsee who was quite familiar
with the roads and paths in the district declared that they would gain
twenty miles by striking directly through the forest

Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty plunged to the neck
in the peculiar howdahs provided for them were horribly jostled
by the swift trotting of the elephant spurred on as he was by
the skilful Parsee but they endured the discomfort with true
British phlegm talking little and scarcely able to catch a glimpse
of each other  As for Passepartout who was mounted on the beast s back
and received the direct force of each concussion as he trod along
he was very careful in accordance with his master s advice
to keep his tongue from between his teeth as it would otherwise
have been bitten off short  The worthy fellow bounced from
the elephant s neck to his rump and vaulted like a clown on a spring board
yet he laughed in the midst of his bouncing and from time to time took
a piece of sugar out of his pocket and inserted it in Kiouni s trunk
who received it without in the least slackening his regular trot

After two hours the guide stopped the elephant and gave him
an hour for rest during which Kiouni after quenching his thirst
at a neighbouring spring set to devouring the branches and shrubs
round about him  Neither Sir Francis nor Mr Fogg regretted
the delay and both descended with a feeling of relief  Why he s
made of iron exclaimed the general gazing admiringly on Kiouni

Of forged iron replied Passepartout as he set about preparing
a hasty breakfast

At noon the Parsee gave the signal of departure  The country
soon presented a very savage aspect  Copses of dates and
dwarf palms succeeded the dense forests then vast dry plains
dotted with scanty shrubs and sown with great blocks of syenite
All this portion of Bundelcund which is little frequented
by travellers is inhabited by a fanatical population
hardened in the most horrible practices of the Hindoo faith
The English have not been able to secure complete dominion over
this territory which is subjected to the influence of rajahs
whom it is almost impossible to reach in their inaccessible
mountain fastnesses The travellers several times saw bands
of ferocious Indians who when they perceived the elephant
striding across country made angry arid threatening motions
The Parsee avoided them as much as possible  Few animals were
observed on the route even the monkeys hurried from their path
with contortions and grimaces which convulsed Passepartout with laughter

In the midst of his gaiety however one thought troubled the worthy servant
What would Mr Fogg do with the elephant when he got to Allahabad
Would he carry him on with him  Impossible  The cost of transporting him
would make him ruinously expensive  Would he sell him or set him free
The estimable beast certainly deserved some consideration  Should Mr Fogg
choose to make him Passepartout a present of Kiouni he would be very much
embarrassed and these thoughts did not cease worrying him for a long time

The principal chain of the Vindhias was crossed by eight in the evening
and another halt was made on the northern slope in a ruined bungalow
They had gone nearly twenty five miles that day and an equal distance
still separated them from the station of Allahabad

The night was cold  The Parsee lit a fire in the bungalow
with a few dry branches and the warmth was very grateful
provisions purchased at Kholby sufficed for supper and the
travellers ate ravenously  The conversation beginning with a few
disconnected phrases soon gave place to loud and steady snores
The guide watched Kiouni who slept standing bolstering himself
against the trunk of a large tree  Nothing occurred during the
night to disturb the slumberers although occasional growls front
panthers and chatterings of monkeys broke the silence the more
formidable beasts made no cries or hostile demonstration against
the occupants of the bungalow  Sir Francis slept heavily like an
honest soldier overcome with fatigue  Passepartout was wrapped in
uneasy dreams of the bouncing of the day before  As for Mr Fogg
he slumbered as peacefully as if he had been in his serene mansion
in Saville Row

The journey was resumed at six in the morning the guide hoped
to reach Allahabad by evening  In that case Mr Fogg would only
lose a part of the forty eight hours saved since the beginning
of the tour  Kiouni resuming his rapid gait soon descended
the lower spurs of the Vindhias and towards noon they passed
by the village of Kallenger on the Cani one of the branches
of the Ganges  The guide avoided inhabited places thinking it safer
to keep the open country which lies along the first depressions
of the basin of the great river  Allahabad was now only twelve miles
to the north east  They stopped under a clump of bananas
the fruit of which as healthy as bread and as succulent as cream
was amply partaken of and appreciated

At two o clock the guide entered a thick forest which extended
several miles he preferred to travel under cover of the woods
They had not as yet had any unpleasant encounters and the journey
seemed on the point of being successfully accomplished when the
elephant becoming restless suddenly stopped

It was then four o clock

What s the matter asked Sir Francis putting out his head

I don t know officer replied the Parsee listening attentively
to a confused murmur which came through the thick branches

The murmur soon became more distinct it now seemed like a distant
concert of human voices accompanied by brass instruments
Passepartout was all eyes and ears  Mr Fogg patiently
waited without a word  The Parsee jumped to the ground
fastened the elephant to a tree and plunged into the thicket
He soon returned saying

A procession of Brahmins is coming this way  We must prevent
their seeing us if possible

The guide unloosed the elephant and led him into a thicket
at the same time asking the travellers not to stir  He held himself
ready to bestride the animal at a moment s notice should flight
become necessary but he evidently thought that the procession
of the faithful would pass without perceiving them amid
the thick foliage in which they were wholly concealed

The discordant tones of the voices and instruments drew nearer
and now droning songs mingled with the sound of the tambourines and cymbals
The head of the procession soon appeared beneath the trees
a hundred paces away and the strange figures who performed the religious
ceremony were easily distinguished through the branches
First came the priests with mitres on their heads
and clothed in long lace robes  They were surrounded by men
women and children who sang a kind of lugubrious psalm
interrupted at regular intervals by the tambourines and cymbals
while behind them was drawn a car with large wheels
the spokes of which represented serpents entwined with each other
Upon the car which was drawn by four richly caparisoned zebus
stood a hideous statue with four arms the body coloured a dull red
with haggard eyes dishevelled hair protruding tongue and lips tinted
with betel  It stood upright upon the figure of a prostrate
and headless giant

Sir Francis recognising the statue whispered The goddess Kali
the goddess of love and death

Of death perhaps muttered back Passepartout but of love  
that ugly old hag  Never

The Parsee made a motion to keep silence

A group of old fakirs were capering and making a wild ado round the statue
these were striped with ochre and covered with cuts whence their blood
issued drop by drop  stupid fanatics who in the great Indian ceremonies
still throw themselves under the wheels of Juggernaut  Some Brahmins
clad in all the sumptuousness of Oriental apparel and leading a woman
who faltered at every step followed  This woman was young and as
fair as a European  Her head and neck shoulders ears arms
hands and toes were loaded down with jewels and gems with bracelets
earrings and rings while a tunic bordered with gold and covered
with a light muslin robe betrayed the outline of her form

The guards who followed the young woman presented a violent contrast
to her armed as they were with naked sabres hung at their waists
and long damascened pistols and bearing a corpse on a palanquin
It was the body of an old man gorgeously arrayed in the habiliments
of a rajah wearing as in life a turban embroidered with pearls
a robe of tissue of silk and gold a scarf of cashmere sewed with diamonds
and the magnificent weapons of a Hindoo prince  Next came the musicians
and a rearguard of capering fakirs whose cries sometimes drowned the noise
of the instruments these closed the procession

Sir Francis watched the procession with a sad countenance and
turning to the guide said A suttee

The Parsee nodded and put his finger to his lips  The procession slowly
wound under the trees and soon its last ranks disappeared in the depths
of the wood  The songs gradually died away occasionally cries were heard
in the distance until at last all was silence again

Phileas Fogg had heard what Sir Francis said and as soon as
the procession had disappeared asked What is a suttee

A suttee returned the general is a human sacrifice but a voluntary one
The woman you have just seen will be burned to morrow at the dawn of day

Oh the scoundrels cried Passepartout who could not repress
his indignation

And the corpse asked Mr Fogg

Is that of the prince her husband said the guide an independent
rajah of Bundelcund

Is it possible resumed Phileas Fogg his voice betraying not
the least emotion that these barbarous customs still exist in India
and that the English have been unable to put a stop to them

These sacrifices do not occur in the larger portion of India
replied Sir Francis but we have no power over these savage territories
and especially here in Bundelcund  The whole district north of the Vindhias
is the theatre of incessant murders and pillage

The poor wretch exclaimed Passepartout to be burned alive

Yes returned Sir Francis burned alive  And if she were not
you cannot conceive what treatment she would be obliged to submit
to from her relatives  They would shave off her hair feed her
on a scanty allowance of rice treat her with contempt
she would be looked upon as an unclean creature and would die
in some corner like a scurvy dog  The prospect of so frightful
an existence drives these poor creatures to the sacrifice
much more than love or religious fanaticism  Sometimes however
the sacrifice is really voluntary and it requires the active
interference of the Government to prevent it  Several years ago
when I was living at Bombay a young widow asked permission
of the governor to be burned along with her husband s body
but as you may imagine he refused  The woman left the town
took refuge with an independent rajah and there carried out
her self devoted purpose

While Sir Francis was speaking the guide shook his head several times
and now said The sacrifice which will take place to morrow at dawn
is not a voluntary one

How do you know

Everybody knows about this affair in Bundelcund

But the wretched creature did not seem to be making any resistance
observed Sir Francis

That was because they had intoxicated her with fumes of hemp and opium

But where are they taking her

To the pagoda of Pillaji two miles from here she will pass the night there

And the sacrifice will take place  

To morrow at the first light of dawn

The guide now led the elephant out of the thicket and leaped upon his neck
Just at the moment that he was about to urge Kiouni forward with a peculiar
whistle Mr Fogg stopped him and turning to Sir Francis Cromarty said
Suppose we save this woman

Save the woman Mr Fogg

I have yet twelve hours to spare I can devote them to that

Why you are a man of heart

Sometimes replied Phileas Fogg quietly when I have the time




Chapter XIII

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF
THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE


The project was a bold one full of difficulty perhaps impracticable
Mr Fogg was going to risk life or at least liberty and therefore
the success of his tour  But he did not hesitate and he found in
Sir Francis Cromarty an enthusiastic ally

As for Passepartout he was ready for anything that might be proposed
His master s idea charmed him he perceived a heart a soul under that
icy exterior  He began to love Phileas Fogg

There remained the guide what course would he adopt  Would he
not take part with the Indians  In default of his assistance
it was necessary to be assured of his neutrality

Sir Francis frankly put the question to him

Officers replied the guide I am a Parsee and this woman is a Parsee
Command me as you will

Excellent said Mr Fogg

However resumed the guide it is certain not only that
we shall risk our lives but horrible tortures if we are taken

That is foreseen replied Mr Fogg  I think we must wait till night
before acting

I think so said the guide

The worthy Indian then gave some account of the victim who
he said was a celebrated beauty of the Parsee race and the
daughter of a wealthy Bombay merchant  She had received a
thoroughly English education in that city and from her manners
and intelligence would be thought an European  Her name was Aouda
Left an orphan she was married against her will to the old rajah
of Bundelcund and knowing the fate that awaited her she escaped
was retaken and devoted by the rajah s relatives who had an interest
in her death to the sacrifice from which it seemed she could not escape

The Parsee s narrative only confirmed Mr Fogg and his companions
in their generous design  It was decided that the guide should direct
the elephant towards the pagoda of Pillaji which he accordingly approached
as quickly as possible  They halted half an hour afterwards in a copse
some five hundred feet from the pagoda where they were well concealed
but they could hear the groans and cries of the fakirs distinctly

They then discussed the means of getting at the victim  The guide
was familiar with the pagoda of Pillaji in which as he declared
the young woman was imprisoned  Could they enter any of its doors
while the whole party of Indians was plunged in a drunken sleep
or was it safer to attempt to make a hole in the walls
This could only be determined at the moment and the place themselves
but it was certain that the abduction must be made that night
and not when at break of day the victim was led to her funeral pyre
Then no human intervention could save her

As soon as night fell about six o clock they decided to make
a reconnaissance around the pagoda  The cries of the fakirs were
just ceasing the Indians were in the act of plunging themselves
into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp
and it might be possible to slip between them to the temple itself

The Parsee leading the others noiselessly crept through the wood
and in ten minutes they found themselves on the banks of a small stream
whence by the light of the rosin torches they perceived a pyre of wood
on the top of which lay the embalmed body of the rajah which was to be
burned with his wife  The pagoda whose minarets loomed above the trees
in the deepening dusk stood a hundred steps away

Come whispered the guide

He slipped more cautiously than ever through the brush
followed by his companions the silence around was only broken
by the low murmuring of the wind among the branches

Soon the Parsee stopped on the borders of the glade which was lit up
by the torches  The ground was covered by groups of the Indians
motionless in their drunken sleep it seemed a battlefield strewn
with the dead  Men women and children lay together

In the background among the trees the pagoda of Pillaji
loomed distinctly  Much to the guide s disappointment
the guards of the rajah lighted by torches were watching
at the doors and marching to and fro with naked sabres
probably the priests too were watching within

The Parsee now convinced that it was impossible to force
an entrance to the temple advanced no farther but led his
companions back again  Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty
also saw that nothing could be attempted in that direction
They stopped and engaged in a whispered colloquy

It is only eight now said the brigadier and these guards
may also go to sleep

It is not impossible returned the Parsee

They lay down at the foot of a tree and waited

The time seemed long the guide ever and anon left them
to take an observation on the edge of the wood but the guards
watched steadily by the glare of the torches and a dim light
crept through the windows of the pagoda

They waited till midnight but no change took place among the guards
and it became apparent that their yielding to sleep could not be counted on
The other plan must be carried out an opening in the walls of the pagoda
must be made  It remained to ascertain whether the priests were watching
by the side of their victim as assiduously as were the soldiers at the door

After a last consultation the guide announced that he was ready
for the attempt and advanced followed by the others  They took
a roundabout way so as to get at the pagoda on the rear
They reached the walls about half past twelve without having met anyone
here there was no guard nor were there either windows or doors

The night was dark  The moon on the wane scarcely left the horizon
and was covered with heavy clouds the height of the trees deepened
the darkness

It was not enough to reach the walls an opening in them must
be accomplished and to attain this purpose the party only had
their pocket knives  Happily the temple walls were built of brick
and wood which could be penetrated with little difficulty
after one brick had been taken out the rest would yield easily

They set noiselessly to work and the Parsee on one side
and Passepartout on the other began to loosen the bricks
so as to make an aperture two feet wide  They were getting on rapidly
when suddenly a cry was heard in the interior of the temple
followed almost instantly by other cries replying from the outside
Passepartout and the guide stopped  Had they been heard  Was the
alarm being given  Common prudence urged them to retire and they
did so followed by Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis  They again hid
themselves in the wood and waited till the disturbance whatever
it might be ceased holding themselves ready to resume their attempt
without delay  But awkwardly enough the guards now appeared
at the rear of the temple and there installed themselves
in readiness to prevent a surprise

It would be difficult to describe the disappointment of the party
thus interrupted in their work  They could not now reach the victim
how then could they save her  Sir Francis shook his fists
Passepartout was beside himself and the guide gnashed his teeth with rage
The tranquil Fogg waited without betraying any emotion

We have nothing to do but to go away whispered Sir Francis

Nothing but to go away echoed the guide

Stop said Fogg  I am only due at Allahabad tomorrow before noon

But what can you hope to do asked Sir Francis  In a few hours
it will be daylight and  

The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment

Sir Francis would have liked to read Phileas Fogg s eyes
What was this cool Englishman thinking of  Was he planning
to make a rush for the young woman at the very moment
of the sacrifice and boldly snatch her from her executioners

This would be utter folly and it was hard to admit that Fogg
was such a fool  Sir Francis consented however to remain
to the end of this terrible drama  The guide led them to the rear
of the glade where they were able to observe the sleeping groups

Meanwhile Passepartout who had perched himself on the lower branches
of a tree was resolving an idea which had at first struck him like a flash
and which was now firmly lodged in his brain

He had commenced by saying to himself What folly and then he repeated
Why not after all  It s a chance perhaps the only one and with such sots
Thinking thus he slipped with the suppleness of a serpent
to the lowest branches the ends of which bent almost to the ground

The hours passed and the lighter shades now announced the
approach of day though it was not yet light  This was the moment
The slumbering multitude became animated the tambourines sounded
songs and cries arose the hour of the sacrifice had come
The doors of the pagoda swung open and a bright light escaped
from its interior in the midst of which Mr Fogg and Sir Francis
espied the victim  She seemed having shaken off the stupor of intoxication
to be striving to escape from her executioner  Sir Francis s heart throbbed
and convulsively seizing Mr Fogg s hand found in it an open knife
Just at this moment the crowd began to move  The young woman had again
fallen into a stupor caused by the fumes of hemp and passed among
the fakirs who escorted her with their wild religious cries

Phileas Fogg and his companions mingling in the rear ranks of the crowd
followed and in two minutes they reached the banks of the stream
and stopped fifty paces from the pyre upon which still lay the rajah s corpse
In the semi obscurity they saw the victim quite senseless stretched out
beside her husband s body Then a torch was brought and the wood
heavily soaked with oil instantly took fire

At this moment Sir Francis and the guide seized Phileas Fogg who
in an instant of mad generosity was about to rush upon the pyre
But he had quickly pushed them aside when the whole scene suddenly changed
A cry of terror arose  The whole multitude prostrated themselves
terror stricken on the ground

The old rajah was not dead then since he rose of a sudden
like a spectre took up his wife in his arms and descended from
the pyre in the midst of the clouds of smoke which only
heightened his ghostly appearance

Fakirs and soldiers and priests seized with instant terror
lay there with their faces on the ground not daring to lift
their eyes and behold such a prodigy

The inanimate victim was borne along by the vigorous arms which
supported her and which she did not seem in the least to burden
Mr Fogg and Sir Francis stood erect the Parsee bowed his head
and Passepartout was no doubt scarcely less stupefied

The resuscitated rajah approached Sir Francis and Mr Fogg
and in an abrupt tone said Let us be off

It was Passepartout himself who had slipped upon the pyre
in the midst of the smoke and profiting by the still
overhanging darkness had delivered the young woman from death
It was Passepartout who playing his part with a happy audacity
had passed through the crowd amid the general terror

A moment after all four of the party had disappeared in the woods
and the elephant was bearing them away at a rapid pace But the cries
and noise and a ball which whizzed through Phileas Fogg s hat
apprised them that the trick had been discovered

The old rajah s body indeed now appeared upon the burning pyre
and the priests recovered from their terror perceived that an abduction
had taken place  They hastened into the forest followed by the soldiers
who fired a volley after the fugitives but the latter rapidly increased
the distance between them and ere long found themselves beyond the reach
of the bullets and arrows




Chapter XIV

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG DESCENDS THE WHOLE LENGTH OF THE BEAUTIFUL
VALLEY OF THE GANGES WITHOUT EVER THINKING OF SEEING IT


The rash exploit had been accomplished and for an hour
Passepartout laughed gaily at his success  Sir Francis pressed
the worthy fellow s hand and his master said Well done which
from him was high commendation to which Passepartout replied
that all the credit of the affair belonged to Mr Fogg  As for him
he had only been struck with a queer idea and he laughed
to think that for a few moments he Passepartout the ex gymnast
ex sergeant fireman had been the spouse of a charming woman
a venerable embalmed rajah  As for the young Indian woman
she had been unconscious throughout of what was passing and now
wrapped up in a travelling blanket was reposing in one of the howdahs

The elephant thanks to the skilful guidance of the Parsee
was advancing rapidly through the still darksome forest and
an hour after leaving the pagoda had crossed a vast plain
They made a halt at seven o clock the young woman being still
in a state of complete prostration  The guide made her drink a little
brandy and water but the drowsiness which stupefied her could not
yet be shaken off  Sir Francis who was familiar with the effects
of the intoxication produced by the fumes of hemp reassured his
companions on her account  But he was more disturbed at the
prospect of her future fate  He told Phileas Fogg that
should Aouda remain in India she would inevitably fall again
into the hands of her executioners  These fanatics were scattered
throughout the county and would despite the English police
recover their victim at Madras Bombay or Calcutta  She would
only be safe by quitting India for ever

Phileas Fogg replied that he would reflect upon the matter

The station at Allahabad was reached about ten o clock and
the interrupted line of railway being resumed would enable them
to reach Calcutta in less than twenty four hours  Phileas Fogg
would thus be able to arrive in time to take the steamer which
left Calcutta the next day October 25th at noon for Hong Kong

The young woman was placed in one of the waiting rooms of the station
whilst Passepartout was charged with purchasing for her various articles
of toilet a dress shawl and some furs for which his master gave him
unlimited credit  Passepartout started off forthwith and found himself
in the streets of Allahabad that is the City of God one of the most
venerated in India being built at the junction of the two sacred rivers
Ganges and Jumna the waters of which attract pilgrims from every part
of the peninsula  The Ganges according to the legends of the Ramayana
rises in heaven whence owing to Brahma s agency it descends to the earth

Passepartout made it a point as he made his purchases to take
a good look at the city  It was formerly defended by a noble fort
which has since become a state prison its commerce has dwindled away
and Passepartout in vain looked about him for such a bazaar as he used
to frequent in Regent Street  At last he came upon an elderly
crusty Jew who sold second hand articles and from whom he purchased
a dress of Scotch stuff a large mantle and a fine otter skin pelisse
for which he did not hesitate to pay seventy five pounds  He then
returned triumphantly to the station

The influence to which the priests of Pillaji had subjected Aouda
began gradually to yield and she became more herself
so that her fine eyes resumed all their soft Indian expression

When the poet king Ucaf Uddaul celebrates the charms
of the queen of Ahmehnagara he speaks thus

Her shining tresses divided in two parts encircle the harmonious
contour of her white and delicate cheeks brilliant in their glow
and freshness  Her ebony brows have the form and charm of the bow of Kama
the god of love and beneath her long silken lashes the purest reflections
and a celestial light swim as in the sacred lakes of Himalaya
in the black pupils of her great clear eyes  Her teeth fine
equal and white glitter between her smiling lips like dewdrops
in a passion flower s half enveloped breast  Her delicately formed ears
her vermilion hands her little feet curved and tender as the lotus bud
glitter with the brilliancy of the loveliest pearls of Ceylon
the most dazzling diamonds of Golconda  Her narrow and supple waist
which a hand may clasp around sets forth the outline of her rounded
figure and the beauty of her bosom where youth in its flower displays
the wealth of its treasures and beneath the silken folds of her tunic
she seems to have been modelled in pure silver by the godlike hand
of Vicvarcarma the immortal sculptor

It is enough to say without applying this poetical rhapsody to Aouda
that she was a charming woman in all the European acceptation of the phrase
She spoke English with great purity and the guide had not exaggerated
in saying that the young Parsee had been transformed by her bringing up

The train was about to start from Allahabad and Mr Fogg
proceeded to pay the guide the price agreed upon for his service
and not a farthing more which astonished Passepartout
who remembered all that his master owed to the guide s devotion
He had indeed risked his life in the adventure at Pillaji and
if he should be caught afterwards by the Indians he would with
difficulty escape their vengeance  Kiouni also must be disposed of
What should be done with the elephant which had been so dearly purchased
Phileas Fogg had already determined this question

Parsee said he to the guide you have been serviceable and devoted
I have paid for your service but not for your devotion  Would you like
to have this elephant  He is yours

The guide s eyes glistened

Your honour is giving me a fortune cried he

Take him guide returned Mr Fogg and I shall still be your debtor

Good exclaimed Passepartout  Take him friend  Kiouni is a brave
and faithful beast  And going up to the elephant he gave him several
lumps of sugar saying Here Kiouni here here

The elephant grunted out his satisfaction and clasping Passepartout
around the waist with his trunk lifted him as high as his head
Passepartout not in the least alarmed caressed the animal
which replaced him gently on the ground

Soon after Phileas Fogg Sir Francis Cromarty and Passepartout
installed in a carriage with Aouda who had the best seat
were whirling at full speed towards Benares  It was a run of eighty miles
and was accomplished in two hours  During the journey the young woman
fully recovered her senses  What was her astonishment to find herself
in this carriage on the railway dressed in European habiliments
and with travellers who were quite strangers to her  Her companions
first set about fully reviving her with a little liquor
and then Sir Francis narrated to her what had passed
dwelling upon the courage with which Phileas Fogg
had not hesitated to risk his life to save her and recounting
the happy sequel of the venture the result of Passepartout s rash idea
Mr Fogg said nothing while Passepartout abashed kept repeating that
it wasn t worth telling

Aouda pathetically thanked her deliverers rather with tears
than words her fine eyes interpreted her gratitude better
than her lips  Then as her thoughts strayed back to the scene
of the sacrifice and recalled the dangers which still menaced her
she shuddered with terror

Phileas Fogg understood what was passing in Aouda s mind and offered
in order to reassure her to escort her to Hong Kong where she might remain
safely until the affair was hushed up  an offer which she eagerly
and gratefully accepted  She had it seems a Parsee relation
who was one of the principal merchants of Hong Kong which is wholly
an English city though on an island on the Chinese coast

At half past twelve the train stopped at Benares  The Brahmin legends
assert that this city is built on the site of the ancient Casi which
like Mahomet s tomb was once suspended between heaven and earth
though the Benares of to day which the Orientalists call the Athens of India
stands quite unpoetically on the solid earth Passepartout caught glimpses
of its brick houses and clay huts giving an aspect of desolation to the place
as the train entered it

Benares was Sir Francis Cromarty s destination the troops he
was rejoining being encamped some miles northward of the city
He bade adieu to Phileas Fogg wishing him all success
and expressing the hope that he would come that way again
in a less original but more profitable fashion  Mr Fogg lightly
pressed him by the hand  The parting of Aouda who did not forget
what she owed to Sir Francis betrayed more warmth and as for
Passepartout he received a hearty shake of the hand from the
gallant general

The railway on leaving Benares passed for a while along the
valley of the Ganges  Through the windows of their carriage
the travellers had glimpses of the diversified landscape of Behar
with its mountains clothed in verdure its fields of barley
wheat and corn its jungles peopled with green alligators
its neat villages and its still thickly leaved forests
Elephants were bathing in the waters of the sacred river
and groups of Indians despite the advanced season and chilly air
were performing solemnly their pious ablutions  These were
fervent Brahmins the bitterest foes of Buddhism their deities
being Vishnu the solar god Shiva the divine impersonation of
natural forces and Brahma the supreme ruler of priests and legislators
What would these divinities think of India anglicised as it is to day
with steamers whistling and scudding along the Ganges frightening the gulls
which float upon its surface the turtles swarming along its banks
and the faithful dwelling upon its borders

The panorama passed before their eyes like a flash save when
the steam concealed it fitfully from the view the travellers
could scarcely discern the fort of Chupenie twenty miles
south westward from Benares the ancient stronghold of the rajahs
of Behar or Ghazipur and its famous rose water factories or the
tomb of Lord Cornwallis rising on the left bank of the Ganges
the fortified town of Buxar or Patna a large manufacturing and
trading place where is held the principal opium market of India
or Monghir a more than European town for it is as English as
Manchester or Birmingham with its iron foundries edgetool factories
and high chimneys puffing clouds of black smoke heavenward

Night came on the train passed on at full speed in the midst
of the roaring of the tigers bears and wolves which fled before
the locomotive and the marvels of Bengal Golconda ruined Gour
Murshedabad the ancient capital Burdwan Hugly and the French
town of Chandernagor where Passepartout would have been proud to see
his country s flag flying were hidden from their view in the darkness

Calcutta was reached at seven in the morning
and the packet left for Hong Kong at noon
so that Phileas Fogg had five hours before him

According to his journal he was due at Calcutta on the 25th
of October and that was the exact date of his actual arrival
He was therefore neither behind hand nor ahead of time
The two days gained between London and Bombay had been lost
as has been seen in the journey across India  But it is not
to be supposed that Phileas Fogg regretted them




Chapter XV

IN WHICH THE BAG OF BANKNOTES DISGORGES
SOME THOUSANDS OF POUNDS MORE


The train entered the station and Passepartout jumping out first
was followed by Mr Fogg who assisted his fair companion to descend
Phileas Fogg intended to proceed at once to the Hong Kong steamer
in order to get Aouda comfortably settled for the voyage
He was unwilling to leave her while they were still on dangerous ground

Just as he was leaving the station a policeman came up to him and said
Mr Phileas Fogg

I am he

Is this man your servant added the policeman pointing to Passepartout

Yes

Be so good both of you as to follow me

Mr Fogg betrayed no surprise whatever  The policeman was a
representative of the law and law is sacred to an Englishman
Passepartout tried to reason about the matter but the policeman
tapped him with his stick and Mr Fogg made him a signal to obey

May this young lady go with us asked he

She may replied the policeman

Mr Fogg Aouda and Passepartout were conducted to a palkigahri
a sort of four wheeled carriage drawn by two horses in which they
took their places and were driven away  No one spoke during
the twenty minutes which elapsed before they reached their destination
They first passed through the black town with its narrow streets
its miserable dirty huts and squalid population then through the
European town which presented a relief in its bright brick mansions
shaded by coconut trees and bristling with masts where although it was
early morning elegantly dressed horsemen and handsome equipages
were passing back and forth

The carriage stopped before a modest looking house which
however did not have the appearance of a private mansion
The policeman having requested his prisoners for so truly
they might be called to descend conducted them into a room
with barred windows and said  You will appear before
Judge Obadiah at half past eight

He then retired and closed the door

Why we are prisoners exclaimed Passepartout falling into a chair

Aouda with an emotion she tried to conceal said to Mr Fogg
Sir you must leave me to my fate  It is on my account that
you receive this treatment it is for having saved me

Phileas Fogg contented himself with saying that it was impossible
It was quite unlikely that he should be arrested for preventing a suttee
The complainants would not dare present themselves with such a charge
There was some mistake  Moreover he would not in any event
abandon Aouda but would escort her to Hong Kong

But the steamer leaves at noon observed Passepartout nervously

We shall be on board by noon replied his master placidly

It was said so positively that Passepartout could not help
muttering to himself Parbleu that s certain  Before noon
we shall be on board  But he was by no means reassured

At half past eight the door opened the policeman appeared and
requesting them to follow him led the way to an adjoining hall
It was evidently a court room and a crowd of Europeans and natives
already occupied the rear of the apartment

Mr Fogg and his two companions took their places on a
bench opposite the desks of the magistrate and his clerk
Immediately after Judge Obadiah a fat round man followed by
the clerk entered  He proceeded to take down a wig which was
hanging on a nail and put it hurriedly on his head

The first case said he  Then putting his hand to his
head he exclaimed Heh  This is not my wig

No your worship returned the clerk it is mine

My dear Mr Oysterpuff how can a judge give a wise sentence
in a clerk s wig

The wigs were exchanged

Passepartout was getting nervous for the hands on the face of the big clock
over the judge seemed to go around with terrible rapidity

The first case repeated Judge Obadiah

Phileas Fogg demanded Oysterpuff

I am here replied Mr Fogg

Passepartout

Present responded Passepartout

Good said the judge  You have been looked for prisoners
for two days on the trains from Bombay

But of what are we accused asked Passepartout impatiently

You are about to be informed

I am an English subject sir said Mr Fogg and I have the right  

Have you been ill treated

Not at all

Very well let the complainants come in

A door was swung open by order of the judge and three Indian priests entered

That s it muttered Passepartout these are the rogues
who were going to burn our young lady

The priests took their places in front of the judge and the clerk
proceeded to read in a loud voice a complaint of sacrilege against
Phileas Fogg and his servant who were accused of having violated
a place held consecrated by the Brahmin religion

You hear the charge asked the judge

Yes sir replied Mr Fogg consulting his watch and I admit it

You admit it

I admit it and I wish to hear these priests admit in their turn
what they were going to do at the pagoda of Pillaji

The priests looked at each other they did not seem to understand
what was said

Yes cried Passepartout warmly at the pagoda of Pillaji
where they were on the point of burning their victim

The judge stared with astonishment and the priests were stupefied

What victim said Judge Obadiah  Burn whom  In Bombay itself

Bombay cried Passepartout

Certainly  We are not talking of the pagoda of Pillaji but of the pagoda
of Malabar Hill at Bombay

And as a proof added the clerk here are the desecrator s very shoes
which he left behind him

Whereupon he placed a pair of shoes on his desk

My shoes cried Passepartout in his surprise permitting
this imprudent exclamation to escape him

The confusion of master and man who had quite forgotten the
affair at Bombay for which they were now detained at Calcutta
may be imagined

Fix the detective had foreseen the advantage which Passepartout s
escapade gave him and delaying his departure for twelve hours
had consulted the priests of Malabar Hill  Knowing that the English
authorities dealt very severely with this kind of misdemeanour
he promised them a goodly sum in damages and sent them forward
to Calcutta by the next train  Owing to the delay caused by the rescue
of the young widow Fix and the priests reached the Indian capital before
Mr Fogg and his servant the magistrates having been already warned
by a dispatch to arrest them should they arrive  Fix s disappointment
when he learned that Phileas Fogg had not made his appearance in Calcutta
may be imagined  He made up his mind that the robber had stopped
somewhere on the route and taken refuge in the southern provinces
For twenty four hours Fix watched the station with feverish anxiety
at last he was rewarded by seeing Mr Fogg and Passepartout arrive
accompanied by a young woman whose presence he was wholly at a loss
to explain  He hastened for a policeman and this was how the party came
to be arrested and brought before Judge Obadiah

Had Passepartout been a little less preoccupied he would have
espied the detective ensconced in a corner of the court room
watching the proceedings with an interest easily understood
for the warrant had failed to reach him at Calcutta
as it had done at Bombay and Suez

Judge Obadiah had unfortunately caught Passepartout s rash exclamation
which the poor fellow would have given the world to recall

The facts are admitted asked the judge

Admitted replied Mr Fogg coldly

Inasmuch resumed the judge as the English law protects equally
and sternly the religions of the Indian people and as the man
Passepartout has admitted that he violated the sacred pagoda of Malabar Hill
at Bombay on the 20th of October I condemn the said Passepartout
to imprisonment for fifteen days and a fine of three hundred pounds

Three hundred pounds cried Passepartout startled at the largeness
of the sum

Silence shouted the constable

And inasmuch continued the judge as it is not proved that
the act was not done by the connivance of the master with the servant
and as the master in any case must be held responsible for the acts
of his paid servant I condemn Phileas Fogg to a week s imprisonment
and a fine of one hundred and fifty pounds

Fix rubbed his hands softly with satisfaction if Phileas Fogg
could be detained in Calcutta a week it would be more than time
for the warrant to arrive  Passepartout was stupefied  This sentence
ruined his master  A wager of twenty thousand pounds lost because he
like a precious fool had gone into that abominable pagoda

Phileas Fogg as self composed as if the judgment did not
in the least concern him did not even lift his eyebrows while
it was being pronounced  Just as the clerk was calling the next case
he rose and said I offer bail

You have that right returned the judge

Fix s blood ran cold but he resumed his composure when he heard
the judge announce that the bail required for each prisoner
would be one thousand pounds

I will pay it at once said Mr Fogg taking a roll of bank bills
from the carpet bag which Passepartout had by him and placing them
on the clerk s desk

This sum will be restored to you upon your release from prison
said the judge  Meanwhile you are liberated on bail

Come said Phileas Fogg to his servant

But let them at least give me back my shoes cried Passepartout angrily

Ah these are pretty dear shoes he muttered as they were handed to him
More than a thousand pounds apiece besides they pinch my feet

Mr Fogg offering his arm to Aouda then departed followed
by the crestfallen Passepartout  Fix still nourished hopes
that the robber would not after all leave the two thousand pounds
behind him but would decide to serve out his week in jail
and issued forth on Mr Fogg s traces  That gentleman took a carriage
and the party were soon landed on one of the quays

The Rangoon was moored half a mile off in the harbour its signal
of departure hoisted at the mast head  Eleven o clock was striking
Mr Fogg was an hour in advance of time  Fix saw them leave the carriage and
push off in a boat for the steamer and stamped his feet with disappointment

The rascal is off after all he exclaimed  Two thousand pounds sacrificed
He s as prodigal as a thief  I ll follow him to the end of the world
if necessary but at the rate he is going on the stolen money will
soon be exhausted

The detective was not far wrong in making this conjecture
Since leaving London what with travelling expenses bribes
the purchase of the elephant bails and fines Mr Fogg
had already spent more than five thousand pounds on the way
and the percentage of the sum recovered from the bank robber
promised to the detectives was rapidly diminishing




Chapter XVI

IN WHICH FIX DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND
IN THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO HIM


The Rangoon  one of the Peninsular and Oriental Company s boats
plying in the Chinese and Japanese seas  was a screw steamer
built of iron weighing about seventeen hundred and seventy tons
and with engines of four hundred horse power  She was as fast
but not as well fitted up as the Mongolia and Aouda was not as
comfortably provided for on board of her as Phileas Fogg could have wished
However the trip from Calcutta to Hong Kong only comprised some
three thousand five hundred miles occupying from ten to twelve days
and the young woman was not difficult to please

During the first days of the journey Aouda became better acquainted
with her protector and constantly gave evidence of her deep gratitude
for what he had done  The phlegmatic gentleman listened to her
apparently at least with coldness neither his voice nor his manner
betraying the slightest emotion but he seemed to be always on the watch
that nothing should be wanting to Aouda s comfort  He visited her
regularly each day at certain hours not so much to talk himself
as to sit and hear her talk  He treated her with the strictest politeness
but with the precision of an automaton the movements of which had been
arranged for this purpose  Aouda did not quite know what to make of him
though Passepartout had given her some hints of his master s eccentricity
and made her smile by telling her of the wager which was sending him
round the world  After all she owed Phileas Fogg her life and she
always regarded him through the exalting medium of her gratitude

Aouda confirmed the Parsee guide s narrative of her touching history
She did indeed belong to the highest of the native races of India
Many of the Parsee merchants have made great fortunes there by dealing
in cotton and one of them Sir Jametsee Jeejeebhoy was made a baronet
by the English government  Aouda was a relative of this great man
and it was his cousin Jeejeeh whom she hoped to join at Hong Kong
Whether she would find a protector in him she could not tell
but Mr Fogg essayed to calm her anxieties and to assure her that
everything would be mathematically  he used the very word  arranged
Aouda fastened her great eyes clear as thee sacred lakes of the Himalaya
upon him but the intractable Fogg as reserved as ever did not seem
at all inclined to throw himself into this lake

The first few days of the voyage passed prosperously amid favourable
weather and propitious winds and they soon came in sight of
the great Andaman the principal of the islands in the Bay of Bengal
with its picturesque Saddle Peak two thousand four hundred feet high
looming above the waters  The steamer passed along near the shores
but the savage Papuans who are in the lowest scale of humanity
but are not as has been asserted cannibals did not make their appearance

The panorama of the islands as they steamed by them was superb
Vast forests of palms arecs bamboo teakwood of the gigantic mimosa
and tree like ferns covered the foreground while behind the graceful outlines
of the mountains were traced against the sky and along the coasts swarmed
by thousands the precious swallows whose nests furnish a luxurious dish
to the tables of the Celestial Empire  The varied landscape afforded by
the Andaman Islands was soon passed however and the Rangoon rapidly
approached the Straits of Malacca which gave access to the China seas

What was detective Fix so unluckily drawn on from country to country
doing all this while  He had managed to embark on the Rangoon at Calcutta
without being seen by Passepartout after leaving orders that
if the warrant should arrive it should be forwarded to him at Hong Kong
and he hoped to conceal his presence to the end of the voyage
It would have been difficult to explain why he was on board
without awakening Passepartout s suspicions who thought him still at Bombay
But necessity impelled him nevertheless to renew his acquaintance
with the worthy servant as will be seen

All the detective s hopes and wishes were now centred on Hong Kong
for the steamer s stay at Singapore would be too brief to enable
him to take any steps there  The arrest must be made at Hong Kong
or the robber would probably escape him for ever  Hong Kong was
the last English ground on which he would set foot beyond China
Japan America offered to Fogg an almost certain refuge
If the warrant should at last make its appearance at Hong Kong
Fix could arrest him and give him into the hands of the local police
and there would be no further trouble  But beyond Hong Kong
a simple warrant would be of no avail an extradition warrant
would be necessary and that would result in delays and obstacles
of which the rascal would take advantage to elude justice

Fix thought over these probabilities during the long hours
which he spent in his cabin and kept repeating to himself
Now either the warrant will be at Hong Kong in which case
I shall arrest my man or it will not be there and this time
it is absolutely necessary that I should delay his departure
I have failed at Bombay and I have failed at Calcutta if I fail
at Hong Kong my reputation is lost  Cost what it may I must succeed
But how shall I prevent his departure if that should turn out to be
my last resource

Fix made up his mind that if worst came to worst he would make
a confidant of Passepartout and tell him what kind of a fellow
his master really was  That Passepartout was not Fogg s accomplice
he was very certain  The servant enlightened by his disclosure
and afraid of being himself implicated in the crime would doubtless
become an ally of the detective  But this method was a dangerous one
only to be employed when everything else had failed  A word from
Passepartout to his master would ruin all  The detective was therefore
in a sore strait  But suddenly a new idea struck him  The presence
of Aouda on the Rangoon in company with Phileas Fogg gave him
new material for reflection

Who was this woman  What combination of events had made her Fogg s
travelling companion  They had evidently met somewhere between Bombay
and Calcutta but where  Had they met accidentally or had Fogg gone
into the interior purposely in quest of this charming damsel
Fix was fairly puzzled  He asked himself whether there had not
been a wicked elopement and this idea so impressed itself
upon his mind that he determined to make use of the supposed intrigue
Whether the young woman were married or not he would be able to create
such difficulties for Mr Fogg at Hong Kong that he could not escape
by paying any amount of money

But could he even wait till they reached Hong Kong  Fogg had an
abominable way of jumping from one boat to another and before anything
could be effected might get full under way again for Yokohama

Fix decided that he must warn the English authorities and signal
the Rangoon before her arrival  This was easy to do since the steamer
stopped at Singapore whence there is a telegraphic wire to Hong Kong
He finally resolved moreover before acting more positively
to question Passepartout  It would not be difficult to make him talk
and as there was no time to lose Fix prepared to make himself known

It was now the 30th of October and on the following day the Rangoon
was due at Singapore

Fix emerged from his cabin and went on deck  Passepartout was
promenading up and down in the forward part of the steamer
The detective rushed forward with every appearance of extreme
surprise and exclaimed You here on the Rangoon

What Monsieur Fix are you on board returned the really
astonished Passepartout recognising his crony of the Mongolia
Why I left you at Bombay and here you are on the way to Hong Kong
Are you going round the world too

No no replied Fix I shall stop at Hong Kong  at least for some days

Hum said Passepartout who seemed for an instant perplexed
But how is it I have not seen you on board since we left Calcutta

Oh a trifle of sea sickness  I ve been staying in my berth
The Gulf of Bengal does not agree with me as well as the Indian Ocean
And how is Mr Fogg

As well and as punctual as ever not a day behind time
But Monsieur Fix you don t know that we have a young lady with us

A young lady replied the detective not seeming to comprehend
what was said

Passepartout thereupon recounted Aouda s history the affair
at the Bombay pagoda the purchase of the elephant for
two thousand pounds the rescue the arrest and sentence
of the Calcutta court and the restoration of Mr Fogg
and himself to liberty on bail  Fix who was familiar
with the last events seemed to be equally ignorant of all
that Passepartout related and the later was charmed
to find so interested a listener

But does your master propose to carry this young woman to Europe

Not at all  We are simply going to place her under the protection
of one of her relatives a rich merchant at Hong Kong

Nothing to be done there said Fix to himself concealing his disappointment
A glass of gin Mr Passepartout

Willingly Monsieur Fix  We must at least have a friendly glass
on board the Rangoon




Chapter XVII

SHOWING WHAT HAPPENED ON THE VOYAGE FROM SINGAPORE TO HONG KONG


The detective and Passepartout met often on deck after this interview
though Fix was reserved and did not attempt to induce his companion
to divulge any more facts concerning Mr Fogg  He caught a glimpse
of that mysterious gentleman once or twice but Mr Fogg usually confined
himself to the cabin where he kept Aouda company or according to his
inveterate habit took a hand at whist

Passepartout began very seriously to conjecture what strange
chance kept Fix still on the route that his master was pursuing
It was really worth considering why this certainly very amiable
and complacent person whom he had first met at Suez had then
encountered on board the Mongolia who disembarked at Bombay
which he announced as his destination and now turned up so
unexpectedly on the Rangoon was following Mr Fogg s tracks step
by step  What was Fix s object  Passepartout was ready to wager his
Indian shoes  which he religiously preserved  that Fix would also leave
Hong Kong at the same time with them and probably on the same steamer

Passepartout might have cudgelled his brain for a century without
hitting upon the real object which the detective had in view
He never could have imagined that Phileas Fogg was being tracked
as a robber around the globe  But as it is in human nature to attempt
the solution of every mystery Passepartout suddenly discovered
an explanation of Fix s movements which was in truth far from unreasonable
Fix he thought could only be an agent of Mr Fogg s friends
at the Reform Club sent to follow him up and to ascertain
that he really went round the world as had been agreed upon

It s clear repeated the worthy servant to himself proud of his shrewdness
He s a spy sent to keep us in view  That isn t quite the thing either
to be spying Mr Fogg who is so honourable a man  Ah gentlemen of the Reform
this shall cost you dear

Passepartout enchanted with his discovery resolved to say
nothing to his master lest he should be justly offended at this
mistrust on the part of his adversaries  But he determined
to chaff Fix when he had the chance with mysterious allusions
which however need not betray his real suspicions

During the afternoon of Wednesday 30th October the Rangoon
entered the Strait of Malacca which separates the peninsula
of that name from Sumatra  The mountainous and craggy islets
intercepted the beauties of this noble island from the view
of the travellers  The Rangoon weighed anchor at Singapore the next day
at four am to receive coal having gained half a day on the prescribed
time of her arrival  Phileas Fogg noted this gain in his journal and then
accompanied by Aouda who betrayed a desire for a walk on shore disembarked

Fix who suspected Mr Fogg s every movement followed them cautiously
without being himself perceived while Passepartout laughing in his sleeve
at Fix s manoeuvres went about his usual errands

The island of Singapore is not imposing in aspect for there are
no mountains yet its appearance is not without attractions
It is a park checkered by pleasant highways and avenues
A handsome carriage drawn by a sleek pair of New Holland horses
carried Phileas Fogg and Aouda into the midst of rows of palms
with brilliant foliage and of clove trees whereof the cloves
form the heart of a half open flower  Pepper plants replaced
the prickly hedges of European fields sago bushes large ferns
with gorgeous branches varied the aspect of this tropical clime
while nutmeg trees in full foliage filled the air with a penetrating perfume
Agile and grinning bands of monkeys skipped about in the trees nor were tigers
wanting in the jungles

After a drive of two hours through the country Aouda and Mr Fogg
returned to the town which is a vast collection of heavy looking
irregular houses surrounded by charming gardens rich in tropical fruits
and plants and at ten o clock they re embarked closely followed by
the detective who had kept them constantly in sight

Passepartout who had been purchasing several dozen mangoes  
a fruit as large as good sized apples of a dark brown colour
outside and a bright red within and whose white pulp melting in
the mouth affords gourmands a delicious sensation  was waiting
for them on deck  He was only too glad to offer some mangoes
to Aouda who thanked him very gracefully for them

At eleven o clock the Rangoon rode out of Singapore harbour
and in a few hours the high mountains of Malacca with their forests
inhabited by the most beautifully furred tigers in the world
were lost to view  Singapore is distant some thirteen hundred miles
from the island of Hong Kong which is a little English colony
near the Chinese coast  Phileas Fogg hoped to accomplish the journey
in six days so as to be in time for the steamer which would leave
on the 6th of November for Yokohama the principal Japanese port

The Rangoon had a large quota of passengers many of whom disembarked
at Singapore among them a number of Indians Ceylonese Chinamen
Malays and Portuguese mostly second class travellers

The weather which had hitherto been fine changed with the
last quarter of the moon  The sea rolled heavily and the wind
at intervals rose almost to a storm but happily blew from
the south west and thus aided the steamer s progress
The captain as often as possible put up his sails
and under the double action of steam and sail the vessel made
rapid progress along the coasts of Anam and Cochin China
Owing to the defective construction of the Rangoon however
unusual precautions became necessary in unfavourable weather
but the loss of time which resulted from this cause while it
nearly drove Passepartout out of his senses did not seem
to affect his master in the least  Passepartout blamed the captain
the engineer and the crew and consigned all who were connected
with the ship to the land where the pepper grows  Perhaps the thought
of the gas which was remorselessly burning at his expense in Saville Row
had something to do with his hot impatience

You are in a great hurry then said Fix to him one day to reach Hong Kong

A very great hurry

Mr Fogg I suppose is anxious to catch the steamer for Yokohama

Terribly anxious

You believe in this journey around the world then

Absolutely  Don t you Mr Fix

I  I don t believe a word of it

You re a sly dog said Passepartout winking at him

This expression rather disturbed Fix without his knowing why
Had the Frenchman guessed his real purpose  He knew not what
to think  But how could Passepartout have discovered that he
was a detective  Yet in speaking as he did the man evidently
meant more than he expressed

Passepartout went still further the next day he could not hold his tongue

Mr Fix said he in a bantering tone shall we be so unfortunate
as to lose you when we get to Hong Kong

Why responded Fix a little embarrassed I don t know perhaps  

Ah if you would only go on with us  An agent of the Peninsular Company
you know can t stop on the way  You were only going to Bombay
and here you are in China  America is not far off and from America
to Europe is only a step

Fix looked intently at his companion whose countenance was
as serene as possible and laughed with him  But Passepartout
persisted in chaffing him by asking him if he made much by his
present occupation

Yes and no returned Fix there is good and bad luck in such things
But you must understand that I don t travel at my own expense

Oh I am quite sure of that cried Passepartout laughing heartily

Fix fairly puzzled descended to his cabin and gave himself
up to his reflections  He was evidently suspected somehow
or other the Frenchman had found out that he was a detective
But had he told his master  What part was he playing in all this
was he an accomplice or not  Was the game then up  Fix spent
several hours turning these things over in his mind sometimes
thinking that all was lost then persuading himself that Fogg
was ignorant of his presence and then undecided what course
it was best to take

Nevertheless he preserved his coolness of mind and at last
resolved to deal plainly with Passepartout  If he did not find it
practicable to arrest Fogg at Hong Kong and if Fogg made preparations
to leave that last foothold of English territory he Fix would tell
Passepartout all  Either the servant was the accomplice of his master
and in this case the master knew of his operations and he should fail
or else the servant knew nothing about the robbery and then his interest
would be to abandon the robber

Such was the situation between Fix and Passepartout  Meanwhile Phileas Fogg
moved about above them in the most majestic and unconscious indifference
He was passing methodically in his orbit around the world regardless of
the lesser stars which gravitated around him  Yet there was near by what
the astronomers would call a disturbing star which might have produced
an agitation in this gentleman s heart  But no the charms of Aouda
failed to act to Passepartout s great surprise and the disturbances
if they existed would have been more difficult to calculate than those
of Uranus which led to the discovery of Neptune

It was every day an increasing wonder to Passepartout who read
in Aouda s eyes the depths of her gratitude to his master
Phileas Fogg though brave and gallant must be he thought
quite heartless  As to the sentiment which this journey might
have awakened in him there was clearly no trace of such a thing
while poor Passepartout existed in perpetual reveries

One day he was leaning on the railing of the engine room
and was observing the engine when a sudden pitch of the steamer
threw the screw out of the water  The steam came hissing out
of the valves and this made Passepartout indignant

The valves are not sufficiently charged he exclaimed  We are
not going  Oh these English  If this was an American craft
we should blow up perhaps but we should at all events go faster




Chapter XVIII

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG PASSEPARTOUT AND FIX GO EACH ABOUT HIS BUSINESS


The weather was bad during the latter days of the voyage
The wind obstinately remaining in the north west blew a gale
and retarded the steamer  The Rangoon rolled heavily and the
passengers became impatient of the long monstrous waves which
the wind raised before their path  A sort of tempest arose on
the 3rd of November the squall knocking the vessel about with fury
and the waves running high  The Rangoon reefed all her sails and even
the rigging proved too much whistling and shaking amid the squall
The steamer was forced to proceed slowly and the captain estimated
that she would reach Hong Kong twenty hours behind time and more
if the storm lasted

Phileas Fogg gazed at the tempestuous sea which seemed to be struggling
especially to delay him with his habitual tranquillity  He never changed
countenance for an instant though a delay of twenty hours by making him
too late for the Yokohama boat would almost inevitably cause the loss
of the wager  But this man of nerve manifested neither impatience
nor annoyance it seemed as if the storm were a part of his programme
and had been foreseen  Aouda was amazed to find him as calm as he had been
from the first time she saw him

Fix did not look at the state of things in the same light
The storm greatly pleased him  His satisfaction would have
been complete had the Rangoon been forced to retreat before
the violence of wind and waves  Each delay filled him with hope
for it became more and more probable that Fogg would be obliged
to remain some days at Hong Kong and now the heavens themselves
became his allies with the gusts and squalls  It mattered not
that they made him sea sick  he made no account of this inconvenience
and whilst his body was writhing under their effects his spirit bounded
with hopeful exultation

Passepartout was enraged beyond expression by the unpropitious weather
Everything had gone so well till now  Earth and sea had seemed to be
at his master s service steamers and railways obeyed him wind and steam
united to speed his journey  Had the hour of adversity come
Passepartout was as much excited as if the twenty thousand pounds
were to come from his own pocket  The storm exasperated him
the gale made him furious and he longed to lash the obstinate sea
into obedience  Poor fellow  Fix carefully concealed from him
his own satisfaction for had he betrayed it Passepartout could
scarcely have restrained himself from personal violence

Passepartout remained on deck as long as the tempest lasted
being unable to remain quiet below and taking it into his head
to aid the progress of the ship by lending a hand with the crew
He overwhelmed the captain officers and sailors who could not
help laughing at his impatience with all sorts of questions
He wanted to know exactly how long the storm was going to last
whereupon he was referred to the barometer which seemed to have
no intention of rising  Passepartout shook it but with no
perceptible effect for neither shaking nor maledictions
could prevail upon it to change its mind

On the 4th however the sea became more calm and the storm
lessened its violence the wind veered southward and was once
more favourable  Passepartout cleared up with the weather
Some of the sails were unfurled and the Rangoon resumed its
most rapid speed  The time lost could not however be regained
Land was not signalled until five o clock on the morning of the 6th
the steamer was due on the 5th  Phileas Fogg was twenty four hours
behind hand and the Yokohama steamer would of course be missed

The pilot went on board at six and took his place on the bridge
to guide the Rangoon through the channels to the port of Hong Kong
Passepartout longed to ask him if the steamer had left for Yokohama
but he dared not for he wished to preserve the spark of hope
which still remained till the last moment  He had confided
his anxiety to Fix who  the sly rascal  tried to console him
by saying that Mr Fogg would be in time if he took the next boat
but this only put Passepartout in a passion

Mr Fogg bolder than his servant did not hesitate to approach the pilot
and tranquilly ask him if he knew when a steamer would leave Hong Kong
for Yokohama

At high tide to morrow morning answered the pilot

Ah said Mr Fogg without betraying any astonishment

Passepartout who heard what passed would willingly have embraced the pilot
while Fix would have been glad to twist his neck

What is the steamer s name asked Mr Fogg

The Carnatic

Ought she not to have gone yesterday

Yes sir but they had to repair one of her boilers
and so her departure was postponed till to morrow

Thank you returned Mr Fogg descending mathematically to the saloon

Passepartout clasped the pilot s hand and shook it heartily in his delight
exclaiming Pilot you are the best of good fellows

The pilot probably does not know to this day why his responses
won him this enthusiastic greeting  He remounted the bridge
and guided the steamer through the flotilla of junks
tankas and fishing boats which crowd the harbour of Hong Kong

At one o clock the Rangoon was at the quay and the passengers
were going ashore

Chance had strangely favoured Phileas Fogg for had not the
Carnatic been forced to lie over for repairing her boilers
she would have left on the 6th of November and the passengers
for Japan would have been obliged to await for a week the sailing
of the next steamer  Mr Fogg was it is true twenty four hours
behind his time but this could not seriously imperil the
remainder of his tour

The steamer which crossed the Pacific from Yokohama to San Francisco
made a direct connection with that from Hong Kong and it could not sail
until the latter reached Yokohama and if Mr Fogg was twenty four hours
late on reaching Yokohama this time would no doubt be easily regained
in the voyage of twenty two days across the Pacific  He found himself
then about twenty four hours behind hand thirty five days
after leaving London

The Carnatic was announced to leave Hong Kong at five the next morning
Mr Fogg had sixteen hours in which to attend to his business there
which was to deposit Aouda safely with her wealthy relative

On landing he conducted her to a palanquin in which they
repaired to the Club Hotel  A room was engaged for the young woman
and Mr Fogg after seeing that she wanted for nothing set out in search
of her cousin Jeejeeh  He instructed Passepartout to remain at the hotel
until his return that Aouda might not be left entirely alone

Mr Fogg repaired to the Exchange where he did not doubt
every one would know so wealthy and considerable a personage
as the Parsee merchant  Meeting a broker he made the inquiry
to learn that Jeejeeh had left China two years before and retiring
from business with an immense fortune had taken up his residence
in Europe  in Holland the broker thought with the merchants
of which country he had principally traded  Phileas Fogg returned
to the hotel begged a moment s conversation with Aouda and without
more ado apprised her that Jeejeeh was no longer at Hong Kong
but probably in Holland

Aouda at first said nothing  She passed her hand across her forehead
and reflected a few moments  Then in her sweet soft voice she said
What ought I to do Mr Fogg

It is very simple responded the gentleman  Go on to Europe

But I cannot intrude  

You do not intrude nor do you in the least embarrass my project
Passepartout

Monsieur

Go to the Carnatic and engage three cabins

Passepartout delighted that the young woman who was very gracious to him
was going to continue the journey with them went off at a brisk gait
to obey his master s order




Chapter XIX

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TAKES A TOO GREAT INTEREST IN HIS MASTER
AND WHAT COMES OF IT

Hong Kong is an island which came into the possession of the
English by the Treaty of Nankin after the war of 1842
and the colonising genius of the English has created upon it
an important city and an excellent port  The island is situated
at the mouth of the Canton River and is separated by about sixty miles
from the Portuguese town of Macao on the opposite coast  Hong Kong
has beaten Macao in the struggle for the Chinese trade and now
the greater part of the transportation of Chinese goods finds
its depot at the former place  Docks hospitals wharves
a Gothic cathedral a government house macadamised streets
give to Hong Kong the appearance of a town in Kent or Surrey
transferred by some strange magic to the antipodes

Passepartout wandered with his hands in his pockets towards the
Victoria port gazing as he went at the curious palanquins
and other modes of conveyance and the groups of Chinese Japanese
and Europeans who passed to and fro in the streets  Hong Kong seemed
to him not unlike Bombay Calcutta and Singapore since like them
it betrayed everywhere the evidence of English supremacy
At the Victoria port he found a confused mass of ships of all nations
English French American and Dutch men of war and trading vessels
Japanese and Chinese junks sempas tankas and flower boats
which formed so many floating parterres  Passepartout noticed
in the crowd a number of the natives who seemed very old
and were dressed in yellow  On going into a barber s
to get shaved he learned that these ancient men were all
at least eighty years old at which age they are permitted
to wear yellow which is the Imperial colour  Passepartout
without exactly knowing why thought this very funny

On reaching the quay where they were to embark on the Carnatic
he was not astonished to find Fix walking up and down
The detective seemed very much disturbed and disappointed

This is bad muttered Passepartout for the gentlemen of
the Reform Club  He accosted Fix with a merry smile as if he
had not perceived that gentleman s chagrin  The detective had indeed
good reasons to inveigh against the bad luck which pursued him
The warrant had not come  It was certainly on the way
but as certainly it could not now reach Hong Kong for several days
and this being the last English territory on Mr Fogg s route
the robber would escape unless he could manage to detain him

Well Monsieur Fix said Passepartout have you decided to go with us
so far as America

Yes returned Fix through his set teeth

Good exclaimed Passepartout laughing heartily
I knew you could not persuade yourself to separate from us
Come and engage your berth

They entered the steamer office and secured cabins for four persons
The clerk as he gave them the tickets informed them that
the repairs on the Carnatic having been completed the steamer
would leave that very evening and not next morning as had been announced

That will suit my master all the better said Passepartout
I will go and let him know

Fix now decided to make a bold move he resolved to tell Passepartout all
It seemed to be the only possible means of keeping Phileas Fogg several days
longer at Hong Kong  He accordingly invited his companion into a tavern
which caught his eye on the quay  On entering they found themselves
in a large room handsomely decorated at the end of which was a large
camp bed furnished with cushions  Several persons lay upon this bed
in a deep sleep  At the small tables which were arranged about the room
some thirty customers were drinking English beer porter gin and brandy
smoking the while long red clay pipes stuffed with little balls of opium
mingled with essence of rose  From time to time one of the smokers
overcome with the narcotic would slip under the table whereupon the waiters
taking him by the head and feet carried and laid him upon the bed
The bed already supported twenty of these stupefied sots

Fix and Passepartout saw that they were in a smoking house haunted
by those wretched cadaverous idiotic creatures to whom the English
merchants sell every year the miserable drug called opium
to the amount of one million four hundred thousand pounds  
thousands devoted to one of the most despicable vices
which afflict humanity  The Chinese government has in vain
attempted to deal with the evil by stringent laws  It passed
gradually from the rich to whom it was at first exclusively reserved
to the lower classes and then its ravages could not be arrested
Opium is smoked everywhere at all times by men and women
in the Celestial Empire and once accustomed to it the victims
cannot dispense with it except by suffering horrible bodily contortions
and agonies  A great smoker can smoke as many as eight pipes a day
but he dies in five years  It was in one of these dens that Fix
and Passepartout in search of a friendly glass found themselves
Passepartout had no money but willingly accepted Fix s invitation
in the hope of returning the obligation at some future time

They ordered two bottles of port to which the Frenchman did ample justice
whilst Fix observed him with close attention  They chatted about the journey
and Passepartout was especially merry at the idea that Fix was going to
continue it with them  When the bottles were empty however
he rose to go and tell his master of the change in the time
of the sailing of the Carnatic

Fix caught him by the arm and said Wait a moment

What for Mr Fix

I want to have a serious talk with you

A serious talk cried Passepartout drinking up the little wine
that was left in the bottom of his glass  Well we ll talk
about it to morrow I haven t time now

Stay  What I have to say concerns your master

Passepartout at this looked attentively at his companion
Fix s face seemed to have a singular expression  He resumed his seat

What is it that you have to say

Fix placed his hand upon Passepartout s arm and
lowering his voice said You have guessed who I am

Parbleu said Passepartout smiling

Then I m going to tell you everything  

Now that I know everything my friend  Ah that s very good
But go on go on  First though let me tell you that those
gentlemen have put themselves to a useless expense

Useless said Fix  You speak confidently  It s clear that
you don t know how large the sum is

Of course I do returned Passepartout  Twenty thousand pounds

Fifty five thousand answered Fix pressing his companion s hand

What cried the Frenchman  Has Monsieur Fogg dared  
fifty five thousand pounds  Well there s all the more reason
for not losing an instant he continued getting up hastily

Fix pushed Passepartout back in his chair and resumed
Fifty five thousand pounds and if I succeed I get two thousand pounds
If you ll help me I ll let you have five hundred of them

Help you cried Passepartout whose eyes were standing wide open

Yes help me keep Mr Fogg here for two or three days

Why what are you saying  Those gentlemen are not satisfied
with following my master and suspecting his honour but they must
try to put obstacles in his way  I blush for them

What do you mean

I mean that it is a piece of shameful trickery  They might
as well waylay Mr Fogg and put his money in their pockets

That s just what we count on doing

It s a conspiracy then cried Passepartout who became more
and more excited as the liquor mounted in his head for he drank
without perceiving it  A real conspiracy  And gentlemen too Bah

Fix began to be puzzled

Members of the Reform Club continued Passepartout  You must know
Monsieur Fix that my master is an honest man and that
when he makes a wager he tries to win it fairly

But who do you think I am asked Fix looking at him intently

Parbleu  An agent of the members of the Reform Club sent out here
to interrupt my master s journey  But though I found you out some time ago
I ve taken good care to say nothing about it to Mr Fogg

He knows nothing then

Nothing replied Passepartout again emptying his glass

The detective passed his hand across his forehead hesitating before
he spoke again  What should he do  Passepartout s mistake seemed sincere
but it made his design more difficult  It was evident that the servant
was not the master s accomplice as Fix had been inclined to suspect

Well said the detective to himself as he is not an accomplice
he will help me

He had no time to lose Fogg must be detained at Hong Kong
so he resolved to make a clean breast of it

Listen to me said Fix abruptly  I am not as you think
an agent of the members of the Reform Club  

Bah retorted Passepartout with an air of raillery

I am a police detective sent out here by the London office

You a detective

I will prove it  Here is my commission

Passepartout was speechless with astonishment when Fix displayed
this document the genuineness of which could not be doubted

Mr Fogg s wager resumed Fix is only a pretext of which you
and the gentlemen of the Reform are dupes  He had a motive
for securing your innocent complicity

But why

Listen  On the 28th of last September a robbery of fifty five thousand pounds
was committed at the Bank of England by a person whose description
was fortunately secured  Here is his description it answers exactly
to that of Mr Phileas Fogg

What nonsense cried Passepartout striking the table with his fist
My master is the most honourable of men

How can you tell  You know scarcely anything about him  You went into
his service the day he came away and he came away on a foolish pretext
without trunks and carrying a large amount in banknotes  And yet you
are bold enough to assert that he is an honest man

Yes yes repeated the poor fellow mechanically

Would you like to be arrested as his accomplice

Passepartout overcome by what he had heard held his head
between his hands and did not dare to look at the detective
Phileas Fogg the saviour of Aouda that brave and generous man
a robber  And yet how many presumptions there were against him
Passepartout essayed to reject the suspicions which forced themselves
upon his mind he did not wish to believe that his master was guilty

Well what do you want of me said he at last with an effort

See here replied Fix I have tracked Mr Fogg to this place
but as yet I have failed to receive the warrant of arrest for which
I sent to London  You must help me to keep him here in Hong Kong  

I  But I  

I will share with you the two thousand pounds reward offered
by the Bank of England

Never replied Passepartout who tried to rise but fell back
exhausted in mind and body

Mr Fix he stammered even should what you say be true  
if my master is really the robber you are seeking for  which I deny  
I have been am in his service I have seen his generosity and goodness
and I will never betray him  not for all the gold in the world
I come from a village where they don t eat that kind of bread

You refuse

I refuse

Consider that I ve said nothing said Fix and let us drink

Yes let us drink

Passepartout felt himself yielding more and more to the effects
of the liquor  Fix seeing that he must at all hazards be separated
from his master wished to entirely overcome him  Some pipes full of opium
lay upon the table  Fix slipped one into Passepartout s hand
He took it put it between his lips lit it drew several puffs
and his head becoming heavy under the influence of the narcotic
fell upon the table

At last said Fix seeing Passepartout unconscious
Mr Fogg will not be informed of the Carnatic s departure and
if he is he will have to go without this cursed Frenchman

And after paying his bill Fix left the tavern




Chapter XX

IN WHICH FIX COMES FACE TO FACE WITH PHILEAS FOGG


While these events were passing at the opium house Mr Fogg
unconscious of the danger he was in of losing the steamer
was quietly escorting Aouda about the streets of the English quarter
making the necessary purchases for the long voyage before them
It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr Fogg to make the
tour of the world with a carpet bag a lady could not be expected
to travel comfortably under such conditions  He acquitted
his task with characteristic serenity and invariably replied
to the remonstrances of his fair companion who was confused
by his patience and generosity

It is in the interest of my journey  a part of my programme

The purchases made they returned to the hotel where they
dined at a sumptuously served table d hote after which Aouda
shaking hands with her protector after the English fashion
retired to her room for rest  Mr Fogg absorbed himself throughout
the evening in the perusal of The Times and Illustrated London News

Had he been capable of being astonished at anything it would
have been not to see his servant return at bedtime
But knowing that the steamer was not to leave for Yokohama until
the next morning he did not disturb himself about the matter
When Passepartout did not appear the next morning to answer
his master s bell Mr Fogg not betraying the least vexation
contented himself with taking his carpet bag calling Aouda
and sending for a palanquin

It was then eight o clock at half past nine it being then high
tide the Carnatic would leave the harbour  Mr Fogg and Aouda
got into the palanquin their luggage being brought after on a wheelbarrow
and half an hour later stepped upon the quay whence they were to embark
Mr Fogg then learned that the Carnatic had sailed the evening before
He had expected to find not only the steamer but his domestic
and was forced to give up both but no sign of disappointment appeared
on his face and he merely remarked to Aouda It is an accident madam
nothing more

At this moment a man who had been observing him attentively approached
It was Fix who bowing addressed Mr Fogg  Were you not like me
sir a passenger by the Rangoon which arrived yesterday

I was sir replied Mr Fogg coldly  But I have not the honour  

Pardon me I thought I should find your servant here

Do you know where he is sir asked Aouda anxiously

What responded Fix feigning surprise  Is he not with you

No said Aouda  He has not made his appearance since yesterday
Could he have gone on board the Carnatic without us

Without you madam answered the detective  Excuse me did you intend
to sail in the Carnatic

Yes sir

So did I madam and I am excessively disappointed  The Carnatic
its repairs being completed left Hong Kong twelve hours before
the stated time without any notice being given and we must now wait
a week for another steamer

As he said a week Fix felt his heart leap for joy  Fogg detained
at Hong Kong for a week  There would be time for the warrant to arrive
and fortune at last favoured the representative of the law  His horror
may be imagined when he heard Mr Fogg say in his placid voice
But there are other vessels besides the Carnatic it seems to me
in the harbour of Hong Kong

And offering his arm to Aouda he directed his steps toward the docks
in search of some craft about to start  Fix stupefied followed
it seemed as if he were attached to Mr Fogg by an invisible thread
Chance however appeared really to have abandoned the man it had hitherto
served so well  For three hours Phileas Fogg wandered about the docks
with the determination if necessary to charter a vessel to carry him
to Yokohama but he could only find vessels which were loading or unloading
and which could not therefore set sail  Fix began to hope again

But Mr Fogg far from being discouraged was continuing his search
resolved not to stop if he had to resort to Macao when he was accosted
by a sailor on one of the wharves

Is your honour looking for a boat

Have you a boat ready to sail

Yes your honour a pilot boat  No 43  the best in the harbour

Does she go fast

Between eight and nine knots the hour  Will you look at her

Yes

Your honour will be satisfied with her  Is it for a sea excursion

No for a voyage

A voyage

Yes will you agree to take me to Yokohama

The sailor leaned on the railing opened his eyes wide and said
Is your honour joking

No  I have missed the Carnatic and I must get to Yokohama
by the 14th at the latest to take the boat for San Francisco

I am sorry said the sailor but it is impossible

I offer you a hundred pounds per day and an additional
reward of two hundred pounds if I reach Yokohama in time

Are you in earnest

Very much so

The pilot walked away a little distance and gazed out to sea
evidently struggling between the anxiety to gain a large sum
and the fear of venturing so far  Fix was in mortal suspense

Mr Fogg turned to Aouda and asked her You would not be afraid
would you madam

Not with you Mr Fogg was her answer

The pilot now returned shuffling his hat in his hands

Well pilot said Mr Fogg

Well your honour replied he I could not risk myself my men
or my little boat of scarcely twenty tons on so long a voyage
at this time of year  Besides we could not reach Yokohama in time
for it is sixteen hundred and sixty miles from Hong Kong

Only sixteen hundred said Mr Fogg

It s the same thing

Fix breathed more freely

But added the pilot it might be arranged another way

Fix ceased to breathe at all

How asked Mr Fogg

By going to Nagasaki at the extreme south of Japan or even
to Shanghai which is only eight hundred miles from here
In going to Shanghai we should not be forced to sail wide
of the Chinese coast which would be a great advantage
as the currents run northward and would aid us

Pilot said Mr Fogg I must take the American steamer
at Yokohama and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki

Why not returned the pilot  The San Francisco steamer
does not start from Yokohama  It puts in at Yokohama
and Nagasaki but it starts from Shanghai

You are sure of that

Perfectly

And when does the boat leave Shanghai

On the 11th at seven in the evening  We have therefore
four days before us that is ninety six hours and in that time
if we had good luck and a south west wind and the sea was calm
we could make those eight hundred miles to Shanghai

And you could go  

In an hour as soon as provisions could be got aboard
and the sails put up

It is a bargain  Are you the master of the boat

Yes John Bunsby master of the Tankadere

Would you like some earnest money

If it would not put your honour out  

Here are two hundred pounds on account sir added Phileas Fogg
turning to Fix if you would like to take advantage  

Thanks sir I was about to ask the favour

Very well  In half an hour we shall go on board

But poor Passepartout urged Aouda who was much disturbed
by the servant s disappearance

I shall do all I can to find him replied Phileas Fogg

While Fix in a feverish nervous state repaired to the pilot boat
the others directed their course to the police station at Hong Kong
Phileas Fogg there gave Passepartout s description and left a sum of money
to be spent in the search for him  The same formalities having been gone
through at the French consulate and the palanquin having stopped at the hotel
for the luggage which had been sent back there they returned to the wharf

It was now three o clock and pilot boat No 43 with its crew
on board and its provisions stored away was ready for departure

The Tankadere was a neat little craft of twenty tons
as gracefully built as if she were a racing yacht
Her shining copper sheathing her galvanised iron work
her deck white as ivory betrayed the pride taken by John Bunsby
in making her presentable  Her two masts leaned a trifle backward
she carried brigantine foresail storm jib and standing jib
and was well rigged for running before the wind and she seemed capable
of brisk speed which indeed she had already proved by gaining
several prizes in pilot boat races  The crew of the Tankadere
was composed of John Bunsby the master and four hardy mariners
who were familiar with the Chinese seas  John Bunsby himself
a man of forty five or thereabouts vigorous sunburnt with a
sprightly expression of the eye and energetic and self reliant
countenance would have inspired confidence in the most timid

Phileas Fogg and Aouda went on board where they found Fix
already installed  Below deck was a square cabin of which
the walls bulged out in the form of cots above a circular divan
in the centre was a table provided with a swinging lamp
The accommodation was confined but neat

I am sorry to have nothing better to offer you said Mr
Fogg to Fix who bowed without responding

The detective had a feeling akin to humiliation in profiting
by the kindness of Mr Fogg

It s certain thought he though rascal as he is he is a polite one

The sails and the English flag were hoisted at ten minutes past three
Mr Fogg and Aouda who were seated on deck cast a last glance at the quay
in the hope of espying Passepartout  Fix was not without his fears
lest chance should direct the steps of the unfortunate servant
whom he had so badly treated in this direction in which case
an explanation the reverse of satisfactory to the detective
must have ensued  But the Frenchman did not appear and without doubt
was still lying under the stupefying influence of the opium

John Bunsby master at length gave the order to start and
the Tankadere taking the wind under her brigantine foresail
and standing jib bounded briskly forward over the waves




Chapter XXI

IN WHICH THE MASTER OF THE TANKADERE RUNS
GREAT RISK OF LOSING A REWARD OF TWO HUNDRED POUNDS


This voyage of eight hundred miles was a perilous venture
on a craft of twenty tons and at that season of the year
The Chinese seas are usually boisterous subject to terrible
gales of wind and especially during the equinoxes
and it was now early November

It would clearly have been to the master s advantage to carry
his passengers to Yokohama since he was paid a certain sum per day
but he would have been rash to attempt such a voyage and it was imprudent
even to attempt to reach Shanghai  But John Bunsby believed in the Tankadere
which rode on the waves like a seagull and perhaps he was not wrong

Late in the day they passed through the capricious channels of Hong Kong
and the Tankadere impelled by favourable winds conducted herself admirably

I do not need pilot said Phileas Fogg when they got into
the open sea to advise you to use all possible speed

Trust me your honour  We are carrying all the sail the wind will let us
The poles would add nothing and are only used when we are going into port

Its your trade not mine pilot and I confide in you

Phileas Fogg with body erect and legs wide apart standing
like a sailor gazed without staggering at the swelling waters
The young woman who was seated aft was profoundly affected
as she looked out upon the ocean darkening now with the twilight
on which she had ventured in so frail a vessel  Above her head
rustled the white sails which seemed like great white wings
The boat carried forward by the wind seemed to be flying in the air

Night came  The moon was entering her first quarter and her
insufficient light would soon die out in the mist on the horizon
Clouds were rising from the east and already overcast a part
of the heavens

The pilot had hung out his lights which was very necessary
in these seas crowded with vessels bound landward for collisions
are not uncommon occurrences and at the speed she was going
the least shock would shatter the gallant little craft

Fix seated in the bow gave himself up to meditation  He kept apart
from his fellow travellers knowing Mr Fogg s taciturn tastes besides
he did not quite like to talk to the man whose favours he had accepted
He was thinking too of the future  It seemed certain that Fogg would not
stop at Yokohama but would at once take the boat for San Francisco
and the vast extent of America would ensure him impunity and safety
Fogg s plan appeared to him the simplest in the world  Instead of sailing
directly from England to the United States like a common villain
he had traversed three quarters of the globe so as to gain the
American continent more surely and there after throwing
the police off his track he would quietly enjoy himself
with the fortune stolen from the bank  But once in the United States
what should he Fix do  Should he abandon this man  No a hundred times no
Until he had secured his extradition he would not lose sight of him for an hour
It was his duty and he would fulfil it to the end  At all events
there was one thing to be thankful for Passepartout was not with his master
and it was above all important after the confidences Fix had imparted to him
that the servant should never have speech with his master

Phileas Fogg was also thinking of Passepartout who had so
strangely disappeared  Looking at the matter from every point of view
it did not seem to him impossible that by some mistake the man might
have embarked on the Carnatic at the last moment and this was also
Aouda s opinion who regretted very much the loss of the worthy fellow
to whom she owed so much  They might then find him at Yokohama
for if the Carnatic was carrying him thither it would be easy
to ascertain if he had been on board

A brisk breeze arose about ten o clock but though it might
have been prudent to take in a reef the pilot after carefully
examining the heavens let the craft remain rigged as before
The Tankadere bore sail admirably as she drew a great deal of water
and everything was prepared for high speed in case of a gale

Mr Fogg and Aouda descended into the cabin at midnight
having been already preceded by Fix who had lain down on one of the cots
The pilot and crew remained on deck all night

At sunrise the next day which was 8th November the boat had made
more than one hundred miles  The log indicated a mean speed of between
eight and nine miles  The Tankadere still carried all sail
and was accomplishing her greatest capacity of speed
If the wind held as it was the chances would be in her favour
During the day she kept along the coast where the currents were favourable
the coast irregular in profile and visible sometimes across the clearings
was at most five miles distant  The sea was less boisterous
since the wind came off land  a fortunate circumstance for the boat
which would suffer owing to its small tonnage by a heavy surge on the sea

The breeze subsided a little towards noon and set in from the south west
The pilot put up his poles but took them down again within two hours
as the wind freshened up anew

Mr Fogg and Aouda happily unaffected by the roughness of the sea
ate with a good appetite Fix being invited to share their repast
which he accepted with secret chagrin  To travel at this man s
expense and live upon his provisions was not palatable to him
Still he was obliged to eat and so he ate

When the meal was over he took Mr Fogg apart and said
sir  this sir scorched his lips and he had to control himself
to avoid collaring this gentleman  sir you have been very kind
to give me a passage on this boat  But though my means will not admit
of my expending them as freely as you I must ask to pay my share  

Let us not speak of that sir replied Mr Fogg

But if I insist  

No sir repeated Mr Fogg in a tone which did not admit of a
reply  This enters into my general expenses

Fix as he bowed had a stifled feeling and going forward
where he ensconced himself did not open his mouth for the rest of the day

Meanwhile they were progressing famously and John Bunsby was
in high hope  He several times assured Mr Fogg that they would
reach Shanghai in time to which that gentleman responded
that he counted upon it  The crew set to work in good earnest
inspired by the reward to be gained  There was not a sheet
which was not tightened not a sail which was not vigorously hoisted
not a lurch could be charged to the man at the helm  They worked
as desperately as if they were contesting in a Royal yacht regatta

By evening the log showed that two hundred and twenty miles had been
accomplished from Hong Kong and Mr Fogg might hope that he would be able
to reach Yokohama without recording any delay in his journal in which case
the many misadventures which had overtaken him since he left London
would not seriously affect his journey

The Tankadere entered the Straits of Fo Kien which separate
the island of Formosa from the Chinese coast in the small hours
of the night and crossed the Tropic of Cancer  The sea was very
rough in the straits full of eddies formed by the counter currents
and the chopping waves broke her course whilst it became very difficult
to stand on deck

At daybreak the wind began to blow hard again and the heavens
seemed to predict a gale  The barometer announced a speedy change
the mercury rising and falling capriciously the sea also
in the south east raised long surges which indicated a tempest
The sun had set the evening before in a red mist
in the midst of the phosphorescent scintillations of the ocean

John Bunsby long examined the threatening aspect of the heavens
muttering indistinctly between his teeth  At last he said in a low voice
to Mr Fogg Shall I speak out to your honour

Of course

Well we are going to have a squall

Is the wind north or south asked Mr Fogg quietly

South  Look a typhoon is coming up

Glad it s a typhoon from the south for it will carry us forward

Oh if you take it that way said John Bunsby I ve nothing more to say
John Bunsby s suspicions were confirmed  At a less advanced season of the year
the typhoon according to a famous meteorologist would have passed away
like a luminous cascade of electric flame but in the winter equinox
it was to be feared that it would burst upon them with great violence

The pilot took his precautions in advance  He reefed all sail
the pole masts were dispensed with all hands went forward to the bows
A single triangular sail of strong canvas was hoisted as a storm jib
so as to hold the wind from behind  Then they waited

John Bunsby had requested his passengers to go below but this
imprisonment in so narrow a space with little air and the boat
bouncing in the gale was far from pleasant  Neither Mr Fogg
Fix nor Aouda consented to leave the deck

The storm of rain and wind descended upon them towards eight o clock
With but its bit of sail the Tankadere was lifted like a feather by a wind
an idea of whose violence can scarcely be given  To compare her speed
to four times that of a locomotive going on full steam would be below
the truth

The boat scudded thus northward during the whole day borne on
by monstrous waves preserving always fortunately a speed equal
to theirs  Twenty times she seemed almost to be submerged by
these mountains of water which rose behind her but the adroit
management of the pilot saved her  The passengers were often
bathed in spray but they submitted to it philosophically
Fix cursed it no doubt but Aouda with her eyes fastened upon
her protector whose coolness amazed her showed herself worthy
of him and bravely weathered the storm  As for Phileas Fogg
it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme

Up to this time the Tankadere had always held her course to the north
but towards evening the wind veering three quarters bore down from
the north west  The boat now lying in the trough of the waves
shook and rolled terribly the sea struck her with fearful violence
At night the tempest increased in violence  John Bunsby saw the approach
of darkness and the rising of the storm with dark misgivings
He thought awhile and then asked his crew if it was not time to slacken speed
After a consultation he approached Mr Fogg and said I think your honour
that we should do well to make for one of the ports on the coast

I think so too

Ah said the pilot  But which one

I know of but one returned Mr Fogg tranquilly

And that is  

Shanghai

The pilot at first did not seem to comprehend he could
scarcely realise so much determination and tenacity
Then he cried Well  yes  Your honour is right  To Shanghai

So the Tankadere kept steadily on her northward track

The night was really terrible it would be a miracle if the
craft did not founder  Twice it could have been all over with her
if the crew had not been constantly on the watch  Aouda was exhausted
but did not utter a complaint  More than once Mr Fogg rushed
to protect her from the violence of the waves

Day reappeared  The tempest still raged with undiminished fury
but the wind now returned to the south east  It was a favourable change
and the Tankadere again bounded forward on this mountainous sea
though the waves crossed each other and imparted shocks and counter shocks
which would have crushed a craft less solidly built  From time to time
the coast was visible through the broken mist but no vessel was in sight
The Tankadere was alone upon the sea

There were some signs of a calm at noon and these became more distinct
as the sun descended toward the horizon  The tempest had been as brief
as terrific  The passengers thoroughly exhausted could now eat a little
and take some repose

The night was comparatively quiet  Some of the sails were again hoisted
and the speed of the boat was very good  The next morning at dawn
they espied the coast and John Bunsby was able to assert that they were
not one hundred miles from Shanghai  A hundred miles and only one day
to traverse them  That very evening Mr Fogg was due at Shanghai
if he did not wish to miss the steamer to Yokohama  Had there been no storm
during which several hours were lost they would be at this moment within
thirty miles of their destination

The wind grew decidedly calmer and happily the sea fell with it
All sails were now hoisted and at noon the Tankadere was within
forty five miles of Shanghai  There remained yet six hours
in which to accomplish that distance  All on board feared
that it could not be done and every one  Phileas Fogg no doubt
excepted  felt his heart beat with impatience  The boat must keep up
an average of nine miles an hour and the wind was becoming calmer
every moment  It was a capricious breeze coming from the coast
and after it passed the sea became smooth  Still the Tankadere
was so light and her fine sails caught the fickle zephyrs so well
that with the aid of the currents John Bunsby found himself at six o clock
not more than ten miles from the mouth of Shanghai River  Shanghai itself
is situated at least twelve miles up the stream  At seven they were still
three miles from Shanghai  The pilot swore an angry oath the reward of
two hundred pounds was evidently on the point of escaping him  He looked
at Mr Fogg  Mr Fogg was perfectly tranquil and yet his whole fortune
was at this moment at stake

At this moment also a long black funnel crowned with wreaths of smoke
appeared on the edge of the waters  It was the American steamer
leaving for Yokohama at the appointed time

Confound her cried John Bunsby pushing back the rudder
with a desperate jerk

Signal her said Phileas Fogg quietly

A small brass cannon stood on the forward deck of the Tankadere
for making signals in the fogs  It was loaded to the muzzle
but just as the pilot was about to apply a red hot coal to the touchhole
Mr Fogg said Hoist your flag

The flag was run up at half mast and this being the signal of distress
it was hoped that the American steamer perceiving it would change her
course a little so as to succour the pilot boat

Fire said Mr Fogg  And the booming of the little cannon
resounded in the air




Chapter XXII

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT FINDS OUT THAT EVEN AT THE ANTIPODES
IT IS CONVENIENT TO HAVE SOME MONEY IN ONE S POCKET


The Carnatic setting sail from Hong Kong at half past six on the
7th of November directed her course at full steam towards Japan
She carried a large cargo and a well filled cabin of passengers
Two state rooms in the rear were however unoccupied  those which
had been engaged by Phileas Fogg

The next day a passenger with a half stupefied eye staggering gait
and disordered hair was seen to emerge from the second cabin
and to totter to a seat on deck

It was Passepartout and what had happened to him was as follows
Shortly after Fix left the opium den two waiters had lifted
the unconscious Passepartout and had carried him to the bed
reserved for the smokers  Three hours later pursued even
in his dreams by a fixed idea the poor fellow awoke
and struggled against the stupefying influence of the narcotic
The thought of a duty unfulfilled shook off his torpor
and he hurried from the abode of drunkenness
Staggering and holding himself up by keeping against the walls
falling down and creeping up again and irresistibly impelled
by a kind of instinct he kept crying out The Carnatic the Carnatic

The steamer lay puffing alongside the quay on the point of starting
Passepartout had but few steps to go and rushing upon the plank
he crossed it and fell unconscious on the deck just as the Carnatic
was moving off  Several sailors who were evidently accustomed
to this sort of scene carried the poor Frenchman down into the second cabin
and Passepartout did not wake until they were one hundred and fifty miles
away from China  Thus he found himself the next morning on the deck
of the Carnatic and eagerly inhaling the exhilarating sea breeze
The pure air sobered him  He began to collect his sense which he found
a difficult task but at last he recalled the events of the evening before
Fix s revelation and the opium house

It is evident said he to himself that I have been abominably drunk
What will Mr Fogg say  At least I have not missed the steamer
which is the most important thing

Then as Fix occurred to him As for that rascal I hope we
are well rid of him and that he has not dared as he proposed
to follow us on board the Carnatic  A detective on the track
of Mr Fogg accused of robbing the Bank of England  Pshaw
Mr Fogg is no more a robber than I am a murderer

Should he divulge Fix s real errand to his master  Would it
do to tell the part the detective was playing  Would it not be
better to wait until Mr Fogg reached London again and then
impart to him that an agent of the metropolitan police had been
following him round the world and have a good laugh over it
No doubt at least it was worth considering  The first thing to
do was to find Mr Fogg and apologise for his singular behaviour

Passepartout got up and proceeded as well as he could with
the rolling of the steamer to the after deck  He saw no one
who resembled either his master or Aouda  Good  muttered he
Aouda has not got up yet and Mr Fogg has probably found some
partners at whist

He descended to the saloon  Mr Fogg was not there
Passepartout had only however to ask the purser the number
of his master s state room  The purser replied that he
did not know any passenger by the name of Fogg

I beg your pardon said Passepartout persistently  He is a tall gentleman
quiet and not very talkative and has with him a young lady  

There is no young lady on board interrupted the purser
Here is a list of the passengers you may see for yourself

Passepartout scanned the list but his master s name was not upon it
All at once an idea struck him

Ah am I on the Carnatic

Yes

On the way to Yokohama

Certainly

Passepartout had for an instant feared that he was on the wrong boat
but though he was really on the Carnatic his master was not there

He fell thunderstruck on a seat  He saw it all now
He remembered that the time of sailing had been changed
that he should have informed his master of that fact
and that he had not done so  It was his fault then
that Mr Fogg and Aouda had missed the steamer
Yes but it was still more the fault of the traitor who
in order to separate him from his master and detain
the latter at Hong Kong had inveigled him into getting drunk
He now saw the detective s trick and at this moment Mr Fogg
was certainly ruined his bet was lost and he himself perhaps
arrested and imprisoned  At this thought Passepartout tore his hair
Ah if Fix ever came within his reach what a settling of accounts
there would be

After his first depression Passepartout became calmer
and began to study his situation  It was certainly not
an enviable one  He found himself on the way to Japan
and what should he do when he got there  His pocket was empty
he had not a solitary shilling not so much as a penny
His passage had fortunately been paid for in advance
and he had five or six days in which to decide upon his future course
He fell to at meals with an appetite and ate for Mr Fogg Aouda
and himself  He helped himself as generously as if Japan were a desert
where nothing to eat was to be looked for

At dawn on the 13th the Carnatic entered the port of Yokohama
This is an important port of call in the Pacific where all the
mail steamers and those carrying travellers between North America
China Japan and the Oriental islands put in  It is situated
in the bay of Yeddo and at but a short distance from that
second capital of the Japanese Empire and the residence of the Tycoon
the civil Emperor before the Mikado the spiritual Emperor
absorbed his office in his own  The Carnatic anchored at the quay
near the custom house in the midst of a crowd of ships bearing
the flags of all nations

Passepartout went timidly ashore on this so curious territory
of the Sons of the Sun  He had nothing better to do than
taking chance for his guide to wander aimlessly through the streets
of Yokohama  He found himself at first in a thoroughly European quarter
the houses having low fronts and being adorned with verandas
beneath which he caught glimpses of neat peristyles  This quarter occupied
with its streets squares docks and warehouses all the space between
the promontory of the Treaty and the river  Here as at Hong Kong
and Calcutta were mixed crowds of all races Americans and English
Chinamen and Dutchmen mostly merchants ready to buy or sell anything
The Frenchman felt himself as much alone among them as if he had dropped
down in the midst of Hottentots

He had at least one resource to call on the French and English consuls
at Yokohama for assistance  But he shrank from telling the story
of his adventures intimately connected as it was with that of his master
and before doing so he determined to exhaust all other means of aid
As chance did not favour him in the European quarter he penetrated
that inhabited by the native Japanese determined if necessary
to push on to Yeddo

The Japanese quarter of Yokohama is called Benten after the
goddess of the sea who is worshipped on the islands round about
There Passepartout beheld beautiful fir and cedar groves sacred
gates of a singular architecture bridges half hid in the midst
of bamboos and reeds temples shaded by immense cedar trees
holy retreats where were sheltered Buddhist priests and sectaries
of Confucius and interminable streets where a perfect harvest of
rose tinted and red cheeked children who looked as if they had been
cut out of Japanese screens and who were playing in the midst
of short legged poodles and yellowish cats might have been gathered

The streets were crowded with people  Priests were passing
in processions beating their dreary tambourines police and
custom house officers with pointed hats encrusted with lac and
carrying two sabres hung to their waists soldiers clad in blue
cotton with white stripes and bearing guns the Mikado s guards
enveloped in silken doubles hauberks and coats of mail
and numbers of military folk of all ranks  for the military
profession is as much respected in Japan as it is despised
in China  went hither and thither in groups and pairs
Passepartout saw too begging friars long robed pilgrims
and simple civilians with their warped and jet black hair
big heads long busts slender legs short stature and complexions
varying from copper colour to a dead white but never yellow
like the Chinese from whom the Japanese widely differ
He did not fail to observe the curious equipages  carriages and palanquins
barrows supplied with sails and litters made of bamboo nor the women  
whom he thought not especially handsome  who took little steps with their
little feet whereon they wore canvas shoes straw sandals and clogs
of worked wood and who displayed tight looking eyes flat chests
teeth fashionably blackened and gowns crossed with silken scarfs
tied in an enormous knot behind an ornament which the modern
Parisian ladies seem to have borrowed from the dames of Japan

Passepartout wandered for several hours in the midst of this motley crowd
looking in at the windows of the rich and curious shops the jewellery
establishments glittering with quaint Japanese ornaments the restaurants
decked with streamers and banners the tea houses where the odorous beverage
was being drunk with saki a liquor concocted from the fermentation of rice
and the comfortable smoking houses where they were puffing not opium
which is almost unknown in Japan but a very fine stringy tobacco
He went on till he found himself in the fields in the midst of vast
rice plantations  There he saw dazzling camellias expanding themselves
with flowers which were giving forth their last colours and perfumes
not on bushes but on trees and within bamboo enclosures cherry plum
and apple trees which the Japanese cultivate rather for their blossoms
than their fruit and which queerly fashioned grinning scarecrows
protected from the sparrows pigeons ravens and other voracious birds
On the branches of the cedars were perched large eagles amid the foliage
of the weeping willows were herons solemnly standing on one leg
and on every hand were crows ducks hawks wild birds and a
multitude of cranes which the Japanese consider sacred
and which to their minds symbolise long life and prosperity

As he was strolling along Passepartout espied some violets among the shrubs

Good said he I ll have some supper

But on smelling them he found that they were odourless

No chance there thought he

The worthy fellow had certainly taken good care to eat as
hearty a breakfast as possible before leaving the Carnatic
but as he had been walking about all day the demands of hunger
were becoming importunate  He observed that the butchers stalls
contained neither mutton goat nor pork and knowing also that
it is a sacrilege to kill cattle which are preserved solely for farming
he made up his mind that meat was far from plentiful in Yokohama  
nor was he mistaken and in default of butcher s meat
he could have wished for a quarter of wild boar or deer
a partridge or some quails some game or fish which with rice
the Japanese eat almost exclusively  But he found it necessary
to keep up a stout heart and to postpone the meal he craved till
the following morning  Night came and Passepartout re entered
the native quarter where he wandered through the streets
lit by vari coloured lanterns looking on at the dancers
who were executing skilful steps and boundings and the astrologers
who stood in the open air with their telescopes  Then he came
to the harbour which was lit up by the resin torches of the fishermen
who were fishing from their boats

The streets at last became quiet and the patrol the officers
of which in their splendid costumes and surrounded by their suites
Passepartout thought seemed like ambassadors succeeded the bustling crowd
Each time a company passed Passepartout chuckled and said to himself
Good another Japanese embassy departing for Europe




Chapter XXIII

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT S NOSE BECOMES OUTRAGEOUSLY LONG


The next morning poor jaded famished Passepartout said to
himself that he must get something to eat at all hazards and the
sooner he did so the better  He might indeed sell his watch
but he would have starved first  Now or never he must use the
strong if not melodious voice which nature had bestowed upon him
He knew several French and English songs and resolved to try them
upon the Japanese who must be lovers of music since they were
for ever pounding on their cymbals tam tams and tambourines and
could not but appreciate European talent

It was perhaps rather early in the morning to get up a
concert and the audience prematurely aroused from their slumbers
might not possibly pay their entertainer with coin bearing the
Mikado s features  Passepartout therefore decided to wait several
hours and as he was sauntering along it occurred to him that he
would seem rather too well dressed for a wandering artist  The
idea struck him to change his garments for clothes more in harmony
with his project by which he might also get a little money to
satisfy the immediate cravings of hunger  The resolution taken
it remained to carry it out

It was only after a long search that Passepartout discovered a
native dealer in old clothes to whom he applied for an exchange
The man liked the European costume and ere long Passepartout
issued from his shop accoutred in an old Japanese coat and a sort
of one sided turban faded with long use  A few small pieces of silver
moreover jingled in his pocket

Good thought he  I will imagine I am at the Carnival

His first care after being thus Japanesed was to enter a tea house
of modest appearance and upon half a bird and a little rice
to breakfast like a man for whom dinner was as yet a problem to be solved

Now thought he when he had eaten heartily I mustn t lose my head
I can t sell this costume again for one still more Japanese  I must
consider how to leave this country of the Sun of which I shall not retain
the most delightful of memories as quickly as possible

It occurred to him to visit the steamers which were about to
leave for America  He would offer himself as a cook or servant
in payment of his passage and meals  Once at San Francisco
he would find some means of going on  The difficulty was
how to traverse the four thousand seven hundred miles
of the Pacific which lay between Japan and the New World

Passepartout was not the man to let an idea go begging
and directed his steps towards the docks  But as he approached
them his project which at first had seemed so simple began to grow
more and more formidable to his mind  What need would they have
of a cook or servant on an American steamer and what confidence would
they put in him dressed as he was  What references could he give

As he was reflecting in this wise his eyes fell upon an immense
placard which a sort of clown was carrying through the streets
This placard which was in English read as follows

          ACROBATIC JAPANESE TROUPE
   HONOURABLE WILLIAM BATULCAR PROPRIETOR
           LAST REPRESENTATIONS
PRIOR TO THEIR DEPARTURE TO THE UNITED STATES
                  OF THE
        LONG NOSES   LONG NOSES
UNDER THE DIRECT PATRONAGE OF THE GOD TINGOU
           GREAT ATTRACTION

The United States said Passepartout that s just what I want

He followed the clown and soon found himself once more
in the Japanese quarter  A quarter of an hour later
he stopped before a large cabin adorned with several
clusters of streamers the exterior walls of which
were designed to represent in violent colours
and without perspective a company of jugglers

This was the Honourable William Batulcar s establishment
That gentleman was a sort of Barnum the director of a troupe
of mountebanks jugglers clowns acrobats equilibrists
and gymnasts who according to the placard was giving
his last performances before leaving the Empire of the Sun
for the States of the Union

Passepartout entered and asked for Mr Batulcar who straightway
appeared in person

What do you want said he to Passepartout whom he at first
took for a native

Would you like a servant sir asked Passepartout

A servant cried Mr Batulcar caressing the thick grey beard
which hung from his chin  I already have two who are obedient
and faithful have never left me and serve me for their nourishment
and here they are added he holding out his two robust arms
furrowed with veins as large as the strings of a bass viol

So I can be of no use to you

None

The devil  I should so like to cross the Pacific with you

Ah said the Honourable Mr Batulcar  You are no more a Japanese
than I am a monkey  Who are you dressed up in that way

A man dresses as he can

That s true  You are a Frenchman aren t you

Yes a Parisian of Paris

Then you ought to know how to make grimaces

Why replied Passepartout a little vexed that his nationality
should cause this question we Frenchmen know how to make grimaces
it is true but not any better than the Americans do

True  Well if I can t take you as a servant I can as a clown
You see my friend in France they exhibit foreign clowns
and in foreign parts French clowns

Ah

You are pretty strong eh

Especially after a good meal

And you can sing

Yes returned Passepartout who had formerly been wont
to sing in the streets

But can you sing standing on your head with a top spinning
on your left foot and a sabre balanced on your right

Humph  I think so replied Passepartout recalling the exercises
of his younger days

Well that s enough said the Honourable William Batulcar

The engagement was concluded there and then

Passepartout had at last found something to do  He was engaged
to act in the celebrated Japanese troupe  It was not a very dignified
position but within a week he would be on his way to San Francisco

The performance so noisily announced by the Honourable Mr Batulcar
was to commence at three o clock and soon the deafening instruments
of a Japanese orchestra resounded at the door  Passepartout
though he had not been able to study or rehearse a part
was designated to lend the aid of his sturdy shoulders
in the great exhibition of the human pyramid executed
by the Long Noses of the god Tingou  This great attraction
was to close the performance

Before three o clock the large shed was invaded by the spectators
comprising Europeans and natives Chinese and Japanese men women
and children who precipitated themselves upon the narrow benches
and into the boxes opposite the stage  The musicians took up a position
inside and were vigorously performing on their gongs tam tams flutes
bones tambourines and immense drums

The performance was much like all acrobatic displays but it must be
confessed that the Japanese are the first equilibrists in the world

One with a fan and some bits of paper performed the graceful
trick of the butterflies and the flowers another traced in the air
with the odorous smoke of his pipe a series of blue words
which composed a compliment to the audience while a third juggled
with some lighted candles which he extinguished successively
as they passed his lips and relit again without interrupting
for an instant his juggling  Another reproduced the most singular
combinations with a spinning top in his hands the revolving tops
seemed to be animated with a life of their own in their
interminable whirling they ran over pipe stems the edges of sabres
wires and even hairs stretched across the stage they turned around
on the edges of large glasses crossed bamboo ladders dispersed into
all the corners and produced strange musical effects by the combination
of their various pitches of tone  The jugglers tossed them in the air
threw them like shuttlecocks with wooden battledores and yet they kept
on spinning they put them into their pockets and took them out
still whirling as before

It is useless to describe the astonishing performances of the acrobats
and gymnasts  The turning on ladders poles balls barrels c
was executed with wonderful precision

But the principal attraction was the exhibition of the Long Noses
a show to which Europe is as yet a stranger

The Long Noses form a peculiar company under the direct patronage
of the god Tingou  Attired after the fashion of the Middle Ages
they bore upon their shoulders a splendid pair of wings
but what especially distinguished them was the long noses
which were fastened to their faces and the uses which they made of them
These noses were made of bamboo and were five six and even ten feet long
some straight others curved some ribboned and some having imitation warts
upon them  It was upon these appendages fixed tightly on their real noses
that they performed their gymnastic exercises  A dozen of these sectaries
of Tingou lay flat upon their backs while others dressed to represent
lightning rods came and frolicked on their noses jumping from one to another
and performing the most skilful leapings and somersaults

As a last scene a human pyramid had been announced in which
fifty Long Noses were to represent the Car of Juggernaut
But instead of forming a pyramid by mounting each other s shoulders
the artists were to group themselves on top of the noses
It happened that the performer who had hitherto formed the base
of the Car had quitted the troupe and as to fill this part
only strength and adroitness were necessary Passepartout
had been chosen to take his place

The poor fellow really felt sad when  melancholy reminiscence
of his youth  he donned his costume adorned with vari coloured wings
and fastened to his natural feature a false nose six feet long
But he cheered up when he thought that this nose was winning
him something to eat

He went upon the stage and took his place beside the rest
who were to compose the base of the Car of Juggernaut
They all stretched themselves on the floor their noses pointing
to the ceiling  A second group of artists disposed themselves on
these long appendages then a third above these then a fourth
until a human monument reaching to the very cornices of the theatre
soon arose on top of the noses  This elicited loud applause
in the midst of which the orchestra was just striking up a deafening air
when the pyramid tottered the balance was lost one of the lower
noses vanished from the pyramid and the human monument was
shattered like a castle built of cards

It was Passepartout s fault  Abandoning his position
clearing the footlights without the aid of his wings and
clambering up to the right hand gallery he fell at the feet of
one of the spectators crying Ah my master my master

You here

Myself

Very well then let us go to the steamer young man

Mr Fogg Aouda and Passepartout passed through the lobby
of the theatre to the outside where they encountered
the Honourable Mr Batulcar furious with rage  He demanded damages
for the breakage of the pyramid and Phileas Fogg appeased him
by giving him a handful of banknotes

At half past six the very hour of departure Mr Fogg and Aouda
followed by Passepartout who in his hurry had retained his wings
and nose six feet long stepped upon the American steamer




Chapter XXIV

DURING WHICH MR FOGG AND PARTY CROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN


What happened when the pilot boat came in sight of Shanghai will
be easily guessed  The signals made by the Tankadere had been
seen by the captain of the Yokohama steamer who espying the flag
at half mast had directed his course towards the little craft
Phileas Fogg after paying the stipulated price of his passage to
John Busby and rewarding that worthy with the additional sum of
five hundred and fifty pounds ascended the steamer with Aouda
and Fix and they started at once for Nagasaki and Yokohama

They reached their destination on the morning of the 14th of November
Phileas Fogg lost no time in going on board the Carnatic where he learned
to Aouda s great delight  and perhaps to his own though he betrayed
no emotion  that Passepartout a Frenchman had really arrived on her
the day before

The San Francisco steamer was announced to leave that very evening
and it became necessary to find Passepartout if possible without delay
Mr Fogg applied in vain to the French and English consuls and
after wandering through the streets a long time began to despair
of finding his missing servant  Chance or perhaps a kind of presentiment
at last led him into the Honourable Mr Batulcar s theatre  He certainly
would not have recognised Passepartout in the eccentric mountebank s costume
but the latter lying on his back perceived his master in the gallery
He could not help starting which so changed the position of his nose
as to bring the pyramid pell mell upon the stage

All this Passepartout learned from Aouda who recounted to him
what had taken place on the voyage from Hong Kong to Shanghai
on the Tankadere in company with one Mr Fix

Passepartout did not change countenance on hearing this name
He thought that the time had not yet arrived to divulge to his
master what had taken place between the detective and himself
and in the account he gave of his absence he simply excused himself
for having been overtaken by drunkenness in smoking opium
at a tavern in Hong Kong

Mr Fogg heard this narrative coldly without a word and then
furnished his man with funds necessary to obtain clothing more
in harmony with his position  Within an hour the Frenchman had
cut off his nose and parted with his wings and retained nothing
about him which recalled the sectary of the god Tingou

The steamer which was about to depart from Yokohama to San Francisco
belonged to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and was named
the General Grant  She was a large paddle wheel steamer
of two thousand five hundred tons well equipped and very fast
The massive walking beam rose and fell above the deck
at one end a piston rod worked up and down and at the other
was a connecting rod which in changing the rectilinear motion
to a circular one was directly connected with the shaft of the paddles
The General Grant was rigged with three masts giving a large capacity
for sails and thus materially aiding the steam power  By making
twelve miles an hour she would cross the ocean in twenty one days
Phileas Fogg was therefore justified in hoping that he would reach
San Francisco by the 2nd of December New York by the 11th
and London on the 20th  thus gaining several hours on the fatal date
of the 21st of December

There was a full complement of passengers on board among them English
many Americans a large number of coolies on their way to California
and several East Indian officers who were spending their vacation
in making the tour of the world  Nothing of moment happened on the voyage
the steamer sustained on its large paddles rolled but little
and the Pacific almost justified its name  Mr Fogg was as calm
and taciturn as ever  His young companion felt herself more and more
attached to him by other ties than gratitude his silent but generous nature
impressed her more than she thought and it was almost unconsciously that
she yielded to emotions which did not seem to have the least effect upon
her protector  Aouda took the keenest interest in his plans and became
impatient at any incident which seemed likely to retard his journey

She often chatted with Passepartout who did not fail to perceive
the state of the lady s heart and being the most faithful of domestics
he never exhausted his eulogies of Phileas Fogg s honesty generosity
and devotion  He took pains to calm Aouda s doubts of a successful
termination of the journey telling her that the most difficult part
of it had passed that now they were beyond the fantastic countries
of Japan and China and were fairly on their way to civilised places again
A railway train from San Francisco to New York and a transatlantic steamer
from New York to Liverpool would doubtless bring them to the end of this
impossible journey round the world within the period agreed upon

On the ninth day after leaving Yokohama Phileas Fogg had traversed exactly
one half of the terrestrial globe  The General Grant passed on the 23rd
of November the one hundred and eightieth meridian and was at the very
antipodes of London  Mr Fogg had it is true exhausted fifty two
of the eighty days in which he was to complete the tour and there were
only twenty eight left  But though he was only half way by the
difference of meridians he had really gone over two thirds of the
whole journey for he had been obliged to make long circuits from
London to Aden from Aden to Bombay from Calcutta to Singapore
and from Singapore to Yokohama  Could he have followed without
deviation the fiftieth parallel which is that of London
the whole distance would only have been about twelve thousand miles
whereas he would be forced by the irregular methods of locomotion
to traverse twenty six thousand of which he had on the 23rd of November
accomplished seventeen thousand five hundred  And now the course was
a straight one and Fix was no longer there to put obstacles in their way

It happened also on the 23rd of November that Passepartout
made a joyful discovery  It will be remembered that the obstinate
fellow had insisted on keeping his famous family watch at London time
and on regarding that of the countries he had passed through as quite false
and unreliable  Now on this day though he had not changed the hands
he found that his watch exactly agreed with the ship s chronometers
His triumph was hilarious  He would have liked to know what Fix
would say if he were aboard

The rogue told me a lot of stories repeated Passepartout
about the meridians the sun and the moon  Moon indeed
moonshine more likely  If one listened to that sort of people
a pretty sort of time one would keep  I was sure that the sun
would some day regulate itself by my watch

Passepartout was ignorant that if the face of his watch had
been divided into twenty four hours like the Italian clocks
he would have no reason for exultation for the hands of his watch
would then instead of as now indicating nine o clock in the morning
indicate nine o clock in the evening that is the twenty first hour
after midnight precisely the difference between London time and that
of the one hundred and eightieth meridian  But if Fix had been able
to explain this purely physical effect Passepartout would not have admitted
even if he had comprehended it  Moreover if the detective had been on board
at that moment Passepartout would have joined issue with him on a quite
different subject and in an entirely different manner

Where was Fix at that moment

He was actually on board the General Grant

On reaching Yokohama the detective leaving Mr Fogg whom he expected
to meet again during the day had repaired at once to the English consulate
where he at last found the warrant of arrest  It had followed him from Bombay
and had come by the Carnatic on which steamer he himself was supposed to be
Fix s disappointment may be imagined when he reflected that the warrant was
now useless  Mr Fogg had left English ground and it was now necessary
to procure his extradition

Well thought Fix after a moment of anger my warrant is not good here
but it will be in England  The rogue evidently intends to return to his
own country thinking he has thrown the police off his track  Good
I will follow him across the Atlantic  As for the money heaven grant
there may be some left  But the fellow has already spent in travelling
rewards trials bail elephants and all sorts of charges more than
five thousand pounds  Yet after all the Bank is rich

His course decided on he went on board the General Grant
and was there when Mr Fogg and Aouda arrived  To his utter
amazement he recognised Passepartout despite his theatrical disguise
He quickly concealed himself in his cabin to avoid an awkward explanation
and hoped  thanks to the number of passengers  to remain unperceived
by Mr Fogg s servant

On that very day however he met Passepartout face to face
on the forward deck  The latter without a word
made a rush for him grasped him by the throat
and much to the amusement of a group of Americans
who immediately began to bet on him administered
to the detective a perfect volley of blows
which proved the great superiority of French
over English pugilistic skill

When Passepartout had finished he found himself relieved
and comforted  Fix got up in a somewhat rumpled condition
and looking at his adversary coldly said Have you done

For this time  yes

Then let me have a word with you

But I  

In your master s interests

Passepartout seemed to be vanquished by Fix s coolness for he quietly
followed him and they sat down aside from the rest of the passengers

You have given me a thrashing said Fix  Good I expected it
Now listen to me  Up to this time I have been Mr Fogg s adversary
I am now in his game

Aha cried Passepartout you are convinced he is an honest man

No replied Fix coldly I think him a rascal  Sh don t budge
and let me speak  As long as Mr Fogg was on English ground
it was for my interest to detain him there until my warrant
of arrest arrived  I did everything I could to keep him back
I sent the Bombay priests after him I got you intoxicated at Hong Kong
I separated you from him and I made him miss the Yokohama steamer

Passepartout listened with closed fists

Now resumed Fix Mr Fogg seems to be going back to England
Well I will follow him there  But hereafter I will do as much
to keep obstacles out of his way as I have done up to this time
to put them in his path  I ve changed my game you see
and simply because it was for my interest to change it
Your interest is the same as mine for it is only in England
that you will ascertain whether you are in the service of a criminal
or an honest man

Passepartout listened very attentively to Fix
and was convinced that he spoke with entire good faith

Are we friends asked the detective

Friends  no replied Passepartout but allies perhaps
At the least sign of treason however I ll twist your neck for you

Agreed said the detective quietly

Eleven days later on the 3rd of December the General Grant
entered the bay of the Golden Gate and reached San Francisco

Mr Fogg had neither gained nor lost a single day




Chapter XXV

IN WHICH A SLIGHT GLIMPSE IS HAD OF SAN FRANCISCO


It was seven in the morning when Mr Fogg Aouda and Passepartout
set foot upon the American continent if this name can be given to
the floating quay upon which they disembarked  These quays
rising and falling with the tide thus facilitate the loading
and unloading of vessels  Alongside them were clippers of all sizes
steamers of all nationalities and the steamboats with several decks
rising one above the other which ply on the Sacramento and its tributaries
There were also heaped up the products of a commerce which extends to Mexico
Chili Peru Brazil Europe Asia and all the Pacific islands

Passepartout in his joy on reaching at last the American continent
thought he would manifest it by executing a perilous vault in fine style
but tumbling upon some worm eaten planks he fell through them
Put out of countenance by the manner in which he thus set foot
upon the New World he uttered a loud cry which so frightened
the innumerable cormorants and pelicans that are always perched
upon these movable quays that they flew noisily away

Mr Fogg on reaching shore proceeded to find out at what hour the first
train left for New York and learned that this was at six o clock pm
he had therefore an entire day to spend in the Californian capital
Taking a carriage at a charge of three dollars he and Aouda entered it
while Passepartout mounted the box beside the driver and they set out
for the International Hotel

From his exalted position Passepartout observed with much curiosity
the wide streets the low evenly ranged houses the Anglo Saxon
Gothic churches the great docks the palatial wooden and brick warehouses
the numerous conveyances omnibuses horse cars and upon the side walks
not only Americans and Europeans but Chinese and Indians  Passepartout
was surprised at all he saw  San Francisco was no longer the legendary city
of 1849  a city of banditti assassins and incendiaries who had flocked
hither in crowds in pursuit of plunder a paradise of outlaws where they
gambled with gold dust a revolver in one hand and a bowie knife in the other
it was now a great commercial emporium

The lofty tower of its City Hall overlooked the whole panorama
of the streets and avenues which cut each other at right angles
and in the midst of which appeared pleasant verdant squares
while beyond appeared the Chinese quarter seemingly imported
from the Celestial Empire in a toy box  Sombreros and red shirts
and plumed Indians were rarely to be seen but there were silk hats
and black coats everywhere worn by a multitude of nervously active
gentlemanly looking men  Some of the streets   especially Montgomery Street
which is to San Francisco what Regent Street is to London
the Boulevard des Italiens to Paris and Broadway to New York  
were lined with splendid and spacious stores which exposed
in their windows the products of the entire world

When Passepartout reached the International Hotel
it did not seem to him as if he had left England at all

The ground floor of the hotel was occupied by a large bar
a sort of restaurant freely open to all passers by who might
partake of dried beef oyster soup biscuits and cheese
without taking out their purses  Payment was made only for the ale
porter or sherry which was drunk  This seemed very American
to Passepartout  The hotel refreshment rooms were comfortable
and Mr Fogg and Aouda installing themselves at a table
were abundantly served on diminutive plates by negroes of darkest hue

After breakfast Mr Fogg accompanied by Aouda started for
the English consulate to have his passport visaed  As he was
going out he met Passepartout who asked him if it would not be well
before taking the train to purchase some dozens of Enfield rifles
and Colt s revolvers  He had been listening to stories of attacks
upon the trains by the Sioux and Pawnees  Mr Fogg thought it
a useless precaution but told him to do as he thought best
and went on to the consulate

He had not proceeded two hundred steps however when by the
greatest chance in the world he met Fix  The detective seemed
wholly taken by surprise  What  Had Mr Fogg and himself
crossed the Pacific together and not met on the steamer
At least Fix felt honoured to behold once more the gentleman
to whom he owed so much and as his business recalled him to Europe
he should be delighted to continue the journey in such pleasant company

Mr Fogg replied that the honour would be his and the detective  
who was determined not to lose sight of him  begged permission
to accompany them in their walk about San Francisco  a request
which Mr Fogg readily granted

They soon found themselves in Montgomery Street where a great
crowd was collected the side walks street horsecar rails
the shop doors the windows of the houses and even the roofs
were full of people  Men were going about carrying large posters
and flags and streamers were floating in the wind while loud cries
were heard on every hand

Hurrah for Camerfield

Hurrah for Mandiboy

It was a political meeting at least so Fix conjectured who said to Mr Fogg
Perhaps we had better not mingle with the crowd  There may be danger in it

Yes returned Mr Fogg and blows even if they are political
are still blows

Fix smiled at this remark and in order to be able to see without
being jostled about the party took up a position on the top of a flight
of steps situated at the upper end of Montgomery Street  Opposite them
on the other side of the street between a coal wharf and a petroleum warehouse
a large platform had been erected in the open air towards which the current
of the crowd seemed to be directed

For what purpose was this meeting  What was the occasion of this
excited assemblage  Phileas Fogg could not imagine  Was it to nominate
some high official  a governor or member of Congress  It was not improbable
so agitated was the multitude before them

Just at this moment there was an unusual stir in the human mass
All the hands were raised in the air  Some tightly closed
seemed to disappear suddenly in the midst of the cries  an energetic way
no doubt of casting a vote  The crowd swayed back the banners and flags
wavered disappeared an instant then reappeared in tatters
The undulations of the human surge reached the steps
while all the heads floundered on the surface like a sea
agitated by a squall  Many of the black hats disappeared
and the greater part of the crowd seemed to have diminished in height

It is evidently a meeting said Fix and its object must be
an exciting one  I should not wonder if it were about the Alabama
despite the fact that that question is settled

Perhaps replied Mr Fogg simply

At least there are two champions in presence of each other
the Honourable Mr Camerfield and the Honourable Mr Mandiboy

Aouda leaning upon Mr Fogg s arm observed the tumultuous scene
with surprise while Fix asked a man near him what the cause of it all was
Before the man could reply a fresh agitation arose hurrahs and excited
shouts were heard the staffs of the banners began to be used
as offensive weapons and fists flew about in every direction
Thumps were exchanged from the tops of the carriages and omnibuses
which had been blocked up in the crowd  Boots and shoes went whirling
through the air and Mr Fogg thought he even heard the crack of revolvers
mingling in the din the rout approached the stairway and flowed over
the lower step  One of the parties had evidently been repulsed
but the mere lookers on could not tell whether Mandiboy or Camerfield
had gained the upper hand

It would be prudent for us to retire said Fix who was anxious
that Mr Fogg should not receive any injury at least until
they got back to London  If there is any question about England
in all this and we were recognised I fear it would go hard with us

An English subject   began Mr Fogg

He did not finish his sentence for a terrific hubbub now arose
on the terrace behind the flight of steps where they stood
and there were frantic shouts of Hurrah for Mandiboy  Hip hip hurrah

It was a band of voters coming to the rescue of their allies
and taking the Camerfield forces in flank  Mr Fogg Aouda
and Fix found themselves between two fires it was too late to escape
The torrent of men armed with loaded canes and sticks was irresistible
Phileas Fogg and Fix were roughly hustled in their attempts to protect
their fair companion the former as cool as ever tried to defend himself
with the weapons which nature has placed at the end of every Englishman s arm
but in vain  A big brawny fellow with a red beard flushed face
and broad shoulders who seemed to be the chief of the band
raised his clenched fist to strike Mr Fogg whom he would have given
a crushing blow had not Fix rushed in and received it in his stead
An enormous bruise immediately made its appearance under the detective s
silk hat which was completely smashed in

Yankee exclaimed Mr Fogg darting a contemptuous look at the ruffian

Englishman returned the other  We will meet again

When you please

What is your name

Phileas Fogg  And yours

Colonel Stamp Proctor

The human tide now swept by after overturning Fix who speedily
got upon his feet again though with tattered clothes  Happily
he was not seriously hurt  His travelling overcoat was divided
into two unequal parts and his trousers resembled those of certain Indians
which fit less compactly than they are easy to put on
Aouda had escaped unharmed and Fix alone bore marks
of the fray in his black and blue bruise

Thanks said Mr Fogg to the detective
as soon as they were out of the crowd

No thanks are necessary replied  Fix but let us go

Where

To a tailor s

Such a visit was indeed opportune  The clothing of both Mr Fogg
and Fix was in rags as if they had themselves been actively engaged
in the contest between Camerfield and Mandiboy  An hour after
they were once more suitably attired and with Aouda returned
to the International Hotel

Passepartout was waiting for his master armed with half a dozen
six barrelled revolvers  When he perceived Fix he knit his brows
but Aouda having in a few words told him of their adventure
his countenance resumed its placid expression  Fix evidently
was no longer an enemy but an ally he was faithfully keeping his word

Dinner over the coach which was to convey the passengers and their luggage
to the station drew up to the door  As he was getting in Mr Fogg
said to Fix You have not seen this Colonel Proctor again

No

I will come back to America to find him said Phileas Fogg calmly
It would not be right for an Englishman to permit himself to be treated
in that way without retaliating

The detective smiled but did not reply  It was clear that Mr Fogg
was one of those Englishmen who while they do not tolerate duelling at home
fight abroad when their honour is attacked

At a quarter before six the travellers reached the station
and found the train ready to depart  As he was about to enter it
Mr Fogg called a porter and said to him My friend
was there not some trouble to day in San Francisco

It was a political meeting sir replied the porter

But I thought there was a great deal of disturbance in the streets

It was only a meeting assembled for an election

The election of a general in chief no doubt asked Mr Fogg

No sir of a justice of the peace

Phileas Fogg got into the train which started off at full speed




Chapter XXVI

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AND PARTY TRAVEL BY THE PACIFIC RAILROAD


From ocean to ocean  so say the Americans and these four words
compose the general designation of the great trunk line
which crosses the entire width of the United States
The Pacific Railroad is however really divided into two distinct lines
the Central Pacific between San Francisco and Ogden and the Union Pacific
between Ogden and Omaha  Five main lines connect Omaha with New York

New York and San Francisco are thus united by an uninterrupted metal ribbon
which measures no less than three thousand seven hundred and eighty six miles
Between Omaha and the Pacific the railway crosses a territory which is still
infested by Indians and wild beasts and a large tract which the Mormons
after they were driven from Illinois in 1845 began to colonise

The journey from New York to San Francisco consumed formerly
under the most favourable conditions at least six months
It is now accomplished in seven days

It was in 1862 that in spite of the Southern Members of Congress
who wished a more southerly route it was decided to lay the road
between the forty first and forty second parallels  President Lincoln
himself fixed the end of the line at Omaha in Nebraska  The work was
at once commenced and pursued with true American energy nor did the
rapidity with which it went on injuriously affect its good execution
The road grew on the prairies a mile and a half a day  A locomotive
running on the rails laid down the evening before brought the rails
to be laid on the morrow and advanced upon them as fast as they were
put in position

The Pacific Railroad is joined by several branches in Iowa Kansas
Colorado and Oregon  On leaving Omaha it passes along the left bank
of the Platte River as far as the junction of its northern branch
follows its southern branch crosses the Laramie territory and the
Wahsatch Mountains turns the Great Salt Lake and reaches Salt Lake City
the Mormon capital plunges into the Tuilla Valley across the American Desert
Cedar and Humboldt Mountains the Sierra Nevada and descends via Sacramento
to the Pacific  its grade even on the Rocky Mountains never exceeding
one hundred and twelve feet to the mile

Such was the road to be traversed in seven days which would enable
Phileas Fogg  at least so he hoped  to take the Atlantic steamer
at New York on the 11th for Liverpool

The car which he occupied was a sort of long omnibus on eight wheels
and with no compartments in the interior  It was supplied with two rows
of seats perpendicular to the direction of the train on either side
of an aisle which conducted to the front and rear platforms
These platforms were found throughout the train and the passengers
were able to pass from one end of the train to the other
It was supplied with saloon cars balcony cars restaurants
and smoking cars theatre cars alone were wanting and they will
have these some day

Book and news dealers sellers of edibles drinkables and cigars
who seemed to have plenty of customers were continually circulating
in the aisles

The train left Oakland station at six o clock  It was already night
cold and cheerless the heavens being overcast with clouds which seemed
to threaten snow  The train did not proceed rapidly counting the stoppages
it did not run more than twenty miles an hour which was a sufficient speed
however to enable it to reach Omaha within its designated time

There was but little conversation in the car and soon many of the passengers
were overcome with sleep  Passepartout found himself beside the detective
but he did not talk to him  After recent events their relations with each
other had grown somewhat cold there could no longer be mutual sympathy or
intimacy between them  Fix s manner had not changed but Passepartout was very
reserved and ready to strangle his former friend on the slightest provocation

Snow began to fall an hour after they started a fine snow however
which happily could not obstruct the train nothing could be seen
from the windows but a vast white sheet against which the smoke
of the locomotive had a greyish aspect

At eight o clock a steward entered the car and announced that
the time for going to bed had arrived and in a few minutes
the car was transformed into a dormitory  The backs of the seats
were thrown back bedsteads carefully packed were rolled out by
an ingenious system berths were suddenly improvised and each traveller
had soon at his disposition a comfortable bed protected from curious eyes
by thick curtains  The sheets were clean and the pillows soft
It only remained to go to bed and sleep which everybody did  
while the train sped on across the State of California

The country between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hilly
The Central Pacific taking Sacramento for its starting point
extends eastward to meet the road from Omaha  The line from San Francisco
to Sacramento runs in a north easterly direction along the American River
which empties into San Pablo Bay  The one hundred and twenty miles between
these cities were accomplished in six hours and towards midnight while
fast asleep the travellers passed through Sacramento so that they saw nothing
of that important place the seat of the State government with its fine quays
its broad streets its noble hotels squares and churches

The train on leaving Sacramento and passing the junction Roclin Auburn
and Colfax entered the range of the Sierra Nevada   Cisco was reached
at seven in the morning and an hour later the dormitory was transformed
into an ordinary car and the travellers could observe the picturesque
beauties of the mountain region through which they were steaming
The railway track wound in and out among the passes now approaching
the mountain sides now suspended over precipices avoiding abrupt angles
by bold curves plunging into narrow defiles which seemed to have
no outlet  The locomotive its great funnel emitting a weird light
with its sharp bell and its cow catcher extended like a spur
mingled its shrieks and bellowings with the noise of torrents and cascades
and twined its smoke among the branches of the gigantic pines

There were few or no bridges or tunnels on the route  The railway
turned around the sides of the mountains and did not attempt to violate
nature by taking the shortest cut from one point to another

The train entered the State of Nevada through the Carson Valley
about nine o clock going always northeasterly and at midday reached Reno
where there was a delay of twenty minutes for breakfast

From this point the road running along Humboldt River
passed northward for several miles by its banks then it
turned eastward and kept by the river until it reached
the Humboldt Range nearly at the extreme eastern limit of Nevada

Having breakfasted Mr Fogg and his companions resumed their places
in the car and observed the varied landscape which unfolded itself
as they passed along the vast prairies the mountains lining the horizon
and the creeks with their frothy foaming streams  Sometimes a great herd
of buffaloes massing together in the distance seemed like a moveable dam
These innumerable multitudes of ruminating beasts often form an
insurmountable obstacle to the passage of the trains thousands
of them have been seen passing over the track for hours together
in compact ranks  The locomotive is then forced to stop and wait
till the road is once more clear

This happened indeed to the train in which Mr Fogg was travelling
About twelve o clock a troop of ten or twelve thousand head of buffalo
encumbered the track  The locomotive slackening its speed tried to clear
the way with its cow catcher but the mass of animals was too great
The buffaloes marched along with a tranquil gait uttering now and then
deafening bellowings  There was no use of interrupting them for
having taken a particular direction nothing can moderate and change
their course it is a torrent of living flesh which no dam could contain

The travellers gazed on this curious spectacle from the platforms
but Phileas Fogg who had the most reason of all to be in a hurry
remained in his seat and waited philosophically until it should please
the buffaloes to get out of the way

Passepartout was furious at the delay they occasioned and longed
to discharge his arsenal of revolvers upon them

What a country cried he  Mere cattle stop the trains and go by
in a procession just as if they were not impeding travel  Parbleu
I should like to know if Mr Fogg foresaw this mishap in his programme
And here s an engineer who doesn t dare to run the locomotive
into this herd of beasts

The engineer did not try to overcome the obstacle and he was wise
He would have crushed the first buffaloes no doubt with the cow catcher
but the locomotive however powerful would soon have been checked
the train would inevitably have been thrown off the track
and would then have been helpless

The best course was to wait patiently and regain the lost time
by greater speed when the obstacle was removed  The procession
of buffaloes lasted three full hours and it was night before
the track was clear  The last ranks of the herd were now passing over
the rails while the first had already disappeared below the southern horizon

It was eight o clock when the train passed through the defiles
of the Humboldt Range and half past nine when it penetrated Utah
the region of the Great Salt Lake the singular colony of the Mormons




Chapter XXVII

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT UNDERGOES AT A SPEED OF TWENTY MILES AN HOUR
A COURSE OF MORMON HISTORY


During the night of the 5th of December the train ran south easterly
for about fifty miles then rose an equal distance in a north easterly
direction towards the Great Salt Lake

Passepartout about nine o clock went out upon the platform to take the air
The weather was cold the heavens grey but it was not snowing
The sun s disc enlarged by the mist seemed an enormous ring of gold
and Passepartout was amusing himself by calculating its value
in pounds sterling when he was diverted from this interesting study
by a strange looking personage who made his appearance on the platform

This personage who had taken the train at Elko was tall and dark
with black moustache black stockings a black silk hat a black waistcoat
black trousers a white cravat and dogskin gloves  He might have been
taken for a clergyman  He went from one end of the train to the other
and affixed to the door of each car a notice written in manuscript

Passepartout approached and read one of these notices which stated that
Elder William Hitch Mormon missionary taking advantage of his presence
on train No 48 would deliver a lecture on Mormonism in car No 117
from eleven to twelve o clock and that he invited all who were desirous
of being instructed concerning the mysteries of the religion of the
Latter Day Saints to attend

I ll go said Passepartout to himself  He knew nothing
of Mormonism except the custom of polygamy which is its foundation

The news quickly spread through the train which contained
about one hundred passengers thirty of whom at most
attracted by the notice ensconced themselves in car No 117
Passepartout took one of the front seats  Neither Mr Fogg
nor Fix cared to attend

At the appointed hour Elder William Hitch rose and in an irritated voice
as if he had already been contradicted said I tell you that Joe Smith
is a martyr that his brother Hiram is a martyr and that the persecutions
of the United States Government against the prophets will also make a martyr
of Brigham Young  Who dares to say the contrary

No one ventured to gainsay the missionary whose excited tone contrasted
curiously with his naturally calm visage  No doubt his anger arose
from the hardships to which the Mormons were actually subjected
The government had just succeeded with some difficulty in reducing
these independent fanatics to its rule  It had made itself master of Utah
and subjected that territory to the laws of the Union after imprisoning
Brigham Young on a charge of rebellion and polygamy  The disciples
of the prophet had since redoubled their efforts and resisted
by words at least the authority of Congress  Elder Hitch as is seen
was trying to make proselytes on the very railway trains

Then emphasising his words with his loud voice and frequent gestures
he related the history of the Mormons from Biblical times how that
in Israel a Mormon prophet of the tribe of Joseph published the annals
of the new religion and bequeathed them to his son Mormon
how many centuries later a translation of this precious book
which was written in Egyptian was made by Joseph Smith junior
a Vermont farmer who revealed himself as a mystical prophet in 1825
and how in short the celestial messenger appeared to him
in an illuminated forest and gave him the annals of the Lord

Several of the audience not being much interested in
the missionary s narrative here left the car but Elder Hitch
continuing his lecture related how Smith junior with his father
two brothers and a few disciples founded the church of the
Latter Day Saints which adopted not only in America
but in England Norway and Sweden and Germany counts many artisans
as well as men engaged in the liberal professions among its members
how a colony was established in Ohio a temple erected there at a
cost of two hundred thousand dollars and a town built at Kirkland
how Smith became an enterprising banker and received from a simple mummy
showman a papyrus scroll written by Abraham and several famous Egyptians

The Elder s story became somewhat wearisome and his audience
grew gradually less until it was reduced to twenty passengers
But this did not disconcert the enthusiast who proceeded with
the story of Joseph Smith s bankruptcy in 1837 and how his ruined
creditors gave him a coat of tar and feathers his reappearance
some years afterwards more honourable and honoured than ever
at Independence Missouri the chief of a flourishing colony
of three thousand disciples and his pursuit thence by outraged Gentiles
and retirement into the Far West

Ten hearers only were now left among them honest Passepartout
who was listening with all his ears  Thus he learned that
after long persecutions Smith reappeared in Illinois
and in 1839 founded a community at Nauvoo on the Mississippi
numbering twenty five thousand souls of which he became mayor
chief justice and general in chief that he announced himself
in 1843 as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States
and that finally being drawn into ambuscade at Carthage
he was thrown into prison and assassinated by a band of men
disguised in masks

Passepartout was now the only person left in the car and the Elder
looking him full in the face reminded him that two years after
the assassination of Joseph Smith the inspired prophet Brigham Young
his successor left Nauvoo for the banks of the Great Salt Lake where
in the midst of that fertile region directly on the route of the emigrants
who crossed Utah on their way to California the new colony thanks to
the polygamy practised by the Mormons had flourished beyond expectations

And this added Elder William Hitch this is why the jealousy of Congress
has been aroused against us  Why have the soldiers of the Union invaded
the soil of Utah  Why has Brigham Young our chief been imprisoned
in contempt of all justice  Shall we yield to force  Never
Driven from Vermont driven from Illinois driven from Ohio
driven from Missouri driven from Utah we shall yet find some
independent territory on which to plant our tents  And you
my brother continued the Elder fixing his angry eyes
upon his single auditor will you not plant yours there
too under the shadow of our flag

No replied Passepartout courageously in his turn retiring
from the car and leaving the Elder to preach to vacancy

During the lecture the train had been making good progress
and towards half past twelve it reached the northwest border
of the Great Salt Lake  Thence the passengers could observe
the vast extent of this interior sea which is also called the Dead Sea
and into which flows an American Jordan  It is a picturesque expanse
framed in lofty crags in large strata encrusted with white salt  
a superb sheet of water which was formerly of larger extent than now
its shores having encroached with the lapse of time and thus at once
reduced its breadth and increased its depth

The Salt Lake seventy miles long and thirty five wide
is situated three miles eight hundred feet above the sea
Quite different from Lake Asphaltite whose depression
is twelve hundred feet below the sea it contains considerable salt
and one quarter of the weight of its water is solid matter
its specific weight being 1170 and after being distilled 1000
Fishes are of course unable to live in it and those which descend
through the Jordan the Weber and other streams soon perish

The country around the lake was well cultivated for the Mormons
are mostly farmers while ranches and pens for domesticated animals
fields of wheat corn and other cereals luxuriant prairies
hedges of wild rose clumps of acacias and milk wort
would have been seen six months later  Now the ground
was covered with a thin powdering of snow

The train reached Ogden at two o clock where it rested for six hours
Mr Fogg and his party had time to pay a visit to Salt Lake City
connected with Ogden by a branch road and they spent two hours
in this strikingly American town built on the pattern of other cities
of the Union like a checker board with the sombre sadness of right angles
as Victor Hugo expresses it  The founder of the City of the Saints
could not escape from the taste for symmetry which distinguishes
the Anglo Saxons  In this strange country where the people
are certainly not up to the level of their institutions
everything is done squarely  cities houses and follies

The travellers then were promenading at three o clock
about the streets of the town built between the banks of the
Jordan and the spurs of the Wahsatch Range  They saw few
or no churches but the prophet s mansion the court house
and the arsenal blue brick houses with verandas and porches
surrounded by gardens bordered with acacias palms and locusts
A clay and pebble wall built in 1853 surrounded the town
and in the principal street were the market and several hotels
adorned with pavilions  The place did not seem thickly populated
The streets were almost deserted except in the vicinity of the temple
which they only reached after having traversed several quarters
surrounded by palisades  There were many women which was easily
accounted for by the peculiar institution of the Mormons
but it must not be supposed that all the Mormons are polygamists
They are free to marry or not as they please but it is worth noting
that it is mainly the female citizens of Utah who are anxious to marry
as according to the Mormon religion maiden ladies are not admitted
to the possession of its highest joys  These poor creatures seemed
to be neither well off nor happy  Some  the more well to do no doubt  
wore short open black silk dresses under a hood or modest shawl
others were habited in Indian fashion

Passepartout could not behold without a certain fright these women
charged in groups with conferring happiness on a single Mormon
His common sense pitied above all the husband  It seemed to him
a terrible thing to have to guide so many wives at once across
the vicissitudes of life and to conduct them as it were
in a body to the Mormon paradise with the prospect of seeing them
in the company of the glorious Smith who doubtless was the chief ornament
of that delightful place to all eternity  He felt decidedly repelled
from such a vocation and he imagined  perhaps he was mistaken  
that the fair ones of Salt Lake City cast rather alarming glances
on his person  Happily his stay there was but brief  At four the party
found themselves again at the station took their places in the train
and the whistle sounded for starting  Just at the moment however
that the locomotive wheels began to move cries of Stop stop were heard

Trains like time and tide stop for no one  The gentleman
who uttered the cries was evidently a belated Mormon  He was
breathless with running  Happily for him the station had neither
gates nor barriers  He rushed along the track jumped on the rear
platform of the train and fell exhausted into one of the seats

Passepartout who had been anxiously watching this amateur gymnast
approached him with lively interest and learned that he had taken flight
after an unpleasant domestic scene

When the Mormon had recovered his breath Passepartout ventured
to ask him politely how many wives he had for from the manner
in which he had decamped it might be thought that he had twenty at least

One sir replied the Mormon raising his arms heavenward
  one and that was enough




Chapter XXVIII

IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT DOES NOT SUCCEED IN MAKING ANYBODY LISTEN TO REASON


The train on leaving Great Salt Lake at Ogden passed northward
for an hour as far as Weber River having completed nearly nine
hundred miles from San Francisco  From this point it took
an easterly direction towards the jagged Wahsatch Mountains
It was in the section included between this range and the
Rocky Mountains that the American engineers found the most
formidable difficulties in laying the road and that the government
granted a subsidy of forty eight thousand dollars per mile
instead of sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains
But the engineers instead of violating nature avoided its difficulties
by winding around instead of penetrating the rocks  One tunnel only
fourteen thousand feet in length was pierced in order to arrive
at the great basin

The track up to this time had reached its highest elevation at
the Great Salt Lake  From this point it described a long curve
descending towards Bitter Creek Valley to rise again to the
dividing ridge of the waters between the Atlantic and the Pacific
There were many creeks in this mountainous region and it was necessary
to cross Muddy Creek Green Creek and others upon culverts

Passepartout grew more and more impatient as they went on
while Fix longed to get out of this difficult region and was more
anxious than Phileas Fogg himself to be beyond the danger of delays
and accidents and set foot on English soil

At ten o clock at night the train stopped at Fort Bridger station
and twenty minutes later entered Wyoming Territory following the
valley of Bitter Creek throughout  The next day 7th December
they stopped for a quarter of an hour at Green River station
Snow had fallen abundantly during the night but being mixed with rain
it had half melted and did not interrupt their progress  The bad weather
however annoyed Passepartout for the accumulation of snow by blocking
the wheels of the cars would certainly have been fatal to Mr Fogg s tour

What an idea he said to himself  Why did my master make
this journey in winter  Couldn t he have waited for the good
season to increase his chances

While the worthy Frenchman was absorbed in the state of the sky
and the depression of the temperature Aouda was experiencing
fears from a totally different cause

Several passengers had got off at Green River and were walking up and down
the platforms and among these Aouda recognised Colonel Stamp Proctor
the same who had so grossly insulted Phileas Fogg at the San Francisco meeting
Not wishing to be recognised the young woman drew back from the window
feeling much alarm at her discovery  She was attached to the man who
however coldly gave her daily evidences of the most absolute devotion
She did not comprehend perhaps the depth of the sentiment with which
her protector inspired her which she called gratitude but which
though she was unconscious of it was really more than that
Her heart sank within her when she recognised the man whom
Mr Fogg desired sooner or later to call to account for his conduct
Chance alone it was clear had brought Colonel Proctor on this train
but there he was and it was necessary at all hazards that Phileas Fogg
should not perceive his adversary

Aouda seized a moment when Mr Fogg was asleep to tell Fix and Passepartout
whom she had seen

That Proctor on this train cried Fix  Well reassure yourself
madam before he settles with Mr Fogg he has got to deal with me
It seems to me that I was the more insulted of the two

And besides added Passepartout I ll take charge of him
colonel as he is

Mr Fix resumed Aouda Mr Fogg will allow no one to avenge him
He said that he would come back to America to find this man
Should he perceive Colonel Proctor we could not prevent a collision
which might have terrible results  He must not see him

You are right madam replied Fix a meeting between them
might ruin all  Whether he were victorious or beaten Mr Fogg
would be delayed and  

And added Passepartout that would play the game of the gentlemen
of the Reform Club  In four days we shall be in New York  Well
if my master does not leave this car during those four days
we may hope that chance will not bring him face to face with this
confounded American  We must if possible prevent his stirring out of it

The conversation dropped  Mr Fogg had just woke up
and was looking out of the window  Soon after Passepartout
without being heard by his master or Aouda whispered to the detective
Would you really fight for him

I would do anything replied Fix in a tone which betrayed determined will
to get him back living to Europe

Passepartout felt something like a shudder shoot through his frame
but his confidence in his master remained unbroken

Was there any means of detaining Mr Fogg in the car to avoid a meeting
between him and the colonel  It ought not to be a difficult task
since that gentleman was naturally sedentary and little curious
The detective at least seemed to have found a way for after a few moments
he said to Mr Fogg These are long and slow hours sir that we are passing
on the railway

Yes replied Mr Fogg but they pass

You were in the habit of playing whist resumed Fix on the steamers

Yes but it would be difficult to do so here  I have neither cards
nor partners

Oh but we can easily buy some cards for they are sold
on all the American trains  And as for partners if madam plays  

Certainly sir Aouda quickly replied I understand whist
It is part of an English education

I myself have some pretensions to playing a good game
Well here are three of us and a dummy  

As you please sir replied Phileas Fogg heartily glad
to resume his favourite pastime even on the railway

Passepartout was dispatched in search of the steward
and soon returned with two packs of cards some pins
counters and a shelf covered with cloth

The game commenced  Aouda understood whist sufficiently well
and even received some compliments on her playing from Mr Fogg
As for the detective he was simply an adept and worthy of being
matched against his present opponent

Now thought Passepartout we ve got him  He won t budge

At eleven in the morning the train had reached the dividing ridge of the waters
at Bridger Pass seven thousand five hundred and twenty four feet above
the level of the sea one of the highest points attained by the track
in crossing the Rocky Mountains  After going about two hundred miles
the travellers at last found themselves on one of those vast plains
which extend to the Atlantic and which nature has made so propitious
for laying the iron road

On the declivity of the Atlantic basin the first streams
branches of the North Platte River already appeared
The whole northern and eastern horizon was bounded by the immense
semi circular curtain which is formed by the southern portion
of the Rocky Mountains the highest being Laramie Peak
Between this and the railway extended vast plains
plentifully irrigated  On the right rose the lower spurs
of the mountainous mass which extends southward to the sources
of the Arkansas River one of the great tributaries of the Missouri

At half past twelve the travellers caught sight for an instant of Fort Halleck
which commands that section and in a few more hours the Rocky Mountains
were crossed  There was reason to hope then that no accident would mark
the journey through this difficult country  The snow had ceased falling
and the air became crisp and cold  Large birds frightened by the locomotive
rose and flew off in the distance  No wild beast appeared on the plain
It was a desert in its vast nakedness

After a comfortable breakfast served in the car Mr Fogg and his partners had
just resumed whist when a violent whistling was heard and the train stopped
Passepartout put his head out of the door but saw nothing to cause the delay
no station was in view

Aouda and Fix feared that Mr Fogg might take it into his head to get out
but that gentleman contented himself with saying to his servant
See what is the matter

Passepartout rushed out of the car  Thirty or forty passengers
had already descended amongst them Colonel Stamp Proctor

The train had stopped before a red signal which blocked the way
The engineer and conductor were talking excitedly with a signal man
whom the station master at Medicine Bow the next stopping place
had sent on before  The passengers drew around and took part
in the discussion in which Colonel Proctor with his insolent manner
was conspicuous

Passepartout joining the group heard the signal man say
No you can t pass  The bridge at Medicine Bow is shaky
and would not bear the weight of the train

This was a suspension bridge thrown over some rapids about a
mile from the place where they now were  According to the
signal man it was in a ruinous condition several of the iron
wires being broken and it was impossible to risk the passage
He did not in any way exaggerate the condition of the bridge
It may be taken for granted that rash as the Americans usually are
when they are prudent there is good reason for it

Passepartout not daring to apprise his master of what he heard
listened with set teeth immovable as a statue

Hum cried Colonel Proctor but we are not going to stay here
I imagine and take root in the snow

Colonel replied the conductor we have telegraphed to Omaha for a train
but it is not likely that it will reach Medicine Bow is less than six hours

Six hours cried Passepartout

Certainly returned the conductor besides it will take us as long
as that to reach Medicine Bow on foot

But it is only a mile from here said one of the passengers

Yes but it s on the other side of the river

And can t we cross that in a boat asked the colonel

That s impossible  The creek is swelled by the rains  It is a rapid
and we shall have to make a circuit of ten miles to the north to find a ford

The colonel launched a volley of oaths denouncing the railway
company and the conductor and Passepartout who was furious
was not disinclined to make common cause with him  Here was
an obstacle indeed which all his master s banknotes could not remove

There was a general disappointment among the passengers who
without reckoning the delay saw themselves compelled to trudge
fifteen miles over a plain covered with snow  They grumbled and
protested and would certainly have thus attracted Phileas Fogg s
attention if he had not been completely absorbed in his game

Passepartout found that he could not avoid telling his master what
had occurred and with hanging head he was turning towards the car
when the engineer a true Yankee named Forster called out
Gentlemen perhaps there is a way after all to get over

On the bridge asked a passenger

On the bridge

With our train

With our train

Passepartout stopped short and eagerly listened to the engineer

But the bridge is unsafe urged the conductor

No matter replied Forster I think that by putting on the
very highest speed we might have a chance of getting over

The devil muttered Passepartout

But a number of the passengers were at once attracted by the
engineer s proposal and Colonel Proctor was especially delighted
and found the plan a very feasible one  He told stories about
engineers leaping their trains over rivers without bridges
by putting on full steam and many of those present avowed
themselves of the engineer s mind

We have fifty chances out of a hundred of getting over said one

Eighty ninety

Passepartout was astounded and though ready to attempt anything to get
over Medicine Creek thought the experiment proposed a little too American
Besides thought he there s a still more simple way and it does not even
occur to any of these people  Sir said he aloud to one of the passengers
the engineer s plan seems to me a little dangerous but  

Eighty chances replied the passenger turning his back on him

I know it said Passepartout turning to another passenger
but a simple idea  

Ideas are no use returned the American shrugging his shoulders
as the engineer assures us that we can pass

Doubtless urged Passepartout we can pass but perhaps it would
be more prudent  

What  Prudent cried Colonel Proctor whom this word seemed
to excite prodigiously  At full speed don t you see at full speed

I know  I see repeated Passepartout but it would be if not more prudent
since that word displeases you at least more natural  

Who  What  What s the matter with this fellow cried several

The poor fellow did not know to whom to address himself

Are you afraid asked Colonel Proctor

I afraid  Very well I will show these people that a Frenchman
can be as American as they

All aboard cried the conductor

Yes all aboard repeated Passepartout and immediately
But they can t prevent me from thinking that it would be more natural
for us to cross the bridge on foot and let the train come after

But no one heard this sage reflection nor would anyone have acknowledged
its justice  The passengers resumed their places in the cars
Passepartout took his seat without telling what had passed
The whist players were quite absorbed in their game

The locomotive whistled vigorously the engineer reversing the steam
backed the train for nearly a mile  retiring like a jumper in order
to take a longer leap  Then with another whistle he began to move forward
the train increased its speed and soon its rapidity became frightful
a prolonged screech issued from the locomotive the piston worked up and down
twenty strokes to the second  They perceived that the whole train rushing
on at the rate of a hundred miles an hour hardly bore upon the rails at all

And they passed over  It was like a flash  No one saw the bridge
The train leaped so to speak from one bank to the other
and the engineer could not stop it until it had gone five miles
beyond the station  But scarcely had the train passed the river
when the bridge completely ruined fell with a crash into the rapids
of Medicine Bow




Chapter XXIX

IN WHICH CERTAIN INCIDENTS ARE NARRATED
WHICH ARE ONLY TO BE MET WITH ON AMERICAN RAILROADS


The train pursued its course that evening without interruption
passing Fort Saunders crossing Cheyne Pass and reaching Evans Pass
The road here attained the highest elevation of the journey
eight thousand and ninety two feet above the level of the sea
The travellers had now only to descend to the Atlantic by limitless plains
levelled by nature  A branch of the grand trunk led off southward to Denver
the capital of Colorado  The country round about is rich in gold and silver
and more than fifty thousand inhabitants are already settled there

Thirteen hundred and eighty two miles had been passed over from San Francisco
in three days and three nights four days and nights more would probably
bring them to New York  Phileas Fogg was not as yet behind hand

During the night Camp Walbach was passed on the left Lodge Pole Creek
ran parallel with the road marking the boundary between the territories
of Wyoming and Colorado  They entered Nebraska at eleven passed near
Sedgwick and touched at Julesburg on the southern branch of the Platte River

It was here that the Union Pacific Railroad was inaugurated on
the 23rd of October 1867 by the chief engineer General Dodge
Two powerful locomotives carrying nine cars of invited guests
amongst whom was Thomas C Durant vice president of the road
stopped at this point cheers were given the Sioux and Pawnees
performed an imitation Indian battle fireworks were let off
and the first number of the Railway Pioneer was printed by a press
brought on the train  Thus was celebrated the inauguration
of this great railroad a mighty instrument of progress
and civilisation thrown across the desert and destined to link
together cities and towns which do not yet exist  The whistle
of the locomotive more powerful than Amphion s lyre was about
to bid them rise from American soil

Fort McPherson was left behind at eight in the morning
and three hundred and fifty seven miles had yet to be traversed
before reaching Omaha  The road followed the capricious windings
of the southern branch of the Platte River on its left bank
At nine the train stopped at the important town of North Platte
built between the two arms of the river which rejoin each other
around it and form a single artery a large tributary whose waters
empty into the Missouri a little above Omaha

The one hundred and first meridian was passed

Mr Fogg and his partners had resumed their game no one  not even the dummy  
complained of the length of the trip  Fix had begun by winning several
guineas which he seemed likely to lose but he showed himself a not less
eager whist player than Mr Fogg  During the morning chance distinctly
favoured that gentleman  Trumps and honours were showered upon his hands

Once having resolved on a bold stroke he was on the point of playing a spade
when a voice behind him said I should play a diamond

Mr Fogg Aouda and Fix raised their heads and beheld Colonel Proctor

Stamp Proctor and Phileas Fogg recognised each other at once

Ah it s you is it Englishman cried the colonel
it s you who are going to play a spade

And who plays it replied Phileas Fogg coolly
throwing down the ten of spades

Well it pleases me to have it diamonds
replied Colonel Proctor in an insolent tone

He made a movement as if to seize the card which had just been played
adding You don t understand anything about whist

Perhaps I do as well as another said Phileas Fogg rising

You have only to try son of John Bull replied the colonel

Aouda turned pale and her blood ran cold  She seized Mr Fogg s
arm and gently pulled him back  Passepartout was ready to pounce
upon the American who was staring insolently at his opponent
But Fix got up and going to Colonel Proctor said You forget
that it is I with whom you have to deal sir for it was I
whom you not only insulted but struck

Mr Fix said Mr Fogg pardon me but this affair is mine
and mine only  The colonel has again insulted me by insisting
that I should not play a spade and he shall give me satisfaction for it

When and where you will replied the American and with whatever
weapon you choose

Aouda in vain attempted to retain Mr Fogg as vainly did the
detective endeavour to make the quarrel his  Passepartout wished
to throw the colonel out of the window but a sign from his master
checked him  Phileas Fogg left the car and the American followed
him upon the platform  Sir said Mr Fogg to his adversary
I am in a great hurry to get back to Europe and any delay whatever
will be greatly to my disadvantage

Well what s that to me replied Colonel Proctor

Sir said Mr Fogg very politely after our meeting at San Francisco
I determined to return to America and find you as soon as I had completed
the business which called me to England

Really

Will you appoint a meeting for six months hence

Why not ten years hence

I say six months returned Phileas Fogg and I shall be
at the place of meeting promptly

All this is an evasion cried Stamp Proctor  Now or never

Very good  You are going to New York

No

To Chicago

No

To Omaha

What difference is it to you  Do you know Plum Creek

No replied Mr Fogg

It s the next station  The train will be there in an hour
and will stop there ten minutes  In ten minutes several
revolver shots could be exchanged

Very well said Mr Fogg  I will stop at Plum Creek

And I guess you ll stay there too added the American insolently

Who knows replied Mr Fogg returning to the car as coolly as usual
He began to reassure Aouda telling her that blusterers were never
to be feared and begged Fix to be his second at the approaching duel
a request which the detective could not refuse  Mr Fogg resumed
the interrupted game with perfect calmness

At eleven o clock the locomotive s whistle announced that they were
approaching Plum Creek station  Mr Fogg rose and followed by Fix
went out upon the platform  Passepartout accompanied him carrying
a pair of revolvers  Aouda remained in the car as pale as death

The door of the next car opened and Colonel Proctor appeared on the platform
attended by a Yankee of his own stamp as his second  But just as the
combatants were about to step from the train the conductor hurried up
and shouted You can t get off gentlemen

Why not asked the colonel

We are twenty minutes late and we shall not stop

But I am going to fight a duel with this gentleman

I am sorry said the conductor but we shall be off at once
There s the bell ringing now

The train started

I m really very sorry gentlemen said the conductor
Under any other circumstances I should have been happy to oblige you
But after all as you have not had time to fight here
why not fight as we go along

That wouldn t be convenient perhaps for this gentleman
said the colonel in a jeering tone

It would be perfectly so replied Phileas Fogg

Well we are really in America thought Passepartout
and the conductor is a gentleman of the first order

So muttering he followed his master

The two combatants their seconds and the conductor passed through
the cars to the rear of the train  The last car was only occupied
by a dozen passengers whom the conductor politely asked if they would
not be so kind as to leave it vacant for a few moments as two gentlemen
had an affair of honour to settle  The passengers granted the request
with alacrity and straightway disappeared on the platform

The car which was some fifty feet long was very convenient
for their purpose  The adversaries might march on each other
in the aisle and fire at their ease  Never was duel more easily
arranged  Mr Fogg and Colonel Proctor each provided with two
six barrelled revolvers entered the car  The seconds remaining
outside shut them in  They were to begin firing at the first
whistle of the locomotive  After an interval of two minutes
what remained of the two gentlemen would be taken from the car

Nothing could be more simple  Indeed it was all so simple
that Fix and Passepartout felt their hearts beating as if they
would crack  They were listening for the whistle agreed upon
when suddenly savage cries resounded in the air accompanied
by reports which certainly did not issue from the car where
the duellists were  The reports continued in front and the whole
length of the train  Cries of terror proceeded from the interior
of the cars

Colonel Proctor and Mr Fogg revolvers in hand hastily quitted
their prison and rushed forward where the noise was most clamorous
They then perceived that the train was attacked by a band of Sioux

This was not the first attempt of these daring Indians for more than
once they had waylaid trains on the road  A hundred of them had
according to their habit jumped upon the steps without stopping
the train with the ease of a clown mounting a horse at full gallop

The Sioux were armed with guns from which came the reports
to which the passengers who were almost all armed responded
by revolver shots

The Indians had first mounted the engine and half stunned
the engineer and stoker with blows from their muskets
A Sioux chief wishing to stop the train but not knowing
how to work the regulator had opened wide instead of closing
the steam valve and the locomotive was plunging forward
with terrific velocity

The Sioux had at the same time invaded the cars skipping like
enraged monkeys over the roofs thrusting open the doors
and fighting hand to hand with the passengers  Penetrating the
baggage car they pillaged it throwing the trunks out of the train
The cries and shots were constant  The travellers defended
themselves bravely some of the cars were barricaded
and sustained a siege like moving forts carried along
at a speed of a hundred miles an hour

Aouda behaved courageously from the first  She defended herself
like a true heroine with a revolver which she shot through the broken
windows whenever a savage made his appearance  Twenty Sioux had fallen
mortally wounded to the ground and the wheels crushed those who fell
upon the rails as if they had been worms  Several passengers
shot or stunned lay on the seats

It was necessary to put an end to the struggle which had lasted
for ten minutes and which would result in the triumph of the Sioux
if the train was not stopped  Fort Kearney station where there was
a garrison was only two miles distant but that once passed
the Sioux would be masters of the train between Fort Kearney
and the station beyond

The conductor was fighting beside Mr Fogg when he was shot and fell
At the same moment he cried Unless the train is stopped in five minutes
we are lost

It shall be stopped said Phileas Fogg preparing to rush from the car

Stay monsieur cried Passepartout I will go

Mr Fogg had not time to stop the brave fellow who opening a door
unperceived by the Indians succeeded in slipping under the car
and while the struggle continued and the balls whizzed across each
other over his head he made use of his old acrobatic experience
and with amazing agility worked his way under the cars holding on
to the chains aiding himself by the brakes and edges of the sashes
creeping from one car to another with marvellous skill
and thus gaining the forward end of the train

There suspended by one hand between the baggage car and the tender
with the other he loosened the safety chains but owing to the traction
he would never have succeeded in unscrewing the yoking bar
had not a violent concussion jolted this bar out  The train
now detached from the engine remained a little behind
whilst the locomotive rushed forward with increased speed

Carried on by the force already acquired the train still moved
for several minutes but the brakes were worked and at last they stopped
less than a hundred feet from Kearney station

The soldiers of the fort attracted by the shots hurried up
the Sioux had not expected them and decamped in a body before
the train entirely stopped

But when the passengers counted each other on the station platform
several were found missing among others the courageous Frenchman
whose devotion had just saved them



Chapter XXX

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SIMPLY DOES HIS DUTY


Three passengers including Passepartout had disappeared  Had they been
killed in the struggle  Were they taken prisoners by the Sioux
It was impossible to tell

There were many wounded but none mortally  Colonel Proctor was one
of the most seriously hurt he had fought bravely and a ball had entered
his groin  He was carried into the station with the other wounded passengers
to receive such attention as could be of avail

Aouda was safe and Phileas Fogg who had been in the thickest
of the fight had not received a scratch  Fix was slightly
wounded in the arm  But Passepartout was not to be found
and tears coursed down Aouda s cheeks

All the passengers had got out of the train the wheels
of which were stained with blood  From the tyres and spokes
hung ragged pieces of flesh  As far as the eye could reach
on the white plain behind red trails were visible  The last Sioux
were disappearing in the south along the banks of Republican River

Mr Fogg with folded arms remained motionless  He had a serious
decision to make  Aouda standing near him looked at him without speaking
and he understood her look  If his servant was a prisoner ought he not
to risk everything to rescue him from the Indians  I will find him
living or dead said he quietly to Aouda

Ah Mr  Mr Fogg cried she clasping his hands
and covering them with tears

Living added Mr Fogg if we do not lose a moment

Phileas Fogg by this resolution inevitably sacrificed himself
he pronounced his own doom  The delay of a single day would make
him lose the steamer at New York and his bet would be certainly lost
But as he thought It is my duty he did not hesitate

The commanding officer of Fort Kearney was there  A hundred
of his soldiers had placed themselves in a position to defend
the station should the Sioux attack it

Sir said Mr Fogg to the captain three passengers have disappeared

Dead asked the captain

Dead or prisoners that is the uncertainty which must be solved
Do you propose to pursue the Sioux

That s a serious thing to do sir returned the captain
These Indians may retreat beyond the Arkansas and I cannot
leave the fort unprotected

The lives of three men are in question sir said Phileas Fogg

Doubtless but can I risk the lives of fifty men to save three

I don t know whether you can sir but you ought to do so

Nobody here returned the other has a right to teach me my duty

Very well said Mr Fogg coldly  I will go alone

You sir cried Fix coming up you go alone in pursuit of the Indians

Would you have me leave this poor fellow to perish  
him to whom every one present owes his life  I shall go

No sir you shall not go alone cried the captain
touched in spite of himself  No you are a brave man
Thirty volunteers he added turning to the soldiers

The whole company started forward at once  The captain had
only to pick his men  Thirty were chosen and an old sergeant
placed at their head

Thanks captain said Mr Fogg

Will you let me go with you asked Fix

Do as you please sir  But if you wish to do me a favour
you will remain with Aouda  In case anything should happen to me  

A sudden pallor overspread the detective s face  Separate himself
from the man whom he had so persistently followed step by step
Leave him to wander about in this desert  Fix gazed attentively
at Mr Fogg and despite his suspicions and of the struggle
which was going on within him he lowered his eyes before that calm
and frank look

I will stay said he

A few moments after Mr Fogg pressed the young woman s hand and
having confided to her his precious carpet bag went off with the sergeant
and his little squad  But before going he had said to the soldiers
My friends I will divide five thousand dollars among you if we save
the prisoners

It was then a little past noon

Aouda retired to a waiting room and there she waited alone
thinking of the simple and noble generosity the tranquil courage
of Phileas Fogg  He had sacrificed his fortune and was now
risking his life all without hesitation from duty in silence

Fix did not have the same thoughts and could scarcely conceal
his agitation  He walked feverishly up and down the platform
but soon resumed his outward composure  He now saw the folly of which
he had been guilty in letting Fogg go alone  What  This man
whom he had just followed around the world was permitted now to
separate himself from him  He began to accuse and abuse himself
and as if he were director of police administered to himself
a sound lecture for his greenness

I have been an idiot he thought and this man will see it
He has gone and won t come back  But how is it that I Fix
who have in my pocket a warrant for his arrest have been
so fascinated by him  Decidedly I am nothing but an ass

So reasoned the detective while the hours crept by all too slowly
He did not know what to do  Sometimes he was tempted to tell Aouda all
but he could not doubt how the young woman would receive his confidences
What course should he take  He thought of pursuing Fogg across
the vast white plains it did not seem impossible that he might overtake him
Footsteps were easily printed on the snow  But soon under a new sheet
every imprint would be effaced

Fix became discouraged  He felt a sort of insurmountable longing
to abandon the game altogether  He could now leave Fort Kearney station
and pursue his journey homeward in peace

Towards two o clock in the afternoon while it was snowing hard
long whistles were heard approaching from the east  A great shadow
preceded by a wild light slowly advanced appearing still larger
through the mist which gave it a fantastic aspect  No train
was expected from the east neither had there been time for the succour
asked for by telegraph to arrive the train from Omaha to San Francisco
was not due till the next day  The mystery was soon explained

The locomotive which was slowly approaching with deafening whistles
was that which having been detached from the train had continued
its route with such terrific rapidity carrying off the unconscious
engineer and stoker  It had run several miles when the fire becoming
low for want of fuel the steam had slackened and it had finally stopped
an hour after some twenty miles beyond Fort Kearney  Neither the engineer
nor the stoker was dead and after remaining for some time in their swoon
had come to themselves  The train had then stopped  The engineer when he
found himself in the desert and the locomotive without cars understood
what had happened  He could not imagine how the locomotive had become
separated from the train but he did not doubt that the train left behind
was in distress

He did not hesitate what to do  It would be prudent to continue
on to Omaha for it would be dangerous to return to the train
which the Indians might still be engaged in pillaging
Nevertheless he began to rebuild the fire in the furnace
the pressure again mounted and the locomotive returned
running backwards to Fort Kearney  This it was which was whistling
in the mist

The travellers were glad to see the locomotive resume its
place at the head of the train  They could now continue
the journey so terribly interrupted

Aouda on seeing the locomotive come up hurried out of the station
and asked the conductor Are you going to start

At once madam

But the prisoners our unfortunate fellow travellers  

I cannot interrupt the trip replied the conductor
We are already three hours behind time

And when will another train pass here from San Francisco

To morrow evening madam

To morrow evening  But then it will be too late  We must wait  

It is impossible responded the conductor  If you wish to go
please get in

I will not go said Aouda

Fix had heard this conversation  A little while before when there
was no prospect of proceeding on the journey he had made up his mind
to leave Fort Kearney but now that the train was there ready to start
and he had only to take his seat in the car an irresistible influence
held him back  The station platform burned his feet and he could not stir
The conflict in his mind again began anger and failure stifled him
He wished to struggle on to the end

Meanwhile the passengers and some of the wounded among them
Colonel Proctor whose injuries were serious had taken their
places in the train  The buzzing of the over heated boiler was
heard and the steam was escaping from the valves  The engineer
whistled the train started and soon disappeared mingling
its white smoke with the eddies of the densely falling snow

The detective had remained behind

Several hours passed  The weather was dismal and it was very cold
Fix sat motionless on a bench in the station he might have been
thought asleep  Aouda despite the storm kept coming out
of the waiting room going to the end of the platform
and peering through the tempest of snow as if to pierce
the mist which narrowed the horizon around her and to hear
if possible some welcome sound  She heard and saw nothing
Then she would return chilled through to issue out again
after the lapse of a few moments but always in vain

Evening came and the little band had not returned  Where could they be
Had they found the Indians and were they having a conflict with them
or were they still wandering amid the mist  The commander of the fort
was anxious though he tried to conceal his apprehensions
As night approached the snow fell less plentifully
but it became intensely cold  Absolute silence rested on the plains
Neither flight of bird nor passing of beast troubled the perfect calm

Throughout the night Aouda full of sad forebodings her heart
stifled with anguish wandered about on the verge of the plains
Her imagination carried her far off and showed her innumerable dangers
What she suffered through the long hours it would be impossible to describe

Fix remained stationary in the same place but did not sleep
Once a man approached and spoke to him and the detective
merely replied by shaking his head

Thus the night passed  At dawn the half extinguished disc of the sun
rose above a misty horizon  but it was now possible to recognise objects
two miles off  Phileas Fogg and the squad had gone southward
in the south all was still vacancy  It was then seven o clock

The captain who was really alarmed did not know what course to take

Should he send another detachment to the rescue of the first
Should he sacrifice more men with so few chances of saving those
already sacrificed  His hesitation did not last long however
Calling one of his lieutenants he was on the point of ordering
a reconnaissance when gunshots were heard  Was it a signal
The soldiers rushed out of the fort and half a mile off they
perceived a little band returning in good order

Mr Fogg was marching at their head and just behind him were
Passepartout and the other two travellers rescued from the Sioux

They had met and fought the Indians ten miles south of Fort Kearney
Shortly before the detachment arrived  Passepartout and his companions
had begun to struggle with their captors three of whom the Frenchman
had felled with his fists when his master and the soldiers hastened up
to their relief

All were welcomed with joyful cries  Phileas Fogg distributed
the reward he had promised to the soldiers while Passepartout
not without reason muttered to himself It must certainly be
confessed that I cost my master dear

Fix without saying a word looked at Mr Fogg and it would have
been difficult to analyse the thoughts which struggled within him
As for Aouda she took her protector s hand and pressed it in her own
too much moved to speak

Meanwhile Passepartout was looking about for the train he thought
he should find it there ready to start for Omaha and he hoped
that the time lost might be regained

The train the train cried he

Gone replied Fix

And when does the next train pass here said Phileas Fogg

Not till this evening

Ah returned the impassible gentleman quietly




Chapter XXXI

IN WHICH FIX THE DETECTIVE
CONSIDERABLY FURTHERS THE INTERESTS OF PHILEAS FOGG


Phileas Fogg found himself twenty hours behind time
Passepartout the involuntary cause of this delay was desperate
He had ruined his master

At this moment the detective approached Mr Fogg and
looking him intently in the face said

Seriously sir are you in great haste

Quite seriously

I have a purpose in asking resumed Fix  Is it absolutely
necessary that you should be in New York on the 11th before nine o clock
in the evening the time that the steamer leaves for Liverpool

It is absolutely necessary

And if your journey had not been interrupted by these Indians
you would have reached New York on the morning of the 11th

Yes with eleven hours to spare before the steamer left

Good you are therefore twenty hours behind  Twelve from twenty
leaves eight  You must regain eight hours  Do you wish to try to do so

On foot asked Mr Fogg

No on a sledge replied Fix  On a sledge with sails
A man has proposed such a method to me

It was the man who had spoken to Fix during the night and
whose offer he had refused

Phileas Fogg did not reply at once but Fix having pointed out the man
who was walking up and down in front of the station Mr Fogg went up to him
An instant after Mr Fogg and the American whose name was Mudge
entered a hut built just below the fort

There Mr Fogg examined a curious vehicle a kind of frame on two long beams
a little raised in front like the runners of a sledge and upon which there
was room for five or six persons  A high mast was fixed on the frame held
firmly by metallic lashings to which was attached a large brigantine sail
This mast held an iron stay upon which to hoist a jib sail  Behind a sort
of rudder served to guide the vehicle  It was in short a sledge rigged
like a sloop  During the winter when the trains are blocked up by the snow
these sledges make extremely rapid journeys across the frozen plains from one
station to another  Provided with more sails than a cutter and with the wind
behind them they slip over the surface of the prairies with a speed equal
if not superior to that of the express trains

Mr Fogg readily made a bargain with the owner of this land craft
The wind was favourable being fresh and blowing from the west
The snow had hardened and Mudge was very confident of being able
to transport Mr Fogg in a few hours to Omaha  Thence the trains
eastward run frequently to Chicago and New York  It was not impossible
that the lost time might yet be recovered and such an opportunity
was not to be rejected

Not wishing to expose Aouda to the discomforts of travelling
in the open air Mr Fogg proposed to leave her with Passepartout
at Fort Kearney the servant taking upon himself to escort her
to Europe by a better route and under more favourable conditions
But Aouda refused to separate from Mr Fogg and Passepartout
was delighted with her decision for nothing could induce him
to leave his master while Fix was with him

It would be difficult to guess the detective s thoughts  Was this
conviction shaken by Phileas Fogg s return or did he still regard him
as an exceedingly shrewd rascal who his journey round the world completed
would think himself absolutely safe in England  Perhaps Fix s opinion
of Phileas Fogg was somewhat modified but he was nevertheless resolved
to do his duty and to hasten the return of the whole party to England
as much as possible

At eight o clock the sledge was ready to start  The passengers
took their places on it and wrapped themselves up closely
in their travelling cloaks  The two great sails were hoisted
and under the pressure of the wind the sledge slid over the hardened
snow with a velocity of forty miles an hour

The distance between Fort Kearney and Omaha as the birds fly
is at most two hundred miles  If the wind held good the distance
might be traversed in five hours if no accident happened the sledge
might reach Omaha by one o clock

What a journey  The travellers huddled close together could not speak
for the cold intensified by the rapidity at which they were going
The sledge sped on as lightly as a boat over the waves  When the breeze
came skimming the earth the sledge seemed to be lifted off the ground
by its sails  Mudge who was at the rudder kept in a straight line
and by a turn of his hand checked the lurches which the vehicle
had a tendency to make  All the sails were up and the jib
was so arranged as not to screen the brigantine  A top mast was hoisted
and another jib held out to the wind added its force to the other sails
Although the speed could not be exactly estimated the sledge could not
be going at less than forty miles an hour

If nothing breaks said Mudge we shall get there

Mr Fogg had made it for Mudge s interest to reach Omaha
within the time agreed on by the offer of a handsome reward

The prairie across which the sledge was moving in a straight
line was as flat as a sea  It seemed like a vast frozen lake
The railroad which ran through this section ascended from the
south west to the north west by Great Island Columbus
an important Nebraska town Schuyler and Fremont to Omaha
It followed throughout the right bank of the Platte River
The sledge shortening this route took a chord of the arc
described by the railway  Mudge was not afraid of being stopped
by the Platte River because it was frozen  The road then was quite
clear of obstacles and Phileas Fogg had but two things to fear  
an accident to the sledge and a change or calm in the wind

But the breeze far from lessening its force blew as if to
bend the mast which however the metallic lashings held firmly
These lashings like the chords of a stringed instrument
resounded as if vibrated by a violin bow  The sledge slid along
in the midst of a plaintively intense melody

Those chords give the fifth and the octave said Mr Fogg

These were the only words he uttered during the journey
Aouda cosily packed in furs and cloaks was sheltered
as much as possible from the attacks of the freezing wind
As for Passepartout his face was as red as the sun s disc
when it sets in the mist and he laboriously inhaled the biting air
With his natural buoyancy of spirits he began to hope again
They would reach New York on the evening if not on the morning
of the 11th and there was still some chances that it would be before
the steamer sailed for Liverpool

Passepartout even felt a strong desire to grasp his ally Fix by the hand
He remembered that it was the detective who procured the sledge
the only means of reaching Omaha in time but checked by some presentiment
he kept his usual reserve  One thing however Passepartout would
never forget and that was the sacrifice which Mr Fogg had made
without hesitation to rescue him from the Sioux  Mr Fogg had risked
his fortune and his life No  His servant would never forget that

While each of the party was absorbed in reflections so different
the sledge flew past over the vast carpet of snow
The creeks it passed over were not perceived  Fields and streams
disappeared under the uniform whiteness  The plain was absolutely deserted
Between the Union Pacific road and the branch which unites Kearney
with Saint Joseph it formed a great uninhabited island
Neither village station nor fort appeared  From time to time
they sped by some phantom like tree whose white skeleton twisted
and rattled in the wind  Sometimes flocks of wild birds rose
or bands of gaunt famished ferocious prairie wolves ran howling
after the sledge  Passepartout revolver in hand held himself ready
to fire on those which came too near  Had an accident then happened
to the sledge the travellers attacked by these beasts would have been
in the most terrible danger but it held on its even course soon gained
on the wolves and ere long left the howling band at a safe distance behind

About noon Mudge perceived by certain landmarks that he was
crossing the Platte River  He said nothing but he felt certain
that he was now within twenty miles of Omaha  In less than an
hour he left the rudder and furled his sails whilst the sledge
carried forward by the great impetus the wind had given it
went on half a mile further with its sails unspread

It stopped at last and Mudge pointing to a mass of roofs
white with snow said We have got there

Arrived  Arrived at the station which is in daily communication
by numerous trains with the Atlantic seaboard

Passepartout and Fix jumped off stretched their stiffened limbs
and aided Mr Fogg and the young woman to descend from the sledge
Phileas Fogg generously rewarded Mudge whose hand Passepartout
warmly grasped and the party directed their steps to the Omaha
railway station

The Pacific Railroad proper finds its terminus at this
important Nebraska town  Omaha is connected with
Chicago by the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad
which runs directly east and passes fifty stations

A train was ready to start when Mr Fogg and his party reached
the station and they only had time to get into the cars
They had seen nothing of Omaha but Passepartout confessed
to himself that this was not to be regretted as they were not
travelling to see the sights

The train passed rapidly across the State of Iowa by Council Bluffs
Des Moines and Iowa City  During the night it crossed the Mississippi
at Davenport and by Rock Island entered Illinois  The next day
which was the 10th at four o clock in the evening it reached Chicago
already risen from its ruins and more proudly seated than ever
on the borders of its beautiful Lake Michigan

Nine hundred miles separated Chicago from New York but trains
are not wanting at Chicago  Mr Fogg passed at once from one
to the other and the locomotive of the Pittsburgh Fort Wayne
and Chicago Railway left at full speed as if it fully comprehended
that that gentleman had no time to lose  It traversed Indiana
Ohio Pennsylvania and New Jersey like a flash rushing through
towns with antique names some of which had streets and car tracks
but as yet no houses  At last the Hudson came into view and
at a quarter past eleven in the evening of the 11th
the train stopped in the station on the right bank of the river
before the very pier of the Cunard line

The China for Liverpool had started three quarters of an hour before




Chapter XXXII

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG ENGAGES IN A DIRECT STRUGGLE WITH BAD FORTUNE


The China in leaving seemed to have carried off Phileas Fogg s
last hope  None of the other steamers were able to serve his projects
The Pereire of the French Transatlantic Company whose admirable steamers
are equal to any in speed and comfort did not leave until the 14th
the Hamburg boats did not go directly to Liverpool or London but to Havre
and the additional trip from Havre to Southampton would render Phileas Fogg s
last efforts of no avail  The Inman steamer did not depart till the next day
and could not cross the Atlantic in time to save the wager

Mr Fogg learned all this in consulting his Bradshaw
which gave him the daily movements of the trans Atlantic steamers

Passepartout was crushed it overwhelmed him to lose the boat
by three quarters of an hour  It was his fault for
instead of helping his master he had not ceased putting obstacles
in his path  And when he recalled all the incidents of the tour
when he counted up the sums expended in pure loss and on his own account
when he thought that the immense stake added to the heavy charges
of this useless journey would completely ruin Mr Fogg
he overwhelmed himself with bitter self accusations  Mr Fogg
however did not reproach him and on leaving the Cunard pier
only said We will consult about what is best to morrow  Come

The party crossed the Hudson in the Jersey City ferryboat
and drove in a carriage to the St Nicholas Hotel on Broadway
Rooms were engaged and the night passed briefly to Phileas Fogg
who slept profoundly but very long to Aouda and the others
whose agitation did not permit them to rest

The next day was the 12th of December  From seven in the morning
of the 12th to a quarter before nine in the evening of the 21st
there were nine days thirteen hours and forty five minutes
If Phileas Fogg had left in the China one of the fastest steamers
on the Atlantic he would have reached Liverpool and then London
within the period agreed upon

Mr Fogg left the hotel alone after giving Passepartout instructions
to await his return and inform Aouda to be ready at an instant s notice
He proceeded to the banks of the Hudson and looked about among the vessels
moored or anchored in the river for any that were about to depart
Several had departure signals and were preparing to put to sea
at morning tide for in this immense and admirable port there is not one day
in a hundred that vessels do not set out for every quarter of the globe
But they were mostly sailing vessels of which of course Phileas Fogg
could make no use

He seemed about to give up all hope when he espied anchored at the Battery
a cable s length off at most a trading vessel with a screw well shaped
whose funnel puffing a cloud of smoke indicated that she was getting ready
for departure

Phileas Fogg hailed a boat got into it and soon found himself on board
the Henrietta iron hulled wood built above  He ascended to the deck
and asked for the captain who forthwith presented himself  He was a man
of fifty a sort of sea wolf with big eyes a complexion of oxidised copper
red hair and thick neck and a growling voice

The captain asked Mr Fogg

I am the captain

I am Phileas Fogg of London

And I am Andrew Speedy of Cardiff

You are going to put to sea

In an hour

You are bound for  

Bordeaux

And your cargo

No freight  Going in ballast

Have you any passengers

No passengers  Never have passengers  Too much in the way

Is your vessel a swift one

Between eleven and twelve knots  The Henrietta well known

Will you carry me and three other persons to Liverpool

To Liverpool  Why not to China

I said Liverpool

No

No

No  I am setting out for Bordeaux and shall go to Bordeaux

Money is no object

None

The captain spoke in a tone which did not admit of a reply

But the owners of the Henrietta   resumed Phileas Fogg

The owners are myself replied the captain  The vessel belongs to me

I will freight it for you

No

I will buy it of you

No

Phileas Fogg did not betray the least disappointment but the
situation was a grave one  It was not at New York as at Hong Kong
nor with the captain of the Henrietta as with the captain of the Tankadere
Up to this time money had smoothed away every obstacle  Now money failed

Still some means must be found to cross the Atlantic on a boat
unless by balloon  which would have been venturesome
besides not being capable of being put in practice
It seemed that Phileas Fogg had an idea for he said to the captain
Well will you carry me to Bordeaux

No not if you paid me two hundred dollars

I offer you two thousand

Apiece

Apiece

And there are four of you

Four

Captain Speedy began to scratch his head  There were eight thousand dollars
to gain without changing his route for which it was well worth conquering
the repugnance he had for all kinds of passengers  Besides passenger s
at two thousand dollars are no longer passengers but valuable merchandise
I start at nine o clock said Captain Speedy simply  Are you and your
party ready

We will be on board at nine o clock replied no less simply Mr Fogg

It was half past eight  To disembark from the Henrietta jump into a hack
hurry to the St Nicholas and return with Aouda Passepartout and even
the inseparable Fix was the work of a brief time and was performed by
Mr Fogg with the coolness which never abandoned him  They were on board
when the Henrietta made ready to weigh anchor

When Passepartout heard what this last voyage was going to cost
he uttered a prolonged Oh which extended throughout his vocal gamut

As for Fix he said to himself that the Bank of England would certainly
not come out of this affair well indemnified  When they reached England
even if Mr Fogg did not throw some handfuls of bank bills into the sea
more than seven thousand pounds would have been spent




Chapter XXXIII

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG SHOWS HIMSELF EQUAL TO THE OCCASION


An hour after the Henrietta passed the lighthouse which marks the
entrance of the Hudson turned the point of Sandy Hook and put to
sea  During the day she skirted Long Island passed Fire Island
and directed her course rapidly eastward

At noon the next day a man mounted the bridge to ascertain the
vessel s position  It might be thought that this was Captain Speedy
Not the least in the world  It was Phileas Fogg Esquire
As for Captain Speedy he was shut up in his cabin under lock and key
and was uttering loud cries which signified an anger at once pardonable
and excessive

What had happened was very simple  Phileas Fogg wished
to go to Liverpool but the captain would not carry him there
Then Phileas Fogg had taken passage for Bordeaux and during
the thirty hours he had been on board had so shrewdly managed
with his banknotes that the sailors and stokers who were only
an occasional crew and were not on the best terms with the captain
went over to him in a body  This was why Phileas Fogg was in command
instead of Captain Speedy why the captain was a prisoner in his cabin
and why in short the Henrietta was directing her course towards Liverpool
It was very clear to see Mr Fogg manage the craft that he had been a sailor

How the adventure ended will be seen anon  Aouda was anxious though she
said nothing  As for Passepartout he thought Mr Fogg s manoeuvre
simply glorious  The captain had said between eleven and twelve knots
and the Henrietta confirmed his prediction

If then  for there were ifs still  the sea did not become
too boisterous if the wind did not veer round to the east
if no accident happened to the boat or its machinery the Henrietta
might cross the three thousand miles from New York to Liverpool
in the nine days between the 12th and the 21st of December
It is true that once arrived the affair on board the Henrietta
added to that of the Bank of England might create more difficulties
for Mr Fogg than he imagined or could desire

During the first days they went along smoothly enough  The sea was
not very unpropitious the wind seemed stationary in the north east
the sails were hoisted and the Henrietta ploughed across the waves
like a real trans Atlantic steamer

Passepartout was delighted  His master s last exploit the consequences
of which he ignored enchanted him  Never had the crew seen so jolly
and dexterous a fellow  He formed warm friendships with the sailors
and amazed them with his acrobatic feats  He thought they managed
the vessel like gentlemen and that the stokers fired up like heroes
His loquacious good humour infected everyone  He had forgotten the past
its vexations and delays  He only thought of the end so nearly accomplished
and sometimes he boiled over with impatience as if heated by the furnaces
of the Henrietta  Often also the worthy fellow revolved around Fix
looking at him with a keen distrustful eye but he did not speak to him
for their old intimacy no longer existed

Fix it must be confessed understood nothing of what was going on
The conquest of the Henrietta the bribery of the crew Fogg managing
the boat like a skilled seaman amazed and confused him  He did not know
what to think  For after all a man who began by stealing fifty five thousand
pounds might end by stealing a vessel and Fix was not unnaturally inclined
to conclude that the Henrietta under Fogg s command was not going to Liverpool
at all but to some part of the world where the robber turned into a pirate
would quietly put himself in safety  The conjecture was at least a plausible
one and the detective began to seriously regret that he had embarked
on the affair

As for Captain Speedy he continued to howl and growl in his cabin
and Passepartout whose duty it was to carry him his meals
courageous as he was took the greatest precautions  Mr Fogg
did not seem even to know that there was a captain on board

On the 13th they passed the edge of the Banks of Newfoundland
a dangerous locality during the winter especially there are
frequent fogs and heavy gales of wind  Ever since the evening
before the barometer suddenly falling had indicated an approaching
change in the atmosphere and during the night the temperature varied
the cold became sharper and the wind veered to the south east

This was a misfortune  Mr Fogg in order not to deviate from his course
furled his sails and increased the force of the steam but the vessel s speed
slackened owing to the state of the sea the long waves of which broke against
the stern  She pitched violently and this retarded her progress
The breeze little by little swelled into a tempest and it was to be feared
that the Henrietta might not be able to maintain herself upright on the waves

Passepartout s visage darkened with the skies and for two days the poor
fellow experienced constant fright  But Phileas Fogg was a bold mariner
and knew how to maintain headway against the sea and he kept on his course
without even decreasing his steam  The Henrietta when she could not rise
upon the waves crossed them swamping her deck but passing safely
Sometinies the screw rose out of the water beating its protruding end
when a mountain of water raised the stern above the waves but the craft
always kept straight ahead

The wind however did not grow as boisterous as might have been feared
it was not one of those tempests which burst and rush on with a speed
of ninety miles an hour  It continued fresh but unhappily it remained
obstinately in the south east rendering the sails useless

The 16th of December was the seventy fifth day since Phileas Fogg s
departure from London and the Henrietta had not yet been seriously delayed
Half of the voyage was almost accomplished and the worst localities
had been passed  In summer success would have been well nigh certain
In winter they were at the mercy of the bad season  Passepartout
said nothing but he cherished hope in secret and comforted himself
with the reflection that if the wind failed them they might still
count on the steam

On this day the engineer came on deck went up to Mr Fogg and
began to speak earnestly with him  Without knowing why it was
a presentiment perhaps Passepartout became vaguely uneasy
He would have given one of his ears to hear with the other what
the engineer was saying  He finally managed to catch a few words
and was sure he heard his master say You are certain of what you tell me

Certain sir replied the engineer  You must remember that
since we started we have kept up hot fires in all our furnaces
and though we had coal enough to go on short steam from New York to
Bordeaux we haven t enough to go with all steam from New York to Liverpool
I will consider replied Mr Fogg

Passepartout understood it all he was seized with mortal anxiety
The coal was giving out  Ah if my master can get over that
muttered he he ll be a famous man  He could not help imparting
to Fix what he had overheard

Then you believe that we really are going to Liverpool

Of course

Ass replied the detective shrugging his shoulders and turning on his heel

Passepartout was on the point of vigorously resenting the epithet
the reason of which he could not for the life of him comprehend
but he reflected that the unfortunate Fix was probably very much
disappointed and humiliated in his self esteem after having so
awkwardly followed a false scent around the world and refrained

And now what course would Phileas Fogg adopt  It was difficult
to imagine  Nevertheless he seemed to have decided upon one
for that evening he sent for the engineer and said to him
Feed all the fires until the coal is exhausted

A few moments after the funnel of the Henrietta vomited forth torrents
of smoke  The vessel continued to proceed with all steam on
but on the 18th the engineer as he had predicted announced
that the coal would give out in the course of the day

Do not let the fires go down replied Mr Fogg
Keep them up to the last  Let the valves be filled

Towards noon Phileas Fogg having ascertained their position
called Passepartout and ordered him to go for Captain Speedy
It was as if the honest fellow had been commanded to unchain a tiger
He went to the poop saying to himself He will be like a madman

In a few moments with cries and oaths a bomb appeared on the poop deck
The bomb was Captain Speedy  It was clear that he was on the point
of bursting  Where are we  were the first words his anger permitted
him to utter  Had the poor man be an apoplectic he could never have
recovered from his paroxysm of wrath

Where are we he repeated with purple face

Seven hundred and seven miles from Liverpool
replied Mr Fogg with imperturbable calmness

Pirate cried Captain Speedy

I have sent for you sir  

Pickaroon

  sir continued Mr Fogg to ask you to sell me your vessel

No  By all the devils no

But I shall be obliged to burn her

Burn the Henrietta

Yes at least the upper part of her  The coal has given out

Burn my vessel cried Captain Speedy who could scarcely
pronounce the words  A vessel worth fifty thousand dollars

Here are sixty thousand replied Phileas Fogg handing the
captain a roll of bank bills  This had a prodigious effect
on Andrew Speedy  An American can scarcely remain unmoved
at the sight of sixty thousand dollars  The captain forgot
in an instant his anger his imprisonment and all his grudges
against his passenger  The Henrietta was twenty years old
it was a great bargain  The bomb would not go off after all
Mr Fogg had taken away the match

And I shall still have the iron hull said the captain in a softer tone

The iron hull and the engine  Is it agreed

Agreed

And Andrew Speedy seizing the banknotes counted them
and consigned them to his pocket

During this colloquy Passepartout was as white as a sheet
and Fix seemed on the point of having an apoplectic fit
Nearly twenty thousand pounds had been expended and Fogg
left the hull and engine to the captain that is
near the whole value of the craft  It was true however
that fifty five thousand pounds had been stolen from the Bank

When Andrew Speedy had pocketed the money Mr Fogg said to him
Don t let this astonish you sir  You must know that I shall
lose twenty thousand pounds unless I arrive in London by
a quarter before nine on the evening of the 21st of December
I missed the steamer at New York and as you refused to take me to Liverpool  

And I did well cried Andrew Speedy for I have gained at
least forty thousand dollars by it  He added more sedately
Do you know one thing Captain  

Fogg

Captain Fogg you ve got something of the Yankee about you

And having paid his passenger what he considered a high compliment
he was going away when Mr Fogg said The vessel now belongs to me

Certainly from the keel to the truck of the masts  all the wood that is

Very well  Have the interior seats bunks and frames pulled down
and burn them

It was necessary to have dry wood to keep the steam up
to the adequate pressure and on that day the poop cabins
bunks and the spare deck were sacrificed  On the next day
the 19th of December the masts rafts and spars were burned
the crew worked lustily keeping up the fires  Passepartout hewed cut
and sawed away with all his might  There was a perfect rage for demolition

The railings fittings the greater part of the deck and top sides
disappeared on the 20th and the Henrietta was now only a flat hulk
But on this day they sighted the Irish coast and Fastnet Light
By ten in the evening they were passing Queenstown  Phileas Fogg
had only twenty four hours more in which to get to London
that length of time was necessary to reach Liverpool with all steam on
And the steam was about to give out altogether

Sir said Captain Speedy who was now deeply interested in
Mr Fogg s project I really commiserate you  Everything is
against you  We are only opposite Queenstown

Ah said Mr Fogg is that place where we see the lights Queenstown

Yes

Can we enter the harbour

Not under three hours  Only at high tide

Stay replied Mr Fogg calmly without betraying in his features
that by a supreme inspiration he was about to attempt once more
to conquer ill fortune

Queenstown is the Irish port at which the trans Atlantic steamers
stop to put off the mails  These mails are carried to Dublin
by express trains always held in readiness to start from Dublin
they are sent on to Liverpool by the most rapid boats
and thus gain twelve hours on the Atlantic steamers

Phileas Fogg counted on gaining twelve hours in the same way
Instead of arriving at Liverpool the next evening by the Henrietta
he would be there by noon and would therefore have time to reach London
before a quarter before nine in the evening

The Henrietta entered Queenstown Harbour at one o clock in the morning
it then being high tide and Phileas Fogg after being grasped heartily
by the hand by Captain Speedy left that gentleman on the levelled hulk
of his craft which was still worth half what he had sold it for

The party went on shore at once  Fix was greatly tempted
to arrest Mr Fogg on the spot but he did not  Why  What struggle
was going on within him  Had he changed his mind about his man
Did he understand that he had made a grave mistake  He did not
however abandon Mr Fogg  They all got upon the train which was
just ready to start at half past one at dawn of day they were
in Dublin and they lost no time in embarking on a steamer which
disdaining to rise upon the waves invariably cut through them

Phileas Fogg at last disembarked on the Liverpool quay
at twenty minutes before twelve 21st December  He was only
six hours distant from London

But at this moment Fix came up put his hand upon Mr Fogg s shoulder
and showing his warrant said You are really Phileas Fogg

I am

I arrest you in the Queen s name




Chapter XXXIV

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG AT LAST REACHES LONDON


Phileas Fogg was in prison  He had been shut up in the Custom House
and he was to he transferred to London the next day

Passepartout when he saw his master arrested would have
fallen upon Fix had he not been held back by some policemen
Aouda was thunderstruck at the suddenness of an event which
she could not understand  Passepartout explained to her how
it was that the honest and courageous Fogg was arrested as a robber
The young woman s heart revolted against so heinous a charge
and when she saw that she could attempt to do nothing to save
her protector she wept bitterly

As for Fix he had arrested Mr Fogg because it was his duty
whether Mr Fogg were guilty or not

The thought then struck Passepartout that he was the cause of this
new misfortune  Had he not concealed Fix s errand from his master
When Fix revealed his true character and purpose why had he not told
Mr Fogg  If the latter had been warned he would no doubt have given
Fix proof of his innocence and satisfied him of his mistake at least
Fix would not have continued his journey at the expense and on the heels
of his master only to arrest him the moment he set foot on English soil
Passepartout wept till he was blind and felt like blowing his brains out

Aouda and he had remained despite the cold under the portico
of the Custom House  Neither wished to leave the place
both were anxious to see Mr Fogg again

That gentleman was really ruined and that at the moment
when he was about to attain his end  This arrest was fatal
Having arrived at Liverpool at twenty minutes before
twelve on the 21st of December he had till a quarter before nine
that evening to reach the Reform Club that is nine hours and a quarter
the journey from Liverpool to London was six hours

If anyone at this moment had entered the Custom House
he would have found Mr Fogg seated motionless calm and without
apparent anger upon a wooden bench  He was not it is true
resigned but this last blow failed to force him into an outward
betrayal of any emotion  Was he being devoured by one of those
secret rages all the more terrible because contained and which
only burst forth with an irresistible force at the last moment
No one could tell  There he sat calmly waiting  for what
Did he still cherish hope  Did he still believe now that the door
of this prison was closed upon him that he would succeed

However that may have been Mr Fogg carefully put his watch
upon the table and observed its advancing hands  Not a word
escaped his lips but his look was singularly set and stern
The situation in any event was a terrible one and might be
thus stated if Phileas Fogg was honest he was ruined if he
was a knave he was caught

Did escape occur to him  Did he examine to see if there were
any practicable outlet from his prison  Did he think of escaping
from it  Possibly for once he walked slowly around the room
But the door was locked and the window heavily barred with
iron rods  He sat down again and drew his journal from his pocket
On the line where these words were written 21st December
Saturday Liverpool he added 80th day 1140 am and waited

The Custom House clock struck one  Mr Fogg observed that his watch
was two hours too fast

Two hours  Admitting that he was at this moment taking an
express train he could reach London and the Reform Club
by a quarter before nine pm  His forehead slightly wrinkled

At thirty three minutes past two he heard a singular noise outside
then a hasty opening of doors  Passepartout s voice was audible
and immediately after that of Fix  Phileas Fogg s eyes brightened
for an instant

The door swung open and he saw Passepartout Aouda and Fix
who hurried towards him

Fix was out of breath and his hair was in disorder  He could not speak
Sir he stammered sir  forgive me  most   unfortunate resemblance  
robber arrested three days ago  you are free

Phileas Fogg was free  He walked to the detective looked him steadily
in the face and with the only rapid motion he had ever made in his life
or which he ever would make drew back his arms and with the precision
of a machine knocked Fix down

Well hit cried Passepartout Parbleu that s what
you might call a good application of English fists

Fix who found himself on the floor did not utter a word
He had only received his deserts  Mr Fogg Aouda and Passepartout
left the Custom House without delay got into a cab and in a few
moments descended at the station

Phileas Fogg asked if there was an express train
about to leave for London  It was forty minutes past two
The express train had left thirty five minutes before
Phileas Fogg then ordered a special train

There were several rapid locomotives on hand but the railway arrangements
did not permit the special train to leave until three o clock

At that hour Phileas Fogg having stimulated the engineer by
the offer of a generous reward at last set out towards London
with Aouda and his faithful servant

It was necessary to make the journey in five hours and a half
and this would have been easy on a clear road throughout
But there were forced delays and when Mr Fogg stepped
from the train at the terminus all the clocks in London
were striking ten minutes before nine

Having made the tour of the world he was behind hand
five minutes  He had lost the wager




Chapter XXXV

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG DOES NOT HAVE TO
REPEAT HIS ORDERS TO PASSEPARTOUT TWICE


The dwellers in Saville Row would have been surprised the next day
if they had been told that Phileas Fogg had returned home
His doors and windows were still closed no appearance of change was visible

After leaving the station Mr Fogg gave Passepartout instructions
to purchase some provisions and quietly went to his domicile

He bore his misfortune with his habitual tranquillity
Ruined  And by the blundering of the detective  After having
steadily traversed that long journey overcome a hundred obstacles
braved many dangers and still found time to do some good on his way
to fail near the goal by a sudden event which he could not have foreseen
and against which he was unarmed it was terrible  But a few pounds were
left of the large sum he had carried with him  There only remained
of his fortune the twenty thousand pounds deposited at Barings
and this amount he owed to his friends of the Reform Club
So great had been the expense of his tour that even had he won
it would not have enriched him and it is probable that he had not sought
to enrich himself being a man who rather laid wagers for honour s sake
than for the stake proposed  But this wager totally ruined him

Mr Fogg s course however was fully decided upon he knew what remained
for him to do

A room in the house in Saville Row was set apart for Aouda
who was overwhelmed with grief at her protector s misfortune
From the words which Mr Fogg dropped she saw that he was
meditating some serious project

Knowing that Englishmen governed by a fixed idea sometimes resort
to the desperate expedient of suicide Passepartout kept a narrow watch
upon his master though he carefully concealed the appearance of so doing

First of all the worthy fellow had gone up to his room and had extinguished
the gas burner which had been burning for eighty days  He had found
in the letter box a bill from the gas company and he thought it more
than time to put a stop to this expense which he had been doomed to bear

The night passed  Mr Fogg went to bed but did he sleep
Aouda did not once close her eyes  Passepartout watched
all night like a faithful dog at his master s door

Mr Fogg called him in the morning and told him to get
Aouda s breakfast and a cup of tea and a chop for himself
He desired Aouda to excuse him from breakfast and dinner
as his time would be absorbed all day in putting his affairs to rights
In the evening he would ask permission to have a few moment s
conversation with the young lady

Passepartout having received his orders had nothing to do but obey them
He looked at his imperturbable master and could scarcely bring his mind
to leave him  His heart was full and his conscience tortured by remorse
for he accused himself more bitterly than ever of being the cause
of the irretrievable disaster  Yes if he had warned Mr Fogg
and had betrayed Fix s projects to him his master would certainly
not have given the detective passage to Liverpool and then  

Passepartout could hold in no longer

My master  Mr Fogg he cried why do you not curse me
It was my fault that  

I blame no one returned Phileas Fogg with perfect calmness  Go

Passepartout left the room and went to find Aouda
to whom he delivered his master s message

Madam he added I can do nothing myself  nothing
I have no influence over my master but you perhaps  

What influence could I have replied Aouda  Mr Fogg
is influenced by no one  Has he ever understood that my gratitude
to him is overflowing  Has he ever read my heart  My friend
he must not be left alone an instant  You say he is going to
speak with me this evening

Yes madam probably to arrange for your protection and comfort in England

We shall see replied Aouda becoming suddenly pensive

Throughout this day (Sunday) the house in Saville Row was as if uninhabited
and Phileas Fogg for the first time since he had lived in that house
did not set out for his club when Westminster clock struck half past eleven

Why should he present himself at the Reform  His friends no longer expected
him there  As Phileas Fogg had not appeared in the saloon on the
evening before (Saturday the 21st of December at a quarter before nine)
he had lost his wager  It was not even necessary that he should go to
his bankers for the twenty thousand pounds for his antagonists already
had his cheque in their hands and they had only to fill it out
and send it to the Barings to have the amount transferred to their credit

Mr Fogg therefore had no reason for going out and so
he remained at home  He shut himself up in his room
and busied himself putting his affairs in order
Passepartout continually ascended and descended the stairs
The hours were long for him He listened at his master s door
and looked through the keyhole as if he had a perfect right so to do
and as if he feared that something terrible might happen at any moment
Sometimes he thought of Fix but no longer in anger  Fix like all
the world had been mistaken in Phileas Fogg and had only done his duty
in tracking and arresting him while he Passepartout   
This thought haunted him and he never ceased cursing his miserable folly

Finding himself too wretched to remain alone he knocked at Aouda s door
went into her room seated himself without speaking in a corner
and looked ruefully at the young woman Aouda was still pensive

About half past seven in the evening Mr Fogg sent to know
if Aouda would receive him and in a few moments he found himself
alone with her

Phileas Fogg took a chair and sat down near the fireplace
opposite Aouda  No emotion was visible on his face
Fogg returned was exactly the Fogg who had gone away
there was the same calm the same impassibility

He sat several minutes without speaking then bending his eyes on Aouda
Madam said he will you pardon me for bringing you to England

I Mr Fogg replied Aouda checking the pulsations of her heart

Please let me finish returned Mr Fogg  When I decided to
bring you far away from the country which was so unsafe for you
I was rich and counted on putting a portion of my fortune
at your disposal then your existence would have been free and happy
But now I am ruined

I know it Mr Fogg replied Aouda and I ask you in my turn
will you forgive me for having followed you and  who knows  for having
perhaps delayed you and thus contributed to your ruin

Madam you could not remain in India and your safety could
only be assured by bringing you to such a distance that your
persecutors could not take you

So Mr Fogg resumed Aouda not content with rescuing me
from a terrible death you thought yourself bound to secure
my comfort in a foreign land

Yes madam but circumstances have been against me
Still I beg to place the little I have left at your service

But what will become of you Mr Fogg

As for me madam replied the gentleman coldly I have need of nothing

But how do you look upon the fate sir which awaits you

As I am in the habit of doing

At least said Aouda want should not overtake a man like you
Your friends  

I have no friends madam

Your relatives  

I have no longer any relatives

I pity you then Mr Fogg for solitude is a sad thing
with no heart to which to confide your griefs  They say
though that misery itself shared by two sympathetic souls
may be borne with patience

They say so madam

Mr Fogg said Aouda rising and seizing his hand do you wish
at once a kinswoman and friend  Will you have me for your wife

Mr Fogg at this rose in his turn  There was an unwonted
light in his eyes and a slight trembling of his lips
Aouda looked into his face  The sincerity rectitude firmness
and sweetness of this soft glance of a noble woman who could dare
all to save him to whom she owed all at first astonished
then penetrated him  He shut his eyes for an instant
as if to avoid her look  When he opened them again
I love you he said simply  Yes by all that is holiest
I love you and I am entirely yours

Ah cried Aouda pressing his hand to her heart

Passepartout was summoned and appeared immediately  Mr Fogg
still held Aouda s hand in his own Passepartout understood
and his big round face became as radiant as the tropical sun
at its zenith

Mr Fogg asked him if it was not too late to notify
the Reverend Samuel Wilson of Marylebone parish that evening

Passepartout smiled his most genial smile and said
Never too late

It was five minutes past eight

Will it be for to morrow Monday

For to morrow Monday said Mr Fogg turning to Aouda

Yes for to morrow Monday she replied

Passepartout hurried off as fast as his legs could carry him




Chapter XXXVI

IN WHICH PHILEAS FOGG S NAME IS ONCE MORE AT A PREMIUM ON  CHANGE


It is time to relate what a change took place in English
public opinion when it transpired that the real bankrobber
a certain James Strand had been arrested on the 17th day of December
at Edinburgh  Three days before Phileas Fogg had been a criminal
who was being desperately followed up by the police now he was an
honourable gentleman mathematically pursuing his eccentric journey
round the world

The papers resumed their discussion about the wager all those
who had laid bets for or against him revived their interest
as if by magic the Phileas Fogg bonds again became negotiable
and many new wagers were made  Phileas Fogg s name was once more
at a premium on  Change

His five friends of the Reform Club passed these three days in
a state of feverish suspense  Would Phileas Fogg whom they had
forgotten reappear before their eyes  Where was he at this moment
The 17th of December the day of James Strand s arrest
was the seventy sixth since Phileas Fogg s departure
and no news of him had been received  Was he dead
Had he abandoned the effort or was he continuing his journey
along the route agreed upon  And would he appear on Saturday
the 21st of December at a quarter before nine in the evening
on the threshold of the Reform Club saloon

The anxiety in which for three days London society existed
cannot be described  Telegrams were sent to America and Asia
for news of Phileas Fogg  Messengers were dispatched to the house
in Saville Row morning and evening  No news  The police were
ignorant what had become of the detective Fix who had so
unfortunately followed up a false scent  Bets increased
nevertheless in number and value  Phileas Fogg like a
racehorse was drawing near his last turning point  The bonds
were quoted no longer at a hundred below par but at twenty
at ten and at five and paralytic old Lord Albemarle bet even
in his favour

A great crowd was collected in Pall Mall and the neighbouring
streets on Saturday evening it seemed like a multitude of brokers
permanently established around the Reform Club  Circulation
was impeded and everywhere disputes discussions and financial
transactions were going on  The police had great difficulty in
keeping back the crowd and as the hour when Phileas Fogg
was due approached the excitement rose to its highest pitch

The five antagonists of Phileas Fogg had met in the great saloon of the club
John Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin the bankers Andrew Stuart the engineer
Gauthier Ralph the director of the Bank of England and Thomas Flanagan
the brewer one and all waited anxiously

When the clock indicated twenty minutes past eight Andrew Stuart got up
saying Gentlemen in twenty minutes the time agreed upon between Mr Fogg
and ourselves will have expired

What time did the last train arrive from Liverpool  asked Thomas Flanagan

At twenty three minutes past seven replied Gauthier Ralph
and the next does not arrive till ten minutes after twelve

Well gentlemen resumed Andrew Stuart if Phileas Fogg
had come in the 723 train he would have got here by this time
We can therefore regard the bet as won

Wait don t let us be too hasty replied Samuel Fallentin
You know that Mr Fogg is very eccentric  His punctuality
is well known he never arrives too soon or too late and I
should not be surprised if he appeared before us at the last minute

Why said Andrew Stuart nervously if I should see him
I should not believe it was he

The fact is resumed Thomas Flanagan Mr Fogg s project
was absurdly foolish  Whatever his punctuality he could not
prevent the delays which were certain to occur and a delay
of only two or three days would be fatal to his tour

Observe too added John Sullivan that we have received no
intelligence from him though there are telegraphic lines all
along is route

He has lost gentleman said Andrew Stuart he has a hundred times lost
You know besides that the China the only steamer he could have taken
from New York to get here in time arrived yesterday  I have seen a list
of the passengers and the name of Phileas Fogg is not among them
Even if we admit that fortune has favoured him he can scarcely
have reached America  I think he will be at least twenty days behind hand
and that Lord Albemarle will lose a cool five thousand

It is clear replied Gauthier Ralph and we have nothing to do
but to present Mr Fogg s cheque at Barings to morrow

At this moment the hands of the club clock pointed
to twenty minutes to nine

Five minutes more said Andrew Stuart

The five gentlemen looked at each other  Their anxiety was becoming intense
but not wishing to betray it they readily assented to Mr Fallentin s
proposal of a rubber

I wouldn t give up my four thousand of the bet said Andrew Stuart
as he took his seat for three thousand nine hundred and ninety nine

The clock indicated eighteen minutes to nine

The players took up their cards but could not keep their eyes
off the clock  Certainly however secure they felt
minutes had never seemed so long to them

Seventeen minutes to nine said Thomas Flanagan as he cut the cards
which Ralph handed to him

Then there was a moment of silence  The great saloon was perfectly quiet but
the murmurs of the crowd outside were heard with now and then a shrill cry
The pendulum beat the seconds which each player eagerly counted
as he listened with mathematical regularity

Sixteen minutes to nine said John Sullivan in a voice which betrayed
his emotion

One minute more and the wager would be won  Andrew Stuart
and his partners suspended their game  They left their cards
and counted the seconds

At the fortieth second nothing  At the fiftieth still nothing

At the fifty fifth a loud cry was heard in the street
followed by applause hurrahs and some fierce growls

The players rose from their seats

At the fifty seventh second the door of the saloon opened
and the pendulum had not beat the sixtieth second when
Phileas Fogg appeared followed by an excited crowd
who had forced their way through the club doors
and in his calm voice said Here I am gentlemen




Chapter XXXVII

IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT PHILEAS FOGG GAINED NOTHING BY HIS
TOUR AROUND THE WORLD UNLESS IT WERE HAPPINESS


Yes Phileas Fogg in person

The reader will remember that at five minutes past eight in the evening  
about five and twenty hours after the arrival of the travellers in London  
Passepartout had been sent by his master to engage the services of
the Reverend Samuel Wilson in a certain marriage ceremony
which was to take place the next day

Passepartout went on his errand enchanted  He soon
reached the clergyman s house but found him not at home
Passepartout waited a good twenty minutes and when he left
the reverend gentleman it was thirty five minutes past eight
But in what a state he was  With his hair in disorder
and without his hat he ran along the street as never man
was seen to run before overturning passers by
rushing over the sidewalk like a waterspout

In three minutes he was in Saville Row again
and staggered back into Mr Fogg s room

He could not speak

What is the matter asked Mr Fogg

My master gasped Passepartout  marriage  impossible  

Impossible

Impossible  for to morrow

Why so

Because to morrow  is Sunday

Monday replied Mr Fogg

No  to day is Saturday

Saturday  Impossible

Yes yes yes yes cried Passepartout  You have made a mistake
of one day  We arrived twenty four hours ahead of time
but there are only ten minutes left

Passepartout had seized his master by the collar
and was dragging him along with irresistible force

Phileas Fogg thus kidnapped without having time to think
left his house jumped into a cab promised a hundred pounds
to the cabman and having run over two dogs and overturned
five carriages reached the Reform Club

The clock indicated a quarter before nine when he appeared
in the great saloon

Phileas Fogg had accomplished the journey round the world in eighty days

Phileas Fogg had won his wager of twenty thousand pounds

How was it that a man so exact and fastidious could have made
this error of a day  How came he to think that he had arrived
in London on Saturday the twenty first day of December
when it was really Friday the twentieth the seventy ninth day
only from his departure

The cause of the error is very simple

Phileas Fogg had without suspecting it gained one day on his journey
and this merely because he had travelled constantly eastward he would
on the contrary have lost a day had he gone in the opposite direction
that is westward

In journeying eastward he had gone towards the sun and the days therefore
diminished for him as many times four minutes as he crossed degrees
in this direction  There are three hundred and sixty degrees
on the circumference of the earth and these three hundred and sixty degrees
multiplied by four minutes gives precisely twenty four hours  that is
the day unconsciously gained  In other words while Phileas Fogg
going eastward saw the sun pass the meridian eighty times
his friends in London only saw it pass the meridian seventy nine times
This is why they awaited him at the Reform Club on Saturday
and not Sunday as Mr Fogg thought

And Passepartout s famous family watch which had always kept London time
would have betrayed this fact if it had marked the days as well as
the hours and the minutes

Phileas Fogg then had won the twenty thousand pounds but
as he had spent nearly nineteen thousand on the way the pecuniary
gain was small  His object was however to be victorious
and not to win money  He divided the one thousand pounds
that remained between Passepartout and the unfortunate Fix
against whom he cherished no grudge  He deducted however
from Passepartout s share the cost of the gas which had burned
in his room for nineteen hundred and twenty hours
for the sake of regularity

That evening Mr Fogg as tranquil and phlegmatic as ever
said to Aouda Is our marriage still agreeable to you

Mr Fogg replied she it is for me to ask that question
You were ruined but now you are rich again

Pardon me madam my fortune belongs to you  If you had not
suggested our marriage my servant would not have gone to
the Reverend Samuel Wilson s I should not have been apprised
of my error and  

Dear Mr Fogg said the young woman

Dear Aouda replied Phileas Fogg

It need not be said that the marriage took place forty eight hours after
and that Passepartout glowing and dazzling gave the bride away
Had he not saved her and was he not entitled to this honour

The next day as soon as it was light Passepartout rapped
vigorously at his master s door  Mr Fogg opened it and asked
What s the matter Passepartout

What is it sir  Why I ve just this instant found out  

What

That we might have made the tour of the world in only seventy eight days

No doubt returned Mr Fogg by not crossing India  But if
I had not crossed India I should not have saved Aouda
she would not have been my wife and  

Mr Fogg quietly shut the door

Phileas Fogg had won his wager and had made his journey
around the world in eighty days  To do this he had employed
every means of conveyance  steamers railways carriages yachts
trading vessels sledges elephants  The eccentric gentleman
had throughout displayed all his marvellous qualities of coolness
and exactitude  But what then  What had he really gained by all
this trouble  What had he brought back from this long and weary journey

Nothing say you  Perhaps so nothing but a charming woman
who strange as it may appear made him the happiest of men

Truly would you not for less than that make the tour around the world

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