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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Round the World in Eighty Days + +Author: Jules Verne + +Translator: Henry Frith + +Release Date: June 25, 2010 [EBook #32972] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS *** + + + + +Produced by Alex Kirstukas + + + + +Transcriber's Note: _Round the World in Eighty Days_ (London: +Routledge, 1878) was the third English translation of Jules Verne's +_Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours_ to be published. It has +since been greatly overshadowed by the 1873 version by George +Makepeace Towle (available on Project Gutenberg as EText-No. 103). +This text version of Frith's translation was transcribed from a Google +Books scan of an 1879 edition published in London by George Routledge +and Sons. The text and images used were generously made available by +the Internet Archive. All of Frith's deviations from Verne's text +have been retained, including such unusual spellings as "Passe-partout" +for "Passepartout" and "Maudiboy" for "Mandiboy," but obvious +typographical errors have been corrected. + + + + + +ROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS + +By Jules Verne + +Translated by Henry Frith + + + +CHAPTER I. + +In which Phileas Fogg and Passe-partout accept, relatively, the +positions of Master and Servant. + + + +In the year of grace One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, the +house in which Sheridan died in 1816--viz. No. 7, Saville Row, +Burlington Gardens--was occupied by Phileas Fogg, Esq., one of the +most eccentric members of the Reform Club, though it always appeared +as if he were very anxious to avoid remark. Phileas had succeeded to +the house of one of England's greatest orators, but, unlike his +predecessor, no one knew anything of Fogg, who was impenetrable, +though a brave man and moving in the best society. Some people +declared that he resembled Byron--merely in appearance, for he was +irreproachable in tone--but still a Byron with whiskers and moustache: +an impassible Byron, who might live a thousand years and not get old. + +A thorough Briton was Phileas Fogg, though perhaps not a Londoner. He +was never seen on the Stock Exchange, nor at the Bank of England, nor +at any of the great City houses. No vessel with a cargo consigned to +Phileas Fogg ever entered the port of London. He held no Government +appointment. He had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court. He +had never pleaded at the Chancery Bar, the Queen's Bench, the +Exchequer, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He was not a merchant, a +manufacturer, a farmer, nor a man of business of any kind. He was not +in the habit of frequenting the Royal Institution or any other of the +learned societies of the metropolis. He was simply a member of the +"Reform," and that was all! + +If anyone ever inquired how it was that he had become a member of the +club, the questioner was informed that he had been put up by the +Barings, with whom he kept his account, which always showed a good +balance, and from which his cheques were regularly and promptly +honoured. + +Was Phileas Fogg a rich man? Unquestionably. But in what manner he had +made his money even the best-informed gossips could not tell, and Mr. +Fogg was the very last person from whom one would seek to obtain +information on the subject. He was never prodigal in expenditure, but +never stingy; and whenever his contribution towards some good or +useful object was required he gave cheerfully, and in many cases +anonymously. + +In short, he was one of the most uncommunicative of men. He talked +little, and his habitual taciturnity added to the mystery surrounding +him. Nevertheless, his life was simple and open enough, but he +regulated all his actions with a mathematical exactness which, to the +imagination of the quidnuncs, was in itself suspicious. + +Had he ever travelled? It was very probable, for no one was better +informed in the science of geography. There was apparently no +out-of-the-way place concerning which he had not some exclusive +information. Occasionally, in a few sentences, he would clear away the +thousand-and-one rumours which circulated in the club concerning some +lost or some nearly-forgotten traveller; he would point out the true +probabilities; and it really appeared as if he were gifted with second +sight, so correctly were his anticipations justified by succeeding +events. He was a man who must have been everywhere--in spirit at +least. + +One thing at any rate was certain, viz. that he had not been absent +from London for many a year. Those with whom he was on a more intimate +footing used to declare that no one had ever seen him anywhere else +but on his way to or from his club. His only amusement was a game of +whist, varied by the perusal of the daily papers. At whist, which was +a game peculiarly fitted to such a taciturn disposition as his, he was +habitually a winner; but his gains always were expended in charitable +objects. Besides, it was evident to everyone that Mr. Fogg played for +the game, not for the sake of winning money. It was a trial of skill +with him, a combat; but a fight unaccompanied by fatigue, and one +entailing no great exertion, and thus suiting him "down to the +ground!" + +No one had ever credited Phileas Fogg with wife or child, which even +the most scrupulously honest people may possess; nor even had he any +near relatives or intimate friends, who are more rare in this world. +He lived alone in his house in Saville Row, and no one called upon +him, or at any rate entered there. One servant sufficed for him. He +took all his meals at his club, but he never shared a table with any +of his acquaintance, nor did he ever invite a stranger to dinner. He +only returned home to sleep at midnight precisely, for he never +occupied any one of the comfortable bedrooms provided by the "Reform" +for its members. Ten hours of the four-and-twenty he passed at home, +partly sleeping, partly dressing or undressing. If he walked, it was +in the entrance-hall with its mosaic pavement, or in the circular +gallery beneath the dome, which was supported by twenty Ionic columns. +Here he would pace with measured step. When he dined or breakfasted, +all the resources of the club were taxed to supply his table with the +daintiest fare; he was waited upon by the gravest black-coated +servants, who stepped softly as they ministered to his wants upon a +special porcelain service and upon the most expensive damask. His wine +was contained in decanters of a now unobtainable mould, while his +sherry was iced to the most excellent point of refrigeration of the +Wenham Lake. + +If existence under such circumstances be a proof of eccentricity, it +must be confessed that something may be said in favour of it. + +The house in Saville Row, without being luxurious, was extremely +comfortable. Besides, in accordance with the habits of the tenant, the +service was reduced to a minimum. But Phileas Fogg exacted the most +rigid punctuality on the part of his sole domestic--something +supernatural in fact. On this very day, the 2nd of October, Fogg had +given James Forster notice to leave, because the fellow had actually +brought up his master's shaving-water at a temperature of eighty-four +instead of eighty-six degrees Fahrenheit; and Phileas was now looking +out for a successor, who was expected between eleven and half-past. + +Phileas Fogg was seated in his arm-chair, his feet close together at +the position of "attention;" his hands were resting on his knees, his +body was drawn up; with head erect he was watching the clock, which, +by a complexity of mechanism, told the hours, minutes, seconds, the +days of the week, and the month and year. As this clock chimed +half-past eleven, Mr. Fogg, according to custom, would leave the house +and walk down to his club. + +Just then a knock was heard at the door of the room, and James +Forster, the outgoing servant, appeared and announced, "The new young +man" for the place. + +A young fellow of about thirty entered and bowed. + +"You are a Frenchman, and your name is John, eh?" inquired Phileas +Fogg. + +"Jean, sir, if you have no objection," replied the newcomer. "Jean +Passe-partout, a surname which clings to me because I have a weakness +for change. I believe I am honest, sir; but to speak plainly, I have +tried a good many things. I have been an itinerant singer; a rider in +a circus, where I used to do the trapeze like Leotard and walk the +tight-rope like Blondin; then I became a professor of gymnastics; and, +finally, in order to make myself useful, I became a fireman in Paris, +and bear on my back to this day the scars of several bad burns. But it +is five years since I left France, and wishing to enjoy a taste of +domestic life I became a valet in England. Just now being out of a +situation, and having heard that you, sir, were the most punctual and +regular gentleman in the United Kingdom, I have come here in the hope +that I shall be able to live a quiet life and forget my name of +Jack-of-all-trades--Passe-partout!" + +"Passe-partout suits me," replied Mr. Fogg. "I have heard a very good +character of you, and you have been well recommended. You are aware of +my conditions of service?" + +"Yes, sir." + +"Very well. What o'clock do you make it?" + +"Twenty-two minutes past eleven," replied the valet, as he consulted +an enormous silver watch. + +"You are too slow," said Mr. Fogg. + +"Excuse me, sir, that is impossible!" + +"You are four minutes too slow. Never mind, it is enough to note the +error. Now from this moment, twenty-nine minutes past eleven o'clock +in the forenoon upon this 2nd of October, 1872, you are in my +service!" + +As he spoke, Phileas Fogg rose from his chair, took up his hat, put it +on his head as an automaton might have done, and left the room without +another word. + +Passe-partout heard the street-door shut; it was his new master who +had gone out. Shortly afterwards he heard it shut again--that was his +predecessor, James Forster, departing in his turn. + +Passe-partout was then left alone in the house in Saville Row. + + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +Passe-partout is convinced that he has attained the object of his +ambition. + + + +"Faith," muttered Passe-partout, who for the moment felt rather in a +flutter; "faith, I have seen creatures at Madame Tussaud's quite as +lively as my new master." + +Madame Tussaud's "creatures" are all of wax, and only want the power +of speech. + +During the short period that Passe-partout had been in Mr. Fogg's +presence, he had carefully scrutinised his future master. He appeared +to be about forty years of age, with a fine face; a tall and well-made +man, whose figure was not too stout. He had light hair and whiskers, a +clear brow, a somewhat pale face, and splendid teeth. He appeared to +possess in a very marked degree that attribute which physiognomists +call "repose in action," a faculty appertaining to those whose motto +is "Deeds, not words." Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear and steady +eye, he was the perfect type of those cool Englishmen whom one meets +so frequently in the United Kingdom, and whom Angelica Kauffmann has +so wonderfully portrayed. Mr. Fogg gave one the idea of being +perfectly balanced, like a perfect chronometer, and as well regulated. +He was, in fact, the personification of exactness, which was evident +in the very expression of his hands and feet; for amongst men, as +amongst the lower animals, the members are expressive of certain +passions. + +Phileas Fogg was one of those mathematical people who, never in a +hurry, and always ready, are economical of their movements. He never +made even one step too many; he always took the shortest cut; he never +wasted a glance, nor permitted himself a superfluous gesture. No one +had ever seen him agitated or moved by any emotion. He was the last +man in the world to hurry himself, but he always arrived in time. He +lived quite alone, and, so to speak, outside the social scale. He knew +that in life there is a great deal of friction; and as friction always +retards progress, he never rubbed against anybody. + +As for Jean, who called himself Passe-partout, he was a Parisian of +the Parisians. He had been for five years in England, and had taken +service in London as a valet-de-chambre, during which period he had in +vain sought for such a master as Mr. Fogg. + +Passe-partout was not one of those Frontii or Mascarilles, who, with +high shoulders and snubbed noses, and plenty of assurance, are nothing +more than impudent dunces; he was a good fellow, with a pleasant face, +somewhat full lips, always ready to eat or to kiss, with one of those +good round heads that one likes to see on the shoulders of one's +friends. He had bright blue eyes, was somewhat stout, but very +muscular, and possessed of great strength. He wore his hair in a +somewhat tumbled fashion. If sculptors of antiquity were aware of +eighteen ways of arranging the hair of Minerva, Passe-partout knew but +one way of doing his, namely, with three strokes of a comb. + +We will not go as far as to predict how the man's nature would accord +with Mr. Fogg's. It was a question whether Passe-partout was the exact +sort of servant to suit such a master. Experience only would show. +After having passed his youth in such a vagabond manner, he looked +forward to some repose. + +Having heard of the proverbial method and coolness of the English +gentleman, he had come to seek his fortune in England; but up to the +present time fate had been adverse. He had tried six situations, but +remained in none. In all of them he had found either a whimsical, an +irregular, or a restless master, which did not suit Passe-partout. His +last master, the young Lord Longsferry, M.P., after passing the +evening in the Haymarket, was carried home on the policemen's +shoulders. Passe-partout, wishing above all things to respect his +master, remonstrated in a respectful manner; but as his expostulations +were so ill received, he took his leave. It was at that time that he +heard Phileas Fogg was in search of a servant, and he presented +himself for the situation. A gentleman whose life was so regular, who +never stayed away from home, who never travelled, who never was absent +even for a day, was the very master for him, so he presented himself +and was engaged, as we have seen. + +Thus it came to pass that at half-past eleven o'clock, Passe-partout +found himself alone in the house in Saville Row. He immediately +commenced to look about him, and search the house from cellar to +garret. This well-arranged, severe, almost puritanical house pleased +him very much. It appeared to him like the pretty shell of a snail; +but a snail's shell lighted and warmed with gas would serve for both +those purposes. He soon discovered the room he was to occupy, and was +quite satisfied. Electric bells and indiarubber speaking-tubes put him +into communication with the rooms, below. Upon the chimney-piece stood +an electric clock, which kept time exactly with that in Phileas Fogg's +bedroom. + +"This will suit me exactly," said Passe-partout to himself. + +He also remarked in his room a notice fixed above the clock. It was +the programme of his daily duties. It included the whole details of +the service from eight o'clock in the morning, the hour at which Mr. +Fogg invariably arose, to half-past eleven, when he left the house to +breakfast at the Reform Club. It comprised everything--the tea and +toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at +thirty-seven minutes past nine, and his attendance at his master's +toilet at twenty minutes to ten, and so on. Then from half-past eleven +a.m. until midnight, when the methodical Fogg retired to bed, +everything was noted down and arranged for. Passe-partout joyfully set +himself to study the programme and to master its contents. + +Mr. Fogg's wardrobe was well stocked and wonderfully arranged. Every +pair of trousers, coat, or waistcoat bore a number, which was also +noted in a register of entries and exits, indicating the date on +which, according to the season, the clothes were to be worn. There +were even relays of shoes and boots. + +In fact, in this house in Saville Row, which had been a temple of +disorder in the days of the illustrious but dissipated Sheridan, +cosiness reigned supreme. There was no library and no books, which +would have been useless to Mr. Fogg, since there were two +reading-rooms at the Reform Club. In his bedroom was a small safe, +perfectly burglar and fire proof. There were no firearms nor any other +weapons in the house; everything proclaimed the owner to be a man of +peaceable habits. + +After having examined the house thoroughly, Passe-partout rubbed his +hands joyously, a genial smile overspread his rounded face, and he +muttered: + +"This suits me completely. It is the very thing. We understand each +other thoroughly, Mr. Fogg and I. He is a thoroughly regular and +domestic man, a true machine. Well, I am not sorry to serve a +machine." + + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +In which a Conversation arises which is likely to cost Phileas Fogg +dear. + + + +Phileas Fogg left home at half-past eleven, and having placed his +right foot before his left exactly five hundred and seventy-five +times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six +times, he arrived at the Reform Club in Pall Mall, and immediately +went up to the dining-room and took his place at his usual table, +where his breakfast awaited him. The meal was composed of one +"side-dish," a delicious little bit of boiled fish, a slice of +underdone roast beef with mushrooms, a rhubarb and gooseberry tart, +and some Cheshire cheese; the whole washed down with several cups of +excellent tea, for which the Reform Club is celebrated. + +At forty-seven minutes after twelve he rose from table and went into +the drawing-room; there the servant handed him an uncut copy of _The +Times_, which Phileas Fogg folded and cut with a dexterity which +denoted a practised hand. The perusal of this journal occupied him +till a quarter to four, and then _The Standard_ sufficed till +dinner-time. This repast was eaten under the same conditions as his +breakfast, and at twenty minutes to six he returned to the saloon and +read _The Morning Chronicle_. + +About half an hour later, several of Mr. Fogg's friends entered the +room and collected round the fireplace. These gentlemen were his usual +partners at whist, and, like him, were all inveterate players. + +They comprised Andrew Stuart, an engineer; the bankers, John Sullivan +and Samuel Fallentin; Thomas Flanagan, the brewer; and Gauthier Ralph, +one of the directors of the Bank of England;--all rich, and men of +consequence, even in that club which comprised so many men of mark. + +"Well, Ralph," asked Thomas Flanagan, "what about this robbery?" + +"The bank must lose the money," replied Stuart. + +"On the contrary," replied Ralph, "I am in hopes that we shall be able +to put our hand upon the thief. We have detectives in America and +Europe, at all the principal ports, and it will be no easy matter for +him to escape the clutches of the law." + +"Then you have the robber's description, of course," said Andrew +Stuart. + +"In the first place he is not a thief at all," replied Ralph +seriously. + +"What do you mean? Is not a man a thief who takes away fifty-five +thousand pounds in bank-notes?" + +"No," replied Ralph. + +"He is then a man of business, I suppose?" said Sullivan. + +"_The Morning Chronicle_ assures me he is a gentleman." + +This last observation was uttered by Phileas Fogg, whose head rose up +from the sea of papers surrounding him, and then Phileas got up and +exchanged greetings with his acquaintances. + +The subject of conversation was a robbery, which was in everyone's +mouth, and had been committed three days previously--viz. on the 29th +of September. A pile of bank-notes, amounting to the enormous sum of +fifty-five thousand pounds, had been stolen from the counter at the +Bank of England. + +The astonishing part of the matter was that the robbery had been so +easily accomplished, and as Ralph, who was one of the deputy-governors, +explained, that when the fifty-five thousand pounds were stolen, the +cashier was occupied in carefully registering the receipt of three +shillings and sixpence, and of course could not have his eyes in every +direction at once. + +It may not be out of place here to remark, which in some measure may +account for the robbery, that the Bank of England trusts greatly in +the honesty of the public. There are no guards, or commissionaires, or +gratings; gold, silver, and notes are all exposed freely, and, so to +speak, at the mercy of the first-comer. No one's honesty is suspected. +Take the following instance, related by one of the closest observers +of English customs. This gentleman was one day in one of the parlours +of the Bank, and had the curiosity to take up and closely examine a +nugget of gold weighing seven or eight pounds, which was lying on the +table. Having examined the ingot, he passed it to his neighbour, he to +the next man; and so the gold went from hand to hand quite down to the +dark entry, and was not returned for quite half an hour, and all the +time the bank official had not raised his head. + +But on the 29th of September things did not work so nicely; the pile +of bank-notes was not returned; and when the hands of the magnificent +clock in the drawing-office pointed to the hour of five, at which time +the bank is closed, the sum of fifty-five thousand pounds was written +off to "profit and loss." + +When it was certain that a robbery had been committed, the most +skilful detectives were sent down to Liverpool and Glasgow and other +principal ports, also to Suez, Brindisi, New York, &c., with promises +of a reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent on the amount +recovered. In the meantime, inspectors were appointed to observe +scrupulously all travellers arriving at and departing from the several +seaports. + +Now there was some reason to suppose, as _The Morning Chronicle_ put +it, that the thief did not belong to a gang, for during the 29th of +September a well-dressed gentlemanly man had been observed in the +bank, near where the robbery had been perpetrated. An exact +description of this person was fortunately obtained, and supplied to +all the detectives; and so some sanguine persons, of whom Ralph was +one, believed the thief could not escape. + +As may be imagined, nothing else was talked about just then. The +probabilities of success and failure were warmly discussed in the +newspapers, so it was not surprising that the members of the Reform +Club should talk about it, particularly as one of the deputy-governors +of the bank was present. + +Ralph did not doubt that the search would be successful because of the +amount of the reward, which would probably stimulate the zeal of the +detectives. But Andrew Stuart was of a different opinion, and the +discussion was continued between these gentlemen during their game of +whist. Stuart was Flanagan's partner, and Fallentin was Fogg's. While +they played they did not talk; but between the rubbers the subject +cropped up again. + +"Well," said Stuart, "I maintain that the chances are in favour of the +thief, who must be a sharp one." + +"But," replied Ralph, "there is no place a fellow can go to." + +"Oh, come!" + +"Well, where can he go to?" + +"I can't tell," replied Stuart; "but the world is big enough, at any +rate." + +"It used to be," said Phileas Fogg, in an undertone. "Cut, if you +please," he added, handing the cards to Flanagan. + +Conversation was then suspended, but after the rubber Stuart took it +up again, saying: + +"What do you mean by 'used to be?' Has the world grown smaller, then?" + +"Of course it has," replied Ralph. "I am of Mr. Fogg's opinion; the +world has grown smaller, inasmuch as one can go round it ten times +quicker than you could a hundred years ago. That is the reason why, in +the present case, search will be more rapid, and render the escape of +the thief easier." + +"Your lead, Mr. Stuart," said Fogg. + +But the incredulous Stuart was not convinced, and he again returned to +the subject. + +"I must say, Mr. Ralph," he continued, "that you have found an easy +way that the world has grown smaller, because one now go round it in +three months." + +"In eighty days only," said Phileas Fogg. + +"That is a fact, gentlemen," added John Sullivan. "You can make the +tour of the world in eighty days, now that the section of the Great +Indian Peninsular Railway is opened between Rothal and Allahabad, and +here is the estimate made by _The Morning Chronicle_: + + + +London to Suez, by Mont Cenis and Brindisi, Rail and Steamer . . . 7 +days. + +Suez to Bombay, by Steamer . . . 13 " + +Bombay to Calcutta, by Rail . . . 3 " + +Calcutta to Hong Kong, by Steamer . . . 13 " + +Hong Kong to Yokohama, by Steamer . . . 6 " + +Yokohama to San Francisco, by Steamer . . . 22 " + +San Francisco to New York, by Rail . . . 7 " + +New York to London, Steam and Rail . . . 9 " + +Total . . . 80 days." + + + +"Yes, eighty days!" exclaimed Stuart, who, being absorbed in his +calculations, made a mis-deal; "but that estimate does not take inter +consideration bad weather, head-winds, shipwreck, railway accidents, +&c." + +"They are all included," remarked Fogg, as he continued to play, for +this time the conversation did not cease with the deal. + +"Even if the Hindoos or Indians take up the rails? Suppose they stop +the trains, pillage the baggage-waggons, and scalp the travellers?" + +"All included," replied Fogg quietly. "Two trumps," he added, as he +won the tricks. + +Stuart, who was "pony," collected the cards, and said: "No doubt you +are right in theory, Mr. Fogg, but in practice--" + +"In practice too, Mr. Stuart." + +"I should like to see you do it." + +"It only rests with you. Let us go together." + +"Heaven forbid," cried Stuart; "but I will bet you a cool four +thousand that such a journey, under such conditions, is impossible." + +"On the contrary, it is quite possible," replied Mr. Fogg. + +"Well, then, why don't you do it?" + +"Go round the world in eighty days, do you mean?" + +"Yes." + +"I will." + +"When?" + +"At once; only I give you warning I shall do it at your expense." + +"Oh, this is all nonsense," replied Stuart, who began to feel a little +vexed at Fogg's persistence; "let us continue the game." + +"You had better deal, then; that was a mis-deal." + +Andrew Stuart took up the cards, and suddenly put them down again. + +"Look here, Mr. Fogg," he said; "if you like, I will bet you four +thousand." + +"My dear Stuart," said Fallentin, "don't be ridiculous; it is only a +joke." + +"When I say I will bet," said Stuart, "I mean it." + +"All right," said Mr. Fogg; then, turning towards the others, he said: +"I have twenty thousand pounds deposited at Baring's. I will willingly +risk that sum." + +"Twenty thousand pounds!" exclaimed Sullivan; "why, the slightest +accident might cause you to lose the whole of it. Anything +unforeseen--" + +"The unforeseen does not exist," replied Fogg simply. + +"But, Mr. Fogg, this estimate of eighty days is the very least time in +which the journey can be accomplished." + +"A minimum well employed is quite sufficient." + +"But to succeed you must pass from railways to steamers, from steamers +to railways, with mathematical accuracy." + +"I will be mathematically accurate." + +"Oh, this is a joke!" + +"A true Englishman never jokes when he has a stake depending on the +matter. I bet twenty thousand against any of you that I will make the +tour of the world in eighty days or less; that is to say, in nineteen +hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two +hundred minutes. Will you take me?" + +"We do," replied the others, after consultation together. + +"Very well, then," said Fogg, "the Dover mail starts at 8.45; I will +go by it." + +"This evening?" said Stuart. + +"Yes, this evening," replied Fogg. Then, referring to a pocket +almanack, he added: "This is Wednesday, the 2nd of October; I shall be +due in London, in this room, on Saturday, the 21st of December, at a +quarter to nine in the evening, or, in default, the twenty thousand at +Baring's, to my credit, will be yours, gentlemen. Here is my cheque +for that sum." + +A memorandum of the conditions of the bet was made and signed by all +parties concerned. Phileas Fogg was as cool as ever. He had certainly +not bet to win the money, and he had only bet twenty thousand pounds, +half of his fortune, because he foresaw that he would probably have to +spend the other half to enable him to carry out this difficult if not +actually impossible feat. His opponents appeared quite agitated, not +on account of the value of their stake, but because they had some +misgivings and scruples about betting under such conditions. + +Seven o'clock struck, and it was suggested that the game should stop, +while Mr. Fogg made his preparations for the journey. + +"I am always ready," replied this impassible gentleman, as he dealt +the cards. "Diamonds are trumps," he added; "your lead, Mr. Stuart." + + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +In which Phileas Fogg astonishes Passe-partout. + + + +At twenty-five minutes past seven, Phileas Fogg, having won twenty +guineas at whist, took leave of his friends and left the club. At ten +minutes to eight he reached home. + +Passe-partout, who had conscientiously studied his programme, was +astonished to see Mr. Fogg appear at such an unusual hour, for, +according to all precedent, he was not due in Saville Row till +midnight. + +Phileas Fogg went straight up to his room and called for +Passe-partout. + +Passe-partout did not reply. It was evident this could not refer to +him, it was not time. + +"Passe-partout," cried Mr. Fogg again, but without raising his voice; +"this is the second time I have called you," said Mr. Fogg. + +"But it is not midnight," replied Passe-partout, producing his watch. + +"I know that," replied Fogg, "and I do not blame you. We start for +Dover and Calais in ten minutes." + +A sort of grimace contracted the Frenchman's round face; he evidently +did not understand. + +"Are you going out, sir," he asked. + +"Yes," replied his master; "we are going around the world." + +Passe-partout at this announcement opened his eyes to their greatest +extent, held up his arms, and looked the picture of stupefied +astonishment. + +"Around the world!" he muttered. + +"In eighty days," replied Mr. Fogg; "so we have not a moment to lose." + +"But the luggage," said Passe-partout, who was wagging his head +unconsciously from side to side. + +"We want no luggage; a carpet-bag will do. Pack up two night-shirts +and three pairs of socks, and the same for yourself. We will buy what +we want as we go along. Bring my mackintosh and travelling-cloak down +with you, and a couple of pairs of strong boots, although we shall +have little or no walking. Look alive." + +Passe-partout wished to speak, but could not He left his master's +bedroom, and went upstairs to his own, fell into a chair, and +exclaimed: + +"Well, this is coming it pretty strong, and for me too, who wanted to +be quiet!" + +Mechanically he set about making preparations for departure. Around +the world in eighty days! Had he engaged himself with a maniac? No--it +was only a joke. But they were going to Dover and to Calais. So far so +good. After all, he did not object to that very much, for it was five +years since he had seen his native land. Perhaps they would even go on +to Paris, and he would be delighted to see the capital again. No doubt +a gentleman so economical of his steps would stop there; but on the +other hand, this hitherto very domestic gentleman was leaving home. +That was a fact. + +At eight o'clock Passe-partout had packed the small bag which now +contained his master's luggage and his own, and in a very troubled +frame of mind he quitted his room, closed the door carefully, and went +downstairs to Mr. Fogg. + +That gentleman was quite ready. Under his arm he carried a copy of +"Bradshaw's Continental Guide." He took the small bag from +Passe-partout, opened it, and placed therein a bulky roll of +bank-notes, which will pass in any country. + +"You are sure you have not forgotten anything?" he asked. + +"Quite sure, sir." + +"You have my mackintosh and travelling-cloak?" + +"Here they are, sir." + +"All right, take the bag;" and Mr. Fogg handed it back to the man. +"You had better take care of it," he added, "there are twenty thousand +pounds in it." + +Passe-partout nearly let the bag fall, as if it were weighted with the +twenty thousand pounds in gold. + +Master and man went downstairs together; the door was shut and +double-locked. Phileas called a cab from the bottom of Saville Row, +and drove to Charing Cross Station. It was twenty minutes past eight +when they reached the railway. Passe-partout jumped out. His master +followed, and paid the cabman. At this moment a poor beggar-woman, +carrying a baby, looking very miserable with her naked feet and +tattered appearance, approached Mr. Fogg, and asked for alms. + +Mr. Fogg drew from his waistcoat-pocket the twenty guineas he had won +at whist, and handing them to the beggar-woman, said: "Take these, my +good woman. I am glad I have met you." He then entered the station. + +This action of his master brought the tears into Passe-partout's +susceptible eyes. Mr. Fogg had risen in his estimation. That eccentric +individual now told him to take two first-class tickets for Paris, and +as he turned round he perceived his five friends from the Reform Club. + +"Well, gentlemen, you see I am about to start, and the visas on my +passport on my return will convince you that I have performed the +journey." + +"Oh, Mr. Fogg," replied Gauthier Ralph politely, "that is quite +unnecessary. We believe you to be a man of your word." + +"All the better," was Fogg's reply. + +"You won't forget when you have to come back," observed Stuart. + +"In eighty days," replied Mr. Fogg. "On Saturday, the 21st day of +December, 1872, at forty-five minutes past eight in the evening. _Au +revoir_, gentlemen." + +At twenty minutes to nine Phileas Fogg and his servant took their +places in the train. At 8.45 the engine whistled and the train +started. + +The night was dark, and a fine rain was falling. Mr. Fogg was +comfortably settled in his corner, and did not say a word. +Passe-partout, still rather in a state of stupefaction, mechanically +gripped the bag with the bank-notes. + +But scarcely had the train rushed through Sydenham, than Passe-partout +uttered a cry of despair. + +"What is the matter with you?" asked Mr. Fogg. + +"Oh dear me! In my hurry I quite forgot--" + +"What?" + +"I forgot to turn the gas off in my room!" + +"Very well, my lad," replied Mr. Fogg coolly, "then it must burn while +we are away--at your expense." + + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +In which a New Kind of Investment appears on the Stock Exchange. + + + +When Phileas Fogg quitted London, he had no doubt that his departure +would create a great sensation. The report of the bet spread from the +club to outsiders, and so to all the newspapers in the United Kingdom. + +This question of going round the world in eighty days was commented +upon, discussed, and dissected, and argued as much as the Alabama +Claims had been. Some agreed with Phileas Fogg, but the majority were +against him. To accomplish the tour in fact was an impossibility, +under the present system of communication. It was sheer madness. + +_The Times_, _The Standard_, _The Morning Chronicle_, and twenty other +respectable journals gave their verdict against Mr. Fogg. _The Daily +Telegraph_ was the only paper that to a certain extent supported him. +Phileas Fogg was generally looked upon as a maniac, and his friends at +the Reform Club were much blamed for having taken up the wager, which +only betrayed the want of brain of its proposer. + +Extremely passionate but logical articles were written upon the +question. We all know the interest that the English take in any +geographical problem, and readers of every class devoured the columns +in which Mr. Fogg's expedition was debated. + +For the first few days some bold spirits, principally women, espoused +his cause, particularly when _The Illustrated London News_ published +his portrait, and certain gentlemen went so far as to say: "Well, why +should he not after all? More extraordinary things have happened." +These were chiefly readers of _The Daily Telegraph_, but they very +soon felt that that journal itself began to waver. + +On the 7th of October a long article appeared in the proceedings of +the Royal Geographical Society, the writer of which treated the +question from all points of view, and clearly demonstrated the +futility of the enterprise. According to that article, everything was +against the traveller--all obstacles material and physical were +against him. In order to succeed, it was necessary to admit miraculous +concordance in the hours of the arrival and departure of trains and +ships--a concordance which could not and did not exist. In Europe +perhaps he might be able to reckon upon the punctuality of trains, but +when three days are occupied in crossing India, and seven in +traversing the American continent, how was it possible that he could +count upon absolute success? Were not accidents to machinery, runnings +off the rails, collisions, bad weather, or snowdrifts all against +Phileas Fogg? On board ship in winter-time he would be at the mercy of +hurricanes or contrary winds. Even the best steamers of the +transoceanic lines experience a delay of sometimes two or three days. +Now, if only one such delay occurred, the chain of communication would +be irreparably severed. If Phileas Fogg lost a steamer by only a few +hours, he would be obliged to wait for the following boat; and that +fact alone would imperil the success of the whole undertaking. + +This article made a great sensation. It was copied into almost all the +papers, and the "shares" of Phileas Fogg fell in proportion. + +For the first few days after his departure a good deal of money was +laid on the success or failure of the enterprise. Everyone knows that +people in England are great gamblers; it comes natural to them. So the +public all went into the speculation. Phileas Fogg became a sort of +favourite, as in horse-racing. He was of a certain value on the Stock +Exchange. Fogg bonds were offered at par or at a premium, and enormous +speculations were entered into. But five days after his departure, +subsequently to the appearance of the article above quoted, the bonds +were at a discount, and they were offered to anybody who would take +them. + +One supporter was still left to him, and that the paralytic Lord +Albemarle. This worthy gentleman, who was unable to leave his chair, +would have given his whole fortune to have made the tour of the world, +even in ten years, and he had laid fifty thousand pounds on Phileas +Fogg; and when people explained to him at the same time the folly and +uselessness of the expedition, he would merely reply: "If the thing +can be done, the first man to do it ought to be an Englishman." + +Now as things were, the partisans of Phileas Fogg were becoming fewer +by degrees and beautifully less. Everybody, and not without reason, +was against him. People would only take fifty or even two hundred to +one, when, seven days after his departure, a quite unexpected incident +deprived him of support at any price. In fact, at nine o'clock on the +evening of the seventh day, the Chief Inspector of Metropolitan Police +received the following telegram: + + + +"From Fix, Detective, Suez, + +To Rowan, Commissioner of Police, Scotland Yard. + +I have traced the bank-robber, Phileas Fogg. Send immediately +authority for arrest to Bombay.--Fix." + + + +The effect of this despatch was immediately apparent. The honourable +man gave place to the "bank-robber." His photograph, deposited in the +Reform Club with those of other members, was narrowly scrutinised. It +appeared to be, feature by feature, the very man whose description had +been already furnished to the police. People now began to recollect +Fogg's mysterious manner, his solitary habits, and his sudden +departure. He must be the culprit, and it was evident that under the +pretext of a voyage round the world, under shelter of a ridiculous +bet, he had no other end in view but to throw the detectives off the +scent. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +In which Fix, the Detective, betrays some not unnatural Impatience. + + + +The circumstances under which the foregoing telegram had been +despatched were as follows: + +On Wednesday, the 29th of October, the Peninsular and Oriental +Company's steamer _Mongolia_ was being anxiously expected at Suez. +This vessel made the passage between Brindisi and Bombay through the +Suez Canal. She is one of the swiftest of the Company's vessels, and +her usual speed is ten knots an hour between Brindisi and Suez, and +nine and a half between Suez and Bombay, and sometimes even more. + +Pending the arrival of the _Mongolia_, two men were walking together +up and down the quay in the midst of the crowd of natives and visitors +who thronged the little town, which, thanks to the enterprise of M. de +Lesseps, was becoming a considerable place. One of these men was the +British Consular Agent at Suez, who, in spite of the prophecies of the +English Government, and the unfavourable opinion of Stephenson the +engineer, beheld daily English ships passing through the canal, thus +shortening by one-half the old route to India round the Cape. + +The other was a small thin man with a nervous intelligent face. +Beneath his long eyelashes his eyes sparkled brightly, and at that +moment he was displaying unquestionable signs of impatience, moving +hither and thither, quite unable to keep still for one moment. + +This man was Fix, the English detective, who had been sent out in +consequence of the bank robbery. He carefully scrutinised every +traveller, and if one of them bore any resemblance to the culprit he +would be arrested. Two days previously, Fix had received from London +the description of the criminal. It was that of the well-dressed +person who had been observed in the bank. + +The detective was evidently inspired by the hope of obtaining the +large reward offered, and was awaiting the arrival of the _Mongolia_ +with much impatience accordingly. + +"So you say that the steamer is never behind its time," remarked Mr. +Fix to the Consul. + +"No," replied the other. "She was signalled off Port Said yesterday, +and the length of the Canal is nothing to such a vessel as she is. I +repeat that the _Mongolia_ has always gained the twenty-five pounds +allowance granted by the Government for every advance of twenty-four +hours on the regulation time." + +"Does she come from Brindisi direct?" asked Fix. + +"Yes, direct. She takes the Indian mails on board there. She left on +Saturday afternoon at five o'clock. So be patient She will not be +late. But I really do not see how you will be able to recognise your +man from the description you have, even Supposing he be on board." + +"One knows him by instinct more than by feature," replied Fix; "by +scent, as it were, more than sight. I have had to do with more than +one of these gentlemen in my time, and if the thief be on board I +guarantee he will not slip through my fingers." + +"I hope you will catch him--it is a big robbery." + +"First-rate," replied Fix enthusiastically; "fifty-five thousand +pounds. We don't often have such a windfall as that. These sort of +fellows are becoming scarce. The family of Jack Sheppard has died +out--people get 'lagged' now for a few shillings." + +"You speak like an enthusiast, Mr. Fix," replied the Agent, "and I +hope you will succeed, but I fear under the circumstances you will +find it very difficult. Besides, after all, the description you have +received might be that of a very honest man." + +"Great criminals always do resemble honest men," replied the detective +dogmatically. "You must understand that ruffianly-looking fellows +would not have a chance. They must remain honest or they would be +arrested at once. It is the honest appearance that we are obliged to +unmask; it is a difficult thing, I confess, and one that really is an +art." + +It was evident that Mr. Fix thought a good deal of his profession. + +Meanwhile the bustle on the quay increased. Sailors of all nations, +merchants, porters, and fellahs were crowding together. The steamer +was evidently expected shortly. + +It was a beautiful day and the east wind cooled the air. The rays of +the sun lighted up the distant minarets of the town. Towards the south +the long jetty extended into the roadstead. A crowd of fishing-boats +dotted the waters of the Red Sea, and amongst them one could perceive +some ships of the ancient build of galleys. + +Fix kept moving about amongst the crowd, scrutinising professionally +the countenances of its component members. + +It was half-past ten o'clock. + +"This steamer is not coming," he said, as he heard the clock strike. + +"It can't be far off," said the Consul. + +"How long will she stop at Suez?" said Fix. + +"Four hours, to take her coal on board. From Suez to Aden it is +thirteen hundred and ten miles, so she is to take in a good supply." + +"And from Suez the boat goes directly to Bombay?" asked Fix. + +"Direct, without breaking bulk." + +"Well," said Fix, "if the thief has taken this route, and by this +steamer, it will no doubt be his little game to land at Suez, so as to +reach the Dutch or French possessions in Asia by some other route. He +must know very well that he would not be safe in India, which is +British territory." + +"I don't think he can be a very sharp fellow," replied the Consul, +"for London is the best place to hide in, after all." + +The Consul having thus given the detective something to think about, +went away to his office close by. The detective, now alone, became +more and more impatient, as he had some peculiar presentiment that the +robber was on board the _Mongolia_; and if he had left England with +the intention to gain the new world, the route _via_ India, being less +open to observation, or more difficult to watch than the Atlantic +route, would naturally be the one chosen. + +The detective was not left long to his reflections. A succession of +shrill whistles denoted the approach of the steamer. The whole crowd +of porters and fellahs hurried towards the quay in a manner somewhat +distressing for the limbs and clothes of the lookers-on. A number of +boats also put off to meet the _Mongolia_. + +Her immense hull was soon perceived passing between the banks of the +Canal, and as eleven o'clock was striking she came to an anchor in the +roadstead, while a cloud of steam was blown off from her +safety-valves. + +There were a great number of passengers on board. Some of them +remained upon the bridge, admiring the view, but the greater number +came ashore in the boats, which had put off to meet the vessel. + +Fix carefully examined each one as they landed. As he was thus +employed, one of the passengers approached him, and vigorously pushing +aside the fellahs who surrounded him, inquired of the detective the +way to the British Consul's office; at the same time, the passenger +produced his passport, upon which he desired, no doubt, to have the +British _visa_. + +Fix mechanically took the passport, and mastered its contents at a +glance. His hand shook involuntarily. The description on the passport +agreed exactly with the description of the thief. + +"This passport does not belong to you?" he said to the passenger. + +"No," replied the man addressed; "it is my master's." + +"And where is your master?" + +"He is on board." + +"But," replied the detective, "he must come himself to the Consul's +office to establish his identity." + +"Oh, is that necessary?" + +"Quite indispensable." + +"Where is the office?" + +"In the corner of the square yonder," replied the detective, +indicating a house about two hundred paces off. + +"Well then, I will go and fetch my master; but I can tell you he won't +thank you for disturbing him." + +So saying, the passenger saluted Fix, and returned on board the +steamer. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +Which once more shows the Futility of Passports where Policemen are +concerned. + + + +The detective quickly traversed the quay once more in the direction of +the Consul's office. At his particular request he was at once ushered +into the presence of the official. + +"I beg your pardon," he said to the Consul abruptly, "but I have great +reason to believe that my man _is_ really on board the _Mongolia_." +And then Mr. Fix related what had passed between him and the servant. + +"Good," replied the Consul; "I should not be sorry to see the rascal's +face myself; but perhaps he will not present himself here if the case +stands as you believe it does. No thief likes to leave a trace behind +him; and moreover, the _visa_ to the passport is not necessary." + +"If he is the sharp fellow he ought to be, he will come," replied Mr. +Fix. + +"To have his passport examined?" + +"Yes. Passports are no use, except to worry honest people and to +facilitate the escape of rogues. I have no doubt whatever that this +fellow's passport will be all right; but I hope you will not _visé_ it +all the same." + +"Why not? If the passport is all regular I have no right to refuse my +_visa_," replied the Consul. + +"Nevertheless, I must keep the fellow here until I have received the +warrant of arrest from London." + +"Ah, Mr. Fix, that is _your_ business," said the Consul; "for my part +I must--" + +The Consul did not conclude the sentence. At that moment a knock was +heard, and the servant introduced two strangers, one of whom was the +servant who had lately interviewed the detective on the quay. The +newcomers were master and servant. The former handed his passport to +the Consul, and laconically requested him to attach his _visa_. + +The Consul took the passport and examined it narrowly, while Fix from +a corner devoured the stranger with his eyes. When the Consul had +perused the document, he said: + +"You are Phileas Fogg?" + +"Yes," replied that gentleman. + +"And this man is your servant?" + +"Yes; he is a Frenchman named Passe-partout." + +"You have come from London?" + +"Yes." + +"And you are bound--whither?" + +"To Bombay." + +"Very well, sir. You are aware, perhaps, that this formality is +unnecessary, even useless. We only require to see the passport." + +"I know that," replied Fogg; "but I want you to testify to my presence +at Suez." + +"Very well, sir, so be it," replied the Consul, who thereupon attested +the passport. Mr. Fogg paid the fee, and bowing formally, departed, +followed by his servant. + +"Well, what do you think, sir?" said the detective. + +"I think he looks a perfectly honest man," replied the Consul. + +"That may be," said Fix; "but that is not the point. Do you not +perceive that this cool gentleman answers in every particular to the +description of the thief sent out?" + +"I grant you that; but you know all descriptions--" + +"I will settle the business," replied Fix. "It strikes me that the +servant is more get-at-able than the master. Besides, he is a +Frenchman, and cannot help chattering. I will return soon, sir." As he +finished speaking, the detective left the Consul's office in search of +Passe-partout. + +Meanwhile, Mr. Fogg, having left the Consul's house, proceeded down to +the quay. There he gave his servant some instructions, and then put +off in a boat to the Mongolia, and descended to his cabin. Taking out +his note-book, he made the following entries: + + + +Left London, Wednesday, 2nd October, at 8.45 p.m. + +Reached Paris, Thursday, at 8.40 a.m. + +Arrived at Turin, _viâ_ Mont Cenis, Friday, 4th October, 6.35 a.m. + +Left Turin, Friday, at 7.20 a.m. + +Arrived at Brindisi, Saturday, 5th October, 4 p.m. + +Embarked on _Mongolia_, Saturday, 5 p.m. + +Reached Suez, Wednesday, 9th October, 11 a.m. + +Total of hours occupied in the journey, 158-1/4, or 6-1/2 days. + + + +Mr. Fogg made these entries in a journal ruled in columns, commencing +on the 2nd of October, and so on to the 21st of December, which +indicated respectively the month, the day of the month, and the day of +the week, as well as the days at which he was due at the principal +places _en route_--as, for instance, Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, +Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, +Liverpool, London. There was also a column in which the gain or loss +upon the stipulated time could be entered against each place. This +methodical arrangement of dates showed Mr. Fogg whether he was in +advance or behindhand, and contained all necessary information. + +So on that occasion, Wednesday, the 9th of October, was recorded as +the day of his arrival at Suez, and he perceived at a glance that he +had neither gained nor lost so far. + +He then had his luncheon sent into his cabin. It did not occur to him +to go and look at the town; he was one of those gentlemen who are +quite content to see foreign countries through the eyes of their +servants. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + +In which Passe-partout talks a little more than he ought to have done. + + + +It was not very long before Fix rejoined Passe-partout on the quay. +The latter was looking about him, as he did not feel he was debarred +from seeing all he could. + +"Well, my friend," said Fix, as he came up to him, "has your passport +been _viséd_ all right?" + +"Ah! it is you," replied the valet. "I am much obliged to you. Yes, +everything was in order." + +"And now you are seeing something of the place, I suppose?" + +"Yes, but we are going on so fast that it seems to me like a dream. +And so we are in Suez, are we?" + +"Yes, you are." + +"In Egypt?" + +"In Egypt, most decidedly." + +"And in Africa?" + +"Yes, in Africa." + +"Well now," replied Passe-partout, "I could scarcely believe it. In +Africa, actually in Africa. Just fancy. I had not the slightest idea +that we should go beyond Paris, and all I saw of that beautiful city +was from 7.20 a.m. to 8.40, between the terminus of the Northern +Railway and the terminus of the Lyons line, and this through the +windows of a fiacre as we drove through the rain. I am very sorry for +it. I should like to have seen Pére La Chaise and the Circus in the +Champs Elysées again." + +"You are in a very great hurry then?" said the detective. + +"No, I am not in the least hurry," replied Passe-partout. "It is my +master. By-the-way, I must buy some shirts and a pair of shoes. We +came away without any luggage except a small carpet-bag." + +"I will take you to a bazaar where you will find everything you want." + +"Really, sir," replied Passe-partout, "you are extremely +good-natured." + +So they started off together, Passe-partout talking all the time. + +"I must take very good care I do not lose the steamer," said he. + +"Oh, you have plenty of time," replied Fix; "it is only twelve +o'clock." + +Passe-partout drew out his great watch. "Twelve o'clock," said he. +"Nonsense. It is fifty-two minutes past nine." + +"Your watch is slow," replied Fix. + +"Slow, my watch slow; why this watch has come to me from my +grandfather. It is an heirloom, and does not vary five minutes in a +year. It is a regular chronometer." + +"I see how it is," replied Fix; "you have got London time, which is +about two hours slower than Suez time. You must take care to set your +watch at twelve o'clock in every country you visit." + +"Not a bit of it," said Passe-partout, "I am not going to touch my +watch." + +"Well, then, it won't agree with the sun." + +"I can't help that. So much the worse for the sun; it will be wrong +then." And the brave fellow put his watch back in his pocket with a +contemptuous gesture. + +After a few minutes' pause, Fix remarked, "You must have left London +very suddenly?" + +"I believe you. Last Wednesday evening at eight o'clock, Mr. Fogg came +home from his club, and in three-quarters of an hour afterwards we +started." + +"But where is your master going to?" + +"Straight ahead--he is going round the world." + +"Going round the world!" exclaimed Fix. + +"Yes, in eighty days. He says it is for a wager, but between +ourselves, I don't believe a word of it. It is not common-sense. There +must be some other reason." + +"This master of yours is quite an original, I should think." + +"Rather," replied the valet. + +"Is he very rich?" + +"He must be; and he carries a large sum with him, all in new +bank-notes. He never spares expense. He promised a large reward to the +engineer of the _Mongolia_ if he reached Bombay well in advance of +time." + +"Have you known your master long?" + +"Oh dear no," replied Passe-partout. "I only entered his service the +very day we left." + +The effect which all these replies had upon the suspicious nature of +the detective may be imagined. + +The hurried departure from London, so soon after the robbery, the +large sum in bank-notes, the haste to reach India, under the pretext +of an eccentric bet, all confirmed Fix, and not unnaturally, in his +previously conceived ideas. He made up his mind to pump the Frenchman +a little more, and make certain that the valet knew no more concerning +his master than that he lived alone in London, was reported to be very +rich, though no one knew from whence his fortune was derived, and that +he was a very mysterious man, etc. But at the same time. Fix felt sure +that Phileas Fogg would not land at Suez, and would really go on to +Bombay. + +"Is Bombay far off?" asked Passe-partout. + +"Pretty well. It is ten days' steaming from here." + +"And whereabouts is Bombay?" + +"It is in India." + +"In Asia?" + +"Naturally." + +"The devil! I was going to say that there is something on my mind, and +that is my burner." + +"What burner?" + +"Why, my gas-burner, which I forgot to turn off when I left London, +and which is still alight at my expense. Now I have calculated that I +lose two shillings every four-and-twenty hours, which is just sixpence +more than my wages. So you see that the longer our journey is--" + +It is not very likely that Fix paid much attention to this question of +the gas; he was thinking of something else. The pair soon reached the +bazaar, and leaving his companion to make his purchases. Fix hastened +back to the Consul's office, and now that his suspicions were +confirmed he regained his usual coolness. + +"I am quite certain now," he said to the Consul, "that this is our +man. He wishes to pass himself off as an eccentric person who wants to +go round the world in eighty days." + +"He is a very sharp fellow, and he probably counts on returning to +London, after having thrown all the police off the scent." + +"Well, we shall see," replied Fix. + +"But are you sure you are right?" asked the Consul once more. + +"I am sure I am not mistaken." + +"Well then, how do you account for the fellow being so determined upon +proving he had been here by having his passport _viséd_?" + +"Why--Well, I can't say," replied the detective; "but listen a +moment." And then in as few words as possible he communicated the +heads of his conversation with Passe-partout. + +"Well, I must confess that appearances are very much against him," +replied the Consul. "Now what are you going to do?" + +"I shall telegraph to London, with a pressing request that a warrant +of arrest may be immediately transmitted to Bombay. I shall then +embark in the _Mongolia_, and so keep my eye on my man till we reach +Bombay, and then, on English ground, quietly arrest him." + +As he coolly finished this explanation, the detective bowed to the +Consul, walked to the telegraph-office, and there despatched the +message we have already seen. + +A quarter of an hour later, Mr. Fix, carrying his light baggage and +well furnished with money, embarked on board the _Mongolia_. In a +short time afterwards the vessel was ploughing her way at full speed +down the Red Sea. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX. + +In which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean favour the Projects of +Phileas Fogg. + + + +The distance between Suez and Aden is exactly three hundred and ten +miles, and the steamers are allowed one hundred and thirty-eight hours +to do it in. The _Mongolia_, however, was going at a speed which +seemed likely to bring her to her destination considerably before +time. + +The majority of the passengers from Brindisi were bound for India, +some for Calcutta, some for Bombay; and since the railway crosses the +peninsula it is not necessary to go round by Ceylon. + +Amongst the passengers were many military officers and civil servants +of every degree. The former included officers of the regular as well +as the Indian army, holding lucrative appointments, for the +sub-lieutenants get two hundred and eighty; brigadiers, two thousand +four hundred; and generals, four thousand pounds a year. + +Society, therefore, on board the _Mongolia_ was very pleasant. The +purser feasted them sumptuously every day. They had early breakfast, +then tiffin at two o'clock, dinner at half-past five, and supper at +eight; and the tables groaned beneath the variety of dishes. The +ladies on board changed their toilettes twice a day, and there was +music and dancing when the weather was sufficiently favourable to +admit of those amusements. + +But the Red Sea is very capricious; it is frequently very rough, like +all long and narrow gulfs. When the wind blew broadside on, the +_Mongolia_ rolled fearfully. At these times the ladies went below, the +pianos were silent, singing and dancing ceased. But notwithstanding +the wind and the sea, the vessel, urged by her powerful screw, dashed +onward to the straits of Bab-el-Mandeb. + +And what was Phileas Fogg doing all this time? Perhaps it may be +supposed that he was anxious and restless, thinking of the contrary +winds and the speed of the ship, which was likely to be retarded by +the storm, and so compromise the success of his undertaking. At any +rate, whether he did or did not concern himself with these things, he +never betrayed the least anxiety on the subject. He was as taciturn +and impassible as ever; a man whom no eventuality could surprise. He +did not appear to be any more interested than one of the ship's +chronometers. He was rarely seen on deck. He troubled himself very +little about the Red Sea, so full of interest, the scene of some of +the greatest incidents in the history of mankind. He never cared to +look at the towns standing out in relief against the sky. He had no +fear of the dangers of the Arabian Gulf, of which ancient writers, +Strabo, Arian, Artemidorus, etc., have always written with horror, and +upon which sailors of those days never dared to venture without first +making a propitiatory sacrifice. + +How then did this eccentric gentleman occupy his time, cooped up in +his cabin? In the first place he regularly ate his four meals a day, +for neither pitching nor rolling had the least effect upon his +appetite. And he played whist, for he had made the acquaintance of +some lovers of the game as enthusiastic as himself, a collector of +revenue _en route_ to Goa, a clergyman, the Rev. Decimus Smith, +returning to Bombay, and an English general officer bound for Benares. +These three were as madly devoted to whist as Mr. Fogg himself, and +they spent whole days silently enjoying it. + +As for Passe-partout, he had also escaped sea-sickness, and ate his +meals with pleasing regularity and in a conscientious manner, worthy +of imitation. The voyage after all did not displease him; he had made +up his mind; he gazed at the scenery as he went along, enjoyed his +meals, and was fully persuaded that all this absurd business would +come to an end at Bombay. + +The day after their departure from Suez, viz. the 10th of October, +Passe-partout was by no means ill-pleased to meet upon deck the person +who had been so civil to him in Egypt. + +"I'm sure I cannot be mistaken," he said. "Have I not the pleasure of +meeting the gentleman who was so polite to me at Suez?" + +"Ah yes, I remember you now. You are the servant of that eccentric +Englishman." + +"Exactly. Mr.--" + +"Fix," replied the detective. + +"Mr. Fix," continued Passe-partout, "I am delighted to find you on +board. Whither are you bound?" + +"Like yourself, to Bombay." + +"All the better. Have you ever made this voyage before?" + +"Frequently. I am an agent of the P. and O. Company." + +"Oh, then you know India very well, no doubt?" + +"Well, yes," replied Fix, who did not wish to commit himself. + +"It is a curious part of the world, isn't it?" + +"Very much so. There are mosques, minarets, temples, fakirs, pagodas, +tigers, serpents, and dancing-girls. It is to be hoped that you will +have time to see the country." + +"I hope so too, Mr. Fix. You must be aware that a man can hardly be +expected to pass his whole existence in jumping from the deck of a +steamer into a train, and from the train to another steamer, under the +pretence of going round the world in eighty days. No; all these +gymnastics will end at Bombay, I trust." + +"Is Mr. Fogg quite well?" asked Fix, politely. + +"Quite well, thank you. So am I. I eat like an ogre. I suppose that is +the effect of the sea-air." + +"I never see your master on deck." + +"No, he has no curiosity whatever." + +"Do you know, Mr. Passe-partout, that I fancy this pretended journey +round the world in eighty days is only a cover for a more important +object, a diplomatic mission perhaps?" + +"Upon my word, Mr. Fix, I know nothing about it, I declare; and what +is more, I would not give half-a-crown to know!" + +After this, Passe-partout and Fix frequently chatted together; the +detective doing all in his power to draw the valet out, whenever +possible. He would offer the Frenchman a glass of whisky or bitter +beer, which the latter accepted without ceremony, and pronounced Fix a +perfect gentleman. + +Meantime the steamer plunged and ploughed on her way rapidly. Mocha +was sighted on the 13th, surrounded by its ruined walls, above which +some date-palms reared their heads. Beyond extended immense coffee +plantations. Passe-partout was delighted to gaze upon this celebrated +town, and fancied that it and its ruined walls bore a great +resemblance to a gigantic cup and saucer. + +During the following night the _Mongolia_ cleared the strait of +Bab-el-Mandeb, which means the Gate of Tears, and the following day +they came to Steamer Point, to the N.W. of Aden harbour, where the +supply of coal was to be shipped. + +It is no light task to provide the steamers with coal at such a +distance from the mines, and the P. and O. Company expend annually no +less a sum than eight hundred thousand pounds on this service. Depots +have to be established at distant ports, and the coal costs more than +three pounds a ton. + +The _Mongolia_ had still sixteen hundred and fifty miles to run before +she could reach Bombay, and she was therefore obliged to remain four +hours at Steamer Point to complete her coaling. But this delay was not +at all detrimental to the plans of Phileas Fogg. It had been foreseen. +Besides, the _Mongolia_, instead of reaching Aden on the 15th, had +made that port on the evening of the 14th, so there was a gain of +about fifteen hours. + +Mr. Fogg and his servant went ashore. The former wished to have his +passport _viséd_. Fix followed him unnoticed. The formality of the +_visé_ having been accomplished, Phileas Fogg returned on board to his +game of whist. + +Passe-partout, as usual, lounged about amongst the mixed races which +make up the inhabitants of Aden. He admired the fortifications of this +eastern Gibraltar, and the splendid tanks at which the British +engineers were still at work, two thousand years after Solomon's +craftsmen. + +"Very curious, very curious indeed," thought Passe-partout, as he +returned on board. "It is worth travelling if one can see something +new each time." + +At six p.m. the _Mongolia_ weighed anchor, and made her way across the +Indian Ocean. She had now one hundred and sixty-eight hours in which +to make the passage to Bombay. The weather was good, with a pleasant +nor'-west wind; so the sails were hoisted to aid the screw. + +The ship being thus steadied, the lady passengers took the opportunity +to reappear in fresh toilettes, and dancing and singing were again +indulged in. The voyage continued under most favourable conditions. +Passe-partout was delighted that he had such a pleasant companion as +Fix. + +On Sunday, the 20th of October, about mid-day, they sighted the coast +of Hindostan. Two hours later the pilot came on board. A long range of +hills cut the sky-line, and soon palm-trees began to show themselves. +The mail steamer ran into the roadstead formed between the islands of +Salsette, Colaba, Elephanta, and Butcher, and at half-past four +o'clock the vessel came alongside the quay. + +Phileas Fogg was just finishing his thirty-third rubber for that day. +His partner and he had succeeded in scoring a "treble," and thus +terminated the voyage with a stroke of luck. + +The _Mongolia_ was not due at Bombay until the 22nd of October; she +had actually arrived on the 20th; so Mr. Fogg had really gained two +days upon the estimated period, and he entered the "profit" +accordingly in the column of his diary set apart for that purpose. + + + + + +CHAPTER X. + +In which Passe-partout thinks himself lucky in escaping with only the +Loss of his Shoes. + + + +Everybody is aware that the peninsula of Hindostan has a superficial +area of one million four hundred thousand square miles, in which the +unequally-distributed population numbers one hundred and eighty +millions. The British Government rules absolutely over the greater +portion of this immense tract of country. The Governor-General resides +at Calcutta, and there are also governors of presidencies at Madras +and Bombay, and a deputy-governor at Agra, as well as a governor for +Bengal. + +British India proper only includes an area of seven hundred thousand +square miles, and a population of one hundred to one hundred and ten +millions; so there is still a large portion of India independent, and, +in fact, there are rajahs in the interior who wield absolute +authority. + +From the year 1756 to the great Sepoy Mutiny, the East India Company +was the supreme authority in British India; but now the country is +under the rule of the English Crown. The manners and customs of India +are in a continual state of change. Till lately, travelling was only +by antiquated modes of conveyance, but now steamers cover the Ganges, +and the railways have opened up the country, and one can go from +Bombay to Calcutta in three days. But the railroad does not cut the +peninsula in a direct line. As the crow flies, the distance from +Calcutta to Bombay is only about eleven hundred miles, and the trains +would not occupy three days in accomplishing that distance; but the +journey is lengthened at least one-third of that distance by the loop +the line describes up to Allahabad. + +The Great Indian Peninsula Railway line is as follows: leaving Bombay +Island, it crosses Salsette, reaches the mainland at Tannah, crosses +the Western Ghauts, thence runs north-east to Burhampoor, skirts the +independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, and then, +turning eastward, meets the Ganges at Benares; then, quitting it +again, the line descends in a south-easterly direction, by Burdivan +and Chandernagore, to the terminal station at Calcutta. + +It was half-past four p.m. when the Bombay passengers landed from the +_Mongolia_, and the train for Calcutta was timed to start at eight +o'clock. + +Mr. Fogg took leave of his colleagues of the whist-table, and going +ashore, gave his servant orders concerning a few necessary purchases, +enjoining him to be at the railroad station before eight o'clock, and +then, at his own regular pace, he started for the Consul's office. + +He saw nothing of the sights of Bombay--the town-hall, the magnificent +library, the forts, the docks, the cotton market, the bazaars, +mosques, &c., were all disregarded. Elephanta was ignored, and the +grottos of Salsette unexplored by Phileas Fogg. + +After leaving the consulate, he walked calmly to the railroad station +and dined. The proprietor of the hotel particularly recommended "a +native rabbit." Phileas accepted the dish as put before him, but found +it horrible. + +He rang the bell. The landlord was sent for. + +"Is that a rabbit?" inquired Mr. Fogg. + +"Yes, my lord, a jungle rabbit." + +"Has that rabbit never mewed, do you think?" + +"Oh, my lord, a jungle-rabbit mew! I swear--" + +"Don't swear," said Fogg calmly, "and remember that formerly cats were +sacred animals in India. Those were happy days." + +"For the cats, my lord?" + +"And perhaps for travellers too," said Fogg, as he proceeded with his +dinner. + +Soon afterwards Mr. Fix landed, and his first act was to go to the +police-office. He said who and what he was, and stated his business +and how matters stood regarding the robbery. Had any warrant been +forwarded? No, nothing of the kind had been received, and of course it +could not have reached Bombay, as it was despatched after Fogg's +departure. + +Fix was disappointed. He wanted the Commissioner to grant him a +warrant on the spot, but the request was refused. The business was the +Home Government's affair, not his, and he could not issue the warrant. +This red-tapeism is quite British style. Fix of course did not insist, +and made up his mind to await the arrival of the warrant. But he +resolved not to lose sight of the robber meanwhile. He had no doubt +whatever that Fogg would remain some time in Bombay--we know that was +also Passe-partout's notion--and the warrant would probably arrive +before the criminal left the town. + +But it was now evident to Passe-partout that his master intended to +push on from Bombay as rapidly as he had left Paris and Suez; that the +journey was not to end at Bombay, it was to be continued to Calcutta +at any rate, and perhaps even farther still. Passe-partout then began +to think that perhaps the bet was really the object, and that fate had +indeed condemned him, with all his wish for rest, to journey around +the world in eighty days. + +However, having purchased some necessary articles, he walked about the +streets of Bombay. There were a great number of people about--Europeans +of all nationalities; Persians, wearing pointed caps; Buntryas, with +round turbans; Scindees, with square caps; Armenians, in their flowing +robes; Parsees, with black mitres. It was a Parsee festival that day. + +These Parsees are followers of Zoroaster, and are the most industrious, +most intelligent, and most civilised of the native races, and to which +the majority of the Bombay merchants belong. On that occasion a sort +of religious carnival was being held; there were processions, and +numbers of dancing-girls clad in gauzy rose-coloured garments, who +danced modestly and gracefully to the sound of the tom-tom and viols. + +Passe-partout, as may be imagined, drank in all these sights and +sounds with delight; and his expression at the unusual spectacle was +that of the greatest astonishment. + +Unfortunately, his curiosity very nearly compromised the object of his +master's journey. He wandered on, after watching the carnival, on his +way to the station; but seeing the splendid pagoda on Malabar Hill, he +thought he would like to go in. He was quite unaware of two things: +first, that certain pagodas are closed to all Christians, and even the +believers can only obtain admittance by leaving their shoes or +slippers at the doors of the temple. The British Government, +respecting the native creed, severely punishes anyone attempting to +violate the sanctity of the native mosques or temples. + +But Passe-partout, innocent of harm, tourist-like, went in, and was +admiring the pagoda and the lavish ornamentation of the interior, when +he suddenly found himself sprawling on his back on the pavement Over +him stood three angry men, who rushed upon him, tore off his shoes, +and began to pommel him soundly, uttering savage cries as they did so. + +The agile Frenchman was quickly upon his feet again, and with a couple +of well-directed blows of his fists upset two of his adversaries, who +were much encumbered in their long robes; then, rushing out of the +temple, he quickly distanced the remaining Hindoo and evaded him in +the crowd. + +At five minutes to eight he presented himself at the railroad station, +without his hat and shoes and minus the parcel in which all his +purchases were wrapped. Fix was there on the platform. Having tracked +Fogg, he perceived that that worthy was about to leave Bombay at once. +Fix made up his mind to go with him as far as Calcutta, and even +beyond if necessary. Passe-partout did not notice the detective, who +kept in the shade; but the policeman heard the recital of the valet's +adventures, which Passe-partout told to his master in a few sentences. + +"I trust this will not happen again," replied Fogg, quietly, as he +took his seat in the carriage. + +The poor lad, quite upset and minus his hat and shoes, took his place +also without replying. + +Fix was getting into another compartment, when suddenly a thought +struck him, and he muttered: + +"No, I will remain. An offence has been committed upon Indian ground. +I've got my man!" + +At that moment the engine uttered a piercing whistle, and the train +moved out into the night. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI. + +Showing how Phileas Fogg purchased a "Mount" at a Fabulous Price. + + + +The train started punctually, carrying the usual complement of +travellers, including officers of the civil and military classes and +merchants. Passe-partout was seated near his master, a third traveller +had secured a corner opposite. + +This gentleman was General Sir Francis Cromarty, one of Mr. Fogg's +whist-party on board the _Mongolia_, who was _en route_ to take up his +command at Benares. + +Sir Francis was a tall fair specimen of the British officer, about +fifty years old. He had greatly distinguished himself during the +Mutiny. He had been in India almost all his life, and only paid +occasional visits to his native country. He was a well-informed man, +and would willingly have imparted any information he possessed, had +Phileas Fogg chosen to apply to him. But the latter did nothing of the +kind. He never travelled. He merely made a track across country. He +was a heavy body, describing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, +according to certain mechanical laws. At that time he was actually +engaged in calculating how many hours had passed since he left London, +and he would have rubbed his hands joyfully, had he been one of those +people who indulge in these needless enthusiastic demonstrations. + +Sir Francis Cromarty had already noticed the eccentricity of his +companion while at whist, and had questioned seriously whether a human +heart actually beat beneath that cold envelope of flesh, whether Fogg +really possessed a soul alive to the beauties of nature, and subject +to human failings and aspirations. That was what puzzled the gallant +soldier. None of the many original characters which it had been his +fortune to encounter had, in any way, resembled this product of the +action of exact science upon humanity. + +Phileas Fogg had not concealed from Sir Francis the object of his +journey round the world, nor the conditions under which he had +undertaken it. The general saw nothing in this wager but the +eccentricity of its surroundings, and the want of _transire +benefaciendo_ which ought to guide any reasonable man. If this +extraordinary man went on in this manner all his life, he would +finally quit the world, having done absolutely nothing for his own +benefit or for that of others. + +An hour after leaving Bombay, the train crossed the viaduct carrying +the line from Salsette to the mainland. At Callyan station they left +the branch-line to Kandallah and Poona on the right, and proceeded to +Panwell. Here they traversed the gorges of the Western Ghauts, +composed of trap and basaltic rocks, the highest summits of which are +crowned with thick trees. + +Sir Francis Cromarty and Phileas Fogg occasionally exchanged a few +words, and at one time the general picked up the thread of +conversation by remarking: + +"A few years ago, Mr. Fogg, you would have experienced a considerable +impediment to your journey here, and would most likely have +compromised your success." + +"How do you mean, Sir Francis?" + +"Because the railway did not go beyond the base of these mountains, +and it was then necessary to make the journey in palanquins or on +ponies as far as Kandallah on the opposite slope." + +"Such an interruption would not in any way have disarranged my plans," +replied Mr. Fogg. "I have taken precautions against certain +obstacles." + +"Nevertheless, Mr. Fogg, you very nearly had an awkward bit of +business on hand in consequence of yonder fellow's adventure." + +Passe-partout was fast asleep, with his feet well muffled up in the +railway-rug, and was quite unconscious that he was the subject of +conversation. + +"The British Government is extremely strict, and with reason, upon any +such offences," continued Sir Francis. "Above everything, it considers +that the religious feelings of the native races should be respected, +and if your servant had been arrested--" + +"Well," interrupted Mr. Fogg, "well. Sir Francis, suppose he had been +taken and condemned and punished, he might have returned quietly to +Europe afterwards. That would not have been a reason for stopping his +master." + +And then the conversation again languished. During the night the train +crossed the mountains, passed Nassik, and next day, the 21st October, +it traversed a comparatively flat district of Kandish. The +well-cultivated country was sprinkled with villages, above which the +minarets of the pagodas took the place of the English church-spires. +Numerous tributaries of the Godavery watered this fertile territory. + +Passe-partout awoke and looked about him. He could not at first +believe that he actually was crossing India in a carriage upon the G. +I. P. Railway. It appeared quite incredible, but it was none the less +real. The locomotive, driven by an English engineer and fed with +English coal, puffed its steam over coffee, cotton, clove, and pepper +plantations. The smoke curled around the palm-trees, amid which +picturesque bungalows were frequently visible, and "viharis," a sort +of abandoned monasteries, as well as a few temples enriched with +wonderful Indian architecture, were here and there apparent. Farther +on, they passed immense tracts of land extending as far as the eye +could reach, and jungles in which serpents and tigers fled scared at +the roar and rattle of the train; then succeeded forests through which +the line passed, the abode of elephants which, with pensive gaze, +watched the speeding train. + +During the forenoon our travellers traversed the blood-stained +district beyond Malligaum, sacred to the votaries of the goddess Kâli. +Not far from this arose the minarets of Ellora and its pagodas, and +the famous Aurungabad, the capital of the ferocious Aurung-Zeb, now +the chief town of one of the detached kingdoms of the Nizam. It was in +this country that Feringhea, chief of the Thugs--the King of +Stranglers--exercised sway. These assassins, united in an invisible +and secret association, strangled, in honour of the goddess of death, +victims of every age without shedding blood, and in time there was +scarcely a place where a corpse was not to be found. The English +Government has succeeded in checking very considerably these wholesale +massacres, but Thugs still exist and pursue their horrible vocation. + +At half-past twelve the train stopped at Burhampore, and Passe-partout +succeeded in obtaining a pair of slippers decorated with false pearls, +which he wore with evident conceit. + +The passengers ate a hurried breakfast, and the train again started +for Assinghur, skirting for a moment the river Tapy, a small stream +which flows into the Gulf of Cambay, near Surat. + +It may now not be out of place to record Passe-partout's reflections. +Until his arrival at Bombay he had cherished the idea that the journey +would not be continued farther. But now that he was being carried +across India he saw things in a different light. His old love of +wandering returned in full force. The fantastic ideas of his youthful +days came back to him again; he took his master's projects quite +seriously; he began to believe in the wager, and consequently in the +tour of the world to be completed in that maximum of eighty days which +must not on any account be exceeded. Even now he was beginning to feel +anxious about possible delays and accidents _en route_. He felt +interested in winning, and trembled when he considered that he had +actually compromised the whole thing by his stupidity on the previous +day. So he was much more restless than Mr. Fogg, because less +phlegmatic. He counted over and over again the days that had already +passed since he had started, cursed at the stoppages at stations, +found fault with the slow speed, and in his heart blamed Mr. Fogg for +not having "tipped" the engine-driver. He quite overlooked the fact +that, though such a thing was possible on board a steamer, it was out +of question on a railroad where the time of the trains is fixed and +the speed regulated. + +Towards evening they penetrated the defiles of the mountains of +Sutpoor, which separate the territory of Khandeish from that of +Bundelcund. + +Next day, the 22nd, Passe-partout replied, to a question of Sir +Francis Cromarty, that it was three a.m., but, as a matter of fact, +this wonderful watch was about four hours slow, as it was always kept +at Greenwich time, which was then nearly seventy-seven degrees west, +and the watch would of course get slower and slower. + +Sir Francis corrected Passe-partout's time, respecting which he made a +remark similar to that made by Mr. Fix. He endeavoured to convince the +valet that he ought to regulate his watch by each new meridian, and as +he was still going east the days became shorter and shorter by four +minutes for every degree. But all this was useless. Whether the +headstrong fellow understood the general or not, he certainly did not +alter his watch, which was steadily kept at London time. At any rate +it was a delusion which pleased him and hurt nobody. + +At eight o'clock in the morning the train stopped about fifteen miles +from Rothal, at a place where there were many bungalows and huts +erected. The guard passed along the line, crying out, "All change +here!" + +Phileas Fogg looked at Sir Francis Cromarty, who did not appear to +understand this unexpected halt. + +Passe-partout, not less astonished, leaped down, and in a moment or +two returned, exclaiming, "There is no railway beyond this place, +sir." + +"What do you mean?" inquired Sir Francis. + +"I mean that the train does not go any farther." + +The general immediately got out. Phileas Fogg followed quietly. Both +these gentlemen accosted the guard. + +"Where are we?" asked Sir Francis. + +"At the village of Kholby, sir," replied the guard. + +"Why do we stop here?" + +"Because the line is not finished beyond." + +"Not finished! How is that?" + +"There are about fifty miles yet to be laid between this point and +Allahabad, where we take the train again." + +"The papers announced the line complete." + +"I cannot help that, sir; the papers were mistaken." + +"But you book people 'through' from Bombay to Calcutta," persisted Sir +Francis, who was waxing angry. + +"Certainly we do; but it is an understood thing that the passengers +provide their own conveyance between Kholby and Allahabad." + +Sir Francis was furious. Passe-partout would have liked to have +knocked the guard down, if he had been able. He did not dare to look +at his master. + +"We had better get on, Sir Francis," said Mr. Fogg; "we must get to +Allahabad somehow; let us see how we can do so." + +"It strikes me that this delay will upset your arrangements +considerably, Mr. Fogg," replied Sir Francis. + +"Oh dear no! all this has been discounted," replied Fogg. + +"What! did you know that the line was unfinished?" + +"No; but I was quite sure that some obstacles would crop up to retard +me. Nothing is yet lost I have two days in reserve. The steamer does +not leave Calcutta for Hong Kong until the 23rd, at mid-day. This is +only the 22nd, and we shall reach Calcutta in good time even now." + +What could be urged against such an assured reply as this? It was only +too evident that the railway ceased at that point. Newspapers are so +fond of anticipating, and in this case they had been decidedly +premature in announcing the completion of the line. The majority of +the passengers had been made aware of the existing state of things, +and provided themselves with conveyance accordingly, whatever they +could obtain--"palkigharies" with four wheels, waggons drawn by zebus, +a sort of brahma ox, palanquins, ponies, &c. So it happened that there +was nothing left for Mr. Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty. + +"I shall walk," said Phileas Fogg. Passe-partout, who was close to his +master, made a very expressive grimace when he gazed at his elegant +but very thin slippers. Fortunately he had made a discovery, but +hesitated a little to announce it. + +"Sir," he said at length, "I think I have found means for our +transport." + +"What is it?" + +"An elephant. It belongs to a native who lives close by." + +"Let us go and see this animal," said Mr. Fogg. Five minutes later Sir +Francis and Mr. Fogg, accompanied by Passe-partout, reached the hut, +which was surrounded by a palisade. In the hut resided the native; +inside the palisade the elephant lived. The former introduced the new +arrivals to the latter, at their particular request. + +They found that the animal was half domesticated; it had originally +been purchased for a fighting elephant, not for carrying purposes. +With this end in view, the owner had begun to alter the naturally +placid disposition of the beast by irritating him, and getting him +gradually up to that pitch of fury called "mutsh" by the Hindoos, and +this is done by feeding the elephant on sugar and butter for three +months. This at first sight would appear scarcely the treatment likely +to conduce to such an object, but it is successfully employed. + +Fortunately, however, for Mr. Fogg, the elephant in question had not +been subjected to this treatment for a very long time, and the "mutsh" +had not appeared. + +Kiouni--for so was the animal called--was no doubt quite competent to +perform the journey required, and in the absence of other conveyance, +Phileas Fogg determined to hire him. + +But elephants in India are dear, for they are becoming somewhat +scarce. The males, which only are suited to the circus training, are +much in request. They seldom breed when in a domesticated state, so +they can only be procured by hunting. They are, therefore, the objects +of much solicitude, and when Mr. Fogg asked the owner what he could +hire his elephant for, the man declined point-blank to lend him at +all. + +Fogg persisted, and offered ten pounds an hour for the beast! It was +refused. Twenty? Still refused. Forty? Declined with thanks. +Passe-partout actually jumped at each "bid." But the native would not +yield to the temptation. + +Nevertheless the price tendered was a handsome one. Supposing that the +elephant took fifteen hours to reach Allahabad, the price would amount +to six hundred pounds! + +Phileas Fogg, without betraying the least irritation, then proposed to +the owner that he should sell the animal outright, and offered one +thousand pounds for him. + +But the Hindoo declined; perhaps he thought he would make more by so +doing. + +Sir Francis Cromarty then took Mr. Fogg aside, and requested him to +reflect ere he bid higher. Mr. Fogg replied that he was not in the +habit of acting on impulse, that a bet of twenty thousand pounds +depended upon the accomplishment of the journey, that the elephant was +absolutely necessary, and if he paid twenty times the value of the +animal, it must be had. + +So Mr. Fogg returned to the Indian, who perceived it was only a +question of asking. Phileas offered in quick succession twelve +hundred, fifteen hundred, eighteen hundred, and finally two thousand +pounds. Passe-partout, usually so ruddy, was now pale with emotion. At +two thousand pounds the native yielded. "I declare by my slippers, +that's a pretty price for an elephant!" exclaimed Passe-partout. + +This business over, there was nothing but to obtain a guide. That was +easily done. A young and intelligent-looking Parsee offered his +services. Mr. Fogg engaged him, and promised him a good reward, which +would naturally increase his intelligence. + +The elephant was got ready without delay. The Parsee was quite skilled +in the business of a "mahout." He placed a sort of saddle on the +elephant's back, and at each end of it he fixed a small howdah. + +Mr. Fogg paid the native the two thousand pounds in bank-notes, which +he took from the inexhaustible carpet-bag. Passe-partout writhed as +they were paid over. Then Mr. Fogg offered Sir Francis Cromarty a seat +on the elephant, which the general gratefully accepted. One traveller +more or less would not signify to such an animal. + +Provisions were purchased. Sir Francis and Mr. Fogg each occupied a +howdah, while Passe-partout sat astride between them. The Parsee +seated himself upon the elephant's neck, and at nine o'clock they +quitted the village, the elephant taking a short cut through the thick +palm-forest. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII. + +Showing what happened to Phileas Fogg and his Companions as they +traversed the Forest. + + + +The guide, hoping to shorten the journey, kept to the left of the +railroad line, which would be carried in a circuitous manner through +the Vindhia Mountains when completed. The Parsee, who was well +acquainted with all the byways, declared that twenty miles would be +saved by striking directly across the forest; so the party yielded. + +Sir Francis and Mr. Fogg, buried up to their necks in the howdahs, got +terribly shaken by the rough trotting of the elephant, which was urged +by the driver. But they put up with the inconvenience with true +British self-restraint; they spoke but seldom and scarcely looked at +each other. + +Passe-partout was obliged to be very careful not to keep his tongue +between his teeth, else it would have been bitten off, so unmercifully +was he jogged up and down. The brave fellow, sometimes thrown forward +on the animal's neck, sometimes upon the croup, performed a series of +vaulting movements something like a circus clown on the +"spring-board." But all the time he joked and laughed at the +somersaults he performed so involuntarily; occasionally he took out a +lump of sugar from his pocket and handed it to Kiouni, who took it in +his trunk without slackening his pace for a second. + +After proceeding thus for a couple of hours, the driver called a halt +and gave the elephant an hour's rest. The animal ate all the branches +and shrubs in the vicinity, as soon as he had quenched his thirst at a +neighbouring spring. Sir Francis did not complain of this delay; he +was terribly bruised. Mr. Fogg did not appear any more discomposed +than if he had only got out of bed. + +"He is a man of iron!" exclaimed the general, as he gazed at his +companion admiringly. + +"Of hammered iron," replied Passe-partout, who was preparing a hasty +breakfast. + +At noon the driver gave the signal for departure. The country soon +became very wild. The dense forest was succeeded by groves of dates +and palms; then came extensive arid plains dotted here and there with +bushes, and sprinkled with immense blocks of syenite. The whole of +this region of Bundelcund, which is seldom traversed, is inhabited by +a fanatical people inured to the most fearful practices of the +Hindoos. The English Government has scarcely yet entirely obtained the +control over this region, which is ruled by rajahs, who are very +difficult to bring to book from their almost inaccessible mountain +fastnesses. Many times the travellers noticed bands of fierce natives, +who gesticulated angrily at perceiving the swift-footed elephant pass +by; and the Parsee took care to give them all a wide berth. They +encountered very few wild animals; even monkeys were not numerous, and +they fled away with grimaces and gestures, which amused Passe-partout +very much indeed. + +One reflection, however, troubled Passe-partout exceedingly, and that +was how would his master dispose of the elephant when they reached +Allahabad? Would he take it on with him? That was scarcely possible. +The price of conveyance, added to the purchase-money, would be +ruinous. Would he sell the beast or set him free? No doubt the animal +deserved some consideration. Suppose Mr. Fogg made him, Passe-partout, +a present of the elephant? He would feel very much embarrassed. So +these considerations worried the valet not a little. + +At eight o'clock they had crossed the principal heights of the Vindhia +chain, and at a ruined bungalow upon the southern slope of the +mountains our travellers halted again. + +The distance traversed was about twenty-five miles, and they had still +as far to go to reach Allahabad. The night was quite chilly. A fire +lighted by the Parsee was very acceptable, and the travellers made an +excellent supper of the provisions they had purchased at Kholby. The +intermittent conversation soon gave way to steady snoring. The guide +kept watch by the elephant, which slept outside, supported by the +trunk of an enormous tree. + +Nothing happened to disturb the party during the night. Now and then +the growls of wild animals, or the chattering of monkeys, broke the +silence, but nothing more terrible was heard, and the larger animals +did not disturb the occupants of the bungalow. Sir Francis Cromarty +"lay like a warrior taking his rest." Passe-partout, in a restless +sleep, appeared to be practising the gymnastics he had executed on the +elephant's back. As for Mr. Fogg, he slept as peacefully as if he were +in his quiet bed in Saville Row. + +At six o'clock they resumed their journey. The guide hoped to reach +Allahabad that evening. In that case Mr. Fogg would only lose a +portion of the eight-and-forty hours already saved since the +commencement of the trip. + +They descended the last slopes of the Vindhias. The elephant resumed +his rapid pace. Towards mid-day the guide passed round the village of +Kallenger on the Cani, one of the small affluents of the Ganges. He +appeared to avoid all inhabited places, feeling more secure in the +deserted tracts. Allahabad was thence only a dozen miles off in a +north-easterly direction. They halted once more under a banana-tree, +the fruit of which, as wholesome as bread and "as succulent as cream," +as they said, was highly appreciated by our travellers. + +At two o'clock they entered a dense forest, which they had to traverse +for some miles. The guide preferred to travel in the shade of the +woods. So far at any rate they had encountered nothing unpleasant, and +there was every reason to suppose that the journey would be +accomplished without accident, when the elephant, after a few +premonitory symptoms, stopped suddenly. + +It was then four o'clock in the afternoon. + +"What is the matter?" asked Sir Francis Cromarty, putting his head up +over the top of his howdah. + +"I don't know, sir," replied the Parsee, listening intently to a +confused murmuring sound which came through the thickly-interlacing +branches. + +Soon the sound became more defined. One might have fancied it was a +concert at a great distance; composed of human voices and brass +instruments all performing at once. Passe-partout was all eyes and +ears. Mr. Fogg waited patiently without uttering a word. + +The Parsee leaped down, fastened the elephant to a tree, and plunged +into the thick underwood. In a few moments he came back, exclaiming: +"A procession of Brahmins is coming this way! Let us hide ourselves if +we can." + +As he spoke he loosed the elephant and led him into a thicket, bidding +the travellers to stay where they were. He was ready to remount should +flight be necessary, but he thought that the procession would pass +without noticing the party, for the thick foliage completely concealed +them. + +The discordant sounds kept approaching--a monotonous kind of chant, +mingled with the beating of tom-toms and the clash of cymbals. The +head of the procession soon became visible beneath the trees about +fifty paces off, and Mr. Fogg and his party easily distinguished the +curious individuals who composed it. + +The priests, wearing mitres and long robes trimmed with lace, marched +in front. They were surrounded by a motley crowd of men, women, and +children, who were chanting a sort of funeral hymn, broken at +intervals by the sound of the various instruments. Behind these came, +on a car (the large wheels of which, spokes and all, were ornamented +with the similitude of serpents), a hideous figure drawn by four +richly-caparisoned zebus. This idol had four arms, the body was +painted a dusky red, with staring eyes, matted hair, a protruding +tongue, and lips tinted with henna and betel. Round its neck was hung +a necklace of skulls, and it was girt with a zone of human hands; it +stood upright upon the headless trunk of a giant figure. + +Sir Francis Cromarty recognised the idol at once. + +"That is the goddess Káli," he whispered; "the goddess of love and of +death." + +"Of death I can understand, but not of love," muttered Passe-partout; +"what a villainous hag it is!" + +The Parsee signed to him to hold his tongue. + +Around the idol a number of fakirs danced and twirled about. + +These wretches were daubed with ochre, and covered with wounds, from +which the blood issued drop by drop; absurd idiots, who would throw +themselves under the wheels of Juggernaut's chariot had they the +opportunity. + +Behind these fanatics marched some Brahmins, clad in all their +oriental sumptuousness of garb, dragging a woman along, who faltered +at each step. + +This female was young, and as white as a European. Her head, neck, +shoulders, ears, arms, hands, and ankles were covered with jewels, +bracelets, or rings. A gold-laced tunic, over which she wore a thin +muslin robe, revealed the swelling contours of her form. + +Behind this young woman, and in violent contrast to her, came a guard, +armed with naked sabres and long damascened pistols, carrying a dead +body in a palanquin. + +The corpse was that of an old man clothed in the rich dress of a +rajah; the turban embroidered with pearls, the robe of silk tissue and +gold, the girdle of cashmere studded with diamonds, and wearing the +beautiful weapons of an Indian prince. + +The musicians brought up the rear with a guard of fanatics, whose +cries even drowned the noise of the instruments at times. These closed +the _cortége_. + +Sir Francis Cromarty watched the procession pass by and his face wore +a peculiarly saddened expression. Turning to the guide, he said: + +"Is it a suttee?" + +The Parsee made a sign in the affirmative, and put his fingers on his +lips. The long procession wended its way slowly amongst the trees, and +before long the last of it disappeared in the depths of the forest. +The music gradually died away, occasionally a few cries could be +heard, but soon they ceased, and silence reigned around. + +Phileas Fogg had heard what Sir Francis had said, and as soon as the +procession had passed out of sight, he said: + +"What is a suttee?" + +"A suttee," replied the general, "is a human sacrifice--but a +voluntary one. That woman you saw just now will be burned to-morrow +morning at daylight." + +"The scoundrels!" exclaimed Passe-partout, who could not repress his +indignation. + +"And that dead body?" said Mr. Fogg. + +"Is that of her husband--a prince," replied the guide. "He was an +independent rajah in Bundelcund." + +"Do you mean to say that these barbarous customs still obtain in +India--under British rule?" said Mr. Fogg, without betraying any +emotion whatever. + +"In the greater portion of India," replied Sir Francis Cromarty, +"these sacrifices do not take place; but we have no authority in the +savage districts, one of the principal of which is Bundelcund. The +entire district north of the Vindhia range is the theatre of pillage +and murder." + +"Poor creature," exclaimed Passe-partout; "burned alive!" + +"Yes," continued the general, "burned alive; and if she was not, you +have no idea to what a wretched condition she would be reduced by her +relatives. They would shave off her hair, feed her very scantily upon +rice, and hold no communication with her, for she would be regarded as +unclean, and would die like a dog. The prospect of such treatment, +even more strongly than affection or religious fanaticism, often urges +the widows to submit themselves to suttee. Sometimes, however, the act +is really voluntary, and energetic interference by the Government is +necessary to prevent it. Some years ago, when I was in Bombay, a young +widow asked the governor's leave to be burned with her late husband's +body. As you may imagine, he refused her request. Then the +disconsolate widow left the town, took refuge with an independent +rajah, and burned herself, to the satisfaction of all concerned." + +As the general proceeded, the guide nodded in assent to the +truthfulness of the relation, and when the speaker had finished, the +Parsee said: + +"But the suttee to take place to-morrow is not voluntary." + +"How do you know?" + +"Everyone in Bundelcund knows that," replied the guide. + +"Yet the unfortunate woman offered no resistance," said Sir Francis +Cromarty. + +"Because she was drugged with hemp and opium," replied the Parsee. + +"But whither are they taking her?" + +"To the Pagoda of Pillaji, two miles away from here. There she will +pass the night, and wait for the hour appointed for the sacrifice." + +"And the sacrifice will take place?" + +"At dawn to-morrow." + +As he spoke, the guide led forth the elephant and clambered up to his +seat on its neck; but just as he was about to whistle to the animal to +proceed, Mr. Fogg stopped him, and said to Sir Francis Cromarty, +"Suppose we save this woman?" + +"Save her!" exclaimed the general. + +"I have still twelve hours to spare," continued Fogg; "I can devote +that time to the purpose." + +"Well, I declare you are a man with a heart in the right place," cried +Sir Francis. + +"Sometimes it is," replied Mr. Fogg, smiling grimly, "when I have +time!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII. + +Showing how Passe-partout perceives once again that Fortune favours +the Brave. + + + +The project was a difficult one and a bold, almost impossible to carry +out. Mr. Fogg was about to risk his life, or at least his liberty, and +consequently the success of his undertaking; but, nevertheless, he +hesitated not a moment. Besides, he found in Sir Francis Cromarty a +sturdy ally. Passe-partout also was at their disposal; he was quite +ready, and his opinion of his master was rising every moment. He +possessed a heart, after all, beneath that cold exterior. +Passe-partout was beginning to love Mr. Fogg. + +The guide remained. What course would he take in this business? He +would probably side with the natives. At any rate, if he would not +assist, his neutrality must be assured. + +Sir Francis put the question to him plainly. + +"Your honour," replied the man, "I am a Parsee. The woman is a Parsee +also. You may dispose of me as you wish." + +"Good," replied Sir Francis. + +"But," continued the guide, "you must remember that not only do we +risk our lives in this affair, but we may be horribly tortured if we +are taken alive. So take care." + +"We have made up our minds to run the risk," said Mr. Fogg. "I think +we had better wait till nightfall before we act." + +"I think so too," said the guide, who then proceeded to give his +employers some information respecting the lady. He said she was a +Parsee, a celebrated Indian beauty, daughter of one of the richest +merchants in Bombay. She had received a complete English education; +her manners and tastes were all European. Her name was Aouda. She was, +moreover, an orphan, and had been married against her will to the +rajah. She had only been three months wed. Knowing the fate that +awaited her, she had attempted to escape, but was immediately retaken; +and the rajah's relatives, who were desirous, from motives of +interest, for her death, had devoted her to the suttee, which now +appeared inevitable. + +These particulars only served to confirm Mr. Fogg and his companions +in their generous resolve. It was then decided that the guide should +take them as near to the pagoda as possible without attracting +attention. + +In about half an hour the elephant was halted in the brushwood about +five hundred yards from the temple, which was not visible; but the +shouts of the fanatics were distinctly audible. + +The best manner of releasing the intended victim was then discussed. +The guide was acquainted with the pagoda in which he declared the +young woman was imprisoned. Was it possible to enter by one of the +doors, when all the band of priests, etc., were wrapped in a drunken +sleep? or, should they enter through a hole in the wall? This could +only be decided when they reached the pagoda. But one thing was very +certain, and that was that the deed must be done at night, and not at +daybreak, when the victim was being led to the sacrifice. Then human +aid would be powerless to save her. + +So the party waited till night. At about six o'clock in the evening it +would be dark, and then they would make a reconnaissance. The last +cries of the fakirs would by that time be hushed. The Hindoos would by +that time, according to custom, be wrapped in the intoxicating arms of +"bang"--liquid opium mixed with hemp; and it would be possible to +glide past them into the temple. + +The whole party, guided by the Parsee, then advanced stealthily +through the forest. After ten minutes' creeping beneath the branches of +the trees, they reached a rivulet, whence, by the glare of the +torches, they were enabled to distinguish the funeral pyre, composed +of the fragrant sandal-wood, and already saturated with perfumed oil. +Upon this pile lay the dead body of the deceased prince, which was to +be burned with his widow. A hundred paces from the pyre was the +pagoda, the minarets of which uprose beyond the tops of the +surrounding trees. + +"Come on," whispered the guide. + +With increasing caution the Parsee, followed by his companions, glided +silently amongst the tall grasses. The murmur of the breeze through +the trees was the only sound that broke the silence. + +The Parsee soon halted on the border of the clearing. Some torches lit +up the space. The ground was covered with groups of tipsy sleepers, +and bore a great resemblance to a battle-field strewn with dead +bodies. Men, women, and children lay all together. Some drunken +individuals still staggered about here and there. In the background +the temple loomed amid the thick trees. But greatly to the +disappointment of the guide, armed rajpoots kept watch by torchlight +upon the doors, in front of which they paced up and down with naked +swords. No doubt the priests within were equally vigilant. + +The Parsee advanced no farther. He perceived at once that it was +impossible to force an entrance to the temple, and he led his +companions back again. Sir Francis and Mr. Fogg also understood that +no more could be done in that direction. They stopped and consulted +together in undertones. + +"Let us wait a little," whispered the brigadier. "It is only eight +o'clock. Those sentries may go to sleep later." + +"That is possible, certainly," said the Parsee. + +So they all lay down under the trees and waited. + +The time passed very slowly. At intervals the guide would go forward +and reconnoitre. But the guards were always there; the torches burned +brightly still, and an uncertain glimmer penetrated through the +windows of the temple from the inside. + +They waited until nearly midnight. There was no change in the +situation. The sentries were sleepless, and it became evident that +they intended to keep watch all night. They were probably quite sober. +It now became necessary to try another plan and to cut through the +walls of the pagoda. There was then the chance of finding the priests +awake inside, watching their intended victim as closely as the +soldiers guarded the door. + +After a final consultation, the guide expressed himself ready to +proceed. Mr. Fogg, Sir Francis, and Passe-partout followed. They made +a long detour with the intention of approaching the pagoda from +behind. About half-past twelve they gained the walls without having +encountered anyone. Evidently no watch was kept at the side, but it +was equally evident that there was neither window nor door at the +back. + +The night was dark. The moon, then in her last quarter, appeared +scarcely above the horizon, and was covered frequently by thick +clouds. The trees also served to render the darkness more profound. It +was enough to have reached the wall, an opening must be discovered or +made. To accomplish this, Mr. Fogg and his companions had nothing but +their pocket-knives. Fortunately, the temple walls were only composed +of bricks and wood, which would not be very hard to cut through. Once +the first brick had been taken out, the rest was easy. + +They set about the work immediately, and as noiselessly as possible. +The Parsee and Passe-partout worked away to loosen the bricks in a +space about two feet wide. The labour was continued, and they were +getting on capitally, when a cry was heard from the interior of the +temple, and was immediately succeeded by others from the outside. +Passe-partout and the guide ceased working. Had they been heard, and +had the alarm been given? Common prudence necessitated a retreat, +which was effected in company with Sir Francis Cromarty and Phileas +Fogg. They ensconced themselves again beneath the trees to wait until +the alarm, if it were an alarm, had subsided, and ready in that event +to resume their operations. But, alas! the guards now completely +surrounded the pagoda and prevented all approach. It would be +difficult to depict the disappointment of these four men at this +unfortunate _contretemps_. As they were prevented from approaching the +victim, how could they hope to save her? Sir Francis Cromarty clenched +his hands, Passe-partout was almost beside himself, and even the guide +had some difficulty in preserving his self-restraint. The impassible +Phileas Fogg alone preserved his equanimity. + +"I suppose we may as well go away now?" whispered Sir Francis +Cromarty. + +"That's all we can do," the guide assented. + +"Don't be in a hurry," said Mr. Fogg. "It will suit me well enough if +we reach Allahabad at mid-day." + +"But what do you expect to do if we remain here?" said Sir Francis. +"It will be daylight in a couple of hours, and--" + +"We may get a chance at the last moment." + +The brigadier would have liked to have been able to read the +expression of Mr. Fogg's face. What was he thinking about, this +cool-headed Englishman? Would he, at the last moment, throw himself +upon the burning pile, and snatch her from the clutches of her +executioners openly? + +Such a proceeding would have been the height of folly, and no one +could for a moment imagine that Mr. Fogg was so foolhardy as that. +Nevertheless, Sir Francis consented to wait the _dénouement_ of this +terrible scene. But the guide led the party to the edge of the +clearing, where, from behind a thicket, they could observe all the +proceedings. Meanwhile, Passe-partout had been hatching a project in +his busy brain, and at last the idea came forth like a flash of +lightning. His first conception of the notion he had repudiated as +ridiculously foolish, but at length he began to look upon the project +as feasible. "It is a chance," he muttered, "but perhaps the only one +with such bigoted idiots." At any rate he wriggled himself to the end +of the lowest branch of a tree, the extremity of which almost touched +the ground. + +The hours passed slowly on, and at length some faint indications of +day became visible in the sky. But it was still quite dark in the +neighbourhood of the pagoda. + +This was the time chosen for the sacrifice. The sleeping groups arose +as if the resurrection had arrived. The tom-toms sounded. Chants and +cries were once more heard. The sublime moment had come! + +Just then the doors of the pagoda were opened, and a strong light +flashed out from the interior. The victim could be perceived being +dragged by two priests to the door. It appeared to the spectators that +the unhappy woman, having shaken off the effects of her enforced +intoxication, was endeavouring to escape from her executioners. Sir +Francis Cromarty was deeply agitated, and seizing Mr. Fogg's hand +convulsively he perceived that the hand grasped an open knife. + +The crowd now began to move about. The young woman had been again +stupefied with hemp-fumes, and passed between the lines of fakirs who +escorted her, uttering wild cries as they proceeded. + +Phileas Fogg and his companions followed on the outskirts of the +crowd. Two minutes later they reached the bank of the stream, and +stopped about fifty paces from the funeral pyre, upon which the corpse +was extended. In the dim religious light, they could perceive the +outline of the victim close beside her deceased husband. + +A lighted torch was then quickly applied to the pile of wood, which, +saturated with oil, was instantly in a blaze. Sir Francis Cromarty and +the guide had to exert all their strength to restrain Mr. Fogg, who, +in his generous indignation, appeared about to rush upon the blazing +pile. + +But just as Phileas Fogg had succeeded in throwing them off, a change +came o'er the scene. A cry of terror rose from the natives, and they +bowed themselves to the earth in indescribable terror. + +The old rajah was not dead after all; there he was standing upright +upon the fiery funeral pile, clasping his young wife in his arms; +ready to leap from amid the smoke into the midst of the +horror-stricken crowd. The fakirs, the guards, the priests were all +seized with superstitious fear, and lay, faces to the earth, not +daring to lift their eyes to behold such a stupendous miracle. + +The resuscitated man was thus practically quite close to the place +where Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty were standing with the +guide. + +"Let us be off," exclaimed the "spectre." + +It was only Passe-partout, who had, unperceived, gained the pyre under +cover of the smoke, and had rescued the young lady from certain death. +It was Passe-partout himself who, thanks to his happy audacity, was +enabled to pass unharmed through the terrified assemblage. + +In an instant the four friends had disappeared in the woods, and the +elephant was trotting rapidly away. But very soon the loud cries and +the clamour that arose told them that the trick had been discovered, +and a bullet whizzed by as an additional confirmation. For there upon +the blazing pile lay the rajah's corpse; and the priests quickly +understood that a rescue had been so far successfully accomplished. +They immediately dashed into the forest, accompanied by the soldiers, +who fired a volley; but the fugitives had got away, and in a few +moments more were out of reach of arrows and bullets both. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV. + +In which Phileas Fogg descends the charming Valley of the Ganges, +without noticing its Beauties. + + + +The rash attempt had proved successful. An hour later, Passe-partout +was laughing at the result of his venturous plan. Sir Francis Cromarty +had shaken hands with him. His master had said, "Well done!" which +from him was high commendation indeed. To which expressions of +approbation, Passe-partout had replied that all the credit of the +affair belonged to his master. His own share in it had been an absurd +notion after all; and he laughed again when he thought that he, +Passe-partout, the ex-gymnast, ex-sergeant of the fire brigade, had +actually played the part of spouse of a beautiful young lady, the +widow of an embalmed rajah! + +As for the young lady herself, she was still insensible, and quite +unconscious of all that was passing or had lately passed. Wrapped up +in a railroad-rug, she was now reclining in one of the howdahs. + +Meanwhile the elephant, guided with unerring care by the Parsee, was +progressing rapidly through the still gloomy forest. After an hour's +ride, they arrived at an extensive plain. At seven o'clock they +halted. The young lady was still quite unconscious. The guide poured +some brandy down her throat, but she remained insensible for some time +afterwards. Sir Francis Cromarty, who was aware that no serious evil +effects supervened from the inhalation of the fumes of hemp, was in no +way anxious about her. + +But if her restoration to consciousness was not a subject of anxiety +to the brigadier, he was less assured respecting her life in the +future. He did not hesitate to tell Mr. Fogg that if Madame Aouda +remained in India, she would sooner or later be taken by her would-be +executioners. Those fanatics were scattered everywhere through the +peninsula, and there was not a doubt that, despite the English police, +the Hindoos would claim their victim, no matter in what presidency she +might endeavour to take refuge. And in support of his assertion, Sir +Francis instanced a similar case which had recently taken place. His +opinion, therefore, was that she would only be in absolute safety when +she quitted India for ever. + +Mr. Fogg replied that he would consider the matter, and give his +opinion later. + +About ten o'clock the guide announced that they were close to +Allahabad. Then they would be able to continue their journey by the +railroad, and in about four-and-twenty hours they would reach +Calcutta. Phileas Fogg would in that case be in time to catch the Hong +Kong steamer, which was to sail at noon on the 25th of October. The +young woman was safely bestowed in a private waiting-room, while +Passe-partout was hurriedly despatched to purchase various necessary +articles of clothing, etc, for her use. His master supplied the funds +for the purpose. + +Passe-partout hastened away, and ran through the streets of +Allahabad--the City of God--one of the most sacred cities of India, +inasmuch as it is built at the junction of the two holy streams of the +Ganges and the Jumna, whose waters attract pilgrims from every part of +the peninsula. We are also told that the Ganges has its source in +heaven, whence, owing to the influence of Bramah, it condescends to +earth. + +While he made his purchases diligently, Passe-partout did not forget +to look about him and see something of the city. It was at one time +defended by a splendid fort, which has since become the State prison. +Commerce and business no longer occupy their former places in +Allahabad. Vainly did the worthy European seek for such emporiums as +he would have met in Regent Street; he could find nothing better than +the shop of an old Jew clothesman--a crusty old man he was too. From +him he purchased a tweed dress, a large cloak, and a magnificent +otter-skin pelisse which cost seventy-five pounds. With these garments +he returned in triumph to the railway station. + +Mrs. Aouda had by that time partly recovered consciousness. The +influence of the drug administered by the priests was passing away by +degrees, and her bright eyes were once again resuming their soft and +charming Indian expression. + +The poet-king, Uçaf Uddaul, celebrating the charms of the Queen of +Ahundnagara, thus sings: + +"Her shining locks, parted in the centre of her forehead, set off the +harmonious contours of her white and delicate cheeks, all glowing in +their freshness. Her ebon brows have the shape and power of the bow of +Kama, the god of love; and beneath her silken lashes, her dark eyes +swim in liquid tenderness, as in the sacred lakes of the Himalayas is +reflected the celestial light. Her glittering, even, pearl-like teeth +shine between the smiling lips as the dewdrops in the half-closed +petals of the passion-flower. Her tiny ears, with curves divine, her +small hands, her little feet, tender as the buds of lotus, sparkle +with the pearls of Ceylon and the dazzling diamonds of the famed +Golconda. Her rounded, supple waist, which hand may circle round, +displays the curving outline of the hips, and swelling bosom, where +youth in all its loveliness expands its perfect treasures. Beneath the +tunic-folds the limbs seem formed within a silver mould by the +god-like hand of Vicvarcarnia, the immortal sculptor." + +Without exactly comparing Mrs. Aouda with the foregoing description, +it may be stated that she was a most charming woman, in the fullest +acceptation of the term. She spoke English with fluency and purity, +and the guide had only stated the truth when he had averred that the +Parsee lady had been transformed by her education. + +The train was about to start; Mr. Fogg was paying the Parsee guide his +hire as agreed--not a farthing in excess. This business-like +arrangement rather astonished Passe-partout, when he recalled all they +owed to the guide's devotion. In fact, the Parsee had risked his life +voluntarily by engaging in the affair at Pillaji, and if he should be +caught by the Hindoos he would very likely be severely dealt with. +There was still Kiouni, however. What was to be done with the +elephant, which had cost so much? But Phileas Fogg had already made up +his mind on that point. + +"Parsee," said he to the guide, "you have been most useful and devoted +to us. I have paid for your services, but not for your devotion. Would +you like to have the elephant? If so, he is yours." The eyes of the +guide sparkled. + +"Your honour is giving me a fortune!" he exclaimed. + +"Take him," replied Mr. Fogg, "and then I shall still be in your +debt." + +"Hurrah!" cried Passe-partout; "take him, my friend. Kiouni is a fine +animal;" and going up to the beast, he gave him some pieces of sugar, +saying, "Here, Kiouni, take this, and this." + +The elephant gave vent to some grunts of satisfaction, and then +seizing Passe-partout by the waist with his trunk, he lifted him up. +Passe-partout, not in the least afraid, continued to caress the +animal, which replaced him gently on the ground, and to the pressure +of the honest Kiouni's trunk, Passe-partout responded with a kindly +blow. + +Some short time after, Phileas Fogg, Sir Francis Cromarty, and +Passe-partout were seated with Mrs. Aouda, who occupied the best place +in a comfortable compartment of the train, which was speeding towards +Benares. This run of eighty miles from Allahabad was accomplished in +two hours, and in that time the young lady had quite recovered from +the drugs she had inhaled. Her astonishment at finding herself in the +train, dressed in European garments, and with three travellers utterly +unknown to her, may be imagined. + +Her companions in the first place showed her every attention, even to +the administration of a few drops of liqueur, and then the general +told her what had happened. He particularly dwelt upon the devotedness +of Phileas Fogg, who had risked his life to save hers, and upon the +termination of the adventure, of which Passe-partout was the hero. Mr. +Fogg made no remark whatever, and Passe-partout looked very bashful, +and declared it was not worth speaking of. + +Mrs. Aouda thanked her deliverers effusively by tears at least as much +as by words. Her beautiful eyes even more than her lips expressed her +gratitude. Then her thoughts flew back to the suttee, and as she +remarked she was still on Indian territory, she shuddered with horror. +Phileas Fogg, guessing her thoughts, hastened to reassure her, and +quietly offered to escort her to Hong Kong, where she could remain +till the affair had blown over. This offer the lady moat gratefully +accepted, for--curiously enough--a relative of hers, a Parsee like +herself, was then residing at Hong Kong, and was one of the principal +merchants of that British settlement. + +At half-past twelve the train stopped at Benares. Brahmin legends +state that this town is built upon the site of the ancient Casi, which +was at one time suspended between heaven and earth, like Mahomet's +coffin. But in these practical days, Benares, which orientals call the +Athens of India, rests prosaically upon the ground, and Passe-partout +caught many a glimpse of brick houses and numerous clay huts, which +gave the place a desolate appearance, without any local colour. + +Sir Francis Cromarty had now reached his destination; the troops he +was to command were encamped a few miles to the north of the town. He +took farewell of Phileas Fogg, wished him every success, and expressed +a hope that he would continue his journey in a more profitable and +less original manner. Mr. Fogg gently pressed his companion's hand. +Mrs. Aouda was more demonstrative; she could not forget what she owed +to Sir Francis Cromarty. As for Passe-partout, he was honoured with a +hearty shake of the general's hand, and was much impressed thereby. So +they parted. + +From Benares the railway traverses the valley of the Ganges. The +travellers had many glimpses of the varied country of Behar, the hills +covered with verdure, and a succession of barley, wheat, and com +fields, jungles full of alligators, neat villages, and thick forests. +Elephants and other animals were bathing in the sacred river, as were +also bands of Hindoos of both sexes, who, notwithstanding the advanced +season of the year, were accomplishing their pious ablutions. These +devotees were declared enemies of Buddhism, and were strict Brahmins, +believing in Vishnu, the sun god; Shiva, the personification of +nature; and Brahma, the head of priests and rulers. But how do Brahma, +Shiva, and Vishnu regard India, now completely Anglicised, with +hundreds of steamers darting and screaming along the holy waters of +the Ganges, frightening the birds and beasts and faithful followers of +the gods dwelling along the banks? + +The landscape passed rapidly by, and was occasionally hidden by the +stream. The travellers could now discern the fort of Chunar, twenty +miles south-west of Benares; then Ghazipore and its important +rose-water manufactories came in sight; then they caught a glimpse of +the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, which rises on the left bank of the +river; then the fortified town of Buxar; Patna, the great commercial +city and principal opium-market of India; Monghir, an European town, +as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its foundries, factories, +and tall chimneys vomiting forth volumes of black smoke. + +Night fell, and still the train rushed on, in the midst of the roaring +and growling of wild animals, which fled from the advancing +locomotive. Nothing could of course then be seen of those wonders of +Bengal, Golconda, the ruins of Gom, and Morschabad, Burdwan, the +ancient capital, Hooghly, Chandernagore, in French territory, where +Passe-partout would have been glad to see his country's ensign. + +At last, at seven o'clock in the morning, they reached Calcutta. The +steamer for Hong Kong was not to leave till mid-day, so Phileas Fogg +had still five hours to spare. + +According to his journal, he was due at Calcutta on the 25th +October--twenty-three days from London; and at Calcutta he was as +arranged. He had neither gained nor lost so far. Unfortunately, the +two days he had had to spare he spent as we have seen while crossing +the peninsula; but we must not suppose that Phileas Fogg regretted his +actions for a moment. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV. + +In which the Bag of Bank-notes is lightened by some Thousands of +Pounds more. + + + +Passe-partout was the first to alight from the train; Mr. Fogg +followed, and helped out his fair companion. Phileas had counted upon +proceeding directly to the steamer, so as to settle Mrs. Aouda +comfortably on board. He was unwilling to leave her so long, as she +was on such dangerous ground. + +As Mr. Fogg was leaving the station a policeman approached him, and +said, "Mr. Phileas Fogg, is it not?" + +"It is," replied Phileas. + +"And this is your servant?" continued the policeman, indicating +Passe-partout. + +"Yes." + +"Will you be so good as to follow me?" + +Mr. Fogg did not appear in the least degree surprised. The policeman +was a representative of the law, and to an Englishman the law is +sacred. Passe-partout, like a Frenchman, wanted to argue the point, +but the policeman touched him with his cane, and his master made him a +sign to obey. + +"This young lady can accompany us?" said Mr. Fogg. + +"Certainly," replied the policeman. + +Mr. Fogg, Mrs. Aouda, and Passe-partout were then conducted to a +"palkighari," a sort of four-wheeled carriage, holding four people, +and drawn by two horses. They drove away, and no one spoke during the +twenty minutes' drive. + +The carriage passed through the "Black Town," and then through the +European quarter, which, with its brick houses, well-dressed people, +and handsome equipages, presented a marked contrast to the native +town. The carriage stopped before a quiet-looking house, which, +however, did not appear to be a private mansion. The policeman +directed his prisoners--for so we may term them--to alight, and +conducted them to a room, the windows of which were barred. + +"At half-past eight," he said, "you will be brought before Judge +Obadiah." He then went out and locked the door. + +"So we are prisoners," exclaimed Passe-partout, dropping into a chair. + +Mrs. Aouda, turning to Mr. Fogg, said tearfully: "Oh sir, pray do not +think of me any longer. It is on my account that you have been +arrested. It is for having saved me." + +Phileas Fogg calmly replied that such a thing was not possible. It was +quite out of the question that they could be arrested on account of +the suttee. The complainants would not dare to present themselves. +There must be some mistake, and Mr. Fogg added that in any case he +would see the young lady safe to Hong Kong. + +"But the steamer starts at twelve o'clock," said Passe-partout. + +"We shall be on board before that," replied the impassible Fogg. + +This was said so decidedly that Passe-partout could not help +muttering, "That's all right then, we shall be on board in time no +doubt." But in his soul he was not so very certain of it. + +At half-past eight the door opened, the policeman entered, and +conducted the friends into an adjoining room. This was the court, and +was pretty well filled by Europeans and natives. The three companions +were allotted seats on a bench lacing the magistrate's desk. Judge +Obadiah, followed by the clerk, entered almost immediately. He was a +fat, round-faced man. He took down a wig from a nail and put it on. + +"Call the first case," he began, but immediately putting his hand to +his head he said, "This is not my wig." + +"The fact is, your honour, it is mine," replied the clerk. + +"My dear Mr. Oysterpuff, how can you expect a judge to administer +justice in a clerk's wig?" + +The exchange was made. All this time Passe-partout was boiling over +with impatience, for the hands of the clock were getting on terribly +fast towards noon. + +"Now, then, the first case," said the judge. + +"Phileas Fogg," called out the clerk. + +"Here I am." + +"Passe-partout." + +"Here." + +"Good," said the judge. + +"For two days we have been awaiting you." + +"But of what do you accuse us?" cried Passe-partout impatiently. + +"You are going to hear," said the judge quietly. + +"Your honour," said Mr. Fogg, "I am a British citizen, and I have the +right--" + +"Have you not been properly treated?" asked the judge, + +"Oh yes, but--" + +"Very well, then. Call the plaintiffs." + +As the judge spoke the door opened, and three Hindoo priests were +introduced by an usher. + +"It is that, after all," muttered Passe-partout. "Those are the +fellows that wanted to burn our young lady." + +The priests stood erect before the judge, and the clerk read aloud the +complaint of sacrilege against Phileas Fogg and his servant, who were +accused of having defiled a place consecrated to the Brahmin religion. + +"You hear the charge," said the judge to Phileas Fogg. + +"Yes, your honour," replied the accused, looking at his watch, "and I +confess it." + +"You admit it?" + +"I admit it, and I wait to see what these priests in their turn will +confess respecting their doings at the Pagoda of Pillaji." + +The priests looked at each other. They evidently did not understand +the reference. + +"Of course," cried Passe-partout impetuously, "at the Pagoda of +Pillaji, where they were about to burn their victim." + +The priests looked stupefied, and the judge was almost equally +astonished. + +"What victim?" he asked. "To burn whom? In Bombay?" + +"Bombay!" exclaimed Passe-partout. + +"Of course. 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 shoes of the profaner +of the temple;" and he placed a pair of shoes upon the desk as he +spoke. + +"My shoes!" exclaimed Passe-partout, who was surprised into this +incautious admission. + +One can imagine the confusion which ensued. The incident at the pagoda +in Bombay had been quite forgotten by both master and man, and it was +on account of that that they were both detained. + +The detective Fix had seen at once the advantage he could derive from +that _contretemps_; so, delaying his departure for twelve hours, he +consulted with the priests at Malabar Hill and had promised them a +large reward, knowing very well that the English Government would +punish with extreme severity any trespass of such a description. Then +he had sent the priests by train on the track of the offenders. Owing +to the time spent by Phileas Fogg and his party in releasing the young +widow from the suttee, Fix and the Hindoo priests had reached Calcutta +first, but in any case Mr. Fogg and his servant would have been +arrested as they left the train in consequence of a telegraphic +despatch which had been forwarded to Calcutta by the authorities. The +disappointment of Fix may be imagined when he heard on his arrival +that Fogg had not reached Calcutta. He thought that his victim had +stopped at one of the intermediate stations, and Had taken refuge in +the southern provinces. For four-and-twenty hours Fix had restlessly +paced the railway station at Calcutta. What was his joy when that very +morning he perceived his man descending from the train in company with +a lady whose presence he could not account for. He had immediately +directed a policeman to arrest Mr. Fogg, and that is how the whole +party came to be brought before Judge Obadiah. + +If Passe-partout had been less wrapped up in his own business he would +have noticed the detective seated in the corner of the court, watching +the proceedings with an interest easy to be understood, for at +Calcutta, as heretofore, he still wanted the warrant to arrest the +supposed thief. + +But Judge Obadiah had noticed the avowal, which Passe-partout would +have given the world to recall. + +"So the facts are admitted," said the judge. + +"They are," replied Fogg coldly. + +"Well," continued the judge, "inasmuch as the English law is intended +to protect rigorously, and without distinction, all religions in +India, and as this fellow, Passe-partout, has confessed his crime, and +is convicted of having violated with sacrilegious feet the Pagoda of +Malabar Hill at Bombay during the day of the 20th of October, the said +Passe-partout is condemned to fifteen days' imprisonment and to pay a +fine of three hundred pounds." + +"Three hundred pounds!" exclaimed Passe-partout, who was scarcely +conscious of anything but the amount of the fine. + +"Silence!" shouted the usher. + +"And," continued the judge, "seeing that it is not proved that this +sacrilege was connived at by the master, but as he must be held +responsible for the acts and deeds of his servant, the said Phileas +Fogg is sentenced to eight days' imprisonment and a fine of one +hundred and fifty pounds. Usher, call the next case." + +Fix, in his corner, rubbed his hands to his satisfaction. Phileas Fogg +detained eight days at Calcutta! This was fortunate, by that time the +warrant would have arrived from England. Passe-partout was completely +dumbfoundered. This conviction would ruin his master. His wager of +twenty thousand pounds would be lost; and all because he, like an +idiot, had gone into that cursed pagoda. + +But Phileas Fogg was as cool and collected as if he were in no way +concerned in the matter. At the moment the usher was calling on the +next cause, Phileas rose and said, "I offer bail." + +"That is within your right," said the judge. + +Fix's blood ran cold; but he revived again, when he heard the judge +say, that as the prisoners were strangers, a bail of a thousand pounds +each would be necessary. So it would cost Mr. Fogg two thousand +pounds, if he did not put in an appearance when called upon. + +"I will pay the money now," said that gentleman; and from the bag +which Passe-partout still held, he drew bank-notes for two thousand +pounds, and placed them on the clerk's desk. + +"This sum will be restored to you, when you come out of prison," said +the judge. "Meantime you are free on bail." + +"Come along," said Phileas Fogg to his servant. + +"But I suppose they will give me back my shoes?" said Passe-partout +angrily. + +They gave him back his shoes. "They have cost us pretty dearly," he +muttered, "more than one thousand pounds apiece, without counting the +inconvenience to myself;" and with the most hang-dog appearance, +Passe-partout followed his master, who had offered his arm to the +young lady. Fix was still in hopes that his prey would not abandon +such a sum as two thousand pounds; so he followed Mr. Fogg closely. + +Phileas took a fly, and the whole party were driven down to the quays. +Half-a-mile from the pier the _Rangoon_ was moored, the "blue-peter" +at the mast-head. Eleven o'clock was striking, so Mr. Fogg had an hour +to spare. Fix saw him put off in a boat, with Mrs. Aouda and his +servant. The detective stamped with rage. + +"The rascal!" he exclaimed; "he is going then. Two thousand pounds +sacrificed. He is as reckless as a thief. I will follow him to the end +of the world, if necessary; but at the rate he is going, the stolen +money will soon be spent." + +The detective was not far wrong. In fact, since he had left London, +what with travelling expenses, "tips," the money paid for the +elephant, in fines, and in bail, Phileas Fogg had already disbursed +more than five thousand pounds, so that the percentage upon the sum +likely to be recovered by the detective (as he imagined) was growing +small by degrees and beautifully less. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI. + +Fix does not at all understand what is said to him. + + + +The _Rangoon_, one of the P. and O. Company's vessels, plying between +India, China, and Japan, was an iron screw steamer of about one +thousand seven hundred and seventy tons, with engines of four hundred +horse-power. She was as fast but not so comfortable as the _Mongolia_, +and Mrs. Aouda was scarcely as well accommodated as Phileas Fogg would +have wished. But as the voyage was only three thousand five hundred +miles, that is to say eleven or twelve days' steaming, and the young +lady was not difficult to please, it was no great matter. + +During the first portion of the voyage she became well acquainted with +Phileas Fogg, and gave expression to her great gratitude on every +occasion. That phlegmatic gentleman listened to her protestations with +the most unmoved exterior, not an expression, not a movement evidenced +the slightest emotion; but he took care that the young lady should +want for nothing. He saw her at certain hours every day, if not to +talk, at least to listen to her conversation; he exhibited towards her +the greatest politeness, but the politeness of an automaton. Mrs. +Aouda did not know what to think of him, though Passe-partout had +given her a few hints about his eccentric master, and had told her of +the wager about going round the world. Mrs. Aouda had rather ridiculed +the idea, but after all did she not owe him her life? And Mr. Fogg +would not lose by being regarded through the glasses of gratitude. + +Mrs. Aouda confirmed the Parsee guide's explanation of her past +history. She was, in fact, of the highest native caste. + +Many Parsee merchants had made great fortunes in cotton in India. One +of them, Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, has been made a baronet by the +English Government, and Mrs. Aouda was connected with this personage, +who was then living in Bombay. It was a cousin of his whom she hoped +to join at Hong Kong, and with whom she trusted to find protection. +She could not say whether she would be received or not; but Mr. Fogg +told her not to trouble herself, as all would come mathematically +square. These were the words he used. It was uncertain whether the +young lady quite understood him. She fixed her great eyes--"those eyes +as limpid as the sacred lakes of the Himalayas"--upon him; but Mr. +Fogg was as impassive as ever, and did not show any disposition to +throw himself into those lakes. + +The first portion of the voyage passed very pleasantly. Everything was +favourable. The _Rangoon_ soon sighted the great Andaman, with its +picturesque mountain called Saddle Peak, two thousand four hundred +feet high, a landmark for all sailors. They skirted the coast, but +they saw none of the inhabitants. The appearance of the islands was +magnificent. Immense forests of palm, teak, and gigantic mimosas +(tree-ferns), covered the foreground of the landscape, while at the +back rose the undulating profile of the hills. The cliffs swarmed with +that species of swallows which build the edible nests so prized in +China. + +But the islands were soon passed, and the _Rangoon_ rapidly steamed +towards the Straits of Malacca, which give access to the Chinese Sea. + +Now what is Fix doing all this time? Having left instructions for the +transmission of the warrant to Hong Kong, he had embarked on board the +_Rangoon_ without being perceived by Passe-partout, and was in hopes +to be able to keep out of sight until the steamer should have reached +her destination. In fact, it would be difficult to explain his +presence on board without awakening the suspicions of Passe-partout, +who thought him in Bombay. But fate obliged him to resume acquaintance +with the lad, as we shall see later. + +All the aspirations and hopes of the detective were now centred in +Hong Kong, for the steamer would not stop at Singapore long enough for +him to do anything there. It was at Hong Kong that the arrest must be +made, or the thief would escape, and, so to speak, for ever. + +Hong Kong, in fact, was English territory, but the last British +territory which they would see on the route. Beyond that, China, +Japan, and America would offer an almost secure asylum to Mr. Fogg. If +they should find the warrant of arrest at Hong Kong, Fix could hand +Fogg over to the local police, and have done with him. But after +leaving the island a simple warrant would not be sufficient; a warrant +of extradition would be necessary, which would give rise to delays of +all kinds, and of which the criminal might take advantage and escape; +so if he did not arrest him at Hong Kong, he might give up the idea +altogether. + +"Now," said Fix to himself, "either the warrant will be at Hong Kong, +and I shall arrest my man, or it will not be there; and this time I +must delay his departure at any cost. I have failed both at Bombay and +Calcutta, and if I make a mess of it at Hong Kong, my reputation is +gone. I must succeed, at any cost; but what means shall I adopt to +stop him if the worst comes to the worst?" + +Fix then, as a last resource, made up his mind to tell Passe-partout +everything, and what sort of a man his master was, for he was not his +accomplice evidently. Passe-partout would no doubt under those +circumstances assist him (Fix). But in any case this was a dangerous +expedient, and one not to be employed except under pressure. A hint +from Passe-partout to his master would upset the whole thing at once. + +The detective, therefore, was very much embarrassed, and the presence +of Mrs. Aouda on board gave him more food for thought. Who was this +woman? and how did it happen that she was in Fogg's society? They must +have met between Bombay and Calcutta, but at what place? Was it by +chance, or had he purposely gone to seek this charming woman? for she +was charming no doubt--Fix had seen as much in the court at Calcutta. + +He was puzzled, and began to think that perhaps there had been an +elopement. He was certain of it. This idea now took complete +possession of Fix, and he began to think what advantage he could gain +from the circumstance: whether the young lady was married or not, +there was still the elopement; and he might make it so unpleasant for +Mr. Fogg at Hong Kong that he would not be able to get away by paying +money. + +But the _Rangoon_ had to get to Hong Kong first, and could he wait? +for Fogg had an unpleasant habit of jumping from one steamer to +another, and might be far away before anything had been settled. The +thing to do, therefore, was to give notice to the English authorities, +and to signal the _Rangoon_ before she arrived. This was not +difficult, as the steamer stopped at Singapore, and he could telegraph +thence to Hong Kong. + +In any case, before taking decisive action, he determined to question +Passe-partout. He knew it was not difficult to make the lad talk, and +Fix decided to make himself known. There was no time to lose, for the +steamer would reach Singapore the following day. + +That afternoon, therefore. Fix left his cabin, and seeing +Passe-partout on deck, the detective rushed towards him, exclaiming: + +"What, you on board the _Rangoon_?" + +"Mr. Fix, is it really you?" said Passe-partout, as he recognised his +fellow voyager of the _Mongolia_. "Why, I left you at Bombay, and here +you are on the way to Hong Kong. Are you also going round the world?" + +"No," replied Fix, "I think of stopping at Hong Kong for a few days, +at any rate." + +"Ah!" said Passe-partout, "but how is it I have not seen you on board +since we left Calcutta?" + +"The fact is I have not been very well, and obliged to stay below. The +Bay of Bengal does not suit me as well as the Indian Ocean. And how is +your master, Mr. Phileas Fogg?" + +"Oh, quite well, and as punctual to his time as ever; but Mr. Fix, you +do not know that we have got a young lady with us." + +"A young lady?" repeated the detective, who pretended not to +understand what was said. + +Passe-partout nodded, and immediately proceeded to give him the +history of the business at the pagoda, the purchase of the elephant, +the suttee, the rescue of Aouda, the judgment of the Calcutta court, +and their release on bail. Fix, who was quite familiar with the last +incidents, pretended to be ignorant of all, and Passe-partout was +quite delighted to have such an interested listener. + +"But," said Fix, when his companion had ceased, "does your master wish +to carry this young lady to Europe?" + +"By no means, Mr. Fix, by no means. We are simply going to Hong Kong, +to place her under the care of a relative of hers, a rich merchant +there." + +"Nothing to be done on that line," said the detective to himself, as +he concealed his disappointment. "Come and have a glass of gin, +monsieur." + +"With all my heart, Mr. Fix; the least we can do is to have a friendly +glass to our meeting on board the _Rangoon_." + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII. + +What happened on the Voyage between Singapore and Hong Kong. + + + +After that, Passe-partout and the detective met frequently, but the +latter was very reserved and did not attempt to pump his companion +respecting Mr. Fogg. He only encountered that gentleman once or twice, +for he kept very much in the cabin, attending on Mrs. Aouda, or +engaged in a game of whist. + +As for Passe-partout, he began to meditate very seriously upon the +curious chance which had brought Mr. Fix once again on his master's +track, and it certainly was somewhat astonishing. How was it that this +amiable, good-natured gentleman, whom they had met first at Suez, and +on board the _Mongolia_, who had landed at Bombay, where he said he +was going to remain, was now on board the _Rangoon_ bound for Hong +Kong, and, in a word, following Mr. Fogg step by step--that was the +question? It certainly was a most extraordinary coincidence, and what +did Fix want? Passe-partout was ready to wager his Indian shoes, which +all this time he had carefully preserved, that this man Fix would +leave Hong Kong with them, and probably on board the same steamer. + +If Passe-partout had worried his head for a hundred years, he never +would have hit upon the real object of the detective. It would never +have occurred to him that Phileas Fogg was being tracked round the +globe for a robbery. But as it is only human nature to find some +explanation for everything, this is how Passe-partout interpreted +Fix's unremitting attention, and after all it was not an unreasonable +conclusion to arrive at. In fact, he made up his mind that Fix was an +agent sent after Mr. Fogg by the members of the Reform Club, to see +that the conditions of the wager were properly carried out. + +"That's it," repeated Passe-partout to himself, very proud of his +shrewdness. "He is a spy these gentlemen have sent out. It is scarcely +a gentlemanly thing to do, Mr. Fogg is so honourable and +straightforward. Fancy sending a spy after us! Ah, gentlemen of the +Reform Club, this shall cost you dearly." + +Passe-partout, quite delighted with the discovery, determined to say +nothing to his master on the subject, lest he should be very justly +offended at his opponents' distrust, but he determined to chaff Fix at +every opportunity without betraying himself. + +On Wednesday, the 30th of October, the _Rangoon_ entered the Straits +of Malacca, which separate that peninsula from Sumatra, and at four +o'clock the next morning the _Rangoon_, having gained half a day in +advance of time, anchored at Singapore to coal. + +Phileas Fogg having noted the gain in his book, went ashore +accompanied by Mrs. Aouda, who expressed a wish to land for a few +hours. + +Fix, who was very suspicious of Fogg's movements, followed without +being noticed; and Passe-partout, who was secretly amused at the +detective's manoeuvres, went about his usual business. + +The island of Singapore, though not grand or imposing, still has its +peculiar beauties. It is a park traversed by pleasant roads. A +well-appointed carriage took Phileas Fogg and Aouda through +palm-groves and clove-plantations, various tropical plants perfumed +the air, while troops of monkeys gambolled in the trees; the woods, +also, were not innocent of tigers, and to those travellers who were +astonished to learn why these terrible animals were not destroyed in +such a small island, the reply would be that they swam across from the +mainland. + +After a couple of hours' drive, Mr. Fogg and Aouda returned to the +town and went on board ship again, all the time followed by the +detective. Passe-partout was awaiting them on deck; the brave fellow +had purchased some beautiful mangoes, and was enabled to offer them to +Mrs. Aouda, who received them gracefully. + +At eleven o'clock the _Rangoon_ resumed her voyage and a few hours +later Malacca had sunk below the horizon. They had about thirteen +hundred miles to traverse to reach Hong Kong, and Phileas Fogg hoped +to get there in six days, so as to be able to catch the steamer for +Yokohama on the 6th of November. + +The weather, which had hitherto been very fine, changed with the last +quarter of the moon. There was a high wind, fortunately favourable, +and a very heavy sea. + +The captain set the sails at every opportunity, and the _Rangoon_, +under these circumstances, made rapid progress. But in very rough +weather extra precautions were necessary, and steam had to be reduced. +This delay did not appear to affect Phileas Fogg in the least, but it +worried Passe-partout tremendously. He swore at the captain, the +engineers, and the company, and consigned all concerned to a warmer +climate than Hong Kong. Perhaps the thought of the gas that was still +burning in his room in London may have had something to do with his +impatience. + +"You seem in a great hurry to reach Hong Kong," said Fix to him one +day. + +"I am," replied Passe-partout. "You think Mr. Fogg is anxious to catch +the steamer for Yokohama?" + +"Very anxious indeed." + +"You believe in this journey round the world, then?" + +"Most decidedly; don't you?" + +"Not a bit of it." + +"You are a sly one," replied Passe-partout with a wink. + +This remark rather disturbed Fix, without his knowing why. Could the +Frenchman have discovered who he was? He did not know what to do. But +how could Passe-partout have found out his real object? And yet in +speaking as he did, Passe-partout must certainly have had some +ulterior motive. + +On a subsequent occasion the valet went still further, and said, half +maliciously: + +"Well, Mr. Fix, shall we be so unfortunate as to lose the pleasure of +your society at Hong Kong?" + +"Well," replied Fix, somewhat embarrassed, "I am not quite sure. You +see--" + +"Ah," said Passe-partout, "if you would only come with us I should be +so delighted. An agent of the company cannot stop halfway, you know. +You were only going to Bombay, and here you are almost in China. +America is not far off, and from America to Europe is but a step." + +Fix looked very hard at his companion, whose face was perfectly +innocent, and laughed too. But Passe-partout was in the humour for +quizzing, and asked him if he made much by his present business. + +"Yes and no," replied Fix, without flinching. "We have our good and +bad times, but of course I do not travel at my own expense." + +"Of that I am quite sure," said Passe-partout, laughing. + +Fix then returned to his cabin, where he remained deep in thought. +Somehow or another the Frenchman had found him out, but had he told +his master? Was he his accomplice or not? And must the whole thing be +given up? The detective passed many hours considering the matter in +all its bearings, and was as undecided at the end as he had been at +the beginning. + +But he retained his presence of mind, and resolved at length to deal +frankly with Passe-partout, if he could not arrest Fogg at Hong Kong. +Either the servant was an accomplice, knowing everything, and he would +fail; or the servant knew nothing, and then his interest would be to +quit the service of the criminal. + +Such was the state of affairs, and meantime Phileas Fogg appeared +perfectly indifferent to everything. But nevertheless there was a +disturbing cause not far off, which might be able to produce an +influence on his heart; but no, Mrs. Aouda's charms had no effect, to +the great surprise of Passe-partout. + +Yes, it certainly was a matter of astonishment to that worthy man, who +every day read the lady's gratitude to his master in Mrs. Aouda's +eyes. Phileas Fogg must certainly be heartless; brave he was no doubt, +but sympathetic, no. There was no proof that the incidents of the +journey had wakened any feelings in his breast, while Passe-partout +was continually indulging in reverie. + +One day he was contemplating the working of the machinery, when a +pitch of the vessel threw the screw out of the water. The steam roared +through the valves, and Passe-partout exclaimed, indignantly: "The +escape valves are not sufficiently charged! We make no way! That is +English all over. Ah! if this were only an American ship--we might +blow up, perhaps, but at any rate we should go quicker meantime." + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII. + +In which Phileas Fogg, Passe-partout, and Fix severally go each about +his own business. + + + +During the latter part of the voyage the weather was very bad; the +wind was blowing freshly--almost a gale--right in the teeth of the +_Rangoon_, which rolled considerably, and disturbed the passengers +very much. + +In fact, on the 3rd and 4th of November there was quite a tempest, and +the _Rangoon_ was obliged to proceed slowly. All the sails were +furled, and the captain was of opinion that they would be twenty hours +late at Hong Kong, or perhaps more, if the storm lasted. + +Phileas Fogg gazed at the turbulent sea as coolly as ever; he betrayed +no impatience, even though twenty hours' delay would upset his +calculations, by causing him to lose the Yokohama steamer. It seemed +almost as if the storm were part of his programme, and Mrs. Aouda, who +sympathised with him, was surprised to find him quite unmoved. + +But Fix did not look upon these things with unconcern; he was very +glad that the storm had happened, and would have been delighted if the +_Rangoon_ had been obliged to scud before the tempest. All these +delays were in his favour, because they tended towards detaining Mr. +Fogg at Hong Kong; he did not mind the sea-sickness he suffered, and +while his body was tortured, his spirit was exultant. + +But Passe-partout was very much annoyed by this bad weather. All had +gone well till now. Everything had appeared to favour his master, +hitherto. Steamers and railways obeyed him; wind and steam had united +to assist him. Was it possible that the hour of misfortune had struck? +Passe-partout felt as if the wager of twenty thousand pounds was to +come out of his own purse. The storm exasperated him, the wind made +him furious, and he would liked to have whipped this disobedient sea. +Poor fellow! Fix all the time carefully concealed his personal +satisfaction, for had Passe-partout perceived it, Fix would have had a +bad time. + +Passe-partout remained on deck as long as the storm lasted, for it was +quite impossible for him to go down below. He assisted the crew in +every way in his power, and astonished the sailors by his activity. He +questioned the captain, the officers, and the men hundreds of times as +to their progress, and got laughed at for his pains. He wanted to know +how long the tempest would last, and was referred to the barometer, +which had evidently not made up its mind to rise; even when +Passe-partout shook it, it would not change its mind. + +At last the storm subsided, and the wind veered round to the south, +which was in their favour. Passe-partout regained his serenity as the +weather improved. Sails were once more set on the _Rangoon_ and she +resumed her route at great speed, but she could not make up for lost +time. It could not be helped, however, and land was not signalled till +five o'clock on the morning of the 6th of November. The itinerary of +Phileas Fogg showed that they ought to have arrived the day before, so +they were twenty-four hours behindhand, and the Yokohama steamer would +be missed. + +At six o'clock the pilot came on board. Passe-partout longed to ask +the man if the Yokohama steamer had sailed, but he preferred to nurse +his hopes till the last moment. He had confided his troubles to Fix, +who, sly fellow as he was, pretended to sympathise with him, and told +him he would be in time if his master took the next steamer, a remark +which put Passe-partout into a violent rage. + +But if he did not like to ask the pilot, Mr. Fogg, having consulted +his Bradshaw, did not hesitate to inquire when the steamer left for +Yokohama. + +"To-morrow, at the morning's flood-tide," replied the pilot. + +"Ah, indeed," said Mr. Fogg, without manifesting any emotion. + +Passe-partout could have embraced the pilot for this information, +while Fix would gladly have twisted his neck. + +"What is the name of the steamer?" asked Mr. Fogg. + +"The _Carnatic_," replied the pilot. + +"Ought she not to have sailed yesterday?" + +"Yes; but one of her boilers required repairing, so she will not start +till to-morrow." + +"Thank you," replied Mr. Fogg, as he descended quietly to the cabin. + +Passe-partout wrung the pilot's hand, exclaiming, "Well, you are a +good fellow." + +Probably to this day the pilot has not the slightest idea of what +Passe-partout was driving at. He merely whistled, and went back to his +station on the bridge to guide the steamer through a flotilla of +junks, tankas, and fishing-boats, and a crowd of other vessels which +encumbered the waters of Hong Kong. + +At one o'clock the steamer was alongside the quay, and the passengers +went ashore. + +On this occasion it must be confessed that fortune had singularly +favoured Phileas Fogg. But for the necessary repairs to her boilers, +the _Carnatic_ would have sailed on the 5th, and the travellers bound +for Japan would have been obliged to wait for eight days for the next +steamer. Mr. Fogg, it is true, was twenty-four hours behindhand, but +this would not seriously affect his journey. + +In fact, the steamer which plied from Yokohama to San Francisco was +connected with the Hong Kong boat, and would not start till the +arrival of the latter; so, if he were twenty-four hours late at +Yokohama, he would make it up in crossing the Pacific. At present, +however, Phileas Fogg found himself twenty-four hours late during the +thirty-five days since he quitted London. + +The _Carnatic_ would sail the next morning at five o'clock, so Mr. +Fogg had still sixteen hours to devote to Mrs. Aouda. He landed with +the young lady upon his arm, and conducted her to the Club-house +Hotel, where apartments were engaged for her accommodation. Mr. Fogg +then went in search of her relatives, telling Passe-partout to remain +until his return, so that the young lady might not feel herself quite +alone. + +Mr. Fogg made his way to the exchange, for he rightly conjectured that +such a rich man as Jejeeb would be most likely heard of in that +direction. + +The broker to whom Mr. Fogg addressed himself knew the man for whom he +was inquiring, but he had left China two years before, and gone to +live in Holland, he thought; for he had principally traded with Dutch +merchants. + +Phileas Fogg returned to the hotel, and informed Mrs. Aouda that her +cousin had left Hong Kong, and had gone to live in Holland. + +Mrs. Aouda made no reply for a moment; she passed her hand across her +brow, and appeared lost in thought. At length, in a gentle voice, she +said, "What ought I to do, Mr. Fogg?" + +"Your course is simple enough," he replied; "come on to Europe." + +"But I cannot intrude upon you." + +"You do not intrude in the least. Passe-partout." + +"Sir." + +"Go to the _Carnatic_ and secure three berths." + +Passe-partout was delighted to think that the young lady was going to +continue her journey with them, for she had been very kind to him. He +accordingly quitted the hotel to execute his master's orders +cheerfully. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX. + +Showing how Passe-partout took too great an interest in his Master, +and what came of it. + + + +Hong Kong is only an island, which fell into the possession of the +English by the Treaty of Nankin, in 1843. In a few years the +colonising enterprise of the British made of it an important city and +a fine port--Victoria. The island is at the mouth of the Canton river, +sixty miles only from Macao, upon the opposite bank. Hong Kong has +beaten the other port in the struggle for commercial supremacy, and +the greater traffic in Chinese merchandise finds its way to the +island. There are docks, hospitals, wharfs, warehouses, a cathedral, a +Government house, macadamised roads, &c., which give to Hong Kong as +English an aspect as a town in Kent or Surrey, which had by some +accident fallen to the antipodes. + +Passe-partout, with his hands in his pockets, wandered towards Port +Victoria, gazing at the people as they passed, and admiring the +palanquins and other conveyances. The city appeared to him like +Bombay, Calcutta, and Singapore; or like any other town colonised by +the English. + +At the port situated at the mouth of the Canton river was a regular +confusion of ships of all nations, commercial and warlike: junks, +sempas, tankas, and even flower-boats, like floating garden-borders. +Passe-partout remarked several of the natives, elderly men, clothed in +nankeen; and when he went to a barber's to be shaved, he inquired of +the man, who spoke pretty good English, who they were, and was +informed that these men were all eighty years of age, and were +therefore permitted to wear the imperial colour, namely yellow. +Passe-partout, without exactly knowing why, thought this very funny. + +After being shaved, he went to the quay from which the _Carnatic_ was +to start, and there he found Fix walking up and down, in a very +disturbed manner. + +"Ho, ho!" thought Passe-partout, "this does not look well for the +Reform Club;" and with a merry smile he accosted the detective without +appearing to have noticed his vexation. Fix had indeed good reasons +for feeling annoyed. The warrant had not arrived. No doubt it was on +its way, but it was quite impossible it could reach Hong Kong for +several days, and as this was the last British territory at which Mr. +Fogg would touch, he would escape if he could not be detained somehow. + +"Well, Mr. Fix," said Passe-partout, "have you decided to come to +America with us?" + +"Yes," replied Fix, between his clenched teeth. + +"Come along, then," said Passe-partout, laughing loudly; "I knew you +could not leave us. Come and engage your berth." + +So they went to the office, and took four places. But the clerk +informed them that the _Carnatic_, having had her repairs completed, +would sail that evening at eight o'clock, and not next morning, as +previously announced. + +"Very good," said Passe-partout, "that will suit my master exactly. I +will go and tell him." + +And now Fix determined to make a bold move. He would tell +Passe-partout everything. This was perhaps the only way by which he +could keep Phileas Fogg at Hong Kong. + +As they quitted the office. Fix offered his companion some +refreshment, which Passe-partout accepted. They saw a tavern close by, +which they entered, and reached a large well-decorated room, at the +end of which was a large camp-bedstead furnished with cushions. On +this lay a number of men asleep. About thirty people were seated at +small tables drinking beer, porter, brandy, or other liquors; and the +majority of drinkers were smoking long pipes of red clay filled with +little balls of opium steeped in rose-water. From time to time a +smoker would subside under the table, and the waiters would carry him +and place him on the bed at the end of the room. There were about +twenty of these stupefied smokers altogether. + +Fix and Passe-partout perceived that they had entered a smoking-house, +patronised by those wretched idiots devoted to one of the most +injurious vices of humanity--the smoking of opium, which the English +merchants sell every year to the value of one million four hundred +thousand pounds. The Chinese Government has vainly endeavoured by +stringent laws to remedy the evil, but in vain. The habit has +descended from the rich to the poorest classes, and now opium is +smoked everywhere at all times by men and women, and those accustomed +to it cannot do without it A great smoker can consume eight pipes a +day, but he dies in five years. + +It was to one of these dens that Fix and Passe-partout had come for +refreshment; the latter had no money, but accepted his companion's +treat, hoping to return the civility at some future time. Fix ordered +two bottles of port, to which the Frenchman paid considerable +attention, while Fix, more cautious, watched his companion narrowly. +They talked upon many subjects, and particularly respecting Fix's +happy determination to sail in the _Carnatic_; and that put +Passe-partout in mind that he ought to go and inform his master +respecting the alteration in the time of the steamer's departure, +which, as the bottles were empty, he proceeded to do. + +"Just one moment," said Fix, detaining him. + +"What do you want, Mr. Fix?" + +"I want to speak to you seriously." + +"Seriously!" exclaimed Passe-partout. "Well, then, let us talk +to-morrow, I have no time to-day." + +"You had better wait," said Fix; "it concerns your master." + +Passe-partout looked closely at his companion, and as the expression +of his face was peculiar he sat down again. + +"What have you got to say to me?" he said. + +Fix placed his hand on his companion's arm, and said, in a low voice, +"You have guessed who I am, eh?" + +"Rather," replied Passe-partout. + +"Well, then, I am going to tell you everything." + +"Yes, now that I know everything, my friend. That's pretty good. +However, go on; but first let me tell you that those gentlemen have +sent you on a wild-goose chase." + +"It is evident that you do not know how large the sum in question is," +said Fix. + +"Oh yes, but I do," said Passe-partout, "it is twenty thousand +pounds." + +"Fifty-five thousand," replied Fix, shaking the Frenchman's hand. + +"What!" exclaimed Passe-partout, "has Mr. Fogg risked fifty-five +thousand pounds? Well, then, all the more reason we should not lose +any time," he added, as he rose from his chair. + +"Fifty-five thousand pounds," continued Fix, pressing his companion +into his seat again, as a flask of brandy was placed before them; "and +if I succeed I shall get a percentage of two thousand pounds. If you +will assist me I will give you five hundred." + +"Assist you!" exclaimed Passe-partout, as he stared wildly at the +detective. + +"Yes, assist me to keep Mr. Fogg here for some hours longer." + +"What is that you say?" said Passe-partout. "Not content with tracking +my master, do these gentlemen suspect his good face and wish to put +obstacles in his way? I am ashamed of them." + +"What are you talking about?" said Fix. + +"I say it is a piece of meanness; they might just as well pick Mr. +Fogg's pocket." + +"That is just the very thing we want to do." + +"Then it is a conspiracy, is it?" exclaimed Passe-partout, who was +getting excited by the brandy which he unconsciously had swallowed, "a +regular conspiracy; and they call themselves gentlemen and friends!" + +Fix began to feel very puzzled. + +"Friends!" exclaimed Passe-partout, "members of the Reform Club, +indeed! Do you know, Mr. Fix, that my master is an honest man, and +when he has made a bet he wins it fairly?" + +"But can you guess who I am?" said Fix, looking steadily at +Passe-partout. + +"An agent of the members of the club, whose business it is to hinder +my master; and a dirty job it is, too; so although I have found you +out long ago, I did not like to betray you to Mr. Fogg." + +"Then he knows nothing about it," said Fix quickly. + +"Nothing," replied Passe-partout, emptying his glass once more. + +The detective passed his hand over his eyes and considered what he was +to do. Passe-partout appeared sincere, and this rendered his plan all +the more difficult; he evidently was not his master's accomplice. "He +will, therefore, help me," said Fix to himself. + +There was no time to lose. At any risk Fogg must be stopped at Hong +Kong. + +"Listen," said Fix, in a sharp tone; "I am not what you think me." + +"Bah!" said Passe-partout. + +"I am a detective, sent out by the police authorities in London." + +"You a detective?" + +"Yes, I can prove it. Here is my authority;" and drawing a paper from +his pocketbook, he exhibited his instructions to the stupefied +Passe-partout, who was unable to utter a word. + +"This wager of Mr. Fogg's," continued Fix, "is merely to blindfold you +and his colleagues at the Reform Club. He had a motive in securing +your unconscious complicity." + +"But why?" said Passe-partout. + +"For this reason. On the 28th of last September, the sum of fifty-five +thousand pounds was stolen from the Bank of England, by a person whose +description is fortunately known. That description tallies exactly +with Mr. Fogg's appearance." + +"Absurd," exclaimed Passe-partout, striking the table with his fist; +"my master is the most honest man in the world." + +"What do you know about it?" replied Fix. "You only entered his +service on the day he left on a mad excursion, without luggage, and +carrying an immense sum in bank-notes; and do you dare to maintain +that he is an honest man?" + +"Yes, yes," repeated the other mechanically. + +"Do you wish to be arrested as an accomplice?" + +Passe-partout clutched his head with both hands; he was stupefied. He +did not dare to look at the detective. Phileas Fogg a robber! This +brave, generous man, the rescuer of Aouda, a thief? And yet +circumstantial evidence was strong. Passe-partout did not wish to +believe it. He could not believe in his master's guilt. + +"Well, then, what do you want me to do?" he said, with an effort. + +"Look here," said Fix: "I have tracked Mr. Fogg so far, but as yet I +have not received a warrant, which I asked to be sent from London. You +must help me to keep your master in Hong Kong." + +"But I--" + +"If so, I will share with you the reward of two thousand pounds +promised by the bank." + +"Never!" replied Passe-partout, who attempted to rise, but fell back +utterly exhausted and stupefied. + +"Mr. Fix," he stammered, "even if you have told the truth, supposing +my master is the thief you are searching for--which I deny--I have +been, I am still in his service; he is kind and generous to me, and I +will never betray him for all the gold in the world." + +"You refuse, then?" + +"Absolutely." + +"Well, then," said Fix, "forget all I have said. And now let us have a +drink." + +"Yes, let us have another glass." + +Passe-partout felt that the liquor was overcoming him more and more. +Fix having made up his mind that he must be separated from his master +at any price, determined to finish the matter. On the table were some +pipes of opium. Fix handed one of these to Passe-partout, who took a +few puffs and fell back perfectly insensible. + +"At last," muttered Fix, as Passe-partout collapsed. "Mr. Fogg will +not hear of the change of time for the sailing of the _Carnatic_, and +if so, he will have to go without this infernal Frenchman." + +Then paying the score, he quitted the tavern. + + + + + +CHAPTER XX. + +Showing how Fix and Fogg come face to face. + + + +While these events, which gravely compromised Mr. Fogg's future, were +passing, that gentleman and Mrs. Aouda were walking through the town. +Since she had accepted Mr. Fogg's escort to England, she wished to +make some purchases for the voyage, for a lady could not travel with a +hand-bag, as a gentleman might do. So she bought some necessary +clothing, etc., and Mr. Fogg overcame all her excuses with his +characteristic generosity. + +"It is in my own interest," he invariably replied; "a part of my +programme." + +Having purchased what they required, they returned to dinner at the +hotel Mrs. Aouda subsequently retired to rest, leaving Mr. Fogg +reading _The Times_ and _Illustrated News_. + +Had Mr. Fogg been a man likely to be astonished at anything, he would +have been surprised at the absence of his servant at bedtime; so +believing that the steamer did not start for Yokohama till the +following morning, he did not trouble himself; but Passe-partout did +not appear when Mr. Fogg rang for him next morning, and then he learnt +that his servant had not come in during the night. Without a word Mr. +Fogg packed his bag, and sent to call Mrs. Aouda and for a palanquin. +It was eight o'clock, and the _Carnatic_ was to sail at high-water at +half-past nine. Mr. Fogg and his companion got into the palanquin and +reached the quay. Then, and not till then, they were informed that the +_Carnatic_ had left the previous evening. + +Mr. Fogg, who had made up his mind to find the steamer and the servant +both awaiting him, was obliged to go without either. He showed no +anxiety, merely remarking to Mrs. Aouda, "An incident of travel, +madam, nothing more." + +At this moment, a man who had been watching them approached. It was +Fix. He approached Mr. Fogg, and said: + +"Were you not one of the passengers on board the _Rangoon_ yesterday, +as well as myself?" + +"Yes, sir," replied Mr. Fogg coldly; "but I have not the honour--" + +"Excuse me, but I expected to find your servant here." + +"Do you know where he is?" asked the young lady quickly. + +"What!" exclaimed Fix, in feigned surprise, "is he not with you?" + +"No," replied Mrs. Aouda, "he has been absent since yesterday. Perhaps +he has sailed in the _Carnatic_." + +"Without you, madam?" said the detective. "You will excuse my +question, but you counted on leaving in that steamer?" + +"Yes, sir." + +"So did I, madam; and I am terribly disappointed. The fact is, the +_Carnatic_ was ready for sea twelve hours sooner than was expected, and +now we shall have to wait twelve days for another steamer." + +Fix was delighted as he said this. In eight days the warrant would +arrive. His chances were good. But his disgust may be guessed when he +heard Fogg say, in his usual calm tone, "I suppose there are other +ships besides the _Carnatic_ in Hong Kong harbour;" and offering his +arm to Mrs. Aouda, he turned away towards the docks. + +Fix followed him in a dogged sort of manner. He appeared to be +attached to Fogg by some invisible cord. But fortune had evidently +abandoned Phileas Fogg. For three mortal hours he wandered about the +docks, endeavouring to charter a vessel to take him to Yokohama; but +all the ships were either loading or unloading, and could not go. The +detective's spirits rose again. + +But Mr. Fogg was not discouraged. He made up his mind to continue his +search, even if he had to cross to Macao. At length he was accosted by +a sailor. + +"Is your honour looking for a boat?" + +"Have you a boat ready to sail?" asked Mr. Fogg. + +"I have. A pilot-boat, No. 43; the best in the harbour." + +"Can she sail fast?" + +"She can make eight or nine knots an hour, or more. Would you like to +see her?" + +"Yes." + +"You will be pleased, I am sure. Is it for a trip that you require +her?" + +"Somewhat more than that; for a voyage." + +"A voyage?" + +"I want you to take me to Yokohama." + +The sailor folded his arms and looked steadily at Mr. Fogg. "Is your +honour serious?" he said. + +"Yes. I have lost the _Carnatic_, and I must be at Yokohama on the +14th, at latest, to catch the steamer for San Francisco." + +"I am very sorry," replied the pilot, "but it is impossible." + +"I will give you a hundred pounds a day and a bonus of two hundred +pounds, if you arrive in time." + +"Are you in earnest?" asked the pilot. + +"Very much so," replied Mr. Fogg. + +The pilot took a turn up and down the wharf; he looked out to sea, and +was evidently struggling between his wish to get the money and his +fear of venturing so far. Fix, all this time, was on tenter-hooks. + +Mr. Fogg turned to Mrs. Aouda, and asked her if she were afraid. + +"Not with you, Mr. Fogg," replied the young lady. + +Just then the pilot returned, twirling his hat in his hands. + +"Well, pilot?" said Mr. Fogg. + +"Well, your honour," replied the pilot; "I cannot risk my life, or my +men, or even you in such a voyage, in so small a ship, at this time of +year. Besides, we could not get to Yokohama in time. It is one +thousand six hundred and fifty miles away." + +"Only one thousand six hundred," said Mr. Fogg. + +"Oh, it is all the same." Fix breathed again. "But," continued the +pilot, "we might manage it in another way." + +Fix scarcely dared to breathe. + +"How do you mean?" asked Fogg. + +"By going to Nagasaki, which is only eleven hundred miles, or to +Shanghai, which is eight hundred. In the latter case we shall be able +to keep close in-shore, and have advantage of the current." + +"But," replied Fogg, "I must take the American mail steamer at +Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki." + +"Well, why not?" replied the pilot. "The _San Francisco_ does not +start from Yokohama; it starts from Shanghai, and only calls at +Yokohama and Nagasaki." + +"Are you quite sure of that?" + +"Certain." + +"And when does she leave Shanghai?" + +On the 11th, at seven o'clock in the evening. So we have four days, +which are ninety-six hours; and at the rate of eight knots an hour, if +the wind hold, we shall be able to reach Shanghai in time." + +"And when will you be able to start?" + +"In an hour. I only want to buy some provisions and bend the sails." + +"Well, it is a bargain. Are you the owner?" + +"Yes; my name is John Bunsby, owner of the _Tankadere_." + +"Would you like something on account?" + +"If convenient to your honour." + +"Here are two hundred pounds. Sir," continued Fogg, turning to Fix, +"if you would like to take advantage of this opportunity--" + +"Thank you, sir," replied Fix. "I was about to beg the favour of you." + +"Well, then, we shall be ready in half an hour." + +"But what shall we do about the servant?" said Mrs. Aouda, who was +much distressed at Passe-partout's absence. + +"I will do all I can for him," replied Fogg; and while they directed +their steps towards the police-office. Fix went on board the +pilot-boat. Phileas left the description of his servant with the +police, and a sum of money to be spent in seeking him. The same +formality was gone through at the French Consulate; and then procuring +their luggage, which had been sent back to the hotel, they went down +to the wharf. + +Three o'clock struck; the pilot-boat No. 43 was ready to start. She +was a pretty little schooner, about twenty tons, built for speed, like +a racing-yacht. She was as bright and clean as possible, and Bunsby +evidently took a pride in his little craft. Her masts raked rather. +She carried foresail and the usual sails for a ship of her tonnage. +She could evidently make good way, as indeed she had proved by winning +several prizes. + +The crew consisted of the owner and four other men, all well +acquainted with the neighbouring seas, which they scoured in search of +ships wanting pilots. John Bunsby was a man of about five-and-forty, +vigorous and full of decision and energy, calculated to reassure the +most nervous passengers. + +Phileas Fogg and Mrs. Aouda went on board, where they found Fix +already installed. The accommodation was not extensive, but everything +was clean and neat. + +"I am sorry I have nothing better to offer you," said Mr. Fogg to Fix. +The latter bowed without replying, for he felt somewhat humiliated in +accepting Mr. Fogg's kindness under the circumstances. + +"At any rate," he thought, "if he is a rascal he is a very polite +one." + +At ten minutes past three the sails were hoisted, the English flag was +run up to the peak; the passengers took a last look at the quays in +the hope of descrying Passe-partout, but they were disappointed. Fix +was somewhat afraid that some chance might bring the lad whom he had +treated so badly in that direction, and then an explanation would +surely have ensued of a nature by no means satisfactory to the +detective. But the Frenchman did not turn up, and no doubt he was +still under the influence of the opium. + +So John Bunsby stood out to sea, and the _Tankadere_, with the wind on +the quarter, went bounding briskly over the waves. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXI. + +Showing how the Owner of the _Tankadere_ nearly lost the Bonus of Two +Hundred Pounds. + + + +This voyage of eight hundred miles was one of great risk at that +season of the year in those seas, which are usually very rough, +particularly during the equinoxes, and it was then the beginning of +November. + +It would have been very much to the advantage of the owner of the +_Tankadere_ to have gone on to Yokohama, as he was paid so much a day, +but such a voyage would have been extremely rash. It was a risk to go +to Shanghai; still, John Bunsby had confidence in his ship, which +sailed like a bird, and perhaps he was right. + +"There is no need for me to urge you to speed," said Fogg to Bunsby, +when they had got out to sea. + +"Your honour may depend upon me," replied Bunsby; "I will do all I +can." + +"Well, it is your business and not mine, pilot, and I trust you +thoroughly." + +Phileas Fogg, standing upright, with his legs stretched apart, was as +steady as a sailor as he gazed over the foaming sea. Mrs. Aouda, +seated aft, was somewhat nervous as she contemplated the ocean. The +sails bellied out overhead like great wings, and the schooner ran +before the wind at a great pace. Night fell. The moon was only in the +first quarter, and her light would soon be quenched beneath the +horizon. Clouds were rising in the east, and already banking up. + +The pilot hung out the vessel's lights, an indispensable proceeding, +for collisions were by no means unfrequent, and any such occurrence, +at the speed they were now going, would shatter the gallant little +craft to pieces. + +Fix, seated up in the bows, held himself aloof, as he knew Fogg was +not much of a talker; besides, he did not quite like to enter into +conversation with this man whose good offices he had accepted. He +thought of the future, for it now seemed certain that Fogg would not +stop at Yokohama, but would immediately take the steamer for San +Francisco, so as to reach America, where he would be safe. Fogg's plan +seemed to the detective to be very simple. + +Instead of embarking in England for the United States, like a common +swindler, Fogg had made a tour three-parts round the globe, so as to +gain the American continent more safely; and once there, he could +enjoy himself comfortably with his spoil. But what could Fix do in the +United States? Should he give up the man? No, certainly not; and until +he had obtained an act of extradition, he would not lose sight of him. +This was his duty, and he would carry it out to the bitter end. There +was one thing, at any rate, to be thankful for, Passe-partout was not +now with his master; and after Fix's confidence imparted to him, it +was very important that the servant should not see his master again in +a hurry. + +Phileas Fogg was himself thinking about his servant, who had so +curiously disappeared. But after consideration of the circumstances, +it did not appear improbable that the young man had gone on board the +_Carnatic_ at the last moment. This was also Mrs. Aouda's opinion, for +she deeply regretted the worthy fellow's absence, as she was so deeply +indebted to him. They might, therefore, find him at Yokohama, and if +he were on the _Carnatic_, it would be easy to ascertain the fact. + +About ten o'clock the breeze began to freshen, and though it might +have been prudent to take in a reef or two, the pilot, after taking an +observation, let the sails stand, for the _Tankadere_ carried her +canvas well; but everything was prepared to furl the sails in case of +necessity. + +At midnight, Phileas Fogg and Mrs. Aouda went below. Fix had already +turned in, but the owner and his crew remained on deck all night. + +By sunrise next morning the schooner had made a hundred miles. The log +showed they were going about eight or nine knots an hour. They were +still carrying on, and, if the wind held, the chances were in their +favour. The vessel made her way along the coast all that day. The sea +was not so rough, as the wind blew off-shore, which was a very +fortunate circumstance for such a small vessel. + +About noon the breeze fell a little, and shifted to the south-east. +The owner spread his topsails, but furled them again, as the breeze +showed signs of freshening once more. + +Mr. Fogg and Mrs. Aouda did not suffer from sea-sickness, and ate with +a good appetite, and Fix, invited to partake of the meal, was obliged +to accept very unwillingly. He did not like to travel and eat at the +expense of the man he was tracking; but yet he was obliged to eat, and +so he ate. + +After dinner he found an opportunity to speak to Mr. Fogg privately. +"Sir," he said--this term scorched his lips, so to speak, and he had +to control himself; his impulse was to arrest this "gentleman"--"sir," +said he, "it is very good of you to give me a passage; but although I +cannot spend money as freely as you do, I shall be happy to pay my +expenses." + +"You need not say anything about that," replied Mr. Fogg. + +"But if I insist upon it?" + +"No, sir," replied Fogg, in a tone which admitted of no discussion, +"this is included in my general expenses." + +Fix bowed, he felt half stifled; and going forward, he sat down and +did not speak for the whole day. + +Meantime they were making good progress. John Bunsby was in hopes of +succeeding, and frequently said to Mr. Fogg that "they would be in +time;" to which Fogg merely replied that "he counted upon it." The +crew, also inspired by the hope of reward, worked hard. Not a sheet +required bracing, not a sail that was not well hoisted, not one +unnecessary lurch could be attributed to the steersman. They could not +have worked the schooner better if they had been sailing a match in +the Royal Yacht Club Regatta. + +By the evening the log showed that they had run two hundred and twenty +miles, and Mr. Fogg hoped that when he arrived at Yokohama he would +not have to record any delay in his journal. If so, the only check he +had met with since he left London would not affect his journey. + +Towards morning the _Tankadere_ entered the Straits of Fo-kien, which +separate Formosa from the Chinese coasts. The sea was very rough, and +it was difficult to stand on deck. At daybreak the wind freshened +still more, and there was every appearance of a storm. The mercury +rose and fell at intervals. In the south-east the sea rose in a long +swell, which betokened a tempest. + +The pilot studied the aspect of the heavens for a long time, and at +last said to Mr. Fogg: + +"I suppose I may tell your honour what I think?" + +"Of course," replied Fogg. + +"Well, then, we are going to have a storm." + +"From the north or south?" asked Mr. Fogg calmly. + +"From the south. A typhoon is approaching." + +"I am glad it is coming from the south, it will help us on." + +"Oh, if you look on it in that light," said Bunsby, "I have no more to +say." + +The presentiments of Bunsby were fulfilled. During the summer the +typhoon would have been probably dissipated in an electric cascade, +but in the winter it would probably have its course. So the pilot took +his precautions. He took in his sails and set merely the storm-jib, +and waited. + +The pilot begged his passengers to go below, but in such a narrow and +confined space the imprisonment was far from agreeable, so none of +them would quit the deck. + +About eight o'clock the hurricane, with torrents of rain, burst upon +them. With nothing but the small jib, the _Tankadere_ was almost +lifted out of the water by the tempest. She darted through the sea +like a locomotive at full-speed. + +All that day the vessel was hurried towards the north, borne on the +top of the monstrous waves. Time after time she was almost engulfed, +but the careful steering of the pilot saved her. The passengers were +drenched with spray, but took it philosophically. Fix grumbled, no +doubt; but the brave Aouda regarded her companion and admired his +coolness, while she endeavoured to imitate it. As for Phileas Fogg, he +took it as a matter of course. + +Hitherto the _Tankadere_ had been sailing northwards, but towards +evening, as the pilot had feared, the wind veered round to the +north-west The schooner plunged terribly in the trough of the sea, and +it was fortunate she was so solidly built. The tempest increased if +possible at night, and John Bunsby began to feel anxious; he consulted +his crew as to what they should do. + +He then came to Mr. Fogg, and said, "I think we should make for one of +the ports hereabouts." + +"So do I," replied Fogg. + +"Yes," said the pilot; "but which?" + +"I only know of one," said Fogg quietly. + +"And that is--?" + +"Shanghai." + +This reply took the pilot aback rather at first; but recognising Mr. +Fogg's firmness, he said: "Yes, your honour is right, Shanghai be it." + +So they kept their course. + +The night was fearful; it seemed a miracle that the little vessel did +not founder. Twice she was caught in the trough of the sea, and would +have gone down, but that everything was let fly. Mrs. Aouda was +knocked about, and more than once Mr. Fogg rushed to her assistance, +though she made no complaint. + +At daybreak the storm was still raging, but suddenly the wind backed +to the south-east. This was a change for the better, and the +_Tankadere_ again proceeded on her course, though the cross-sea gave +her some tremendous blows, sufficient to have crushed a less solid +craft. The coast was occasionally visible through the mist, but not a +sail was in sight. + +At noon the weather cleared a little, the gale had blown itself out, +and the travellers were enabled to take some rest. The night was +comparatively quiet, and the pilot was induced to set a little more +sail, and at day-break next morning John Bunsby was able to declare +that they were less than a hundred miles from Shanghai. + +A hundred miles, and only one day to accomplish the distance. On that +evening they ought to be at Shanghai if they wished to catch the +steamer for Yokohama; but for the storm, which had delayed them +several hours, they would then have been within thirty miles of their +destination. + +The breeze continued to fall, and the sea went down. All canvas was +spread, and at twelve o'clock the Tankadere was only forty-five miles +from Shanghai. Six hours still remained, and all were afraid they +could not do it. Everyone on board, except Phileas Fogg no doubt, felt +the keenest anxiety. They must maintain a speed of nine knots an hour, +and the wind was falling rapidly, and coming in puffs. + +Nevertheless, the schooner was so light and carried such a spread of +canvas, besides being aided by the shore currents, that at six o'clock +Bunsby reckoned they were only ten miles from the Shanghai river. The +town itself was situated about twelve miles higher up. + +At seven o'clock they were still three miles from Shanghai. The pilot +swore a formidable oath as he perceived the bonus of two hundred +pounds slipping away from him. He looked at Mr. Fogg; Mr. Fogg was +impassible, although his whole fortune was in the balance. + +At this moment a long black funnel, from which a thick train of smoke +was issuing, appeared. This was the American steamer leaving Shanghai +at the proper time. + +"Confound it!" cried Bunsby, as he kept the schooner away a point. + +"Signal her," said Fogg quietly. + +There was a small brass cannon on the forecastle, which was used +during fogs. + +This piece was charged to the muzzle, but just as the pilot was going +to fire, Phileas said: + +"Hoist your flag." + +The ensign was run up half-mast. This was a signal of distress, and +they hoped that the steamer would see it and heave-to to assist them. + +"Fire!" exclaimed Mr. Fogg. + +And the report of the little cannon immediately boomed over the sea. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXII. + +Showing how Passe-partout finds out that, even at the Antipodes, it is +prudent to have Money in his Pocket. + + + +The _Carnatic_, bound for Japan, left Hong Kong on the 7th of +November. Two cabins were unoccupied--they had been engaged by Mr. +Phileas Fogg. The following morning the sailors were astonished to +perceive a dishevelled, half-stupefied figure emerge from the +fore-cabin and sit down on deck. + +This passenger was Passe-partout, and this is what had happened: + +Soon after Fix had left the opium-tavern, two waiters had laid +Passe-partout upon the couch reserved for smokers; three hours later +Passe-partout, haunted by one idea, woke up and struggled against the +stupefying influence of the drug. The thought of his unfulfilled +duties assisted him to shake off his torpor. He left the den of +drunkenness, and guiding himself by the walls, he staggered on, crying +out, as in a dream: "The _Carnatic_, the _Carnatic_!" + +The steamer was alongside the wharf, ready to start. Passe-partout had +but a few paces to traverse; he rushed across the gangway, and fell +senseless on the deck just as the paddles began to revolve. The +sailors, accustomed to this sort of thing, took him down to the +fore-cabin, and when he awoke he was fifty miles from Hong Kong. + +This is how he found himself on board the _Carnatic_, inhaling the +sea-air, which sobered him by degrees. He began to collect his +thoughts, which was no easy matter, but at length he was able to +recall the occurrences of the day before--Fix's confidence and the +opium-smoking, etc. + +"The fact is," he thought, "I have been very tipsy. What will Mr. Fogg +say? At any rate, I have not missed the steamer, and that is the +principal thing;" then he thought of Fix. "As for him," he muttered, +"I trust he has not dared to follow us on board this ship, as he said. +A detective tracking my master, and accusing him of robbing the Bank +of England! Bosh! he is no more a robber than I am an assassin." + +Now, was he to tell all this to his master? Would it not be better to +wait till they all reached London, and when the detective had followed +them all round the world, to have a good laugh at him? This was a +point to be considered. The first thing was to find Mr. Fogg and ask +his pardon. + +Passe-partout accordingly got up; the sea was rough, and the ship +rolled considerably. It was with some difficulty he reached the +quarterdeck, but could not see anyone at all like his master or Mrs. +Aouda. + +"All right," he thought, "the lady is not up yet, and Mr. Fogg is +probably playing whist as usual." + +Passe-partout accordingly went down to the saloon. Mr. Fogg was not +there. All he could do now was to ask the purser for his master's +cabin. That individual replied that he knew no passenger by the name +of Fogg. + +"Excuse me," said Passe-partout, "he is a tall, cool, quiet-looking +gentleman, and is accompanied by a young lady." + +"There is no young lady on board," said the purser. "However, here is +the passenger-list, and you can see for yourself." + +Passe-partout did so. His master's name was not entered. + +Suddenly an idea occurred to him, and he said: "Am I on the +_Carnatic_?" + +"Yes," replied the purser. + +"On the way to Hong Kong?" + +"Yes, decidedly." + +Passe-partout for the moment was afraid he had got on the wrong ship, +but if he was on the _Carnatic_ it was evident his master was not. + +Passe-partout fell back on a chair. He was thunder-struck. All at once +the light broke in upon his mind; he remembered that the hour of the +ship sailing had been altered, that he ought to have told his master, +and he had not done so. It was therefore his fault that they had +missed the vessel. + +His fault no doubt, but still more the fault of that traitor who had +endeavoured to keep his master at Hong Kong, and had made him +(Passe-partout) tipsy. He saw it all now. His master was ruined, +arrested, and imprisoned perhaps. Passe-partout was furious. Ah, if +Fix ever came within his reach, what a settling of accounts there +would be! + +Passe-partout by degrees recovered his composure, and began to look +things in the face. He was on his route to Japan, at any rate, but he +had no money in his pocket, and this was not a pleasant reflection. He +literally did not possess a penny. Fortunately his passage had been +paid, so he had five or six days to make up his mind. He ate +accordingly for the whole party, and as if there was nothing to be got +to eat when he reached Japan. + +The _Carnatic_ entered the harbour of Yokohama on the morning tide of +the 13th, and came alongside the quay, near the Custom House, amidst a +crowd of ships of every nationality. + +Passe-partout went on shore to this curious land without any +enthusiasm; he had nothing to do but to wander aimlessly through the +streets. He first found himself in a thoroughly European quarter of +the town, with houses ornamented with verandahs and elegant +peristyles. This portion of the town occupied all the space between +the promontory of the Treaty and the river, and included docks and +warehouses, with many streets and squares. Here, as at Hong Kong and +Calcutta, were a crowd of Americans, English, Chinese, and Dutch +merchants ready to buy or sell almost anything, and Passe-partout felt +as strange amongst them as a Hottentot might have done. + +He had one resource at any rate, he could apply to the French or +English consuls; but he shrank from telling his adventures, which were +so intimately connected with his master. So before doing so, he +thought he would try every other chance for a livelihood. + +After traversing the European quarter, he entered the Japanese +district, and made up his mind to push on to Yeddo if necessary. + +The native quarter of Yokohama is called Benter, after the sea-goddess +worshipped on the neighbouring islands. Here he noticed beautiful +groves of fir and cedar; sacred gates of peculiar construction; +bridges, enclosed by bamboos and reeds; and temples, surrounded by +immense and melancholy-looking cedars, wherein Buddhist priests and +votaries of Confucius resided. There were long streets with crowds of +infants, who looked as if they were cut out of Japanese screens, and +who were playing with bandy-legged poodles, and with yellow cats +without tails, of a very lazy and very affectionate disposition. + +The streets were crowded with people passing and repassing: priests, +policemen, custom-house officers, and soldiers--the Mikado's guard, in +silken doublets and coats of mail, as well as other soldiers of all +descriptions; for in Japan the army is as much regarded as it is +despised in China. There were friars, pilgrims with long robes, and +civilians with long black hair, large heads, long waists, thin legs, +and short of stature; with complexions, some copper-colour, some pale, +but never yellow like the Chinese, from whom the Japanese differ +essentially. Amongst the carriages, the palanquins, the barrows with +sails, bamboo litters, he noticed many very pretty women moving about +with tiny steps, on tiny feet, and shod with canvas shoes, with straw +sandals and wooden clogs. They appeared to have small eyes, fiat +chests, black teeth, according to fashion; but wearing gracefully the +national robe called "kirimon," a sort of dressing-gown, crossed with +a silk scarf and tied behind in a large knot, a mode which Parisian +ladies have borrowed from the Japanese. + +Passe-partout wandered about in the crowd for some hours, looking at +the shops, at the glittering jewellers' establishments; the +restaurants, which he could not enter; the tea-houses, where they +drank "saki," a liquor made from the fermentation of rice; and +comfortable-looking tobacco-shops, where they smoked, not opium, which +is almost unknown in Japan, but a fine tobacco. Thence he went on into +the fields amongst the rice-plantations; there were flowers of all +sorts, giving forth their last perfumes--beautiful camellias, not on +bushes, but on trees; and bamboo enclosures, with cherry, plum, and +apple trees, Which the natives cultivate rather for their blossom than +their fruit. On almost every cedar-tree an eagle was perched, and on +the willows were melancholy herons, standing on one leg; and crows, +ducks, hawks, wild geese, and a quantity of cranes, which are looked +upon as sacred by the Japanese, as conferring upon them long life and +happiness. + +As he wandered on, Passe-partout noted some violets amid the grass. +"Good," he said, "here is my supper;" but he found they were +scentless. + +"No chance there," he thought. + +Certainly, as a precaution, he had taken care to have a good meal +before he left the _Carnatic_, but after walking a whole day, he felt +somewhat hungry. He had already remarked that the butchers' shops +displayed neither mutton, pork, nor kids; and as he knew that it was +forbidden to kill oxen, which are reserved for farming, he concluded +that meat was scarce in Japan. He was not mistaken, but he could have +put up with wild boar even, partridges, quails, fish, or fowl, which +the Japanese eat almost exclusively with rice. However, he kept his +spirits up, and looked forward to a meal next day. + +Night fell, and Passe-partout re-entered the native quarter, where he +wandered through the streets in the midst of coloured lanterns, +looking on at the conjurers, and at the astrologers, who had collected +a crowd round their telescopes. Then he wandered back to the harbour, +lighted up by the fishermen's torches. + +At length the streets began to get empty, and to the crowd succeeded +the patrols. These officers, in their splendid uniforms and followed +by their attendants, looked like ambassadors; and every time +Passe-partout met one of these parties, he said to himself: + +"Good, good; another Japanese embassy going to Europe." + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIII. + +In which Passe-partout's Nose gets immeasurably long. + + + +Next morning, Passe-partout, very tired and very hungry, began to +think that he ought to eat something, and the sooner the better. He +still had his watch, which he could sell, but he would rather die of +hunger than do that; so now or never, he must make use of his +powerful, if not melodious, voice, with which nature had endowed him. +He knew several French and English songs, and resolved to make the +attempt. The Japanese were no doubt fond of music, since they were +always beating cymbals, tomtoms, and drums, and they would no doubt +appreciate European talent. + +But perhaps it was somewhat early to start a concert, and the +_dilettanti_, awakened inopportunely, would not, perhaps, pay him in +current coin of the realm. So Passe-partout decided to wait; and +meantime it occurred to him that he might as well change his clothes +for some more in keeping with his present position, and afterwards he +might be able to purchase something to eat. + +He immediately set about to carry out the idea, and after a long +search he discovered a dealer in old clothes, with whom he made an +exchange, and left the shop dressed in a Japanese robe and discoloured +turban; but he had some money in his pocket also. + +"All right," he thought; "I must only fancy myself at a carnival." + +Passe-partout's first care was to enter a quiet-looking tea-house, and +then, with a portion of fowl and some rice, he breakfasted like a man +who had not yet solved the problem as to where dinner was to come +from. + +"Now," he thought, after a hearty meal, "I must consider what I am +about. All I can do now is to sell this dress for another still more +Japanesey. I must think of some means of quitting this Country of the +Sun as quickly as possible, and I shall not have a very pleasant +recollection of it." + +He accordingly went to look at the steamers about to sail to America, +for he intended to offer himself as a cook or steward, in exchange for +his passage and food. Once at San Francisco he would manage to get on. +The important thing was to cross the ocean. He was not the man to +think about a thing very long, so he went at once to the docks; but +his project, which had appeared so simple in idea, was not so easy to +execute. What need was there for a cook or steward on board an +American mail-boat? And how could they trust him in his present +costume? What reference or recommendation could he offer? + +As he was turning these questions over in his mind his gaze fell upon +a placard, which a circus clown was carrying through the streets. The +notice was in English, and read as follows: + + + + THE + HONOURABLE WILLIAM BATULCAR'S TROUPE + OF + JAPANESE ACROBATS. + + POSITIVELY THE LAST REPRESENTATIONS, PRIOR TO THEIR + DEPARTURE FOR AMERICA, + + OF THE + + LONG - NOSES - LONG - NOSES. + + _Under the Special Patronage of the God Tingou._ + + GREAT ATTRACTION! + + + +"The United States of America!" exclaimed Passe-partout; "that suits +me all round." + +He followed the "sandwich-man," and was soon in the Japanese quarter +once again. In about a quarter of an hour they stopped before a large +hut, adorned with flags, upon which a troupe of jugglers were +depicted, without any attempt at perspective. + +This was the establishment of the Honourable Mr. Batulcar, a sort of +Barnum, a director of a troupe of acrobats and jugglers, who were +giving their last representations, prior to their departure to the +United States. Passe-partout entered and asked for the proprietor. Mr. +Batulcar appeared in person. + +"What do you want?" he said to Passe-partout, whom he took for a native. + +"Do you need a servant, sir?" asked Passe-partout. + +"A servant!" echoed the Barnum, as he stroked his beard; "I have two, +obedient and faithful, who have never left me, and serve me for +nothing but nourishment; and here they are," he added, as he extended +his brawny arms, on which the great veins stood out like whipcord. + +"So I can be of no use to you, then?" + +"Not the least." + +"The devil! It would have been very convenient if I could have sailed +with you." + +"Ah, yes," said the Honourable Batulcar; "you are just about as much a +Japanese as I am a baboon, I guess. What are you dressed up like that +for?" + +"One is obliged to dress as one can." + +"That's a fact. You are a Frenchman, ain't you?" + +"Yes; a Parisian." + +"Then I suppose you know how to make grimaces?" + +"Well," replied Passe-partout, somewhat vexed that his nationality +should provoke such a question. "It is true that we Frenchmen do know +how to make grimaces, but no better than Americans." + +"That's so. Well, if I cannot take you as a servant I can engage you +as a clown. You see, my lad, this is how it is: in France they exhibit +foreign clowns, and in foreign countries French clowns." + +"I see." + +"You are pretty strong, I suppose?" + +"More particularly when I get up after dinner." + +"And you know how to sing?" + +"Yes," replied Passe-partout, who at one time had sung in the street +concerts. + +"But can you sing standing on your head with a top spinning on the +sole of your left foot, and a sword balanced on your right foot?" + +"Something of that sort," replied Passe-partout, who recalled the +acrobatic performances of his youth. + +"Well, that is the whole business," replied the Honourable Mr. +Batulcar. + +And the engagement was ratified there and then. + +At length Passe-partout had found something to do. He was engaged to +make one of a celebrated Japanese troupe. This was not a high +position, but in eight days he would be on his way to San Francisco. + +The performance was advertised to commence at three o'clock, and +although Passe-partout had not rehearsed the "business," he was +obliged to form one of the human pyramid composed of the "Long-Noses +of the God Tingou." This was the great attraction, and was to close +the performance. + +The house was crowded before three o'clock by people of all races, +ages, and sexes. The musicians took up their positions, and performed +vigorously on their noisy instruments. + +The performance was very much the same as all acrobatic displays; but +it must be stated that the Japanese are the cleverest acrobats in the +world. One of them, with a fan and a few bits of paper, did the +butterfly and flower trick; another traced in the air with the smoke +of his pipe a compliment to the audience; another juggled with some +lighted candles which he extinguished successively as they passed his +mouth, and which he relit one after the other without for a moment +ceasing his sleight-of-hand performances; another produced a series of +spinning-tops which, in his hands, played all kinds of pranks as they +whirled round--they ran along the stems of pipes, on the edges of +swords, upon wires, and even on hairs stretched across the stage; they +spun round crystal goblets, crossed bamboo ladders, ran into all the +comers of the stage, and made strange music, combining various tones, +as they revolved. The jugglers threw them up in the air, knocked them +from one to the other like shuttlecocks, put them into their pockets +and took them out again, and all the time they never ceased to spin. + +But after all the principal attraction was the performance of the +"Long-Noses," which has never been seen in Europe. + +These "Long-Noses" were the select company under the immediate +patronage of the god Tingou. Dressed in a costume of the Middle Ages, +each individual wore a pair of wings; but they were specially +distinguished by the inordinate length of their noses and the uses +they made of them. These noses were simply bamboos from five to ten +feet long, some straight, some curved, some ribbed, and some with +warts painted on them. On these noses, which were firmly fixed on +their natural ones, they performed their acrobatic feats. A dozen of +these artists lay upon their backs, while their comrades, dressed to +represent lightning-conductors, leaped from one to the other of their +friends' noses, performing the most skilful somersaults. + +The whole was to conclude with the "Pyramid," as had been announced, +in which fifty "Long-Noses" were to represent the "Car of Juggernaut." +But instead of forming the pyramid on each other's shoulders, these +artistes mounted on each others noses. Now one of them, who used to +act as the base of the car, had left the troupe, and as only strength +and adroitness were necessary for the position, Passe-partout had been +selected to fill it on this occasion. + +That worthy fellow felt very melancholy when he had donned his +costume, adorned with parti-coloured wings, and had fixed his six-foot +nose to his face; but, at any rate, the nose would procure him +something to eat, and he made up his mind to do what he had to do. + +He went on the stage and joined his colleagues; they all lay down on +their backs, and then another party placed themselves on the long +noses of the first, another tier of performers climbed up on them, +then a third and a fourth; and upon the noses a human monument was +raised almost to the flies. + +Then the applause rose loud and long. The orchestra played a deafening +tune, when suddenly the pyramid shook, one of the noses at the base +fell out, and the whole pyramid collapsed like a house of cards! + +It was all owing to Passe-partout. Clearing himself from the scramble, +and leaping over the footlights, without the aid of his wings, he +scaled the gallery, and fell at the feet of one of the spectators, +crying out, as he did so, "Oh my master, my master!" + +"You!" + +"Yes, it is I." + +"Well then, under those circumstances you had better go on board the +steamer." + +So Mr. Fogg, Aouda, who accompanied him, and Passe-partout hastened +out of the theatre. At the door they met the Honourable Mr. Batulcar, +who was furious, and demanded damages for the breaking of the +"Pyramid." Mr. Fogg quickly appeased him by handing him a roll of +notes. + +At half-past six, the appointed hour for the sailing of the vessel, +Mr. Fogg, Mrs. Aouda, and Passe-partout, who still wore his wings and +long nose, stepped upon the deck of the American mail-steamer. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIV. + +In which the Pacific Ocean is crossed. + + + +The reader will easily guess what happened at Shanghai. The signals +made by the _Tankadere_ were perceived by the mail-steamer, and soon +afterwards, Phileas Fogg having paid the price agreed upon, as well as +a bonus of five hundred and fifty pounds, he and his party were soon +on board the steamer. + +They reached Yokohama on the 14th, and Phileas Fogg, leaving Fix to +his own devices, went on board the _Carnatic_, where he heard, to +Aouda's great delight, and probably to his own though he did not +betray it, that a Frenchman named Passe-partout had arrived in her the +day before. + +Mr. Fogg, who was obliged to leave for San Francisco that very +evening, immediately set about searching for his servant. To no +purpose was it that he inquired at the Consulate or walked about the +streets, and he gave up the search. Was it by chance or presentiment +that he visited Mr. Batulcar's entertainment? He would not certainly +have recognised his servant in his eccentric dress, but Passe-partout +had spied his master out. He could not restrain a movement of the +nose, and so the collapse had occurred. + +All this Passe-partout learnt from Mrs. Aouda, who also told him how +they had come from Hong Kong with a certain Mr. Fix. + +Passe-partout did not even wink at the name of Fix, for he thought the +moment had not yet come to tell his master what had passed; so in his +recital of his own adventures, he merely said that he had been +overtaken by opium. + +Mr. Fogg listened coldly to his excuses, and then lent him money +sufficient to obtain proper clothes. In about an hour he had got rid +of his nose and wings, and was once more himself again. + +The steamer in which they were crossing was called the _General +Grant_, and belonged to the Pacific Mail Company. She was a +paddle-steamer of two thousand five hundred tons, had three masts, and +at twelve knots an hour would not take more than twenty-one days to +cross the ocean; so Phileas Fogg was justified in thinking that he +would reach San Francisco on the 2nd of December, New York on the +11th, and London on the 20th, so gaining several hours on the fatal +21st. + +Nothing of any consequence occurred on the voyage. The Pacific fully +bore out its name, and was as calm as Mr. Fogg himself. Mrs. Aouda +felt more and more attached to this taciturn man by even stronger ties +than gratitude. She was more deeply impressed than she was aware of, +and almost unconsciously gave herself up to emotion, which, however, +did not appear to have any effect upon Mr. Fogg. Besides, she took the +greatest interest in his projects--anything that threatened to +interfere with his plans disquieted her extremely. She frequently +consulted with Passe-partout, and he, guessing how deeply she was +interested, praised his master all day long. He calmed her +apprehensions, insisted that the most difficult part of the journey +had been accomplished, that they would be soon in civilised countries, +and the railway to New York and the transatlantic steamer to Liverpool +would bring them home within their time. + +Nine days after leaving Yokohama, Mr. Fogg had traversed just exactly +one half of the globe. On the 23rd of November this _General Grant_ +passed the 180th meridian, the antipodes of London. Of the eighty days +he had had, he had, it is true, spent fifty-two, and only twenty-eight +remained; but it must be remarked that if he had only gone halfway, +according to the difference of meridians, he had really accomplished +two-thirds of his journey. He had been obliged to make long detours; +but had he followed the 50th parallel, which is that of London, the +distance would only have been twelve thousand miles, whereas by the +caprices of locomotion he had actually been obliged to travel +twenty-six thousand miles, of which he had now finished seventeen +thousand five hundred. But now it was all plain sailing, and Fix was +not there to interfere with him. + +It also happened on that day that Passe-partout made a great +discovery. It may be remembered that he had insisted on keeping London +time with his famous family watch, and despised all other timekeepers +on the journey. Now on this day, although he had not touched it, his +watch agreed exactly with the ship's chronometer. His triumph was +complete, and he almost wished Fix had been there that he might crow +over him. + +"What a lot of falsehoods the fellow told me about the meridians, the +sun, and the moon. Nice sort of time we should keep if we listened to +such as he. I was quite sure that the sun would regulate itself by my +watch one of these days." + +Passe-partout did not know that if his watch had been divided into the +twenty-four hours like Italian clocks, the hands would now show that +it was nine o'clock in the evening instead of nine o'clock in the +morning--that is to say, the one-and-twentieth hour after midnight, +which is the difference between London time and that at the 180th +meridian. But this Passe-partout would not have acknowledged even if +he understood it, and, in any case, if the detective had been on +board. Passe-partout would have argued with him on any subject. + +Now, where was Fix at that moment? + +Fix was actually on board the _General Grant_. + +In fact, when he reached Yokohama, the detective immediately went to +the English Consulate, where he found the warrant which had come by +the _Carnatic_, on which steamer they thought he himself had arrived. +His disappointment may be guessed, for the warrant was now useless, +and an act of extradition would be difficult to cause Fogg to be +arrested. + +"Well," he thought, when his first anger had evaporated, "if the +warrant is no use here it will be in England. The fellow is returning +to his native land, thinking he has put the police off the scent. I +will follow him; but I hope to goodness some of this money will be +left. He must already have spent more than five thousand pounds; +however, the bank can afford it." + +So he made up his mind to proceed on the _General Grant_, and was +actually on board when Mr. Fogg and Mrs. Aouda arrived. He was +surprised to recognise Passe-partout in such a dress, but he quickly +went down-stairs to avoid explanation, and hoped, thanks to the number +of passengers, that he would remain unperceived by his enemy. But that +very day he came face to face with Passe-partout. + +Passe-partout, without a word, caught him by the throat, and greatly +to the delight of the bystanders, who immediately made bets on the +result, he proved the superiority of the French system of boxing over +the English. + +Passe-partout was much refreshed by this exercise. Fix rose in a very +dishevelled condition, and asked his adversary "whether he had quite +finished?" + +"For the present, yes." + +"Then let me speak to you." + +"But--" + +"It is all in your master's interest." + +Passe-partout seemed conquered by the detective's coolness, and +followed Fix to the fore part of the ship. + +"You have given me a licking," said the detective. "So far, so good. I +expected it; but just now you must listen to me. Hitherto I have been +playing against Mr. Fogg. I am now in his favour." + +"Oh, then you believe him honest at last?" + +"By no means. I think he is a thief. Be quiet, hear me out. So long as +Mr. Fogg was on British territory, I did all I could to detain him +till the warrant for his arrest arrived. It was I who put the Bombay +priests on your track. I hocussed you at Hong Kong. I separated you +from your master, and caused him to lose the Yokohama steamer." + +Passe-partout clenched his fists as he listened. + +"But now," continued Fix, "Mr. Fogg appears likely to return to +England. All right, I will follow him. But in future I will do as much +to keep his way clear, as I have done to prevent his progress. I have +changed my game, and have done so for my own interest; your interest +is the same as mine, for it will be only in England that you will ever +find out whether your master is honest or not." + +Passe-partout listened attentively, and felt that Fix meant what he +said. + +"Are we friends?" asked Fix. + +"Friends, no; allies, yes; but only to a certain point, for at the +least sign of treason, I will twist your neck." + +"That's a bargain," said the detective calmly. + +Eleven days afterwards, viz. on the 3rd of December, the _General +Grant_ entered the Golden Gate of San Francisco. + +Mr. Fogg had neither gained nor lost a day. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXV. + +A Glimpse of San Francisco. A Political Meeting. + + + +At seven o'clock in the morning, Mr. Fogg and his companions landed in +America, or rather upon the floating pier at which the steamers load +and unload. There they mingled with ships and steamers of all +nationalities, and steam ferry-boats with two or three decks which +performed the service on the Sacramento and its affluents. + +Passe-partout was so delighted to reach America, that he thought it +necessary to execute one of his most active leaps. But when he landed +upon the quay, he found the planks worm-eaten, and he went through +them. His cry of alarm frightened all the birds which perched upon +these floating quays. + +Mr. Fogg's first care was to ascertain when the next train left for +New York. It started at six o'clock, so they had a whole day before +them. Then hiring a carriage, they drove to the International Hotel. +From his position on the box of the vehicle, Passe-partout observed +with great curiosity the wide streets, the rows of lofty houses, the +churches and other places of worship built in the Anglo-Saxon gothic +style, immense docks, palatial warehouses, innumerable cabs, +omnibuses, and tramway-cars; while Americans, Europeans, Chinese, and +Indians occupied the pathways. San Francisco surprised Passe-partout. +It was no longer the habitation of bandits, incendiaries, and +assassins, who gambled for gold-dust, a revolver in one hand and a +knife in the other. This "good time" had passed. The city was now the +hive of commerce. The tower of the city-hall overlooked the labyrinth +of streets and avenues, which crossed each other at right angles, +amongst which verdant squares extended; and the Chinese quarter looked +like an importation from the Celestial Empire in a toy-puzzle. +Sombreros, red shirts, and Indian head-dresses had given way to silk +hats and black coats, and some of the principal streets were lined +with splendid shops, offering the products of the whole world for +sale. + +When Passe-partout reached the International Hotel, he could scarcely +recognise that he was not in England. The ground-floor of this immense +building was occupied by a bar, at which free lunch of cold meat, +oyster soup, biscuits and cheese, was always to be had; wine or beer +had to be paid for. The restaurant was comfortable. Mr. Fogg and Mrs. +Aouda sat down to a table, and were waited on by the blackest of +negroes. + +After breakfast, Phileas Fogg, accompanied by Mrs. Aouda, went to the +English Consul to have his passport _viséd_. On the pavement he met +his servant, who wanted to know whether he should not purchase some +revolvers and rifles. Passe-partout had heard of Sioux and Pawnees, +who are in the habit of stopping the trains. His master replied that +the precaution was needless, but permitted him to do what he pleased +in the matter, and pursued his way to the Consulate. + +He had not gone very far when, of course by the merest chance, he met +Fix. The detective appeared very much astonished. Was it possible that +he and Mr. Fogg had crossed in the same steamer, and never met? Fix +professed himself honoured at meeting the gentleman to whom he owed so +much. Business called him to Europe, and he would be proud to travel +in such agreeable company. + +Mr. Fogg replied that the honour would be his, and thereupon Fix, who +had made up his mind not to lose sight of the other, requested +permission to accompany Mr. Fogg in his walks about the city, which +was granted. + +So the three travellers soon found themselves in Montgomery Street, +and on the outskirts of a great crowd. People were everywhere looking +on and shouting, going about carrying large printed bills; flags, and +streamers were waving, and everyone was calling out "Hurrah for +Camerfield!" or "Hurrah for Maudiboy!" + +It was a political meeting, at least Fix thought so; and said to Mr. +Fogg that it might perhaps be better not to mingle with the crowd for +fear of accidents. + +Mr. Fogg agreed, and added "that blows, even though inflicted in a +political sense, were nevertheless blows." + +Fix smiled, and then in order to be able to see without being hustled, +the three travellers mounted a flight of steps at the upper end of the +street. Opposite was a large platform towards which the crowd appeared +to be moving. + +Mr. Fogg could not form any opinion as to what the meeting was about. +Perhaps it was the nomination of a governor of a State, or of a member +of Congress, which was not unlikely. Just then the excitement of the +crowd became greater, fists were raised as if to register a vote by a +show of hands. The crowd swayed backwards and forwards, flags were +displayed and immediately torn to pieces, hats were smashed, and the +greater part of the crowd seemed to have grown suddenly shorter. + +"It is evidently a political meeting," said Fix; "perhaps it is about +the Alabama Claims, although they are settled by this time." + +"Perhaps it is," replied Mr. Fogg. + +"At any rate," continued Fix, "here are the candidates. The Honourable +Mr. Camerfield and the Honourable Mr. Maudiboy have met." + +Aouda, leaning upon Mr. Fogg's arm, was regarding the tumult with +curiosity, and Fix was about to ask the reason of the disturbance when +the uproar increased to a terrific extent. The crowd became more +excited, blows were exchanged, boots and shoes were sent whirling +through the air, and the spectators thought they could hear the crack +of revolvers mingling with the cries of men. The combatants approached +the steps on which the party had taken refuge. One of the candidates +had evidently been repulsed, but whether Camerfield or Maudiboy had +got the best of it, mere spectators could not tell. + +"I think we had better retire," said Fix; "if there is any discussion +about England, and we were recognised, we might receive some injury." + +"An Englishman--" began Mr. Fogg. + +But he never finished the sentence, for a tremendous uproar arose on +the terrace just behind them, and there were loud shouts for Maudiboy, +a party of whose adherents were taking their opponents in the flank. + +Our travellers were now between two fires; it was too late to escape; +the torrent of men armed with life-preservers and sticks could not be +withstood. Phileas Fogg and Fix did all they could to protect their +fair companions with the weapons nature had provided, but +unsuccessfully. A great ruffian, with a red beard, who appeared to be +the chief of the band, was about to strike Mr. Fogg, and would +probably have done him serious injury if Fix had not stepped in and +received the blow in his stead, thereby getting his hat completely +smashed. + +"You low Yankee!" exclaimed Mr. Fogg contemptuously. + +"You English beast!" replied the other. + +"We shall meet again." + +"Whenever you please." + +"What is your name?" + +"Phileas Fogg; and yours?" + +"Colonel Stamp Proctor." + +And the tide of humanity swept past, overturning Fix, who, however, +speedily regained his feet, and though much dishevelled was not +seriously hurt. His overcoat was torn in two, and his trousers were +more like those worn by the Indians; but fortunately Aouda had +escaped, and Fix only showed any traces of the encounter. + +"Thank you," said Mr. Fogg to the detective when they were out of the +crowd. + +"Don't mention it," replied Fix; "let us go on." + +"Where to?" + +"To a tailor's." + +In fact this course had become necessary, for the clothes of both men +were torn as badly as if they had taken an active part in the contest, +but in an hour they were newly clad and safely back at the hotel +again. + +There they found Passe-partout waiting and armed with a dozen +six-barrelled central-fire revolvers. When he perceived Fix with Mr. +Fogg he frowned, but when Mrs. Aouda had told him all that had passed +his brow cleared. Fix evidently was no longer an enemy; he was an +ally, and was adhering to his agreement. + +After dinner they took a carriage and drove to the railway-station. As +Mr. Fogg was getting into the cab he said to Fix, "Have you seen that +Colonel Proctor since?" + +"No," replied Fix. + +"I will make a point of coming back to America to find him out," +replied Fogg coolly. "It would never do for an Englishman to allow +himself to be treated as he treated us." + +The detective smiled, but made no reply. It was evident, however, that +Mr. Fogg was of that race of Britons who, though they do not permit +duelling at home, fight in foreign countries when their honour is in +any way attacked. + +At a quarter to six the travellers reached the railway-station, and +found the train ready. Mr. Fogg called a porter and asked him the +reason of the excitement that afternoon. + +"It was a meeting, sir," replied the porter. + +"I thought there was some great commotion in the streets." + +"It was merely an election meeting." + +"For a commander-in-chief, no doubt?" suggested Mr. Fogg. + +"Oh dear no," replied the man. "It was for a justice of the peace." + +On this reply Phileas Fogg entered the train, which started almost +immediately. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVI. + +Showing how Mr. Fogg and Party journeyed in the Pacific Express. + + + +"From ocean to ocean," as the Americans say, and this sentence is the +usual expression to intimate the crossing of the continent by the +Pacific Railway. That line is really divided into two, viz. the +Central Pacific, between San Francisco and Ogden; and the Union +Pacific, between Ogden and Omaha. There are five trunk-lines from +Omaha to New York. + +New York and San Francisco are thus united by a continuous iron road +more than three thousand seven hundred and eighty-six miles in length; +between the Pacific and Omaha the railroad traverses a country still +inhabited by Indians and wild beasts, and a vast extent of territory +which the Mormons began to colonise in 1845, when they were driven out +from Illinois. + +Formerly, under the most favourable circumstances, the journey from +New York to San Francisco occupied six months, now it is accomplished +in seven days. + +It was in 1862 that, notwithstanding the opposition of Confederate +members of Congress, who desired a more southerly route, the railroad +track was planned between the forty-first and the forty-second +parallels of latitude. President Lincoln himself fixed the termination +of the new line at Omaha, in Nebraska. The work was immediately begun +and continued with characteristic American energy, which is neither +red-tapeish nor bureaucratic. The rapidity of the work did not affect +its completeness; they laid a mile and a half of line across the +prairie every day; an engine, carrying the rails to be used next day, +ran on the line only just laid, and advanced as quickly as they were +fixed. + +The Pacific railroad has several branches in the States of Iowa, +Kansas, Colorado, and Oregon. When it leaves Omaha the line runs along +the left bank of the river Platte, as far as the mouth of the northern +branch, follows the south branch, crosses the Laramine territory and +the Wahsatch Mountains to Salt Lake City (the Mormon capital), plunges +into the Tuilla Valley across the desert, Mounts Cedar and Humboldt, +the Humboldt river and the Sierra Nevada, and then descends by +Sacramento to the Pacific; the gradient all the way, even over the +Rocky Mountains, not exceeding a hundred and twelve feet to the mile. + +Such was the line along which Phileas Fogg hoped to be carried to New +York in seven days in time to reach the Steamer to Liverpool on the +11th. + +The car in which our travellers were seated was a sort of long +omnibus, with four wheels at each end, without compartments; rows of +seats were placed at each side, a passage running between them from +end to end of this carriage, and practically of the train, for every +carriage was closely connected with the next. There were drawing-room +cars, smoking-cars, and restaurants. The only thing wanting was the +theatre-car, but no doubt that will some day be supplied. Vendors of +books and papers, eatables, drinkables, and tobacco, continually +passed through the train. + +The train started from Oakland Station at six p.m. It was already +dark, and snow was threatening; the pace did not exceed twenty miles +an hour, including stoppages. There was not much conversation amongst +the passengers, and most of them soon went to sleep. Passe-partout was +next to the detective, but did not address him, for after what had +happened there could be no sympathy between them. Fix had not altered, +but Passe-partout was extremely reserved, and on the least suspicion +would have strangled his former friend. + +In about an hour snow began to fall, but not sufficiently thick to +hinder the progress of the train. Nothing could be seen from the +windows but an immense white sheet, against which the steam of the +engine looked gray. + +At eight o'clock the steward entered and said that bed-time had come. +The backs of the seats were thrown down, bedsteads were pulled out, +and berths improvised in a few moments. By this ingenious system each +passenger was provided with a bed, and protected by curtains from +prying eyes. The sheets were clean, the pillows soft. There was +nothing to do but to go to bed and sleep, which everybody did as if +they were on board ship, while the train rushed on across the State of +California. + +The territory between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hilly, +and the railroad runs in a north-easterly direction along the American +river which falls into the Bay of San Pablo. The hundred and twenty +miles' distance between these cities was accomplished in six hours, +and as it was midnight when they passed through Sacramento, the +travellers could see nothing of the city. + +Leaving Sacramento and passing Junction, Rochin, Auburn, and Colfax, +the railroad passes through the Sierra Nevada range, and the train +reached Cisco at seven o'clock. An hour afterwards the sleeping-car +was retransformed to an ordinary carriage, and the passengers were +enabled to look out upon the magnificent scenery of this mountainous +country. The track followed all the caprices of the mountains, at +times suspended over a precipice, boldly rounding angles, penetrating +narrow gorges which had apparently no outlet. The engine, with fire +gleaming from the grate and black smoke issuing from its funnel, the +warning-bell ringing, the "cow-catcher" extending like a spur, mingled +its whistlings and snortings with the roar of torrents and waterfalls, +and twining its black smoke around the stems of the pine-trees. There +are few tunnels or bridges on this portion of the route, for the line +winds round the sides of the mountains and does not penetrate them. + +About nine o'clock the train entered the State of Nevada by the Carson +Valley, still proceeding in a north-easterly direction. At midday the +train quitted Reno, where it had stopped twenty minutes for luncheon. + +After lunch the passengers took their places in the car again, and +admired the scenery. Sometimes great troops of buffaloes were massed +like an immense moveable dam on the horizon. These immense troops +frequently oppose an impassable barrier to the trains, for they cross +the track in close array in thousands and thousands, occupying several +hours in their passage. On these occasions the train is brought to a +standstill and obliged to wait till the track is clear. + +In fact, an incident of this kind happened on this occasion. About +three o'clock in the afternoon a troop of ten or twelve thousand +beasts blocked the line. The engineer slackened speed and tried to +proceed slowly, but he could not pass the mass of buffaloes. + +The passengers could see the buffaloes defiling quietly across the +track, and now and then bellowing loudly. They were larger than +European bulls, the head and shoulders being covered with a long mane, +beneath which rises a hump; the legs and tails are short. No one would +ever think of attempting to turn them aside. When once they have taken +a certain direction, they cannot be forced to swerve from it. They +compose a torrent of living flesh which no dam can withstand. + +The passengers gazed on this curious spectacle, but the man most +interested of all in the speedy progress of the train, Phileas Fogg, +remained calmly in his place to wait till the buffaloes had passed by. +Passe-partout was furious at the delay which the animals caused, and +wished to discharge his armoury of revolvers at them. + +"What a country this is!" he exclaimed. "Fancy a whole train being +stopped by a herd of cattle, which do not hurry themselves in the +least, as if they were not hindering us; I should like to know whether +Mr. Fogg anticipated this delay. And here we have an engine-driver who +is afraid to run his train against a few cows." + +The engine-driver certainly did not attempt to do so, and he was quite +right. No doubt he might have killed two or three of the first +buffaloes he came in contact with; but the engine would soon have been +thrown off the line, and progress would have been hopeless. + +The best thing to do, then, was to wait patiently, and trust to make +up time when the buffaloes had passed; but the procession of animals +lasted for fully three hours, and it was night before the track was +clear. The head of the column had ere this disappeared below the +southern horizon. + +It was eight o'clock when the train had traversed the defiles of the +Humboldt range, and half-past nine when it entered Utah, the region of +the great Salt Lake and the curious Mormon territory. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVII. + +Showing how Passe-partout went through a Course of Mormon History, at +the rate of Twenty Miles an Hour. + + + +During the night of the 5-6th December, the train kept in a +south-easterly direction for about fifty miles, and then went up in a +north-east course towards Salt Lake. + +About nine o'clock in the morning, Passe-partout went out upon the +platform to get a breath of fresh air. The weather was cold and the +sky was dull, but there was no snow falling then. The sun in the mist +looked like an enormous disc of gold, and Passe-partout was +calculating what it would be worth in English money, when he was +disturbed by the appearance of a very curious personage. + +This individual, who had got into the train at Elko, was tall and of +dark complexion, had a black moustache, wore black stockings, and +black hat and clothes, except his necktie, which was white, and his +gloves, which were dog-skin. He looked like a minister. He went the +whole length of the train, and fastened a small notice-bill on the +door of every car. Passe-partout read one of these "posters," and +learnt that the Honourable Elder William Hitch, Mormon Missionary, +would take advantage of the occasion to deliver a lecture upon +Mormonism, in car No. 117, at eleven o'clock in the fore-noon till +twelve noon, and invited all those who wished to learn something about +the "Latter-day Saints" to attend the lecture. + +"Faith, I'll go," muttered Passe-partout, who knew nothing about +Mormonism, except the plurality of wives. + +The news spread rapidly amongst the passengers, and about thirty out +of the hundred travellers were attracted to car No. 117. Passe-partout +took a front seat. Neither his master nor Fix troubled themselves +about the matter. + +At the hour named the elder William Hitch got up, and in a somewhat +irritable manner, as if he had been already contradicted, cried out: + +"I tell you that Joe Smith is a martyr, and his brother Hiram is +another, and the way the Government is persecuting Brigham Young will +make him a martyr also. Now who dares say anything to the contrary?" + +No one ventured to contradict him, and his vehemence certainly +contrasted strangely with his calm features. But no doubt his anger +was kindled by the indignities to which the Mormons had been actually +exposed. The United States Government had certainly had a great deal +of trouble to bring these fanatics to reason. It was now master of +Utah, after having imprisoned Brigham Young on the charges of +rebellion and polygamy. Since that time the followers of the prophet +had redoubled their efforts, and, if not by deeds, by words resisted +the authority of the United States Government. Elder W. Hitch, as we +have seen, was endeavouring to gain converts in the railroad-cars. + +Then he went on to recite passionately the history of Mormonism from +patriarchal times. How in Israel a Mormon prophet of the tribe of +Joseph published the annals of the new religion, and left them to his +son Morom; and how, many centuries later, a translation of this +wonderful book was made by Joseph Smith, junior, a Vermont farmer, who +revealed himself as a prophet in 1823, when the angel appeared to him +and gave him the sacred roll of the book. + +About this time several of the audience left the car, but the lecturer +continued to relate how Smith, junior, his father and brothers, and a +few disciples founded the religion of the Latter-day Saints, which can +count its converts not only in America, but in Scandinavia, England, +and Germany. Also how a colony was established in Ohio, where a temple +was erected at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, and a town +built at Kirkland. How Smith became an opulent banker, and received a +papyrus scroll written by Abraham and several celebrated Egyptians. + +The narrative being very tiresome, the greater part of the audience +decamped, but the lecturer nevertheless continued his tale respecting +Joe Smith, his bankruptcy, his tarring and feathering, his +reappearance at Independence, Missouri, as the head of a flourishing +community of about three thousand disciples, his pursuit, and +settlement in the Far West. + +By this time Passe-partout and ten others were all that remained of +the audience, who were informed that after much persecution Smith +reappeared in Illinois and founded the beautiful city of Nauvoo, on +the Mississippi, of which he became chief magistrate; how he became a +candidate for the Presidency of the United States; how he was drawn +into an ambuscade at Carthage, imprisoned, and assassinated by a band +of masked murderers. + +Passe-partout was now absolutely the only listener, and the lecturer +looking him steadily in the face recalled to his memory the actions of +the pious Brigham Young, and showed him how the colony of Mormon had +flourished. + +"And this is why the jealousy of Congress is roused against us. Shall +we yield to force? Never! Driven from State to State we shall yet find +an independent soil on which to rest and erect our tents. And you," he +continued to Passe-partout, "and you, my brother, will not you pitch +your tent beneath the shadow of our flag?" + +"No," replied Passe-partout firmly, as he walked away, leaving the +Mormon elder by himself. + +While the lecturer had been holding forth the train had been +progressing rapidly, and had reached the north-west extremity of Salt +Lake. From that point the passengers could see this immense inland +sea--the Dead Sea, as it is sometimes called, and into which an +American Jordan flows. It is even now a splendid sheet of water, but +time and the falling-in of the banks have in some degree reduced its +ancient size. + +Salt Lake is seventy miles long and thirty-five wide, and is more than +three miles above the level of the sea. Though quite different from +Lake Asphaltites, it contains salt in large quantities. The specific +gravity of the water is one thousand one hundred and seventy; the same +distilled is one thousand. No fish can live in it; and though brought +down by the Jordan, Weber, and other rivers, soon perish; but it is +not true that its density is so great that no men can swim in it. + +The surrounding country is well cultivated, for the Mormons are great +farmers, and various flowers, etc., would have been observed later. +Just then the ground was sprinkled with snow. + +The train got to Ogden at two o'clock, and did not start again until +six; so Mr. Fogg and party had time to visit the City of the Saints by +the branch-line to Ogden. They passed a couple of hours in that very +American town, built, like all cities in the Union, with the +"melancholy sadness of right angles," as Victor Hugo said. In America, +where everything is supposed to be done on the square, though the +people do not reach that level, cities, houses, and follies are all +done "squarely." + +At three o'clock our travellers were walking about the city. They +remarked very few churches, but the public buildings were the house of +the prophet, the court, the arsenal; houses of blue brick, with +porches and verandahs surrounded by gardens, in which were palm-trees +and acacias, etc. A stone wall ran round the city. In the principal +street was the market-place and several hotels; amongst them Salt Lake +House rose up. + +There was no crowd in the streets, except near the temple. There was a +superabundance of females, which was accounted for by the peculiar +tenets of Mormons; but it is a mistake to suppose that all the Mormons +are polygamists. They can do as they please; but it may be stated that +the females are chiefly anxious to wed, as unmarried women are not +admitted to the full privileges of membership. These poor creatures do +not appear to be well off or happy. Some perhaps are rich and clothed +in European style, but the majority were dressed _à la Indienne_. + +Passe-partout beheld these women with some degree of awe, but above +all he pitied the husbands of these wives. It seemed to him to be an +awful thing to guide so many wives through all the mazes of life, and +to conduct them to the Mormon paradise, with the prospect of meeting +the glorious Joe Smith, who no doubt was there a shining light. He +felt quite disgusted, and he fancied--perhaps he was mistaken--that +some of the young ladies gazed at him alarmingly, and in a manner to +compromise his liberty. + +Fortunately his sojourn in the City of the Saints was not of long +duration. At four o'clock the travellers took their places in the +return train. The whistle sounded, but just as the train began to move +a cry was heard, "Stop, stop!" + +But the train did not stop. The gentleman who uttered these cries was +a Mormon too late for the train. He ran till he was out of breath. +Fortunately the railroad was quite open, there were no barriers nor +gates to pass. He rushed along the line, jumped upon the footboard of +the last carriage, and then threw himself panting into the nearest +seat. Passe-partout, who had been watching him intently, learnt that +he had run away after some domestic quarrel, and when the Mormon had +recovered his breath Passe-partout plucked up courage to inquire how +many wives the fugitive had left, as, judging from his anxiety to get +away, he must have had twenty at least. + +"One, sir," replied the Mormon, raising his arms to heaven. "One, sir; +and, by thunder, that one was quite enough!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVIII. + +In which Passe-partout cannot make anyone listen to the Language of +Reason. + + + +The train leaving Salt Lake and Ogden Station went on northwards as +far as Weber River, about nine hundred miles from San Francisco; from +this point it turned to the west across the Wahsatch range. It was in +this part of the State that the American engineers had found the +greatest difficulty. In this portion of the line also the Government +subsidy had been raised to forty-eight thousand dollars a mile, +instead of the sixteen thousand dollars a mile on the plains; but the +engineers, so it is said, had stolen a march on nature, turned all the +difficulties instead of cutting through them, and pierced only one +tunnel of fourteen thousand feet in length. + +At Salt Lake the line reached its greatest altitude--from that point +it took a long curve towards Bitter-creek Valley, and then rose again +to the watershed between the valley and the Pacific Creeks were +numerous hereabout, and Muddy Creek, Green Creek, and others were +successively crossed on culverts. As they approached the end of their +journey Passe-partout became more and more impatient, while Fix was +very anxious to get on, for he feared delays and accidents, and was +more anxious to reach England than even Phileas Fogg. + +The train stopped for a short time at Fort Bridger at ten o'clock, and +twenty miles farther on entered Wyoming State, formerly Dakota. The +next day, the 7th of December, they stopped at Green River. Sleet had +fallen during the night, but not sufficient to interfere with the +traffic. However, this bad weather annoyed Passe-partout very much, +for any great fall of snow would have compromised the success of the +journey. + +"Any way, it is absurd of my master having undertaken such a journey +in winter; he might just as well have waited for fine weather and had +a better chance." + +But while the honest fellow was worrying himself about the weather, +Mrs. Aouda was disquieted for an entirely different reason, as amongst +the passengers who had alighted at Green River she recognised Colonel +Stamp Proctor, who had insulted Mr. Fogg at the San Francisco meeting. +She drew back, as she did not wish to be recognised, but the +circumstance affected her deeply. + +In fact she had become attached to the man who, notwithstanding his +coldness of manner, betrayed every day the interest he took in her. No +doubt she herself was not aware of the depth of the sentiment with +which he inspired her, which she believed to be gratitude, but was +doubtless a deeper feeling. Her heart almost ceased to beat at the +moment she recognised Mr. Fogg's enemy. Evidently it was mere chance +which had led Colonel Proctor to this particular train, but he and Mr. +Fogg must be kept apart at all hazards. + +She took an opportunity, when Mr. Fogg was asleep, to tell them whom +she had seen. + +"That man Proctor on the train!" cried Fix. "Well, you may be quite +easy, madam; before he sees Mr. Fogg he has to settle with me. It +seems to me that in this matter I have been the most insulted of any." + +"And I have a little business with him also, though he is a colonel," +added Passe-partout. + +"Mr. Fix," replied Mrs. Aouda, "Mr. Fogg would permit nobody to +interfere with his quarrel. He has declared that he will come back to +America to find out that man who insulted him. If then he sees Colonel +Proctor, we cannot prevent a meeting which might have most deplorable +results. They must not see each other." + +"You are right, madam," replied Fix; "a meeting would spoil +everything. Whether victor or not, Mr. Fogg would be delayed, and--" + +"And," added Passe-partout, "that would just play into the hands of +the Reform Club. In four days we shall be in New York. If during that +time my master does not leave his car, the chances are he will not +meet the American. At any rate, we must try to prevent a meeting." + +The conversation ceased, for Mr. Fogg just then awoke and looked out +of window at the snow. Shortly afterwards Passe-partout whispered to +the detective, "Would you really fight for him?" + +"I would do anything in the world to get him back to Europe alive," +replied the detective in a determined tone. + +Passe-partout shuddered, but his confidence in his master was +unshaken. + +And now the question was, how could they detain Mr. Fogg in the car +and prevent him meeting the Colonel? It ought not to be a very +difficult matter, for Phileas was naturally of a sedentary +disposition. However, the detective found a way, for shortly +afterwards he said to Mr. Fogg: + +"The time passes very slowly." + +"Yes," replied Fogg, "but it does pass." + +"On board the steamer," continued the detective, "you used to like a +game of whist." + +"Yes," replied Fogg, "but here I have neither cards nor partners." + +"Ah, we can easily purchase cards. As for partners, if madam can take +a hand--" + +"Certainly," replied the young lady. "I know whist, it is part of an +English education." + +"And," continued Fix, "I also have some little knowledge of the game, +so we can play dummy." + +"As you like," said Fogg, delighted to play his favourite game even in +the train. + +Passe-partout was immediately despatched to the steward, and he +quickly returned with two packs of cards, some markers, and a board +covered with cloth. + +The game commenced, Mrs. Aouda played fairly well, and was +complimented by Phileas. As for the detective, he was a first-rate +player, and a worthy opponent of Mr. Fogg. + +"Now," thought Passe-partout, "we have got him down and he won't +move." + +At eleven o'clock in the morning the train reached the watershed at +Bridger Pass, at an elevation of seven thousand five hundred and +twenty-four feet above the level of the sea. After traversing about +two hundred miles more, the travellers found themselves in one of +those extensive plains which proved so convenient to the laying of the +railway. + +At half-past twelve the travellers got a glimpse of Fort Halleck, and +in a few hours afterwards they had crossed the Rocky Mountains. They +were now in hopes that no accident would imperil the journey; the snow +had ceased, and the air was frosty. Some large birds, startled by the +locomotive, rose up, but no wild beasts appeared; the whole plain was +a desert. + +After a comfortable breakfast in his own car, Mr. Fogg and his +companions resumed their whist. Just then a loud whistling was heard, +and the train came to a stop. Passe-partout put his head out, but +could see no cause for the stoppage. Mrs. Aouda and Fix were afraid +that Mr. Fogg would get up and see what was the matter, but he merely +told his servant to ascertain the reason of the delay. + +Passe-partout jumped down. He found a number of passengers already on +the ground, and amongst them Colonel Proctor. + +The train had been stopped by signal. The engine-driver and guard were +talking excitedly with the signalman, whom the station-master at +Medicine Bow had sent down. The passengers joined in the discussion, +and prominent amongst them was Colonel Proctor. + +Passe-partout, as he joined the group, heard the signalman say: "You +cannot pass. The bridge is unsafe, and will not bear the weight of the +train." + +The viaduct in question was a suspension-bridge over a rapid about a +mile farther on. The signalman said that many of the supports were +broken, and that it was impossible to cross; he did not exaggerate the +danger, and it may be taken for granted that when an American is +prudent there is good reason for not being rash. + +Passe-partout did not dare to tell his master, but remained, listening +with clenched teeth, motionless as a statue. + +"That is all very fine," said Colonel Proctor, "but I guess we ain't +going to stop here to take root in the snow." + +"We have telegraphed to Omaha for a train, Colonel," said the guard; +"but it can't reach Medicine Bow in less than six hours." + +"Six hours!" exclaimed Passe-partout. + +"Yes," replied the guard; "but it will take us that time to reach +Medicine Bow on foot." + +"Why, it is only a mile from here," said one of the passengers. + +"Only a mile, but on the other side of the river." + +"And can't we cross in a boat?" asked the Colonel. + +"Quite impossible; the creek has swollen with the rains; we shall have +to go round ten miles to a ford." + +The Colonel vented a choice collection of oaths, condemning the +company, the guard, and creation generally; and Passe-partout, who was +very angry, felt inclined to join him. Here was a material obstacle +which all his master's money would not be able to remove. + +The disappointment of the passengers was general, for, without +reckoning the delay, they found themselves obliged to walk fifteen +miles in the snow. The commotion would have attracted Phileas Fogg's +attention had he not been entirely absorbed in his game. + +Nevertheless, Passe-partout would have told him of it if the engineer, +a true Yankee, named Foster, had not said: + +"Perhaps there is a way we can get over after all, gentlemen." + +"Over the bridge?" asked a passenger. + +"Yes." + +"With the train, do you mean?" asked the Colonel. + +"With the train." + +Passe-partout stopped and listened anxiously for the engineer's +explanation. + +"But the bridge is almost broken," said the guard. + +"Never mind," replied Foster: "I think that by putting on full-steam +we may have a chance of getting across." + +"The devil!" muttered Passe-partout. + +But a certain number of the passengers were attracted by the +suggestion; Colonel Proctor was particularly pleased, and thought the +plan quite feasible. He related various anecdotes concerning +engineers, whom he had known, who crossed over rivers without any +bridges at all by merely putting on full-steam, etc. The end of it was +that many of the passengers agreed with the engineer. + +"The chances are fifty to a hundred about our getting over," said one. + +"Sixty!" said another. + +"Eighty, ninety!" said a third. + +Passe-partout was dumfounded, and although he was very anxious to +cross the river, he thought the proposed plan a little too American. + +"Besides," he thought, "there is an easier way, which does not seem to +have occurred to either of them;" so he said aloud to one of the +passengers: + +"The engineer's plan seems to me somewhat dangerous; but--" + +"Eighty chances!" replied the person addressed, turning away. + +"I know that," replied Passe-partout, as he spoke to another; "but an +idea--" + +"Ideas are no use," replied the American; "the engineer tells us we +can cross." + +"No doubt," replied Passe-partout; "but perhaps it would be more +prudent--" + +"What, prudent!" exclaimed Colonel Proctor, who was ready to quarrel +with anyone suggesting prudence. "Do you not understand that we are +going across at full speed? Do you hear, at full speed?" + +"I know, I know," said Passe-partout, whom no one would allow to +finish his sentence; "but it would be, if not more prudent, since that +word displeases you, at any rate more natural--" + +"Who is this, what's this? Who is talking about natural?" cried the +passengers on all sides. + +Poor Passe-partout did not know which way to turn. + +"Are you afraid?" asked Colonel Proctor. + +"I afraid?" cried Passe-partout; "you think so, do you? I will show +these people when a Frenchman can be as American as themselves." + +"All aboard!" cried the guard. + +"Yes, all get in," muttered Passe-partout; "but you cannot prevent my +thinking that it would be much more natural for us to cross the bridge +on foot and let the train follow." + +But no one heard this wise reflection, and if so, probably no one +would have acknowledged its justice. + +The passengers took their places, as did Passe-partout, without saying +what had happened. The whist-players were still deep in their game. + +The engine-driver whistled and then backed his train for nearly a +mile, then whistling again he started forward. The speed increased to +a fearful extent, and rushing along at a pace of nearly a hundred +miles an hour, seemed hardly to touch the rails at all. + +They passed over like a flash of lightning. No one saw anything of the +bridge; the train leaped, as it were, from bank to bank, and could not +be stopped till it had passed the station for some miles. + +Scarcely had the train crossed the bridge when the whole structure +fell with a tremendous crash into the rapids beneath! + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIX. + +In which certain Incidents are told which are never met with except on +Railroads in the United States. + + + +That evening the train proceeded without interruption; passed Fort +Saunders, crossed Cheyenne Pass, and arrived at Evans' Pass. Here the +railroad reached its greatest elevation, eight thousand and ninety-one +feet above the sea. The track was now downhill all the way to the +Atlantic, across naturally level plains. From here the Grand Trunk +Line led to Denver, the capital of Colorado State, rich in gold and +silver mines, and boasting more than fifty thousand inhabitants. + +Three days and three nights had now been passed in accomplishing one +thousand three hundred and eighty-two miles; four days and four nights +more would suffice to reach New York, and Phileas Fogg had not lost +time. + +During the night they had passed Camp Walbach, and entered Nebraska at +eleven, passing Julesburg on the south branch of the Platte river. It +was here that General Dodge inaugurated the Union Pacific road on the +23rd of October, 1867. Here two powerful locomotives with nine +carriages full of guests stopped, three cheers were given, the Sioux +and Pawnee Indians had a sham fight, fireworks were let off, and the +first number of a paper called _The Railway Pioneer_ was printed in a +press carried in the train. + +Fort MacPherson was passed at eight in the morning; they had still +three hundred and fifty-seven miles to go to Omaha. At nine o'clock +the train stopped at North Platte, a town built between the two arms +of the river. + +The hundred-and-first meridian was now passed. + +Mr. Fogg and his partner had resumed their whist; none of them, not +even the dummy, complained of the length of the journey. Fix had at +first won several guineas which he now seemed about to lose, but he +was not a less passionate player than Fogg. Fortune distinctly +favoured that gentleman, and showered trumps and honours upon him. + +On one occasion he was on the point of playing a spade, when a voice +behind him said, "I should play a diamond." + +The players all looked up, and beheld Colonel Proctor. He and Fogg +recognised each other at the same moment. + +"Oh, you are that Britisher, are you?" exclaimed the Colonel. "So you +are going to play a spade?" + +"Yes, and I play it too," replied Fogg coldly, as he threw down the +ten. + +"Well, I choose to have diamonds," said Proctor insolently. He made a +movement as if to seize the card just played, adding, "You know +nothing about whist." + +"Perhaps I do, as well as other people," said Fogg, rising. + +"You have only got to try, you son of a John Bull," said the stout +man. + +Mrs. Aouda now turned very pale; she seized Fogg by the arm, and +pulled him back. Passe-partout was quite ready to throw himself upon +the American, who continued to regard his adversary with an insolent +stare, but Fix rose and said, "You forget that this is my business, +sir; I was not only insulted, but struck." + +"Mr. Fix, excuse me," said Fogg; "this is entirely my business. By +pretending that I did not know how to play, the Colonel has insulted +me, and shall give me satisfaction." + +"When and where you please," said the American; "name your weapons." + +Aouda tried to keep Mr. Fogg back; the detective also tried to make +the quarrel his own; Passe-partout wanted to throw the Colonel out of +the window, but a sign from his master checked him. Mr. Fogg left the +car, and the American followed him to the platform. + +"Sir," said Fogg, "I am in a great hurry to return to Europe; any +delay will be very prejudicial to my interest." + +"What is all that to me?" said the Colonel. + +"Sir," continued Fogg, very politely, "after our dispute at San +Francisco, I had promised myself to return to America and find you +out, when I had finished my business in England." + +"Really!" + +"Will you meet me six months hence?" + +"Why don't you say six years?" + +"I said six months," said Fogg, "and I shall not fail to be at the +rendezvous." + +"This is all humbug," cried Proctor; "it must be now or never." + +"Very well," said Mr. Fogg; "are you going to New York?" + +"No." + +"To Chicago?" + +"No." + +"To Omaha?" + +"It can't matter to you. Do you know Plum Creek?" + +"No," replied Mr. Fogg. + +"It is the next station. We shall stop there ten minutes; we shall +have lots of time to exchange shots." + +"All right," replied Mr. Fogg; "I will stop at Plum Creek." + +"I guess you will stay there altogether," replied the American, with +unparalleled insolence. + +"Who knows?" replied Mr. Fogg, entering the car as coolly as ever, and +commenced to reassure Mrs. Aouda, by telling her that braggarts need +never be feared. He then asked Fix to be his second in the approaching +duel, which Fix could not well refuse to be; and then Phileas Fogg sat +down quietly and resumed his whist, without betraying the least +emotion. + +At eleven o'clock the whistle of the engine announced their approach +to Plum Creek. Mr. Fogg got up, and followed by Fix and Passe-partout, +carrying a brace of revolvers, went out upon the platform. Mrs. Aouda +remained in the car, as pale as death. + +At that moment the door of the next car opened, and Colonel Proctor +appeared, followed by his second, a Yankee of the same stamp as +himself. They were about to descend when the guard ran up and said, +"You cannot get out, gentlemen." + +"Why not?" demanded the Colonel. + +"We are twenty minutes late, and cannot stop." + +"But I am going to fight a duel with this gentleman." + +"I am very sorry," said the guard, "but we must be off at once; there +is the bell ringing." + +As he was speaking the train started. + +"I am really extremely grieved, gentlemen," said the guard, "and under +any other circumstances I should have been able to have obliged you. +But though you cannot stop to fight, there is nothing to prevent your +doing so as you go along." + +"Perhaps that would not suit that gentleman," said the Colonel in a +jeering tone. + +"It will suit me quite well," replied Phileas Fogg. + +"Well, we are actually in America, I see," thought Passe-partout; "and +the guard is a gentleman of the highest standing." + +The two adversaries, their seconds, and the guard passed down to the +rear of the train. The last car had only about a dozen passengers in +it, and the conductor asked them if they would mind moving, as the two +gentlemen had a little affair of honour to settle. + +The passengers were very glad to oblige the gentlemen, and they +retired accordingly. + +The car, about fifty feet long, was very suitable for the purpose. The +combatants could advance towards one another between the seats, and +fire at their leisure. Never had there been a duel more easy to +arrange. Mr. Fogg and Colonel Proctor, each carrying a six-barrelled +revolver, entered the car. Their seconds, having locked them in, +withdrew to the platform. The duellists were to begin to fire at the +first whistle of the engine, then, after a lapse of two minutes, what +remained of the two gentlemen would be taken from the car. + +Nothing could be easier. It was even so simple, that Fix and +Passe-partout could hear their hearts beating as they listened. + +Everyone was on the _qui vive_ for the first whistle, when suddenly +savage cries resounded, accompanied by shots, which certainly did not +come from the duellists. On the contrary, the reports rose all along +the train; cries of terror were heard inside the cars. + +Colonel Proctor and Mr. Fogg, revolvers in hand, were hastily +released, and rushed forward into the thick of the struggle, when they +perceived that the train had been attacked by a band of Sioux. This +was not the first time that this hardy tribe had attacked the train. +According to custom, they leaped on the footboards as the train +proceeded, as easy as a circus-rider would mount a horse at full +gallop. The Sioux were armed with guns, to which the passengers +replied with revolvers. The Indians had first mounted the engine, and +stunned the engine-driver and firemen with blows on the head. A chief +wished to stop the train, but not knowing how to do so had opened +instead of closing the regulator, and the train was now proceeding at +tremendous speed. Others of the tribe had entered the cars as actively +as apes, and were now engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with the +passengers. They pillaged the baggage-waggon, and were all the time +fighting incessantly. + +The travellers defended themselves courageously; they barricaded some +of the cars which were besieged like forts, carried along at the rate +of forty or fifty miles an hour. Mrs. Aouda had been most courageous. +Revolver in hand, she defended herself heroically, firing through the +broken windows whenever she caught sight of a savage. As many as +twenty Sioux had fallen, and lay crushed by the wheels; and many +passengers, grievously wounded, lay stretched upon the seats. + +But it was necessary to put an end to the fight, which had lasted for +ten minutes, and would result in a victory for the Indians if the +train were not stopped. Fort Kearney Station, where there was a guard, +was only a couple of miles farther on, and if that were passed, the +Indians would be masters of the train till the next station was +reached. The guard was fighting bravely by the side of Mr. Fogg, when +he was shot down. As he fell he cried, "If the train is not stopped in +less than five minutes, we are all lost!" + +"It shall be stopped," said Fogg, who was about to rush out. + +"Stay where you are, sir," said Passe-partout, "this is my business." + +His master had not time to stop the brave fellow, who, unseen by the +Indians, managed to creep along beneath the carriages, and then +calling all his agility to his aid, with marvellous dexterity he +managed to reach the fore part of the train without being seen. There, +suspended by one hand between the baggage-waggon and the tender, with +the other hand he unfastened the coupling-chains; but owing to the +great tension, he was not able to loose the draw-bar, but it was +fortunately jerked out as the train jolted. The locomotive, thus +detached, sped along at a tremendous pace in front, while the train +gradually slackened speed, and the breaks assisting it, it was pulled +up within a hundred feet of Fort Kearney. The soldiers, attracted by +the sound of firing, hastily turned out; but the Indians did not wait +for them. They all disappeared before the train stopped. + +But when the travellers came to count the passengers, they found that +several were missing, and amongst the absentees was the brave +Frenchman who had devoted himself to save them. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXX. + +In which Phileas Fogg simply does his Duty. + + + +Three of the travellers, including Passe-partout, had disappeared, but +it was impossible to say whether they had been killed or taken +prisoners. + +Several were wounded, but none mortally. Colonel Proctor was one of +the most severely hurt; he had fought bravely, and was carried with +the other wounded into the station, where he was attended to as well +as the circumstances admitted of. + +Mrs. Aouda was safe, and Phileas Fogg, who had been in the midst of +the fight, had not received a scratch. Fix had a flesh-wound in the +arm, but Passe-partout was missing, and Aouda could not help weeping. +Meanwhile the travellers all got out of the train, the wheels of which +were covered with blood and jagged pieces of flesh. Red tracks were +visible on the whitened plain. The Indians were disappearing in the +south along the Republican River. + +Mr. Fogg was standing motionless with folded arms, and Aouda looked at +him without speaking, but he understood her; he had to make up his +mind. If his servant were a prisoner, ought he not to rescue him from +the Indians? + +"I will find him, living or dead," he said simply to Aouda. + +"Oh Mr. Fogg!" exclaimed the young lady, seizing his hands, upon which +her tears fell fast. + +"Living," added Mr. Fogg, "if we lose no time." + +By this resolution Phileas Fogg sacrificed everything, he pronounced +his own ruin. A delay of even one day would lose the steamer at New +York and his wager. But he thought it was his duty, and did not +hesitate. + +The commandant of Fort Kearney was present; his company were under +arms to repel any further attack. + +"Sir," said Mr. Fogg to him, "three passengers are missing." + +"Dead?" asked the captain. + +"Dead or prisoners," replied Fogg; "I must find out which. Is it your +intention to pursue the Sioux?" + +"That would be a very serious thing," replied the captain. "The +Indians may retreat beyond the Arkansas, and I cannot leave the fort +undefended." + +"Sir," replied Fogg, "the lives of three men are in question." + +"No doubt; but can I risk fifty to save three?" + +"I do not know if you can, sir; but I know you ought." + +"Sir," replied the captain, "no one here is fit to teach me my duty." + +"Very well," said Fogg coldly, "I will go alone." + +"You, sir!" exclaimed Fix, who now approached. "Do you mean to go +alone in pursuit of the Indians?" + +"Do you wish me to leave that unfortunate man to perish to whom +everyone here owes his life? I shall certainly go." + +"No, sir, you shall not go alone," said the captain, who was moved in +spite of himself. "You are a brave fellow. Now, then, thirty +volunteers," he added, turning to the troops. + +The whole company advanced at once. The captain had only to pick his +men. Thirty were chosen, and a steady old non-commissioned officer put +in command. + +"Thanks, captain," said Mr. Fogg. + +"You will let me go with you?" said Fix. + +"You can do as you please, sir, but if you wish to do me a service you +will remain with Mrs. Aouda. Should anything happen to me--" + +The detective turned very pale. Should he separate from the man he had +followed so persistently? Should he leave him to wander thus in the +prairie? Fix gazed attentively at Mr. Fogg, and notwithstanding his +suspicions and the struggle going on within him, his eyes fell before +that frank look. + +"I will remain," he said. + +In a few moments Mr. Fogg, having shaken hands with the young lady and +confided his precious bag to her care, departed with the soldiers. But +before marching away he said to his escort, "My friends, I will divide +a thousand pounds amongst you if we save the prisoners." + +It was then a little past midday. + +Mrs. Aouda retired to a waiting-room, and there she remained thinking +of the generosity and courage of Phileas Fogg, who had sacrificed his +fortune and was now risking his life for what he believed to be his +duty. In her eyes Mr. Fogg was a hero. + +But Fix's thoughts were very different; he could scarcely conceal his +agitation; he walked up and down the station and soon recovered +himself. Now that Fogg had gone, Fix perceived how foolish he had been +to let him go. He began to accuse himself in pretty round terms, as if +he had been his own inspector. + +"What a fool I have been," he thought. "The fellow has gone and won't +come back. How is it that I, actually with a warrant for his arrest in +my pocket, could have been so played upon? Well, I am an ass!" + +Thus reasoned the detective as he walked up and down the platform. He +did not know what to do. Sometimes he thought he would tell Aouda +everything, but he knew how she would receive his confidence. He then +thought of following Fogg over the prairie, and he thought it not +impossible he might find him, as the footsteps of the escort would be +imprinted in the snow. But after a further fall they would soon be +obliterated. + +Fix became discouraged, and felt inclined to give up the whole thing. +He had now an opportunity to leave Kearney Station and pursue his way +homewards. In fact about two o'clock, in the midst of a snowstorm, +long whistles were heard from eastward; a great shadow was slowly +advancing; no train was expected from that direction. The assistance +telegraphed for could not possibly arrive so soon, and the train to +San Francisco was not due till the next day. The mystery was soon +explained. + +It was the runaway locomotive that was approaching. After it had left +the train, it had run a long distance till the fire got low and the +steam went down. Then it stopped, still bearing the half-conscious +engine-driver and firemen. When they found themselves alone in the +prairie they understood what had happened, and they had no doubt they +would find the train somewhere on the track, helpless. The +engine-driver did not hesitate. To go on to Omaha would be only +prudent, while to return would be dangerous. He nevertheless built up +the fire and ran back to Fort Kearney, whistling through the mist as +he went. + +The travellers were all delighted to see the engine attached to the +train once more. They could now resume their journey, so fatally +interrupted. + +When the engine was coupled on, Mrs. Aouda asked the guard if he were +really going to start? + +"Right away, ma'am," he replied. + +"But the prisoners, our unfortunate companions--" + +"I cannot interrupt the service," he replied; "we are three hours late +already." + +"And when will the next train arrive from San Francisco?" + +"To-morrow evening." + +"That will be too late. It must wait." + +"That is impossible. If you wish to go on, please get in." + +"I will not go," replied the lady. + +Fix heard this conversation. A short time before, when there was no +chance of his going on, he had decided to leave Kearney, and now that +it was necessary for him to take his place, something seemed to detain +him. The conflict in his mind waxed fiercer, he wished to fight it +out. + +Meantime the passengers, some of them wounded, including Colonel +Proctor, took their places in the train, which started immediately and +soon disappeared, the steam mingling with the falling snow. + +Fix had remained behind. + +Some hours passed away. The weather was wretched and very cold. Fix +remained seated, apparently asleep, on a bench. Aouda, notwithstanding +the tempest, continually came out of the room set apart for her, and +walking to the extremity of the platform, attempted to penetrate the +thick falling snow, as she listened intently for some sound of the +return of the escort. But she saw and heard nothing, and would return +chilled to the bone, only to sally forth once more in vain. + +Night fell, the troops had not returned; the commandant began to feel +anxious, though he did not betray his anxiety. The snow fell less +thickly now, but the cold was intense; absolute silence reigned +around. All night Mrs. Aouda kept wandering about, filled with the +most dismal forebodings--her imagination suggested a thousand dangers, +and her anxiety was terrible. + +Fix remained immovable, but he did not sleep either. A man approached +him once and spoke to him, but a shake of the head was the only reply +he received. + +Thus passed the night. At sunrise it was possible to distinguish +objects at the distance of two miles; but towards the south, in which +direction the party had gone, there was no sign. It was then seven +o'clock. + +The captain, who was now seriously alarmed, did not know what to do. +Should he send a second detachment after the first, and sacrifice more +men on the slender chance of saving those who had already gone? But he +did not hesitate long, and was on the point of ordering a +reconnaissance to be made, when the sound of firing was heard. The +soldiers rushed out of the fort and perceived the little troop +returning in good order. + +Mr. Fogg was marching at their head. Close to him were Passe-partout +and the other two passengers, rescued from the hands of the Sioux. +They had encountered the Indians ten miles from Kearney. Just before +they arrived Passe-partout and his companions had turned upon their +captors, three of whom the Frenchman had knocked down with his fists, +when his master and the escort came to his assistance. + +The party was welcomed most joyously. + +Phileas Fogg distributed the promised reward to the soldiers, while +Passe-partout muttered, and not without reason, "I must confess that I +cost my master pretty dearly." + +Fix looked at Mr. Fogg without speaking, and it would have been +difficult to analyse his thoughts at that moment. Mrs. Aouda, whose +feelings were too deep for expression, took Mr. Fogg's hands in hers +and pressed them without speaking. + +Ever since his return Passe-partout had been looking for the train; he +hoped to find it there ready to start for Omaha, and trusted that the +lost time might be regained. + +"But where is the train?" he exclaimed. + +"Gone," replied Fix. + +"When is the next train due here?" asked Mr. Fogg. + +"Not until this evening." + +"Ah!" replied the impassible gentleman simply. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXI. + +In which the Detective forwards Mr. Fogg's Interest considerably. + + + +Phileas Fogg was twenty hours behind time, and Passe-partout, the +involuntary cause of the delay, was desperate; he had decidedly ruined +his master. + +The detective approached Mr. Fogg, and, looking at him attentively, +said, "Seriously, sir, are you really in such a hurry?" + +"Very seriously I am," replied Fogg. + +"It is absolutely necessary, then, for you to be in New York on the +11th--before the departure of the English mail-steamer?" + +"I have a very great interest in so doing." + +"If, then, your voyage had not been interrupted, you would have +reached New York on the morning of the 11th?" + +"Yes, with twelve hours to spare." + +"Well, you are now twenty hours late. Twelve from twenty leaves +eight--you must regain those eight hours. Do you wish to try?" + +"On foot?" + +"No, on a sledge," replied Fix; "on a sledge with sails; a man has +proposed it to me." + +It was, in fact, the man who had spoken to Fix during the night, and +whose offer he had refused. + +Mr. Fogg did not immediately reply, but Fix pointed out the man, and +Fogg went up and spoke to him. Shortly after they entered a hut built +just beyond the fort. Here Mr. Fogg was shown a very curious +vehicle--a sort of sledge, with room for five or six people. A high +mast was firmly supported by wire rigging, and carried a large sail; +it was also furnished with a rudder. In fact it was a sledge rigged +like a cutter. During the winter, on the frozen plains, the trains +cannot run, and these sledges make rapid passages from station to +station, and when running before the wind they equal, if they do not +exceed, the speed of the train. + +The arrangement was soon made. The strong west wind was in their +favour. The snow was hard, and Mr. Mudge, the owner, was confident of +being able to reach Omaha in a few hours. Thence were plenty of trains +to Chicago and New York. It was just possible to recover the lost +time, and they did not hesitate to make the attempt. + +Mr. Fogg did not wish to expose Aouda to the cold, and suggested that +she should remain at the station with Passe-partout, who would escort +her to England under more favourable circumstances; but she refused to +leave Mr. Fogg, greatly to the delight of Passe-partout, who would not +leave his master alone with Fix. + +The detective's thoughts would be difficult to guess. Was his +conviction shaken by Fogg's return, or did he still regard him as a +scoundrel who hoped to be safe in England on his return? Perhaps Fix's +opinion concerning Fogg had altered; but he would do his duty, +nevertheless; and he would do his duty and hasten his return to +England as much as possible. + +At eight o'clock the sledge was ready. The passengers took their +places, the sails were hoisted, and the vehicle sped over the snow at +forty miles an hour. The distance between Fort Kearney and Omaha, as +the crow flies, is two hundred miles at most. If the wind held they +could reach Omaha by one o'clock, if no accident happened. + +What a journey it was! The travellers huddled close together, unable +to speak in consequence of the intense cold. The sledge glided over +the snow like a boat on a lake, and when the wind rose it was almost +lifted off the ground. Mudge steered in a straight line, and +counteracted the occasional lurches of the vessel. They hoisted all +sail, and certainly could not be going less than forty miles an hour. + +"If nothing carries away," said Mudge, "we shall get there in time." + +Mr. Mudge had an interest in accomplishing the journey, for Mr. Fogg, +as usual, had promised him a handsome reward. + +The prairie was as flat as possible, and Mudge steered perfectly +straight, taking the chord of the arc described by the railroad, which +follows the right bank of the Platte River. Mudge was not afraid of +being stopped by the stream, for it was frozen over. So the way was +free from all obstacles, and there were but two things to fear--an +accident or a change of wind. But the breeze blew steadily in the same +direction, and even increased in force. The wire lashing hummed like +the chords of a musical instrument, and the sledge sped along +accompanied by a plaintive harmony of peculiar intensity. + +"Those wires give us the fifth and the octave," said Mr. Fogg. + +These were the only words he spoke throughout the passage. Mrs. Aouda +was well wrapped up in furs. Passe-partout's face was as red as the +setting sun, and, with his usual confidence, began to hope again. +Instead of reaching New York in the morning they would get there in +the evening, perhaps before the departure of the steamer for +Liverpool. Passe-partout had a great desire to clasp Fix by the hand, +for he did not forget that it was the detective who had procured the +sledge, the only means of reaching Omaha in good time; but some +presentiment induced him to remain quiet. However, Passe-partout would +never forget Mr. Fogg's devotion in rescuing him from the Indians. + +The sledge still flew along. The plain and the streams were covered +with the mantle of snow. A great uninhabited island appeared to be +enclosed between the Union and Pacific Railroad and the branch-line +which unites Kearney with St. Joseph. Not a house was in sight. They +occasionally passed some gaunt tree, and sometimes flocks of wild +birds rose about them, or a band of starving wolves pursued the +sledge. On these occasions Passe-partout, revolver in hand, was ready +to fire on those which came too near. Had an accident happened, the +wolves would have made short work of the travellers; but the sledge +held on its course, and soon left the howling brutes behind. + +At midday Mudge thought they were crossing the Platte River. He said +nothing, but he was sure that Omaha was only twenty miles farther on. +And in fact in less than an hour their skilful steersman left the helm +and hauled down his sails, while the sledge ran on with its acquired +impetus. At length it stopped, and Mudge, pointing to a cluster of +snow-covered houses, said, "Here we are!" + +They had arrived at the desired station, which was in constant +communication with the Eastern States. Passe-partout and Fix jumped +down and stretched their stiffened limbs. They then assisted Mr. Fogg +and Mrs. Aouda to alight. The former paid Mudge handsomely. +Passe-partout shook his hands warmly, and then the whole party rushed +towards the railway-station. + +A train was ready to start, and they had only just time to jump in; +though they had seen nothing of Omaha, they did not regret it, as they +were not travelling for pleasure. + +The train rushed across the State of Iowa, past Conneil Bluffs, Des +Morines, and Iowa city. During the night they crossed the Mississippi +at Davenport and entered Illinois. Next day, the 10th, at four p.m., +they reached Chicago, which had risen from its ashes, and, more +proudly than ever, was seated on the borders of the beautiful Lake of +Michigan. + +They were still nine hundred miles from New York, but there were +plenty of trains. Mr. Fogg passed at once from one train to another, +which started at full-speed as if it knew he had no time to lose. It +crossed Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey like lightning, +through towns with antique names containing streets and tramways, but +as yet no houses. At length the Hudson Plain appeared, and at a +quarter-past eleven p.m., on the 11th, the train stopped in the +station on the right bank of the river, before the very pier from +which the Cunard, otherwise known as the British and North American, +Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's steamers start. + +The _China_ had left for Liverpool three-quarters of an hour +previously. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXII. + +In which Phileas Fogg struggles against Ill-luck. + + + +The _China_ seemed to have carried off Mr. Fogg's last hope, for no +other steamers of any other line would be of use. The _Pereire_, of +the French Transatlantic Company, did not leave till the 14th, while +the boats of the Hamburg American Company also went to Havre, and not +direct to Liverpool or London; and this extra passage from Havre to +Southampton would upset his calculations. + +The Inman steamer _City of Paris_ would not start till next day--that +would be too late. Nor would the White Star Line serve his purpose; +all of which Mr. Fogg learnt from "Bradshaw." Passe-partout was +completely upset; it was maddening to lose the steamer by +three-quarters of an hour, and it was his fault, too, for putting +obstacles in his master's way; and when he looked back at the +incidents of the journey, the sums expended on his account, the +enormous wager, and tremendous charges of the now useless trip, he was +overwhelmed. Mr. Fogg, however, did not reproach him, but as he +quitted the pier, said: "We will see to-morrow what is best to be +done. Come along." + +The party crossed the river, and drove to the St. Nicholas Hotel, in +Broadway, where they engaged rooms; but Fogg was the only one who +slept. Next day was the 12th of December. From that day, at seven in +the morning, to the 21st, at a quarter to nine in the evening, was a +period of nine days, thirteen hours, and forty-five minutes; so if +Phileas Fogg had sailed in the _China_, he would have reached London +in time to win his wager. + +Mr. Fogg left the hotel by himself, telling the others to wait his +return, but to be ready to leave at a moment's notice. He went down to +the Hudson River, to see if there were any vessels about to start. +Several were getting ready to go to sea, but the majority of them were +sailing ships, which of course did not suit Mr. Fogg. He appeared to +have lost his last hope, when he perceived a small screw-steamer +moored off the battery; the funnel was pouring forth black smoke, and +everything looked like a speedy departure. Mr. Fogg hailed a boat, and +soon found himself on board the _Henrietta_, which was an iron +steamer. The captain was on board, and approached Mr. Fogg to answer +his inquiries. This captain was a man about fifty, a regular sea-wolf. + +"Are you the captain?" asked Mr. Fogg. + +"I am." + +"I am Phileas Fogg, of London." + +"And I am Andrew Speedy, of Cardiff." + +"You are about to sail, I suppose?" + +"In an hour." + +"Where are you bound?" + +"For Bordeaux." + +"And your cargo?" + +"I am only in ballast." + +"Have you any passengers?" + +"I never take passengers; they are always in the way, and always +talking." + +"Does your ship steam well?" + +"Between eleven and twelve knots. The _Henrietta_ is well known." + +"Would you like to take me and my three friends to Liverpool?" + +"To Liverpool! Why not China at once?" + +"I said Liverpool." + +"No." + +"No?" + +"No, I tell you. I am bound for Bordeaux, and to Bordeaux I shall go." + +"Will money have any effect?" + +"Not the least." + +The captain spoke in a tone which did not admit of argument. + +"But the owners of the _Henrietta_?" began Fogg. + +"I am the owner. The vessel belongs to me." + +"I will hire it from you." + +"No." + +"I will buy it, then." + +"No." + +Mr. Fogg did not betray the slightest disappointment, notwithstanding +the gravity of the situation. Things were not at New York as at Hong +Kong, nor was the captain of the _Henrietta_ like the pilot of the +_Tankadere_. Hitherto money had smoothed all obstacles. Now it failed. + +Nevertheless, some means of crossing the Atlantic must be found, and +Phileas Fogg, apparently, had an idea, for he said to the captain: + +"Will you take me to Bordeaux, then?" + +"Not if you gave me two hundred dollars." + +"I will give you two thousand dollars." + +"What, for each passenger?" + +"Yes." + +"And there are four of you?" + +"Yes." + +This reply caused Captain Speedy to scratch his head. There were eight +thousand dollars to be gained, by simply going his own route; and such +a sum might well overcome his antipathy to passengers. Besides, +passengers at two thousand dollars apiece become valuable merchandise. + +"I start at nine o'clock," said Captain Speedy quietly; "and if you +and your party are ready, why, there you are." + +"We shall be on board at nine," replied Mr. Fogg, not less quietly. + +It was then half-past eight. To land again, drive up to the hotel, and +bring off his party to the _Henrietta_, did not take Mr. Fogg very +long. He even offered a passage to the inseparable Fix. All this was +done by Mr. Fogg as coolly as possible. + +They were all on board by the time the _Henrietta_ was ready to start. + +When Passe-partout heard what the voyage was going to cost, he uttered +a prolonged "Oh!" which descended through all the notes of the gamut. + +As for Fix, he concluded at once that the Bank of England would not +recover much of the money, for by the time they reached England, if +Mr. Fogg did not throw away any more money, at least seven thousand +pounds would have been spent. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXIII. + +In which Phileas Fogg rises to the Occasion. + + + +An hour later the _Henrietta_ passed the light-ship at the mouth of +the Hudson, rounded Sandy Hook, and skirting Fire Island and Long +Island, steamed rapidly eastward. + +At noon next day Phileas Fogg mounted the bridge, to ascertain the +ship's position, for Captain Speedy was safely locked up in his cabin, +where he was using some very strong, but, under the circumstances, +excusable language. + +The fact was that Mr. Fogg wished to go to Liverpool, and the captain +did not; and had made such good use of the time he had been on board, +and of his money, that he had won the whole crew, who were not on the +best terms with the captain, over to his side. And this is why Phileas +Fogg was in command, why the captain was shut up in his cabin, and why +the ship was heading for Liverpool. By the way Mr. Fogg managed the +vessel, it was evident he had been a sailor. + +How the adventure ended will be seen later on. Aouda was anxious, but +said nothing. Fix had been completely upset from the first; but +Passe-partout thought the manoeuvre simply splendid. The captain had +said that the _Henrietta_ could make between eleven and twelve knots, +and he had not exaggerated. + +If, then--for there were still ifs--if the sea did not get too rough, +nor the wind shift to the east, nor any accident happen to the +machinery, it was possible for the _Henrietta_ to cross the Atlantic +in nine days. But it was not improbable that, when he reached +Liverpool, Mr. Fogg would have to answer some awkward questions about +the _Henrietta_, as well as about the bank business. + +For the first few days everything went well, and the _Henrietta_ +steamed and sailed like a transatlantic liner. + +Passe-partout was charmed. This last exploit of his master delighted +him above everything; he was the life and soul of the crew, and his +good spirits were infectious. He had forgotten the past vexation, and +only looked forward to the future. He kept his eye warily upon Fix, +but scarcely spoke, for the old intimacy no longer existed between +them. + +It must be confessed that Fix did not understand what was going on. +The seizure of the _Henrietta_, the bribery of the crew, and Fogg's +seamanlike qualities perfectly astounded him; he did not know what to +think; for a gentleman who had begun by stealing fifty-five thousand +pounds might end by stealing a vessel, and Fix not unnaturally came to +the conclusion that the _Henrietta_ would not reach Liverpool at all, +but proceed to some port where Mr. Fogg, turned pirate, would be in +safety. The detective was sorry he had gone into the business. + +All this time Captain Speedy continued to grumble and swear in his +cabin, and Passe-partout, who took him his meals, was obliged to be +very circumspect. Mr. Fogg did not seem to care whether there was a +captain on board or not. + +On the 13th they passed the Banks of Newfoundland. This was a +dangerous part of the coast, particularly in winter, when fogs and +gales are frequent. On this occasion the barometer had been falling +all the preceding day, and during the night the cold became more +intense, and the wind chopped to the south-east. + +This was unfortunate. Mr. Fogg furled his sails and put on full-steam; +nevertheless the speed fell off, as the vessel pitched heavily. The +wind rose, and the position of the _Henrietta_ became precarious. + +Passe-partout's face darkened as the sky, and for two days he was in +mortal terror. But Mr. Fogg was a bold sailor, and kept the ship head +to sea without even reducing the steam. The _Henrietta_ rushed through +the waves and deluged her decks. Sometimes the screw was clear out of +the water, but still they kept on. + +Although the wind did not increase to a tempest, it held to the +south-east, so the sails were rendered useless, and a great aid to the +screw was thus lost. + +The 16th of December was the seventy-fifth day since Fogg's departure +from London, and half the voyage across the Atlantic had been +accomplished, and the worst was over. In the summer, success would +have been assured, but in winter the weather had them at its mercy. +Passe-partout said nothing, but consoled himself with the reflection +that the steam would not fail them, and he hoped on. + +One day the engineer came on deck and spoke anxiously to Mr. Fogg. +This consultation made Passe-partout very uneasy; he would have given +his ears to have heard what they were saying; he managed to catch a +few words, and heard his master say, "Are you sure?" + +"Quite certain," replied the engineer; "you must not forget that we +have been piling up the fire ever since we left, and though we had +sufficient coal to go under easy steam to Bordeaux, we had not enough +to carry us to Liverpool at full pressure." + +"I will think about it," said Mr. Fogg; and then Passe-partout +understood it all. + +The coal was failing! + +"If my master can get over this," he thought, "he will be a clever +fellow." + +He was so agitated he could not help imparting his knowledge to Fix, +who replied, "Then you really think we are going to Liverpool?" + +"Of course we are." + +"You idiot!" replied the detective, shrugging his shoulders, as he +turned away. + +Passe-partout would have revenged himself for this insult if he had +not reflected that the unlucky Fix was very probably disappointed and +humiliated at having followed a false scent all the way round the +world. + +But what would Phileas Fogg do now? No one could say; but he himself +appeared as cool as ever, and to have decided, for he told the +engineer, the same evening, to keep the full-steam on till the coal +was exhausted. + +So the _Henrietta_ proceeded at full-steam until, on the 18th, the +coals began to give out, as the engineer had foretold. + +"Keep up the steam as much as possible," said Mr. Fogg. + +About midday, Phileas Fogg, having taken the ship's reckoning, told +Passe-partout to release Captain Speedy. The Frenchman would rather +have unloosed a tiger, and said, as he went aft, "What an awful rage +he will be in." + +A few minutes later a bomb appeared on deck. This bomb was Captain +Speedy, and looked ready to burst. + +"Where are we?" was his first remark, as soon as his anger would allow +him to speak. "Where are we?" he repeated, looking round. + +"Seven hundred and seventy miles from Liverpool," replied Mr. Fogg +calmly. + +"Pirate!" roared Andrew Speedy. + +"I requested your attendance, sir." + +"You robber!" + +"Sir," said Mr. Fogg, "I wish to ask you to sell me your vessel." + +"Never, by all the devils!" + +"Then I shall be obliged to burn her." + +"Burn my ship?" + +"Yes, at least the upper works, as we are in want of fuel." + +"Burn my ship!" roared Captain Speedy; "why she is worth fifty +thousand dollars!" + +"Here are sixty thousand dollars," replied Fogg, as he offered him a +roll of bank-notes. + +This had a great effect upon Captain Speedy. In an instant he forgot +his anger, his incarceration, and all his complaints. The ship was +twenty years old, he would make his fortune. The bomb would not burst +after all. Mr. Fogg had extinguished the fuze. + +"I shall still keep the hulk, I suppose?" + +"The hulk and the engine are yours. Is it a bargain?" + +"Yes." And Speedy, seizing the proffered money, put it (speedily) into +his pocket. + +All this time Passe-partout was as pale as a ghost, while Fix looked +as if he were going into a fit. Twenty thousand pounds expended, and +the captain still possessed the hull and the machinery, the most +valuable portion of the vessel! It was true that fifty-five thousand +pounds had been stolen. + +When Speedy had pocketed the money, Mr. Fogg said to him: "Don't be +astonished at all this; you must know that if I do not reach London on +the 21st of December, I shall lose twenty thousand pounds. Now you see +I lost the steamer at New York--you refused to take me to Liverpool--" + +"And I was right," replied the captain, "for I have made twenty +thousand dollars by the refusal." Then he added, more seriously: + +"Do you know one thing, Captain--" + +"Fogg," said that worthy. + +"Captain Fogg; you've got a spice of the Yankee in you!" And having +paid him this compliment, as he fancied, he was going below, when Fogg +said, "Now the vessel is mine!" + +"Certainly; from truck to keelson--the wood I mean!" + +"All right. Please have all the woodwork cut away and burnt." + +It was absolutely necessary to burn the dry wood for fuel; and that +day the poop, cabin fittings, bunks, and the spar-deck were consumed. + +Next day, the 19th December, they burned the masts and spars. The crew +worked with a will, and Passe-partout sawed away as lustily as any ten +men. Next day the upper works disappeared, and the _Henrietta_ was +then only a hulk. But on that day they sighted the Fastnet Light and +the Irish coast. By ten o'clock they passed Queenstown. Phileas Fogg +had now only twenty-four hours left to reach Liverpool, even if he +kept up full-speed; and the steam was likely to give out apparently. + +"Sir," said Speedy, who was now almost as much interested as the rest, +"I should really suggest your giving up the game. Everything is +against you. We are only just passing Queenstown." + +"Ah," exclaimed Fogg, "is that Queenstown where the lights are?" + +"Yes." + +"Cannot we enter the harbour?" + +"Not before three o'clock; the tide will not serve." + +"Let us wait then," said Fogg calmly, without betraying any emotion +that, by a last effort, he was about to conquer his ill-luck. + +Queenstown is the port at which the American mails are landed, which +are then forwarded to Dublin by an express train, and from thence to +Liverpool[A] by fast steamers, thus gaining twelve hours upon the +fastest vessels. + + + +[Footnote A: Holyhead.--_Trans_.] + + + +Mr. Fogg calculated upon gaining this space of time, and so, instead +of reaching Liverpool next evening, he would be there at noon, and be +able to reach London by a quarter to nine p.m. + +About one a.m. the _Henrietta_ entered Queenstown, and Mr. Fogg, +exchanging a clasp of the hand with Captain Speedy, left that +personage upon the vessel, now a mere hulk. + +All the party went ashore at once. Fix was much inclined to arrest +Fogg on the spot, but refrained. Why? Did he think he was mistaken +after all? At any rate he would not abandon Mr. Fogg. They all got +into the train at half-past one a.m., and were in Dublin at daybreak, +and immediately embarked on the mail-steamer which, disdaining to ride +over the waves, cut through them. + +At twenty minutes to twelve (noon) Mr. Fogg disembarked at +Liverpool.[B] He was within six hours' run from London now. + + + +[Footnote B: Holyhead.--_Trans_.] + + + +But at that moment Fix approached him, and putting his hand upon Mr. +Fogg's shoulder, said: + +"Are you really Phileas Fogg?" + +"Yes," was the reply. + +"Then I arrest you in the Queen's name!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXIV. + +In which Passe-partout uses Strong Language. + + + +Phileas Fogg was in prison. He had been shut up in the Custom House, +pending his removal to London. + +Passe-partout would have attacked Fix when he arrested his master, had +not some policemen prevented him. Mrs. Aouda was quite upset by the +occurrence, which was quite unintelligible to her. Passe-partout +explained to her how it had come to pass, and the young lady, who was +of course powerless, wept bitterly. + +Fix had merely done his duty, whether Mr. Fogg was guilty or not +guilty. The judge would decide that. + +It then occurred to Passe-partout that this was all his fault. Why had +he not communicated the facts to Mr. Fogg? He should have told him who +Fix was and his errand. Thus forewarned he could have given proofs of +his innocence, and at any rate the detective would not in that case +have travelled at Mr. Fogg's expense, and arrested him the moment he +landed. As he thought of all this Passe-partout was ready to shoot +himself. Neither he nor Aouda left the Custom House, notwithstanding +the cold weather. They were anxious to see Mr. Fogg once more. + +As for that gentleman he was completely ruined, and at the very moment +he had succeeded in his attempt. The arrest was fatal. He had just +eight hours and forty-five minutes to reach the Reform Club, and six +hours would have sufficed to get to London. + +Could anyone have seen Mr. Fogg they would have found him seated +calmly on a form in the Custom House, as cool as ever. Resigned is +scarcely the word to apply to him, but to all appearance he was as +unmoved as ever. If he was raging within he did not betray any +symptoms of anger. Was it possible that he still hoped to succeed? + +At any rate he had carefully placed his watch on the table before him, +and was watching it intently. Not a word escaped him, but his eyes +wore a curious fixed expression. Honest or not, he was caught and +ruined. + +Was he thinking of escape, did he think of looking for an outlet? It +was not unlikely, for every now and then he got up and walked round +the room. But the door and window were both firmly closed and barred. +He sat down, and drawing his journal from his pocket, read: + + + +"21st December, Saturday, Liverpool." + + + +To this he added-- + + + +"Eightieth day, 11.40 a.m." + + + +Then he waited. The clock of the Custom House struck one. Mr. Fogg +perceived that his watch was two minutes fast. + +Two o'clock came! Admitting that he could at that moment get into an +express train, he might yet arrive in London and reach the Reform Club +in time. + +At 2.33 he heard a noise outside of opening doors. He could +distinguish Passe-partout and Fix's voices. Mr. Fogg's eyes glittered. +The door was flung open and Mrs. Aouda, Fix, and Passe-partout rushed +in. + +"Ah sir!" exclaimed Fix, hurrying up to the prisoner, "a thousand +pardons--an unfortunate resemblance! The true thief is arrested. You +are free, free!" + +Phileas Fogg was free. He walked quietly up to the detective, looked +him steadily in the face for a second, and with a movement of his arm +knocked him down! + +"Well hit!" exclaimed Passe-partout. "By jingo, that's a proper +application of the art of self-defence!" + +Fix lay flat on the ground, and did not say a word. He had only +received his deserts. Mr. Fogg, Aouda, and Passe-partout immediately +quitted the Custom House, jumped into a cab, and drove to the +railway-station. + +Mr. Fogg inquired when there would be a train for London. It was 2.40; +the train had left five-and-thirty minutes before. Mr. Fogg ordered a +"special." + +There were plenty of engines capable of running at a high speed, but +the train could not be got in readiness before three. At that hour Mr. +Fogg having said a few words to the engine-driver respecting a certain +"tip," was rushing up to London, accompanied by Mrs. Aouda and his +faithful Passe-partout. + +The distance was accomplished in five hours and a half, a very easy +thing when the line is clear, but there were some unavoidable delays, +and when the special arrived in London the clock pointed to ten +minutes to nine. + +Thus Phileas Fogg, having accomplished his journey round the world, +had returned five minutes too late! + +He had lost his wager. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXV. + +Passe-partout obeys Orders quickly. + + + +The inhabitants of Saville Row would have been astonished, next day, +if they had been told that Mr. Fogg had returned, for the doors and +windows of his house were still shut, and there was no change visible +exteriorly. + +When he left the railway-station, Mr. Fogg had told Passe-partout to +purchase some provisions, and then he quietly went home. + +Mr. Fogg preserved his usual impassibility under the trying +circumstances; he was ruined, and all through the fault of that +blundering detective. After having achieved his long journey, overcome +a thousand obstacles, braved a thousand dangers, and even found time +to do some good on the way, to fail at the very moment that success +was certain was indeed terrible. A very small portion remained to him +of the large sum he had taken away with him; his whole fortune was +comprised in the twenty thousand pounds deposited at Baring's, and +that sum he owed to his colleagues at the club. After having paid all +expenses, even had he won he would have been none the richer, and it +is not likely he wished to be richer, for he was one of those men who +bet for reputation; but this wager would ruin his altogether. However, +he had fully made up his mind what to do. + +A room had been set aside for Aouda, who felt Mr. Fogg's ruin very +deeply. From certain words she had heard she understood he was +meditating some serious measures. Knowing that Englishmen of an +eccentric turn of mind sometimes commit suicide, Passe-partout kept +watch on his master unobserved; but the first thing the lad did was to +extinguish the gas in his room, which had been burning for eighty +days. In the letter-box he had found the gas company's bill, and +thought it was quite time to put a stop to such an expense. + +The night passed. Mr. Fogg went to bed, but it is doubtful whether he +slept. Aouda was quite unable to rest, and Passe-partout kept watch +like a dog at his master's door. + +Next day, Mr. Fogg told him, shortly, to attend to Mrs. Aouda's +breakfast, while he would have a cup of tea and a chop. He excused +himself from joining Aouda at meals on the plea of putting his affairs +in order, and it was not till evening that he asked for an interview +with the young lady. + +Passe-partout having received his orders had only to obey them, but he +found it impossible to leave his master's room. His heart was full, +his conscience was troubled with remorse, for he could not help +blaming himself for the disaster. If he had only warned his master +about Fix, Mr. Fogg would not have brought the detective to Liverpool, +and then-- + +Passe-partout could hold out no longer. + +"Oh, Mr. Fogg!" he exclaimed, "do you not curse me? It is all my +fault--" + +"I blame no one," replied Phileas Fogg, in his usual calm tone. "Go!" + +Passe-partout quitted the room and sought Mrs. Aouda, to whom he +delivered his message. + +"Madam," he added, "I am powerless. I have no influence over my +master's mind; perhaps you may have." + +"What influence can I have?" she replied; "Mr. Fogg will submit to no +one. Has he really ever understood how grateful I am to him? Has he +ever read my heart? He must not be left alone an instant. You say he +is going to see me this evening?" + +"Yes, madam. No doubt to make arrangements for your sojourn in +England." + +"Let us wait, then," replied the young lady, becoming suddenly +thoughtful. + +So, through all that Sunday, the house in Saville Row appeared +uninhabited; and for the first time since he had lived in it, Phileas +Fogg did not go to his club as Big Ben was striking half-past eleven. + +And why should he go to the Reform Club? His friends did not expect +him. As he had not appeared in time to win the wager, it was not +necessary for him to go to the bank and draw his twenty thousand +pounds. His antagonists had his blank cheque; it only remained for +them to fill it up and present it for payment. + +As Mr. Fogg, then, had no object in going out, he stayed in his room +and arranged his business matters. Passe-partout was continually +running up and down stairs, and thought the day passed very slowly. He +listened at his master's door, and did not think it wrong; he looked +through the keyhole, for every instant he feared some catastrophe. +Sometimes he thought of Fix, but without any animosity. Fix, like +everyone else, had been mistaken, and had only done his duty in +following Mr. Fogg, while he (Passe-partout)-- The thought haunted +him, and he thought himself the most wretched of men. + +He was so unhappy that he could not bear to remain alone, so he +knocked at Mrs. Aouda's sitting-room, and, permitted to enter, sat +down in a corner, without speaking. She, too, was very pensive. + +About half-past seven Mr. Fogg asked permission to go in; he took a +chair and sat close by the fireplace, opposite to the young lady; he +betrayed no emotion--the Fogg who had come back was the same as the +Fogg who had gone away. There was the same calmness, the same +impassibility. + +For five minutes he did not speak, then he said: "Madam, can you +forgive me for having brought you to England?" + +"I, Mr. Fogg!" exclaimed Mrs. Aouda, trying to check the beating of +her heart. + +"Pray allow me to finish," continued Mr. Fogg. "When I asked you to +come to this country I was rich, and had determined to place a portion +of my fortune at your disposal. You would have been free and happy. +Now I am ruined." + +"I know it, Mr. Fogg," she replied; "and I, in my turn, have to ask +your pardon for having followed you, and, who knows, retarded you, and +thus contributed to your ruin." + +"You could not have remained in India," replied Mr. Fogg, "and your +safety was only assured by taking you quite away from those fanatics +who wished to arrest you." + +"So, Mr. Fogg," she replied, "not satisfied with having saved me from +death, you wished to insure my comfort in a foreign country." + +"I did," replied Fogg; "but fate was unpropitious. However, I wish to +place at your disposal the little I have left." + +"But," she exclaimed, "what will become of you, Mr. Fogg?" + +"Of me, madam? I am in want of nothing." + +"But," she continued, "how can you bear to look upon the fate in store +for you?" + +"As I always look at everything," replied Mr. Fogg; "in the best way I +can." + +"At any rate," said Aouda, "your friends will not permit you to want +anything." + +"I have no friends, madam." + +"Your relations, then." + +"I have no relations now." + +"Oh then indeed I pity you, Mr. Fogg. Solitude is a terrible thing. +Not a single person to whom you can confide your sorrow? Though they +say that even grief, shared with another, is more easily supported." + +"So they say, madam." + +"Mr. Fogg," said Aouda, rising and extending her hand to him, "do you +care to possess at the same time a relative and a friend? Will you +take me for your wife?" + +Mr. Fogg had risen also. There was an unusual gleam in his eyes, and +his lips trembled. Aouda looked at him. In this regard of a noble +woman, who had dared everything to save the man to whom she owed her +life, her sincerity, firmness, and sweetness were all apparent. He was +at first astonished, and then completely overcome. For a moment his +eyes closed, as if to avoid her glance, and when he opened them again +he said simply: + +"I love you. By all I hold sacred, I love you dearly; and I am yours +for ever." + +"Ah!" exclaimed Mrs. Aouda, as she pressed her hand upon her bosom. + +Passe-partout was immediately summoned. Mr. Fogg was still holding the +lady's hand. Passe-partout understood it all, and his face became +radiant. + +Mr. Fogg asked him if it were too late to notify the Rev. Samuel +Wilson, of Marylebone Church, about the wedding. + +Passe-partout smiled, as he replied, "It is never too late." It was +then five minutes past eight. + +"Will the wedding take place to-morrow, Monday?" he said + +"Shall we say to-morrow?" asked Mr. Fogg, turning to Aouda. + +"If you please," she replied, blushing. + +Passe-partout hurried away as fast as he could go. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXVI. + +In which Phileas Fogg's Name is once again at a Premium on the +Exchange. + + + +It is now time to say something of the change which English opinion +underwent when the true bank robber, one James Strand, was arrested in +Edinburgh on the 17th of December. + +Three days before Fogg was a criminal, followed by the police; now he +was a gentleman, who had only been taking an eccentric journey round +the world. There was great discussion in the papers, and those who had +laid wagers for or against Mr. Fogg rose once more as if by magic. The +"Fogg Bonds" were once more negotiated, and Phileas Fogg's name was at +a premium. + +The members of the Reform Club passed those three days in great +discomfort. Would Phileas Fogg, whom they had forgotten, return? Where +was he on that 17th of December, which was the seventy-sixth day after +his departure, and they had had no news of him? Had he given in, and +renounced the struggle, or was he continuing the journey at a more +reasonable rate, and would he appear on Saturday, the 21st of +December, at a quarter to nine in the evening, as agreed upon? + +We cannot depict the intense agitation which moved all classes of +society during those three days. Telegrams were sent to America and +Asia for news of Mr. Fogg, and people were sent, morning and night, to +Saville Row; but there was no news. Even the police did not know what +had become of Fix. But all these things did not prevent bets being +made, even to a greater amount than formerly. Bonds were quoted no +longer at a hundred per cent. discount, but went up to ten and five; +and even old Lord Albemarle was betting at evens. + +So that Saturday night a great crowd was assembled in Pall Mall and +the Reform Club. Traffic was impeded; disputes, arguments, and bets +were raging in every direction. The police had the greatest difficulty +to keep back the crowd, and as the hour when Mr. Fogg was due +approached, the excitement rose to fever-heat. + +That evening that gentleman's five friends had assembled in the +drawing-room of the club. There were the two bankers, John Sullivan +and Samuel Fallentin; Andrew Stuart, the engineer; Gauthier Ralph, the +director of the Bank of England; and Thomas Flanagan, the brewer; all +awaiting Mr. Fogg's return with the greatest anxiety. + +At twenty minutes past eight Stuart rose and said: "Gentlemen, in +twenty-five minutes the time agreed upon will have expired." + +"At what time was the last train due from Liverpool?" asked Flanagan. + +"At 7.23," replied Ralph; "and the next does not arrive till past +midnight." + +"Well, then, gentlemen," replied Stuart, "if Mr. Fogg had arrived by +the 7.23, he would have been here before now, so we may look upon the +bet as won." + +"Do not be in too great a hurry," replied Fallentin. "You know that +our friend is very eccentric, and his punctuality is proverbial. I, +for one, shall be astonished if he does not turn up at the last +minute." + +"For my part," said Stuart, who was very nervous, "if I should see him +I could not believe it was he." + +"In fact," replied Flanagan, "Mr. Fogg's project was insane. No matter +how punctual he may be, he cannot prevent some delay; and a day or two +would throw all his arrangements out of gear." + +"And you will remark besides," said Sullivan, "that we have not +received any news from him all the time he has been away, although +there are telegraphs all along his route." + +"He has lost, gentlemen," said Stuart, "a hundred times over. The only +ship he could have come by and been in time was the _China_, and she +arrived yesterday. Here is a list of the passengers, and Phileas +Fogg's name is not included. On the most favourable computation our +friend can scarcely have reached America. I do not expect him for the +next twenty days, and my Lord Albemarle will lose his five thousand +pounds." + +"Then we have nothing to do," replied Ralph, "but to present his +cheque at Baring's to-morrow." + +The hands of the clock were then pointing to twenty minutes to nine. + +"Five minutes more," said Stuart. + +The five friends looked at each other. One could almost hear their +hearts beating, for it must be confessed that even for such seasoned +players the stakes were pretty high, but they did not wish their +anxiety to be remarked, and on Fallentin's suggestion they sat down to +whist. + +"I would not give up my four thousand pounds," said Stuart as he sat +down, "if anyone were to offer me three thousand nine hundred and +ninety-nine." + +The clock pointed to eighteen minutes to nine. + +The players took up their cards, but kept looking at the clock. No +matter how safe they felt, the minutes had never appeared so long. + +"8.43," said Flanagan, as he cut the pack Ralph passed to him. + +At that moment the silence was profound, but the cries of the crowd +outside soon rose again. The clock beat out the seconds with +mathematical regularity, and each of the players checked every tick of +the pendulum. + +"8.44," said Sullivan, in a voice which betrayed his nervousness. + +One minute more and they would have won their bet. They laid down +their cards and counted the seconds. + +At the fortieth second no news; at the fiftieth still nothing. At the +fifty-fifth second a loud roar was heard from the street mingled with +cheers and oaths. + +All the players rose simultaneously. + +At the fifty-seventh second the door of the room was thrust open, and +before the pendulum had marked the minute Phileas Fogg advanced into +the room, followed to the door by an excited crowd who had forced +their way in, and he said in his usual calm tone, + +"Here I am, gentlemen." + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXVII. + +Showing how Phileas Fogg gained only Happiness by his Tour round the +World. + + + +Yes, it was Phileas Fogg in person. + +Our readers will recollect that at five minutes after eight that +evening--about twenty-five hours after our travellers' arrival in +London--Passe-partout had been requested to arrange about a certain +marriage with the Rev. Samuel Wilson. Passe-partout had gone on his +mission rejoicing, but the clergyman was not at home. He naturally +waited, but he was kept at least twenty minutes. + +It was 8.35 when he left the clergyman's house, but what a state he +was in! His hair was disordered, he ran home without his hat, +overturning the passers-by as he went rushing along the pathway. + +In three minutes he was back in Saville Row, and he rushed +breathlessly into Mr. Fogg's room. + +He was unable to speak. + +"What is the matter?" asked Mr. Fogg. + +"Oh, sir--the marriage--impossible." + +"Impossible?" + +"Impossible for to-morrow." + +"Why so?" + +"Because to-morrow is--Sunday." + +"It is Monday," said Mr. Fogg. + +"No, to-day is Saturday." + +"Saturday? impossible." + +"It is, it is!" exclaimed Passe-partout. "You have made a mistake of +one day. We arrived twenty-four hours before our time, but we have +only ten minutes left now." + +As he spoke Passe-partout fairly dragged his master out of his chair. + +Phileas Fogg, thus seized, had no choice. He rushed downstairs, jumped +into a cab, promised the driver a hundred pounds, ran over two dogs, +came into collision with five cabs, and reached the Reform Club at +8.45. + +So Phileas Fogg had accomplished the journey round the world in eighty +days, and had won his bet of twenty thousand pounds. + +Now how was it that such a methodical man could have made a mistake of +a day? How could he imagine that he had got back on Saturday the 21st +when it was really Friday the 20th, seventy-nine days after his +departure? + +The reason is very simple. + +Phileas Fogg had unconsciously gained a day, simply because he +journeyed always eastward, whereas, had he journeyed westward, he +would have lost a day. + +In fact, travelling towards the east, he had gone towards the south, +and consequently the days got shorter as many times four minutes as he +crossed degrees in that direction. There are three hundred and sixty +degrees, and these multiplied by four minutes give exactly twenty-four +hours; that is the day Fogg gained. In other words, while Phileas +Fogg, going east, saw the sun pass the meridian eighty times, his +friends in London only saw it seventy-nine times, and that is why on +that day, which was Saturday, and not Sunday, as Mr. Fogg thought, +they expected him at the Reform Club. + +Passe-partout's wonderful watch, which had always kept London time, +would have confirmed this had it only marked the days as well as the +hours and minutes. + +So Phileas Fogg had won his twenty thousand pounds, but as he had +expended nearly nineteen thousand pounds, his gain was small. However, +he had not bet for money. He actually divided the thousand pounds that +remained between honest Passe-partout and the unfortunate Fix, against +whom he bore no malice. But from Passe-partout's share he deducted, on +principle, the cost of the gas which had been burning for one thousand +nine hundred and twenty hours. That same evening Mr. Fogg, as +tranquilly as ever, said to Aouda, "Is the prospect of our marriage +still agreeable to you?" + +"Mr. Fogg," she replied, "it is I who ought to have asked you that +question. You were ruined then, but now you are rich." + +"Excuse me, madam," he replied, "this fortune belongs to you. If you +had not thought of the wedding, my servant would never have gone to +see Mr. Wilson, and I should not have found out my mistake." + +"Dear Mr. Fogg," said the young lady. + +"My dearest Aouda," replied Phileas Fogg. + +The marriage took place forty-eight hours afterwards, and +Passe-partout, beaming and resplendent, gave the bride away. Had he +not saved her life, and was he not entitled to the honour? + +On the wedding morning Passe-partout knocked at his master's door. + +"What is the matter, Passe-partout?" + +"Well, sir, I have just this moment found out that we might have gone +round the world in seventy-eight days only." + +"No doubt," replied Mr. Fogg, "if we had not crossed India; but if I +had not crossed India we should not have rescued Mrs. Aouda, and she +would never have been my wife." + +And Mr. Fogg shut the door quietly. + +So Phileas Fogg won his wager, and made the tour of the world in +eighty days. To do this he had made use of every means of +transport--steamers, railways, carriages, yacht, trading-ship, +sledges, and elephants. That eccentric gentleman had displayed all +through his most marvellous qualities of coolness and exactness; and +after all what had he really gained? What had he brought back? + +"Nothing," do you say? Well, perhaps so, if a charming woman is +nothing, who, however extraordinary it may appear, made him the +happiest of men. + +And in truth, reader, would not you go round the world for less than +that? + + + +THE END. + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Round the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS *** + +***** This file should be named 32972-8.txt or 32972-8.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/9/7/32972/ + +Produced by Alex Kirstukas + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Round the World in Eighty Days + +Author: Jules Verne + +Translator: Henry Frith + +Release Date: June 25, 2010 [EBook #32972] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS *** + + + + +Produced by Alex Kirstukas + + + + +Transcriber's Note: _Round the World in Eighty Days_ (London: +Routledge, 1878) was the third English translation of Jules Verne's +_Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours_ to be published. It has +since been greatly overshadowed by the 1873 version by George +Makepeace Towle (available on Project Gutenberg as EText-No. 103). +This text version of Frith's translation was transcribed from a Google +Books scan of an 1879 edition published in London by George Routledge +and Sons. The text and images used were generously made available by +the Internet Archive. All of Frith's deviations from Verne's text +have been retained, including such unusual spellings as "Passe-partout" +for "Passepartout" and "Maudiboy" for "Mandiboy," but obvious +typographical errors have been corrected. + + + + + +ROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS + +By Jules Verne + +Translated by Henry Frith + + + +CHAPTER I. + +In which Phileas Fogg and Passe-partout accept, relatively, the +positions of Master and Servant. + + + +In the year of grace One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, the +house in which Sheridan died in 1816--viz. No. 7, Saville Row, +Burlington Gardens--was occupied by Phileas Fogg, Esq., one of the +most eccentric members of the Reform Club, though it always appeared +as if he were very anxious to avoid remark. Phileas had succeeded to +the house of one of England's greatest orators, but, unlike his +predecessor, no one knew anything of Fogg, who was impenetrable, +though a brave man and moving in the best society. Some people +declared that he resembled Byron--merely in appearance, for he was +irreproachable in tone--but still a Byron with whiskers and moustache: +an impassible Byron, who might live a thousand years and not get old. + +A thorough Briton was Phileas Fogg, though perhaps not a Londoner. He +was never seen on the Stock Exchange, nor at the Bank of England, nor +at any of the great City houses. No vessel with a cargo consigned to +Phileas Fogg ever entered the port of London. He held no Government +appointment. He had never been entered at any of the Inns of Court. He +had never pleaded at the Chancery Bar, the Queen's Bench, the +Exchequer, or the Ecclesiastical Courts. He was not a merchant, a +manufacturer, a farmer, nor a man of business of any kind. He was not +in the habit of frequenting the Royal Institution or any other of the +learned societies of the metropolis. He was simply a member of the +"Reform," and that was all! + +If anyone ever inquired how it was that he had become a member of the +club, the questioner was informed that he had been put up by the +Barings, with whom he kept his account, which always showed a good +balance, and from which his cheques were regularly and promptly +honoured. + +Was Phileas Fogg a rich man? Unquestionably. But in what manner he had +made his money even the best-informed gossips could not tell, and Mr. +Fogg was the very last person from whom one would seek to obtain +information on the subject. He was never prodigal in expenditure, but +never stingy; and whenever his contribution towards some good or +useful object was required he gave cheerfully, and in many cases +anonymously. + +In short, he was one of the most uncommunicative of men. He talked +little, and his habitual taciturnity added to the mystery surrounding +him. Nevertheless, his life was simple and open enough, but he +regulated all his actions with a mathematical exactness which, to the +imagination of the quidnuncs, was in itself suspicious. + +Had he ever travelled? It was very probable, for no one was better +informed in the science of geography. There was apparently no +out-of-the-way place concerning which he had not some exclusive +information. Occasionally, in a few sentences, he would clear away the +thousand-and-one rumours which circulated in the club concerning some +lost or some nearly-forgotten traveller; he would point out the true +probabilities; and it really appeared as if he were gifted with second +sight, so correctly were his anticipations justified by succeeding +events. He was a man who must have been everywhere--in spirit at +least. + +One thing at any rate was certain, viz. that he had not been absent +from London for many a year. Those with whom he was on a more intimate +footing used to declare that no one had ever seen him anywhere else +but on his way to or from his club. His only amusement was a game of +whist, varied by the perusal of the daily papers. At whist, which was +a game peculiarly fitted to such a taciturn disposition as his, he was +habitually a winner; but his gains always were expended in charitable +objects. Besides, it was evident to everyone that Mr. Fogg played for +the game, not for the sake of winning money. It was a trial of skill +with him, a combat; but a fight unaccompanied by fatigue, and one +entailing no great exertion, and thus suiting him "down to the +ground!" + +No one had ever credited Phileas Fogg with wife or child, which even +the most scrupulously honest people may possess; nor even had he any +near relatives or intimate friends, who are more rare in this world. +He lived alone in his house in Saville Row, and no one called upon +him, or at any rate entered there. One servant sufficed for him. He +took all his meals at his club, but he never shared a table with any +of his acquaintance, nor did he ever invite a stranger to dinner. He +only returned home to sleep at midnight precisely, for he never +occupied any one of the comfortable bedrooms provided by the "Reform" +for its members. Ten hours of the four-and-twenty he passed at home, +partly sleeping, partly dressing or undressing. If he walked, it was +in the entrance-hall with its mosaic pavement, or in the circular +gallery beneath the dome, which was supported by twenty Ionic columns. +Here he would pace with measured step. When he dined or breakfasted, +all the resources of the club were taxed to supply his table with the +daintiest fare; he was waited upon by the gravest black-coated +servants, who stepped softly as they ministered to his wants upon a +special porcelain service and upon the most expensive damask. His wine +was contained in decanters of a now unobtainable mould, while his +sherry was iced to the most excellent point of refrigeration of the +Wenham Lake. + +If existence under such circumstances be a proof of eccentricity, it +must be confessed that something may be said in favour of it. + +The house in Saville Row, without being luxurious, was extremely +comfortable. Besides, in accordance with the habits of the tenant, the +service was reduced to a minimum. But Phileas Fogg exacted the most +rigid punctuality on the part of his sole domestic--something +supernatural in fact. On this very day, the 2nd of October, Fogg had +given James Forster notice to leave, because the fellow had actually +brought up his master's shaving-water at a temperature of eighty-four +instead of eighty-six degrees Fahrenheit; and Phileas was now looking +out for a successor, who was expected between eleven and half-past. + +Phileas Fogg was seated in his arm-chair, his feet close together at +the position of "attention;" his hands were resting on his knees, his +body was drawn up; with head erect he was watching the clock, which, +by a complexity of mechanism, told the hours, minutes, seconds, the +days of the week, and the month and year. As this clock chimed +half-past eleven, Mr. Fogg, according to custom, would leave the house +and walk down to his club. + +Just then a knock was heard at the door of the room, and James +Forster, the outgoing servant, appeared and announced, "The new young +man" for the place. + +A young fellow of about thirty entered and bowed. + +"You are a Frenchman, and your name is John, eh?" inquired Phileas +Fogg. + +"Jean, sir, if you have no objection," replied the newcomer. "Jean +Passe-partout, a surname which clings to me because I have a weakness +for change. I believe I am honest, sir; but to speak plainly, I have +tried a good many things. I have been an itinerant singer; a rider in +a circus, where I used to do the trapeze like Leotard and walk the +tight-rope like Blondin; then I became a professor of gymnastics; and, +finally, in order to make myself useful, I became a fireman in Paris, +and bear on my back to this day the scars of several bad burns. But it +is five years since I left France, and wishing to enjoy a taste of +domestic life I became a valet in England. Just now being out of a +situation, and having heard that you, sir, were the most punctual and +regular gentleman in the United Kingdom, I have come here in the hope +that I shall be able to live a quiet life and forget my name of +Jack-of-all-trades--Passe-partout!" + +"Passe-partout suits me," replied Mr. Fogg. "I have heard a very good +character of you, and you have been well recommended. You are aware of +my conditions of service?" + +"Yes, sir." + +"Very well. What o'clock do you make it?" + +"Twenty-two minutes past eleven," replied the valet, as he consulted +an enormous silver watch. + +"You are too slow," said Mr. Fogg. + +"Excuse me, sir, that is impossible!" + +"You are four minutes too slow. Never mind, it is enough to note the +error. Now from this moment, twenty-nine minutes past eleven o'clock +in the forenoon upon this 2nd of October, 1872, you are in my +service!" + +As he spoke, Phileas Fogg rose from his chair, took up his hat, put it +on his head as an automaton might have done, and left the room without +another word. + +Passe-partout heard the street-door shut; it was his new master who +had gone out. Shortly afterwards he heard it shut again--that was his +predecessor, James Forster, departing in his turn. + +Passe-partout was then left alone in the house in Saville Row. + + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +Passe-partout is convinced that he has attained the object of his +ambition. + + + +"Faith," muttered Passe-partout, who for the moment felt rather in a +flutter; "faith, I have seen creatures at Madame Tussaud's quite as +lively as my new master." + +Madame Tussaud's "creatures" are all of wax, and only want the power +of speech. + +During the short period that Passe-partout had been in Mr. Fogg's +presence, he had carefully scrutinised his future master. He appeared +to be about forty years of age, with a fine face; a tall and well-made +man, whose figure was not too stout. He had light hair and whiskers, a +clear brow, a somewhat pale face, and splendid teeth. He appeared to +possess in a very marked degree that attribute which physiognomists +call "repose in action," a faculty appertaining to those whose motto +is "Deeds, not words." Calm and phlegmatic, with a clear and steady +eye, he was the perfect type of those cool Englishmen whom one meets +so frequently in the United Kingdom, and whom Angelica Kauffmann has +so wonderfully portrayed. Mr. Fogg gave one the idea of being +perfectly balanced, like a perfect chronometer, and as well regulated. +He was, in fact, the personification of exactness, which was evident +in the very expression of his hands and feet; for amongst men, as +amongst the lower animals, the members are expressive of certain +passions. + +Phileas Fogg was one of those mathematical people who, never in a +hurry, and always ready, are economical of their movements. He never +made even one step too many; he always took the shortest cut; he never +wasted a glance, nor permitted himself a superfluous gesture. No one +had ever seen him agitated or moved by any emotion. He was the last +man in the world to hurry himself, but he always arrived in time. He +lived quite alone, and, so to speak, outside the social scale. He knew +that in life there is a great deal of friction; and as friction always +retards progress, he never rubbed against anybody. + +As for Jean, who called himself Passe-partout, he was a Parisian of +the Parisians. He had been for five years in England, and had taken +service in London as a valet-de-chambre, during which period he had in +vain sought for such a master as Mr. Fogg. + +Passe-partout was not one of those Frontii or Mascarilles, who, with +high shoulders and snubbed noses, and plenty of assurance, are nothing +more than impudent dunces; he was a good fellow, with a pleasant face, +somewhat full lips, always ready to eat or to kiss, with one of those +good round heads that one likes to see on the shoulders of one's +friends. He had bright blue eyes, was somewhat stout, but very +muscular, and possessed of great strength. He wore his hair in a +somewhat tumbled fashion. If sculptors of antiquity were aware of +eighteen ways of arranging the hair of Minerva, Passe-partout knew but +one way of doing his, namely, with three strokes of a comb. + +We will not go as far as to predict how the man's nature would accord +with Mr. Fogg's. It was a question whether Passe-partout was the exact +sort of servant to suit such a master. Experience only would show. +After having passed his youth in such a vagabond manner, he looked +forward to some repose. + +Having heard of the proverbial method and coolness of the English +gentleman, he had come to seek his fortune in England; but up to the +present time fate had been adverse. He had tried six situations, but +remained in none. In all of them he had found either a whimsical, an +irregular, or a restless master, which did not suit Passe-partout. His +last master, the young Lord Longsferry, M.P., after passing the +evening in the Haymarket, was carried home on the policemen's +shoulders. Passe-partout, wishing above all things to respect his +master, remonstrated in a respectful manner; but as his expostulations +were so ill received, he took his leave. It was at that time that he +heard Phileas Fogg was in search of a servant, and he presented +himself for the situation. A gentleman whose life was so regular, who +never stayed away from home, who never travelled, who never was absent +even for a day, was the very master for him, so he presented himself +and was engaged, as we have seen. + +Thus it came to pass that at half-past eleven o'clock, Passe-partout +found himself alone in the house in Saville Row. He immediately +commenced to look about him, and search the house from cellar to +garret. This well-arranged, severe, almost puritanical house pleased +him very much. It appeared to him like the pretty shell of a snail; +but a snail's shell lighted and warmed with gas would serve for both +those purposes. He soon discovered the room he was to occupy, and was +quite satisfied. Electric bells and indiarubber speaking-tubes put him +into communication with the rooms, below. Upon the chimney-piece stood +an electric clock, which kept time exactly with that in Phileas Fogg's +bedroom. + +"This will suit me exactly," said Passe-partout to himself. + +He also remarked in his room a notice fixed above the clock. It was +the programme of his daily duties. It included the whole details of +the service from eight o'clock in the morning, the hour at which Mr. +Fogg invariably arose, to half-past eleven, when he left the house to +breakfast at the Reform Club. It comprised everything--the tea and +toast at twenty-three minutes past eight, the shaving-water at +thirty-seven minutes past nine, and his attendance at his master's +toilet at twenty minutes to ten, and so on. Then from half-past eleven +a.m. until midnight, when the methodical Fogg retired to bed, +everything was noted down and arranged for. Passe-partout joyfully set +himself to study the programme and to master its contents. + +Mr. Fogg's wardrobe was well stocked and wonderfully arranged. Every +pair of trousers, coat, or waistcoat bore a number, which was also +noted in a register of entries and exits, indicating the date on +which, according to the season, the clothes were to be worn. There +were even relays of shoes and boots. + +In fact, in this house in Saville Row, which had been a temple of +disorder in the days of the illustrious but dissipated Sheridan, +cosiness reigned supreme. There was no library and no books, which +would have been useless to Mr. Fogg, since there were two +reading-rooms at the Reform Club. In his bedroom was a small safe, +perfectly burglar and fire proof. There were no firearms nor any other +weapons in the house; everything proclaimed the owner to be a man of +peaceable habits. + +After having examined the house thoroughly, Passe-partout rubbed his +hands joyously, a genial smile overspread his rounded face, and he +muttered: + +"This suits me completely. It is the very thing. We understand each +other thoroughly, Mr. Fogg and I. He is a thoroughly regular and +domestic man, a true machine. Well, I am not sorry to serve a +machine." + + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +In which a Conversation arises which is likely to cost Phileas Fogg +dear. + + + +Phileas Fogg left home at half-past eleven, and having placed his +right foot before his left exactly five hundred and seventy-five +times, and his left foot before his right five hundred and seventy-six +times, he arrived at the Reform Club in Pall Mall, and immediately +went up to the dining-room and took his place at his usual table, +where his breakfast awaited him. The meal was composed of one +"side-dish," a delicious little bit of boiled fish, a slice of +underdone roast beef with mushrooms, a rhubarb and gooseberry tart, +and some Cheshire cheese; the whole washed down with several cups of +excellent tea, for which the Reform Club is celebrated. + +At forty-seven minutes after twelve he rose from table and went into +the drawing-room; there the servant handed him an uncut copy of _The +Times_, which Phileas Fogg folded and cut with a dexterity which +denoted a practised hand. The perusal of this journal occupied him +till a quarter to four, and then _The Standard_ sufficed till +dinner-time. This repast was eaten under the same conditions as his +breakfast, and at twenty minutes to six he returned to the saloon and +read _The Morning Chronicle_. + +About half an hour later, several of Mr. Fogg's friends entered the +room and collected round the fireplace. These gentlemen were his usual +partners at whist, and, like him, were all inveterate players. + +They comprised Andrew Stuart, an engineer; the bankers, John Sullivan +and Samuel Fallentin; Thomas Flanagan, the brewer; and Gauthier Ralph, +one of the directors of the Bank of England;--all rich, and men of +consequence, even in that club which comprised so many men of mark. + +"Well, Ralph," asked Thomas Flanagan, "what about this robbery?" + +"The bank must lose the money," replied Stuart. + +"On the contrary," replied Ralph, "I am in hopes that we shall be able +to put our hand upon the thief. We have detectives in America and +Europe, at all the principal ports, and it will be no easy matter for +him to escape the clutches of the law." + +"Then you have the robber's description, of course," said Andrew +Stuart. + +"In the first place he is not a thief at all," replied Ralph +seriously. + +"What do you mean? Is not a man a thief who takes away fifty-five +thousand pounds in bank-notes?" + +"No," replied Ralph. + +"He is then a man of business, I suppose?" said Sullivan. + +"_The Morning Chronicle_ assures me he is a gentleman." + +This last observation was uttered by Phileas Fogg, whose head rose up +from the sea of papers surrounding him, and then Phileas got up and +exchanged greetings with his acquaintances. + +The subject of conversation was a robbery, which was in everyone's +mouth, and had been committed three days previously--viz. on the 29th +of September. A pile of bank-notes, amounting to the enormous sum of +fifty-five thousand pounds, had been stolen from the counter at the +Bank of England. + +The astonishing part of the matter was that the robbery had been so +easily accomplished, and as Ralph, who was one of the deputy-governors, +explained, that when the fifty-five thousand pounds were stolen, the +cashier was occupied in carefully registering the receipt of three +shillings and sixpence, and of course could not have his eyes in every +direction at once. + +It may not be out of place here to remark, which in some measure may +account for the robbery, that the Bank of England trusts greatly in +the honesty of the public. There are no guards, or commissionaires, or +gratings; gold, silver, and notes are all exposed freely, and, so to +speak, at the mercy of the first-comer. No one's honesty is suspected. +Take the following instance, related by one of the closest observers +of English customs. This gentleman was one day in one of the parlours +of the Bank, and had the curiosity to take up and closely examine a +nugget of gold weighing seven or eight pounds, which was lying on the +table. Having examined the ingot, he passed it to his neighbour, he to +the next man; and so the gold went from hand to hand quite down to the +dark entry, and was not returned for quite half an hour, and all the +time the bank official had not raised his head. + +But on the 29th of September things did not work so nicely; the pile +of bank-notes was not returned; and when the hands of the magnificent +clock in the drawing-office pointed to the hour of five, at which time +the bank is closed, the sum of fifty-five thousand pounds was written +off to "profit and loss." + +When it was certain that a robbery had been committed, the most +skilful detectives were sent down to Liverpool and Glasgow and other +principal ports, also to Suez, Brindisi, New York, &c., with promises +of a reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent on the amount +recovered. In the meantime, inspectors were appointed to observe +scrupulously all travellers arriving at and departing from the several +seaports. + +Now there was some reason to suppose, as _The Morning Chronicle_ put +it, that the thief did not belong to a gang, for during the 29th of +September a well-dressed gentlemanly man had been observed in the +bank, near where the robbery had been perpetrated. An exact +description of this person was fortunately obtained, and supplied to +all the detectives; and so some sanguine persons, of whom Ralph was +one, believed the thief could not escape. + +As may be imagined, nothing else was talked about just then. The +probabilities of success and failure were warmly discussed in the +newspapers, so it was not surprising that the members of the Reform +Club should talk about it, particularly as one of the deputy-governors +of the bank was present. + +Ralph did not doubt that the search would be successful because of the +amount of the reward, which would probably stimulate the zeal of the +detectives. But Andrew Stuart was of a different opinion, and the +discussion was continued between these gentlemen during their game of +whist. Stuart was Flanagan's partner, and Fallentin was Fogg's. While +they played they did not talk; but between the rubbers the subject +cropped up again. + +"Well," said Stuart, "I maintain that the chances are in favour of the +thief, who must be a sharp one." + +"But," replied Ralph, "there is no place a fellow can go to." + +"Oh, come!" + +"Well, where can he go to?" + +"I can't tell," replied Stuart; "but the world is big enough, at any +rate." + +"It used to be," said Phileas Fogg, in an undertone. "Cut, if you +please," he added, handing the cards to Flanagan. + +Conversation was then suspended, but after the rubber Stuart took it +up again, saying: + +"What do you mean by 'used to be?' Has the world grown smaller, then?" + +"Of course it has," replied Ralph. "I am of Mr. Fogg's opinion; the +world has grown smaller, inasmuch as one can go round it ten times +quicker than you could a hundred years ago. That is the reason why, in +the present case, search will be more rapid, and render the escape of +the thief easier." + +"Your lead, Mr. Stuart," said Fogg. + +But the incredulous Stuart was not convinced, and he again returned to +the subject. + +"I must say, Mr. Ralph," he continued, "that you have found an easy +way that the world has grown smaller, because one now go round it in +three months." + +"In eighty days only," said Phileas Fogg. + +"That is a fact, gentlemen," added John Sullivan. "You can make the +tour of the world in eighty days, now that the section of the Great +Indian Peninsular Railway is opened between Rothal and Allahabad, and +here is the estimate made by _The Morning Chronicle_: + + + +London to Suez, by Mont Cenis and Brindisi, Rail and Steamer . . . 7 +days. + +Suez to Bombay, by Steamer . . . 13 " + +Bombay to Calcutta, by Rail . . . 3 " + +Calcutta to Hong Kong, by Steamer . . . 13 " + +Hong Kong to Yokohama, by Steamer . . . 6 " + +Yokohama to San Francisco, by Steamer . . . 22 " + +San Francisco to New York, by Rail . . . 7 " + +New York to London, Steam and Rail . . . 9 " + +Total . . . 80 days." + + + +"Yes, eighty days!" exclaimed Stuart, who, being absorbed in his +calculations, made a mis-deal; "but that estimate does not take inter +consideration bad weather, head-winds, shipwreck, railway accidents, +&c." + +"They are all included," remarked Fogg, as he continued to play, for +this time the conversation did not cease with the deal. + +"Even if the Hindoos or Indians take up the rails? Suppose they stop +the trains, pillage the baggage-waggons, and scalp the travellers?" + +"All included," replied Fogg quietly. "Two trumps," he added, as he +won the tricks. + +Stuart, who was "pony," collected the cards, and said: "No doubt you +are right in theory, Mr. Fogg, but in practice--" + +"In practice too, Mr. Stuart." + +"I should like to see you do it." + +"It only rests with you. Let us go together." + +"Heaven forbid," cried Stuart; "but I will bet you a cool four +thousand that such a journey, under such conditions, is impossible." + +"On the contrary, it is quite possible," replied Mr. Fogg. + +"Well, then, why don't you do it?" + +"Go round the world in eighty days, do you mean?" + +"Yes." + +"I will." + +"When?" + +"At once; only I give you warning I shall do it at your expense." + +"Oh, this is all nonsense," replied Stuart, who began to feel a little +vexed at Fogg's persistence; "let us continue the game." + +"You had better deal, then; that was a mis-deal." + +Andrew Stuart took up the cards, and suddenly put them down again. + +"Look here, Mr. Fogg," he said; "if you like, I will bet you four +thousand." + +"My dear Stuart," said Fallentin, "don't be ridiculous; it is only a +joke." + +"When I say I will bet," said Stuart, "I mean it." + +"All right," said Mr. Fogg; then, turning towards the others, he said: +"I have twenty thousand pounds deposited at Baring's. I will willingly +risk that sum." + +"Twenty thousand pounds!" exclaimed Sullivan; "why, the slightest +accident might cause you to lose the whole of it. Anything +unforeseen--" + +"The unforeseen does not exist," replied Fogg simply. + +"But, Mr. Fogg, this estimate of eighty days is the very least time in +which the journey can be accomplished." + +"A minimum well employed is quite sufficient." + +"But to succeed you must pass from railways to steamers, from steamers +to railways, with mathematical accuracy." + +"I will be mathematically accurate." + +"Oh, this is a joke!" + +"A true Englishman never jokes when he has a stake depending on the +matter. I bet twenty thousand against any of you that I will make the +tour of the world in eighty days or less; that is to say, in nineteen +hundred and twenty hours, or a hundred and fifteen thousand two +hundred minutes. Will you take me?" + +"We do," replied the others, after consultation together. + +"Very well, then," said Fogg, "the Dover mail starts at 8.45; I will +go by it." + +"This evening?" said Stuart. + +"Yes, this evening," replied Fogg. Then, referring to a pocket +almanack, he added: "This is Wednesday, the 2nd of October; I shall be +due in London, in this room, on Saturday, the 21st of December, at a +quarter to nine in the evening, or, in default, the twenty thousand at +Baring's, to my credit, will be yours, gentlemen. Here is my cheque +for that sum." + +A memorandum of the conditions of the bet was made and signed by all +parties concerned. Phileas Fogg was as cool as ever. He had certainly +not bet to win the money, and he had only bet twenty thousand pounds, +half of his fortune, because he foresaw that he would probably have to +spend the other half to enable him to carry out this difficult if not +actually impossible feat. His opponents appeared quite agitated, not +on account of the value of their stake, but because they had some +misgivings and scruples about betting under such conditions. + +Seven o'clock struck, and it was suggested that the game should stop, +while Mr. Fogg made his preparations for the journey. + +"I am always ready," replied this impassible gentleman, as he dealt +the cards. "Diamonds are trumps," he added; "your lead, Mr. Stuart." + + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +In which Phileas Fogg astonishes Passe-partout. + + + +At twenty-five minutes past seven, Phileas Fogg, having won twenty +guineas at whist, took leave of his friends and left the club. At ten +minutes to eight he reached home. + +Passe-partout, who had conscientiously studied his programme, was +astonished to see Mr. Fogg appear at such an unusual hour, for, +according to all precedent, he was not due in Saville Row till +midnight. + +Phileas Fogg went straight up to his room and called for +Passe-partout. + +Passe-partout did not reply. It was evident this could not refer to +him, it was not time. + +"Passe-partout," cried Mr. Fogg again, but without raising his voice; +"this is the second time I have called you," said Mr. Fogg. + +"But it is not midnight," replied Passe-partout, producing his watch. + +"I know that," replied Fogg, "and I do not blame you. We start for +Dover and Calais in ten minutes." + +A sort of grimace contracted the Frenchman's round face; he evidently +did not understand. + +"Are you going out, sir," he asked. + +"Yes," replied his master; "we are going around the world." + +Passe-partout at this announcement opened his eyes to their greatest +extent, held up his arms, and looked the picture of stupefied +astonishment. + +"Around the world!" he muttered. + +"In eighty days," replied Mr. Fogg; "so we have not a moment to lose." + +"But the luggage," said Passe-partout, who was wagging his head +unconsciously from side to side. + +"We want no luggage; a carpet-bag will do. Pack up two night-shirts +and three pairs of socks, and the same for yourself. We will buy what +we want as we go along. Bring my mackintosh and travelling-cloak down +with you, and a couple of pairs of strong boots, although we shall +have little or no walking. Look alive." + +Passe-partout wished to speak, but could not He left his master's +bedroom, and went upstairs to his own, fell into a chair, and +exclaimed: + +"Well, this is coming it pretty strong, and for me too, who wanted to +be quiet!" + +Mechanically he set about making preparations for departure. Around +the world in eighty days! Had he engaged himself with a maniac? No--it +was only a joke. But they were going to Dover and to Calais. So far so +good. After all, he did not object to that very much, for it was five +years since he had seen his native land. Perhaps they would even go on +to Paris, and he would be delighted to see the capital again. No doubt +a gentleman so economical of his steps would stop there; but on the +other hand, this hitherto very domestic gentleman was leaving home. +That was a fact. + +At eight o'clock Passe-partout had packed the small bag which now +contained his master's luggage and his own, and in a very troubled +frame of mind he quitted his room, closed the door carefully, and went +downstairs to Mr. Fogg. + +That gentleman was quite ready. Under his arm he carried a copy of +"Bradshaw's Continental Guide." He took the small bag from +Passe-partout, opened it, and placed therein a bulky roll of +bank-notes, which will pass in any country. + +"You are sure you have not forgotten anything?" he asked. + +"Quite sure, sir." + +"You have my mackintosh and travelling-cloak?" + +"Here they are, sir." + +"All right, take the bag;" and Mr. Fogg handed it back to the man. +"You had better take care of it," he added, "there are twenty thousand +pounds in it." + +Passe-partout nearly let the bag fall, as if it were weighted with the +twenty thousand pounds in gold. + +Master and man went downstairs together; the door was shut and +double-locked. Phileas called a cab from the bottom of Saville Row, +and drove to Charing Cross Station. It was twenty minutes past eight +when they reached the railway. Passe-partout jumped out. His master +followed, and paid the cabman. At this moment a poor beggar-woman, +carrying a baby, looking very miserable with her naked feet and +tattered appearance, approached Mr. Fogg, and asked for alms. + +Mr. Fogg drew from his waistcoat-pocket the twenty guineas he had won +at whist, and handing them to the beggar-woman, said: "Take these, my +good woman. I am glad I have met you." He then entered the station. + +This action of his master brought the tears into Passe-partout's +susceptible eyes. Mr. Fogg had risen in his estimation. That eccentric +individual now told him to take two first-class tickets for Paris, and +as he turned round he perceived his five friends from the Reform Club. + +"Well, gentlemen, you see I am about to start, and the visas on my +passport on my return will convince you that I have performed the +journey." + +"Oh, Mr. Fogg," replied Gauthier Ralph politely, "that is quite +unnecessary. We believe you to be a man of your word." + +"All the better," was Fogg's reply. + +"You won't forget when you have to come back," observed Stuart. + +"In eighty days," replied Mr. Fogg. "On Saturday, the 21st day of +December, 1872, at forty-five minutes past eight in the evening. _Au +revoir_, gentlemen." + +At twenty minutes to nine Phileas Fogg and his servant took their +places in the train. At 8.45 the engine whistled and the train +started. + +The night was dark, and a fine rain was falling. Mr. Fogg was +comfortably settled in his corner, and did not say a word. +Passe-partout, still rather in a state of stupefaction, mechanically +gripped the bag with the bank-notes. + +But scarcely had the train rushed through Sydenham, than Passe-partout +uttered a cry of despair. + +"What is the matter with you?" asked Mr. Fogg. + +"Oh dear me! In my hurry I quite forgot--" + +"What?" + +"I forgot to turn the gas off in my room!" + +"Very well, my lad," replied Mr. Fogg coolly, "then it must burn while +we are away--at your expense." + + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +In which a New Kind of Investment appears on the Stock Exchange. + + + +When Phileas Fogg quitted London, he had no doubt that his departure +would create a great sensation. The report of the bet spread from the +club to outsiders, and so to all the newspapers in the United Kingdom. + +This question of going round the world in eighty days was commented +upon, discussed, and dissected, and argued as much as the Alabama +Claims had been. Some agreed with Phileas Fogg, but the majority were +against him. To accomplish the tour in fact was an impossibility, +under the present system of communication. It was sheer madness. + +_The Times_, _The Standard_, _The Morning Chronicle_, and twenty other +respectable journals gave their verdict against Mr. Fogg. _The Daily +Telegraph_ was the only paper that to a certain extent supported him. +Phileas Fogg was generally looked upon as a maniac, and his friends at +the Reform Club were much blamed for having taken up the wager, which +only betrayed the want of brain of its proposer. + +Extremely passionate but logical articles were written upon the +question. We all know the interest that the English take in any +geographical problem, and readers of every class devoured the columns +in which Mr. Fogg's expedition was debated. + +For the first few days some bold spirits, principally women, espoused +his cause, particularly when _The Illustrated London News_ published +his portrait, and certain gentlemen went so far as to say: "Well, why +should he not after all? More extraordinary things have happened." +These were chiefly readers of _The Daily Telegraph_, but they very +soon felt that that journal itself began to waver. + +On the 7th of October a long article appeared in the proceedings of +the Royal Geographical Society, the writer of which treated the +question from all points of view, and clearly demonstrated the +futility of the enterprise. According to that article, everything was +against the traveller--all obstacles material and physical were +against him. In order to succeed, it was necessary to admit miraculous +concordance in the hours of the arrival and departure of trains and +ships--a concordance which could not and did not exist. In Europe +perhaps he might be able to reckon upon the punctuality of trains, but +when three days are occupied in crossing India, and seven in +traversing the American continent, how was it possible that he could +count upon absolute success? Were not accidents to machinery, runnings +off the rails, collisions, bad weather, or snowdrifts all against +Phileas Fogg? On board ship in winter-time he would be at the mercy of +hurricanes or contrary winds. Even the best steamers of the +transoceanic lines experience a delay of sometimes two or three days. +Now, if only one such delay occurred, the chain of communication would +be irreparably severed. If Phileas Fogg lost a steamer by only a few +hours, he would be obliged to wait for the following boat; and that +fact alone would imperil the success of the whole undertaking. + +This article made a great sensation. It was copied into almost all the +papers, and the "shares" of Phileas Fogg fell in proportion. + +For the first few days after his departure a good deal of money was +laid on the success or failure of the enterprise. Everyone knows that +people in England are great gamblers; it comes natural to them. So the +public all went into the speculation. Phileas Fogg became a sort of +favourite, as in horse-racing. He was of a certain value on the Stock +Exchange. Fogg bonds were offered at par or at a premium, and enormous +speculations were entered into. But five days after his departure, +subsequently to the appearance of the article above quoted, the bonds +were at a discount, and they were offered to anybody who would take +them. + +One supporter was still left to him, and that the paralytic Lord +Albemarle. This worthy gentleman, who was unable to leave his chair, +would have given his whole fortune to have made the tour of the world, +even in ten years, and he had laid fifty thousand pounds on Phileas +Fogg; and when people explained to him at the same time the folly and +uselessness of the expedition, he would merely reply: "If the thing +can be done, the first man to do it ought to be an Englishman." + +Now as things were, the partisans of Phileas Fogg were becoming fewer +by degrees and beautifully less. Everybody, and not without reason, +was against him. People would only take fifty or even two hundred to +one, when, seven days after his departure, a quite unexpected incident +deprived him of support at any price. In fact, at nine o'clock on the +evening of the seventh day, the Chief Inspector of Metropolitan Police +received the following telegram: + + + +"From Fix, Detective, Suez, + +To Rowan, Commissioner of Police, Scotland Yard. + +I have traced the bank-robber, Phileas Fogg. Send immediately +authority for arrest to Bombay.--Fix." + + + +The effect of this despatch was immediately apparent. The honourable +man gave place to the "bank-robber." His photograph, deposited in the +Reform Club with those of other members, was narrowly scrutinised. It +appeared to be, feature by feature, the very man whose description had +been already furnished to the police. People now began to recollect +Fogg's mysterious manner, his solitary habits, and his sudden +departure. He must be the culprit, and it was evident that under the +pretext of a voyage round the world, under shelter of a ridiculous +bet, he had no other end in view but to throw the detectives off the +scent. + + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +In which Fix, the Detective, betrays some not unnatural Impatience. + + + +The circumstances under which the foregoing telegram had been +despatched were as follows: + +On Wednesday, the 29th of October, the Peninsular and Oriental +Company's steamer _Mongolia_ was being anxiously expected at Suez. +This vessel made the passage between Brindisi and Bombay through the +Suez Canal. She is one of the swiftest of the Company's vessels, and +her usual speed is ten knots an hour between Brindisi and Suez, and +nine and a half between Suez and Bombay, and sometimes even more. + +Pending the arrival of the _Mongolia_, two men were walking together +up and down the quay in the midst of the crowd of natives and visitors +who thronged the little town, which, thanks to the enterprise of M. de +Lesseps, was becoming a considerable place. One of these men was the +British Consular Agent at Suez, who, in spite of the prophecies of the +English Government, and the unfavourable opinion of Stephenson the +engineer, beheld daily English ships passing through the canal, thus +shortening by one-half the old route to India round the Cape. + +The other was a small thin man with a nervous intelligent face. +Beneath his long eyelashes his eyes sparkled brightly, and at that +moment he was displaying unquestionable signs of impatience, moving +hither and thither, quite unable to keep still for one moment. + +This man was Fix, the English detective, who had been sent out in +consequence of the bank robbery. He carefully scrutinised every +traveller, and if one of them bore any resemblance to the culprit he +would be arrested. Two days previously, Fix had received from London +the description of the criminal. It was that of the well-dressed +person who had been observed in the bank. + +The detective was evidently inspired by the hope of obtaining the +large reward offered, and was awaiting the arrival of the _Mongolia_ +with much impatience accordingly. + +"So you say that the steamer is never behind its time," remarked Mr. +Fix to the Consul. + +"No," replied the other. "She was signalled off Port Said yesterday, +and the length of the Canal is nothing to such a vessel as she is. I +repeat that the _Mongolia_ has always gained the twenty-five pounds +allowance granted by the Government for every advance of twenty-four +hours on the regulation time." + +"Does she come from Brindisi direct?" asked Fix. + +"Yes, direct. She takes the Indian mails on board there. She left on +Saturday afternoon at five o'clock. So be patient She will not be +late. But I really do not see how you will be able to recognise your +man from the description you have, even Supposing he be on board." + +"One knows him by instinct more than by feature," replied Fix; "by +scent, as it were, more than sight. I have had to do with more than +one of these gentlemen in my time, and if the thief be on board I +guarantee he will not slip through my fingers." + +"I hope you will catch him--it is a big robbery." + +"First-rate," replied Fix enthusiastically; "fifty-five thousand +pounds. We don't often have such a windfall as that. These sort of +fellows are becoming scarce. The family of Jack Sheppard has died +out--people get 'lagged' now for a few shillings." + +"You speak like an enthusiast, Mr. Fix," replied the Agent, "and I +hope you will succeed, but I fear under the circumstances you will +find it very difficult. Besides, after all, the description you have +received might be that of a very honest man." + +"Great criminals always do resemble honest men," replied the detective +dogmatically. "You must understand that ruffianly-looking fellows +would not have a chance. They must remain honest or they would be +arrested at once. It is the honest appearance that we are obliged to +unmask; it is a difficult thing, I confess, and one that really is an +art." + +It was evident that Mr. Fix thought a good deal of his profession. + +Meanwhile the bustle on the quay increased. Sailors of all nations, +merchants, porters, and fellahs were crowding together. The steamer +was evidently expected shortly. + +It was a beautiful day and the east wind cooled the air. The rays of +the sun lighted up the distant minarets of the town. Towards the south +the long jetty extended into the roadstead. A crowd of fishing-boats +dotted the waters of the Red Sea, and amongst them one could perceive +some ships of the ancient build of galleys. + +Fix kept moving about amongst the crowd, scrutinising professionally +the countenances of its component members. + +It was half-past ten o'clock. + +"This steamer is not coming," he said, as he heard the clock strike. + +"It can't be far off," said the Consul. + +"How long will she stop at Suez?" said Fix. + +"Four hours, to take her coal on board. From Suez to Aden it is +thirteen hundred and ten miles, so she is to take in a good supply." + +"And from Suez the boat goes directly to Bombay?" asked Fix. + +"Direct, without breaking bulk." + +"Well," said Fix, "if the thief has taken this route, and by this +steamer, it will no doubt be his little game to land at Suez, so as to +reach the Dutch or French possessions in Asia by some other route. He +must know very well that he would not be safe in India, which is +British territory." + +"I don't think he can be a very sharp fellow," replied the Consul, +"for London is the best place to hide in, after all." + +The Consul having thus given the detective something to think about, +went away to his office close by. The detective, now alone, became +more and more impatient, as he had some peculiar presentiment that the +robber was on board the _Mongolia_; and if he had left England with +the intention to gain the new world, the route _via_ India, being less +open to observation, or more difficult to watch than the Atlantic +route, would naturally be the one chosen. + +The detective was not left long to his reflections. A succession of +shrill whistles denoted the approach of the steamer. The whole crowd +of porters and fellahs hurried towards the quay in a manner somewhat +distressing for the limbs and clothes of the lookers-on. A number of +boats also put off to meet the _Mongolia_. + +Her immense hull was soon perceived passing between the banks of the +Canal, and as eleven o'clock was striking she came to an anchor in the +roadstead, while a cloud of steam was blown off from her +safety-valves. + +There were a great number of passengers on board. Some of them +remained upon the bridge, admiring the view, but the greater number +came ashore in the boats, which had put off to meet the vessel. + +Fix carefully examined each one as they landed. As he was thus +employed, one of the passengers approached him, and vigorously pushing +aside the fellahs who surrounded him, inquired of the detective the +way to the British Consul's office; at the same time, the passenger +produced his passport, upon which he desired, no doubt, to have the +British _visa_. + +Fix mechanically took the passport, and mastered its contents at a +glance. His hand shook involuntarily. The description on the passport +agreed exactly with the description of the thief. + +"This passport does not belong to you?" he said to the passenger. + +"No," replied the man addressed; "it is my master's." + +"And where is your master?" + +"He is on board." + +"But," replied the detective, "he must come himself to the Consul's +office to establish his identity." + +"Oh, is that necessary?" + +"Quite indispensable." + +"Where is the office?" + +"In the corner of the square yonder," replied the detective, +indicating a house about two hundred paces off. + +"Well then, I will go and fetch my master; but I can tell you he won't +thank you for disturbing him." + +So saying, the passenger saluted Fix, and returned on board the +steamer. + + + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +Which once more shows the Futility of Passports where Policemen are +concerned. + + + +The detective quickly traversed the quay once more in the direction of +the Consul's office. At his particular request he was at once ushered +into the presence of the official. + +"I beg your pardon," he said to the Consul abruptly, "but I have great +reason to believe that my man _is_ really on board the _Mongolia_." +And then Mr. Fix related what had passed between him and the servant. + +"Good," replied the Consul; "I should not be sorry to see the rascal's +face myself; but perhaps he will not present himself here if the case +stands as you believe it does. No thief likes to leave a trace behind +him; and moreover, the _visa_ to the passport is not necessary." + +"If he is the sharp fellow he ought to be, he will come," replied Mr. +Fix. + +"To have his passport examined?" + +"Yes. Passports are no use, except to worry honest people and to +facilitate the escape of rogues. I have no doubt whatever that this +fellow's passport will be all right; but I hope you will not _vise_ it +all the same." + +"Why not? If the passport is all regular I have no right to refuse my +_visa_," replied the Consul. + +"Nevertheless, I must keep the fellow here until I have received the +warrant of arrest from London." + +"Ah, Mr. Fix, that is _your_ business," said the Consul; "for my part +I must--" + +The Consul did not conclude the sentence. At that moment a knock was +heard, and the servant introduced two strangers, one of whom was the +servant who had lately interviewed the detective on the quay. The +newcomers were master and servant. The former handed his passport to +the Consul, and laconically requested him to attach his _visa_. + +The Consul took the passport and examined it narrowly, while Fix from +a corner devoured the stranger with his eyes. When the Consul had +perused the document, he said: + +"You are Phileas Fogg?" + +"Yes," replied that gentleman. + +"And this man is your servant?" + +"Yes; he is a Frenchman named Passe-partout." + +"You have come from London?" + +"Yes." + +"And you are bound--whither?" + +"To Bombay." + +"Very well, sir. You are aware, perhaps, that this formality is +unnecessary, even useless. We only require to see the passport." + +"I know that," replied Fogg; "but I want you to testify to my presence +at Suez." + +"Very well, sir, so be it," replied the Consul, who thereupon attested +the passport. Mr. Fogg paid the fee, and bowing formally, departed, +followed by his servant. + +"Well, what do you think, sir?" said the detective. + +"I think he looks a perfectly honest man," replied the Consul. + +"That may be," said Fix; "but that is not the point. Do you not +perceive that this cool gentleman answers in every particular to the +description of the thief sent out?" + +"I grant you that; but you know all descriptions--" + +"I will settle the business," replied Fix. "It strikes me that the +servant is more get-at-able than the master. Besides, he is a +Frenchman, and cannot help chattering. I will return soon, sir." As he +finished speaking, the detective left the Consul's office in search of +Passe-partout. + +Meanwhile, Mr. Fogg, having left the Consul's house, proceeded down to +the quay. There he gave his servant some instructions, and then put +off in a boat to the Mongolia, and descended to his cabin. Taking out +his note-book, he made the following entries: + + + +Left London, Wednesday, 2nd October, at 8.45 p.m. + +Reached Paris, Thursday, at 8.40 a.m. + +Arrived at Turin, _via_ Mont Cenis, Friday, 4th October, 6.35 a.m. + +Left Turin, Friday, at 7.20 a.m. + +Arrived at Brindisi, Saturday, 5th October, 4 p.m. + +Embarked on _Mongolia_, Saturday, 5 p.m. + +Reached Suez, Wednesday, 9th October, 11 a.m. + +Total of hours occupied in the journey, 158-1/4, or 6-1/2 days. + + + +Mr. Fogg made these entries in a journal ruled in columns, commencing +on the 2nd of October, and so on to the 21st of December, which +indicated respectively the month, the day of the month, and the day of +the week, as well as the days at which he was due at the principal +places _en route_--as, for instance, Paris, Brindisi, Suez, Bombay, +Calcutta, Singapore, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, New York, +Liverpool, London. There was also a column in which the gain or loss +upon the stipulated time could be entered against each place. This +methodical arrangement of dates showed Mr. Fogg whether he was in +advance or behindhand, and contained all necessary information. + +So on that occasion, Wednesday, the 9th of October, was recorded as +the day of his arrival at Suez, and he perceived at a glance that he +had neither gained nor lost so far. + +He then had his luncheon sent into his cabin. It did not occur to him +to go and look at the town; he was one of those gentlemen who are +quite content to see foreign countries through the eyes of their +servants. + + + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + +In which Passe-partout talks a little more than he ought to have done. + + + +It was not very long before Fix rejoined Passe-partout on the quay. +The latter was looking about him, as he did not feel he was debarred +from seeing all he could. + +"Well, my friend," said Fix, as he came up to him, "has your passport +been _vised_ all right?" + +"Ah! it is you," replied the valet. "I am much obliged to you. Yes, +everything was in order." + +"And now you are seeing something of the place, I suppose?" + +"Yes, but we are going on so fast that it seems to me like a dream. +And so we are in Suez, are we?" + +"Yes, you are." + +"In Egypt?" + +"In Egypt, most decidedly." + +"And in Africa?" + +"Yes, in Africa." + +"Well now," replied Passe-partout, "I could scarcely believe it. In +Africa, actually in Africa. Just fancy. I had not the slightest idea +that we should go beyond Paris, and all I saw of that beautiful city +was from 7.20 a.m. to 8.40, between the terminus of the Northern +Railway and the terminus of the Lyons line, and this through the +windows of a fiacre as we drove through the rain. I am very sorry for +it. I should like to have seen Pere La Chaise and the Circus in the +Champs Elysees again." + +"You are in a very great hurry then?" said the detective. + +"No, I am not in the least hurry," replied Passe-partout. "It is my +master. By-the-way, I must buy some shirts and a pair of shoes. We +came away without any luggage except a small carpet-bag." + +"I will take you to a bazaar where you will find everything you want." + +"Really, sir," replied Passe-partout, "you are extremely +good-natured." + +So they started off together, Passe-partout talking all the time. + +"I must take very good care I do not lose the steamer," said he. + +"Oh, you have plenty of time," replied Fix; "it is only twelve +o'clock." + +Passe-partout drew out his great watch. "Twelve o'clock," said he. +"Nonsense. It is fifty-two minutes past nine." + +"Your watch is slow," replied Fix. + +"Slow, my watch slow; why this watch has come to me from my +grandfather. It is an heirloom, and does not vary five minutes in a +year. It is a regular chronometer." + +"I see how it is," replied Fix; "you have got London time, which is +about two hours slower than Suez time. You must take care to set your +watch at twelve o'clock in every country you visit." + +"Not a bit of it," said Passe-partout, "I am not going to touch my +watch." + +"Well, then, it won't agree with the sun." + +"I can't help that. So much the worse for the sun; it will be wrong +then." And the brave fellow put his watch back in his pocket with a +contemptuous gesture. + +After a few minutes' pause, Fix remarked, "You must have left London +very suddenly?" + +"I believe you. Last Wednesday evening at eight o'clock, Mr. Fogg came +home from his club, and in three-quarters of an hour afterwards we +started." + +"But where is your master going to?" + +"Straight ahead--he is going round the world." + +"Going round the world!" exclaimed Fix. + +"Yes, in eighty days. He says it is for a wager, but between +ourselves, I don't believe a word of it. It is not common-sense. There +must be some other reason." + +"This master of yours is quite an original, I should think." + +"Rather," replied the valet. + +"Is he very rich?" + +"He must be; and he carries a large sum with him, all in new +bank-notes. He never spares expense. He promised a large reward to the +engineer of the _Mongolia_ if he reached Bombay well in advance of +time." + +"Have you known your master long?" + +"Oh dear no," replied Passe-partout. "I only entered his service the +very day we left." + +The effect which all these replies had upon the suspicious nature of +the detective may be imagined. + +The hurried departure from London, so soon after the robbery, the +large sum in bank-notes, the haste to reach India, under the pretext +of an eccentric bet, all confirmed Fix, and not unnaturally, in his +previously conceived ideas. He made up his mind to pump the Frenchman +a little more, and make certain that the valet knew no more concerning +his master than that he lived alone in London, was reported to be very +rich, though no one knew from whence his fortune was derived, and that +he was a very mysterious man, etc. But at the same time. Fix felt sure +that Phileas Fogg would not land at Suez, and would really go on to +Bombay. + +"Is Bombay far off?" asked Passe-partout. + +"Pretty well. It is ten days' steaming from here." + +"And whereabouts is Bombay?" + +"It is in India." + +"In Asia?" + +"Naturally." + +"The devil! I was going to say that there is something on my mind, and +that is my burner." + +"What burner?" + +"Why, my gas-burner, which I forgot to turn off when I left London, +and which is still alight at my expense. Now I have calculated that I +lose two shillings every four-and-twenty hours, which is just sixpence +more than my wages. So you see that the longer our journey is--" + +It is not very likely that Fix paid much attention to this question of +the gas; he was thinking of something else. The pair soon reached the +bazaar, and leaving his companion to make his purchases. Fix hastened +back to the Consul's office, and now that his suspicions were +confirmed he regained his usual coolness. + +"I am quite certain now," he said to the Consul, "that this is our +man. He wishes to pass himself off as an eccentric person who wants to +go round the world in eighty days." + +"He is a very sharp fellow, and he probably counts on returning to +London, after having thrown all the police off the scent." + +"Well, we shall see," replied Fix. + +"But are you sure you are right?" asked the Consul once more. + +"I am sure I am not mistaken." + +"Well then, how do you account for the fellow being so determined upon +proving he had been here by having his passport _vised_?" + +"Why--Well, I can't say," replied the detective; "but listen a +moment." And then in as few words as possible he communicated the +heads of his conversation with Passe-partout. + +"Well, I must confess that appearances are very much against him," +replied the Consul. "Now what are you going to do?" + +"I shall telegraph to London, with a pressing request that a warrant +of arrest may be immediately transmitted to Bombay. I shall then +embark in the _Mongolia_, and so keep my eye on my man till we reach +Bombay, and then, on English ground, quietly arrest him." + +As he coolly finished this explanation, the detective bowed to the +Consul, walked to the telegraph-office, and there despatched the +message we have already seen. + +A quarter of an hour later, Mr. Fix, carrying his light baggage and +well furnished with money, embarked on board the _Mongolia_. In a +short time afterwards the vessel was ploughing her way at full speed +down the Red Sea. + + + + + +CHAPTER IX. + +In which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean favour the Projects of +Phileas Fogg. + + + +The distance between Suez and Aden is exactly three hundred and ten +miles, and the steamers are allowed one hundred and thirty-eight hours +to do it in. The _Mongolia_, however, was going at a speed which +seemed likely to bring her to her destination considerably before +time. + +The majority of the passengers from Brindisi were bound for India, +some for Calcutta, some for Bombay; and since the railway crosses the +peninsula it is not necessary to go round by Ceylon. + +Amongst the passengers were many military officers and civil servants +of every degree. The former included officers of the regular as well +as the Indian army, holding lucrative appointments, for the +sub-lieutenants get two hundred and eighty; brigadiers, two thousand +four hundred; and generals, four thousand pounds a year. + +Society, therefore, on board the _Mongolia_ was very pleasant. The +purser feasted them sumptuously every day. They had early breakfast, +then tiffin at two o'clock, dinner at half-past five, and supper at +eight; and the tables groaned beneath the variety of dishes. The +ladies on board changed their toilettes twice a day, and there was +music and dancing when the weather was sufficiently favourable to +admit of those amusements. + +But the Red Sea is very capricious; it is frequently very rough, like +all long and narrow gulfs. When the wind blew broadside on, the +_Mongolia_ rolled fearfully. At these times the ladies went below, the +pianos were silent, singing and dancing ceased. But notwithstanding +the wind and the sea, the vessel, urged by her powerful screw, dashed +onward to the straits of Bab-el-Mandeb. + +And what was Phileas Fogg doing all this time? Perhaps it may be +supposed that he was anxious and restless, thinking of the contrary +winds and the speed of the ship, which was likely to be retarded by +the storm, and so compromise the success of his undertaking. At any +rate, whether he did or did not concern himself with these things, he +never betrayed the least anxiety on the subject. He was as taciturn +and impassible as ever; a man whom no eventuality could surprise. He +did not appear to be any more interested than one of the ship's +chronometers. He was rarely seen on deck. He troubled himself very +little about the Red Sea, so full of interest, the scene of some of +the greatest incidents in the history of mankind. He never cared to +look at the towns standing out in relief against the sky. He had no +fear of the dangers of the Arabian Gulf, of which ancient writers, +Strabo, Arian, Artemidorus, etc., have always written with horror, and +upon which sailors of those days never dared to venture without first +making a propitiatory sacrifice. + +How then did this eccentric gentleman occupy his time, cooped up in +his cabin? In the first place he regularly ate his four meals a day, +for neither pitching nor rolling had the least effect upon his +appetite. And he played whist, for he had made the acquaintance of +some lovers of the game as enthusiastic as himself, a collector of +revenue _en route_ to Goa, a clergyman, the Rev. Decimus Smith, +returning to Bombay, and an English general officer bound for Benares. +These three were as madly devoted to whist as Mr. Fogg himself, and +they spent whole days silently enjoying it. + +As for Passe-partout, he had also escaped sea-sickness, and ate his +meals with pleasing regularity and in a conscientious manner, worthy +of imitation. The voyage after all did not displease him; he had made +up his mind; he gazed at the scenery as he went along, enjoyed his +meals, and was fully persuaded that all this absurd business would +come to an end at Bombay. + +The day after their departure from Suez, viz. the 10th of October, +Passe-partout was by no means ill-pleased to meet upon deck the person +who had been so civil to him in Egypt. + +"I'm sure I cannot be mistaken," he said. "Have I not the pleasure of +meeting the gentleman who was so polite to me at Suez?" + +"Ah yes, I remember you now. You are the servant of that eccentric +Englishman." + +"Exactly. Mr.--" + +"Fix," replied the detective. + +"Mr. Fix," continued Passe-partout, "I am delighted to find you on +board. Whither are you bound?" + +"Like yourself, to Bombay." + +"All the better. Have you ever made this voyage before?" + +"Frequently. I am an agent of the P. and O. Company." + +"Oh, then you know India very well, no doubt?" + +"Well, yes," replied Fix, who did not wish to commit himself. + +"It is a curious part of the world, isn't it?" + +"Very much so. There are mosques, minarets, temples, fakirs, pagodas, +tigers, serpents, and dancing-girls. It is to be hoped that you will +have time to see the country." + +"I hope so too, Mr. Fix. You must be aware that a man can hardly be +expected to pass his whole existence in jumping from the deck of a +steamer into a train, and from the train to another steamer, under the +pretence of going round the world in eighty days. No; all these +gymnastics will end at Bombay, I trust." + +"Is Mr. Fogg quite well?" asked Fix, politely. + +"Quite well, thank you. So am I. I eat like an ogre. I suppose that is +the effect of the sea-air." + +"I never see your master on deck." + +"No, he has no curiosity whatever." + +"Do you know, Mr. Passe-partout, that I fancy this pretended journey +round the world in eighty days is only a cover for a more important +object, a diplomatic mission perhaps?" + +"Upon my word, Mr. Fix, I know nothing about it, I declare; and what +is more, I would not give half-a-crown to know!" + +After this, Passe-partout and Fix frequently chatted together; the +detective doing all in his power to draw the valet out, whenever +possible. He would offer the Frenchman a glass of whisky or bitter +beer, which the latter accepted without ceremony, and pronounced Fix a +perfect gentleman. + +Meantime the steamer plunged and ploughed on her way rapidly. Mocha +was sighted on the 13th, surrounded by its ruined walls, above which +some date-palms reared their heads. Beyond extended immense coffee +plantations. Passe-partout was delighted to gaze upon this celebrated +town, and fancied that it and its ruined walls bore a great +resemblance to a gigantic cup and saucer. + +During the following night the _Mongolia_ cleared the strait of +Bab-el-Mandeb, which means the Gate of Tears, and the following day +they came to Steamer Point, to the N.W. of Aden harbour, where the +supply of coal was to be shipped. + +It is no light task to provide the steamers with coal at such a +distance from the mines, and the P. and O. Company expend annually no +less a sum than eight hundred thousand pounds on this service. Depots +have to be established at distant ports, and the coal costs more than +three pounds a ton. + +The _Mongolia_ had still sixteen hundred and fifty miles to run before +she could reach Bombay, and she was therefore obliged to remain four +hours at Steamer Point to complete her coaling. But this delay was not +at all detrimental to the plans of Phileas Fogg. It had been foreseen. +Besides, the _Mongolia_, instead of reaching Aden on the 15th, had +made that port on the evening of the 14th, so there was a gain of +about fifteen hours. + +Mr. Fogg and his servant went ashore. The former wished to have his +passport _vised_. Fix followed him unnoticed. The formality of the +_vise_ having been accomplished, Phileas Fogg returned on board to his +game of whist. + +Passe-partout, as usual, lounged about amongst the mixed races which +make up the inhabitants of Aden. He admired the fortifications of this +eastern Gibraltar, and the splendid tanks at which the British +engineers were still at work, two thousand years after Solomon's +craftsmen. + +"Very curious, very curious indeed," thought Passe-partout, as he +returned on board. "It is worth travelling if one can see something +new each time." + +At six p.m. the _Mongolia_ weighed anchor, and made her way across the +Indian Ocean. She had now one hundred and sixty-eight hours in which +to make the passage to Bombay. The weather was good, with a pleasant +nor'-west wind; so the sails were hoisted to aid the screw. + +The ship being thus steadied, the lady passengers took the opportunity +to reappear in fresh toilettes, and dancing and singing were again +indulged in. The voyage continued under most favourable conditions. +Passe-partout was delighted that he had such a pleasant companion as +Fix. + +On Sunday, the 20th of October, about mid-day, they sighted the coast +of Hindostan. Two hours later the pilot came on board. A long range of +hills cut the sky-line, and soon palm-trees began to show themselves. +The mail steamer ran into the roadstead formed between the islands of +Salsette, Colaba, Elephanta, and Butcher, and at half-past four +o'clock the vessel came alongside the quay. + +Phileas Fogg was just finishing his thirty-third rubber for that day. +His partner and he had succeeded in scoring a "treble," and thus +terminated the voyage with a stroke of luck. + +The _Mongolia_ was not due at Bombay until the 22nd of October; she +had actually arrived on the 20th; so Mr. Fogg had really gained two +days upon the estimated period, and he entered the "profit" +accordingly in the column of his diary set apart for that purpose. + + + + + +CHAPTER X. + +In which Passe-partout thinks himself lucky in escaping with only the +Loss of his Shoes. + + + +Everybody is aware that the peninsula of Hindostan has a superficial +area of one million four hundred thousand square miles, in which the +unequally-distributed population numbers one hundred and eighty +millions. The British Government rules absolutely over the greater +portion of this immense tract of country. The Governor-General resides +at Calcutta, and there are also governors of presidencies at Madras +and Bombay, and a deputy-governor at Agra, as well as a governor for +Bengal. + +British India proper only includes an area of seven hundred thousand +square miles, and a population of one hundred to one hundred and ten +millions; so there is still a large portion of India independent, and, +in fact, there are rajahs in the interior who wield absolute +authority. + +From the year 1756 to the great Sepoy Mutiny, the East India Company +was the supreme authority in British India; but now the country is +under the rule of the English Crown. The manners and customs of India +are in a continual state of change. Till lately, travelling was only +by antiquated modes of conveyance, but now steamers cover the Ganges, +and the railways have opened up the country, and one can go from +Bombay to Calcutta in three days. But the railroad does not cut the +peninsula in a direct line. As the crow flies, the distance from +Calcutta to Bombay is only about eleven hundred miles, and the trains +would not occupy three days in accomplishing that distance; but the +journey is lengthened at least one-third of that distance by the loop +the line describes up to Allahabad. + +The Great Indian Peninsula Railway line is as follows: leaving Bombay +Island, it crosses Salsette, reaches the mainland at Tannah, crosses +the Western Ghauts, thence runs north-east to Burhampoor, skirts the +independent territory of Bundelcund, ascends to Allahabad, and then, +turning eastward, meets the Ganges at Benares; then, quitting it +again, the line descends in a south-easterly direction, by Burdivan +and Chandernagore, to the terminal station at Calcutta. + +It was half-past four p.m. when the Bombay passengers landed from the +_Mongolia_, and the train for Calcutta was timed to start at eight +o'clock. + +Mr. Fogg took leave of his colleagues of the whist-table, and going +ashore, gave his servant orders concerning a few necessary purchases, +enjoining him to be at the railroad station before eight o'clock, and +then, at his own regular pace, he started for the Consul's office. + +He saw nothing of the sights of Bombay--the town-hall, the magnificent +library, the forts, the docks, the cotton market, the bazaars, +mosques, &c., were all disregarded. Elephanta was ignored, and the +grottos of Salsette unexplored by Phileas Fogg. + +After leaving the consulate, he walked calmly to the railroad station +and dined. The proprietor of the hotel particularly recommended "a +native rabbit." Phileas accepted the dish as put before him, but found +it horrible. + +He rang the bell. The landlord was sent for. + +"Is that a rabbit?" inquired Mr. Fogg. + +"Yes, my lord, a jungle rabbit." + +"Has that rabbit never mewed, do you think?" + +"Oh, my lord, a jungle-rabbit mew! I swear--" + +"Don't swear," said Fogg calmly, "and remember that formerly cats were +sacred animals in India. Those were happy days." + +"For the cats, my lord?" + +"And perhaps for travellers too," said Fogg, as he proceeded with his +dinner. + +Soon afterwards Mr. Fix landed, and his first act was to go to the +police-office. He said who and what he was, and stated his business +and how matters stood regarding the robbery. Had any warrant been +forwarded? No, nothing of the kind had been received, and of course it +could not have reached Bombay, as it was despatched after Fogg's +departure. + +Fix was disappointed. He wanted the Commissioner to grant him a +warrant on the spot, but the request was refused. The business was the +Home Government's affair, not his, and he could not issue the warrant. +This red-tapeism is quite British style. Fix of course did not insist, +and made up his mind to await the arrival of the warrant. But he +resolved not to lose sight of the robber meanwhile. He had no doubt +whatever that Fogg would remain some time in Bombay--we know that was +also Passe-partout's notion--and the warrant would probably arrive +before the criminal left the town. + +But it was now evident to Passe-partout that his master intended to +push on from Bombay as rapidly as he had left Paris and Suez; that the +journey was not to end at Bombay, it was to be continued to Calcutta +at any rate, and perhaps even farther still. Passe-partout then began +to think that perhaps the bet was really the object, and that fate had +indeed condemned him, with all his wish for rest, to journey around +the world in eighty days. + +However, having purchased some necessary articles, he walked about the +streets of Bombay. There were a great number of people about--Europeans +of all nationalities; Persians, wearing pointed caps; Buntryas, with +round turbans; Scindees, with square caps; Armenians, in their flowing +robes; Parsees, with black mitres. It was a Parsee festival that day. + +These Parsees are followers of Zoroaster, and are the most industrious, +most intelligent, and most civilised of the native races, and to which +the majority of the Bombay merchants belong. On that occasion a sort +of religious carnival was being held; there were processions, and +numbers of dancing-girls clad in gauzy rose-coloured garments, who +danced modestly and gracefully to the sound of the tom-tom and viols. + +Passe-partout, as may be imagined, drank in all these sights and +sounds with delight; and his expression at the unusual spectacle was +that of the greatest astonishment. + +Unfortunately, his curiosity very nearly compromised the object of his +master's journey. He wandered on, after watching the carnival, on his +way to the station; but seeing the splendid pagoda on Malabar Hill, he +thought he would like to go in. He was quite unaware of two things: +first, that certain pagodas are closed to all Christians, and even the +believers can only obtain admittance by leaving their shoes or +slippers at the doors of the temple. The British Government, +respecting the native creed, severely punishes anyone attempting to +violate the sanctity of the native mosques or temples. + +But Passe-partout, innocent of harm, tourist-like, went in, and was +admiring the pagoda and the lavish ornamentation of the interior, when +he suddenly found himself sprawling on his back on the pavement Over +him stood three angry men, who rushed upon him, tore off his shoes, +and began to pommel him soundly, uttering savage cries as they did so. + +The agile Frenchman was quickly upon his feet again, and with a couple +of well-directed blows of his fists upset two of his adversaries, who +were much encumbered in their long robes; then, rushing out of the +temple, he quickly distanced the remaining Hindoo and evaded him in +the crowd. + +At five minutes to eight he presented himself at the railroad station, +without his hat and shoes and minus the parcel in which all his +purchases were wrapped. Fix was there on the platform. Having tracked +Fogg, he perceived that that worthy was about to leave Bombay at once. +Fix made up his mind to go with him as far as Calcutta, and even +beyond if necessary. Passe-partout did not notice the detective, who +kept in the shade; but the policeman heard the recital of the valet's +adventures, which Passe-partout told to his master in a few sentences. + +"I trust this will not happen again," replied Fogg, quietly, as he +took his seat in the carriage. + +The poor lad, quite upset and minus his hat and shoes, took his place +also without replying. + +Fix was getting into another compartment, when suddenly a thought +struck him, and he muttered: + +"No, I will remain. An offence has been committed upon Indian ground. +I've got my man!" + +At that moment the engine uttered a piercing whistle, and the train +moved out into the night. + + + + + +CHAPTER XI. + +Showing how Phileas Fogg purchased a "Mount" at a Fabulous Price. + + + +The train started punctually, carrying the usual complement of +travellers, including officers of the civil and military classes and +merchants. Passe-partout was seated near his master, a third traveller +had secured a corner opposite. + +This gentleman was General Sir Francis Cromarty, one of Mr. Fogg's +whist-party on board the _Mongolia_, who was _en route_ to take up his +command at Benares. + +Sir Francis was a tall fair specimen of the British officer, about +fifty years old. He had greatly distinguished himself during the +Mutiny. He had been in India almost all his life, and only paid +occasional visits to his native country. He was a well-informed man, +and would willingly have imparted any information he possessed, had +Phileas Fogg chosen to apply to him. But the latter did nothing of the +kind. He never travelled. He merely made a track across country. He +was a heavy body, describing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, +according to certain mechanical laws. At that time he was actually +engaged in calculating how many hours had passed since he left London, +and he would have rubbed his hands joyfully, had he been one of those +people who indulge in these needless enthusiastic demonstrations. + +Sir Francis Cromarty had already noticed the eccentricity of his +companion while at whist, and had questioned seriously whether a human +heart actually beat beneath that cold envelope of flesh, whether Fogg +really possessed a soul alive to the beauties of nature, and subject +to human failings and aspirations. That was what puzzled the gallant +soldier. None of the many original characters which it had been his +fortune to encounter had, in any way, resembled this product of the +action of exact science upon humanity. + +Phileas Fogg had not concealed from Sir Francis the object of his +journey round the world, nor the conditions under which he had +undertaken it. The general saw nothing in this wager but the +eccentricity of its surroundings, and the want of _transire +benefaciendo_ which ought to guide any reasonable man. If this +extraordinary man went on in this manner all his life, he would +finally quit the world, having done absolutely nothing for his own +benefit or for that of others. + +An hour after leaving Bombay, the train crossed the viaduct carrying +the line from Salsette to the mainland. At Callyan station they left +the branch-line to Kandallah and Poona on the right, and proceeded to +Panwell. Here they traversed the gorges of the Western Ghauts, +composed of trap and basaltic rocks, the highest summits of which are +crowned with thick trees. + +Sir Francis Cromarty and Phileas Fogg occasionally exchanged a few +words, and at one time the general picked up the thread of +conversation by remarking: + +"A few years ago, Mr. Fogg, you would have experienced a considerable +impediment to your journey here, and would most likely have +compromised your success." + +"How do you mean, Sir Francis?" + +"Because the railway did not go beyond the base of these mountains, +and it was then necessary to make the journey in palanquins or on +ponies as far as Kandallah on the opposite slope." + +"Such an interruption would not in any way have disarranged my plans," +replied Mr. Fogg. "I have taken precautions against certain +obstacles." + +"Nevertheless, Mr. Fogg, you very nearly had an awkward bit of +business on hand in consequence of yonder fellow's adventure." + +Passe-partout was fast asleep, with his feet well muffled up in the +railway-rug, and was quite unconscious that he was the subject of +conversation. + +"The British Government is extremely strict, and with reason, upon any +such offences," continued Sir Francis. "Above everything, it considers +that the religious feelings of the native races should be respected, +and if your servant had been arrested--" + +"Well," interrupted Mr. Fogg, "well. Sir Francis, suppose he had been +taken and condemned and punished, he might have returned quietly to +Europe afterwards. That would not have been a reason for stopping his +master." + +And then the conversation again languished. During the night the train +crossed the mountains, passed Nassik, and next day, the 21st October, +it traversed a comparatively flat district of Kandish. The +well-cultivated country was sprinkled with villages, above which the +minarets of the pagodas took the place of the English church-spires. +Numerous tributaries of the Godavery watered this fertile territory. + +Passe-partout awoke and looked about him. He could not at first +believe that he actually was crossing India in a carriage upon the G. +I. P. Railway. It appeared quite incredible, but it was none the less +real. The locomotive, driven by an English engineer and fed with +English coal, puffed its steam over coffee, cotton, clove, and pepper +plantations. The smoke curled around the palm-trees, amid which +picturesque bungalows were frequently visible, and "viharis," a sort +of abandoned monasteries, as well as a few temples enriched with +wonderful Indian architecture, were here and there apparent. Farther +on, they passed immense tracts of land extending as far as the eye +could reach, and jungles in which serpents and tigers fled scared at +the roar and rattle of the train; then succeeded forests through which +the line passed, the abode of elephants which, with pensive gaze, +watched the speeding train. + +During the forenoon our travellers traversed the blood-stained +district beyond Malligaum, sacred to the votaries of the goddess Kali. +Not far from this arose the minarets of Ellora and its pagodas, and +the famous Aurungabad, the capital of the ferocious Aurung-Zeb, now +the chief town of one of the detached kingdoms of the Nizam. It was in +this country that Feringhea, chief of the Thugs--the King of +Stranglers--exercised sway. These assassins, united in an invisible +and secret association, strangled, in honour of the goddess of death, +victims of every age without shedding blood, and in time there was +scarcely a place where a corpse was not to be found. The English +Government has succeeded in checking very considerably these wholesale +massacres, but Thugs still exist and pursue their horrible vocation. + +At half-past twelve the train stopped at Burhampore, and Passe-partout +succeeded in obtaining a pair of slippers decorated with false pearls, +which he wore with evident conceit. + +The passengers ate a hurried breakfast, and the train again started +for Assinghur, skirting for a moment the river Tapy, a small stream +which flows into the Gulf of Cambay, near Surat. + +It may now not be out of place to record Passe-partout's reflections. +Until his arrival at Bombay he had cherished the idea that the journey +would not be continued farther. But now that he was being carried +across India he saw things in a different light. His old love of +wandering returned in full force. The fantastic ideas of his youthful +days came back to him again; he took his master's projects quite +seriously; he began to believe in the wager, and consequently in the +tour of the world to be completed in that maximum of eighty days which +must not on any account be exceeded. Even now he was beginning to feel +anxious about possible delays and accidents _en route_. He felt +interested in winning, and trembled when he considered that he had +actually compromised the whole thing by his stupidity on the previous +day. So he was much more restless than Mr. Fogg, because less +phlegmatic. He counted over and over again the days that had already +passed since he had started, cursed at the stoppages at stations, +found fault with the slow speed, and in his heart blamed Mr. Fogg for +not having "tipped" the engine-driver. He quite overlooked the fact +that, though such a thing was possible on board a steamer, it was out +of question on a railroad where the time of the trains is fixed and +the speed regulated. + +Towards evening they penetrated the defiles of the mountains of +Sutpoor, which separate the territory of Khandeish from that of +Bundelcund. + +Next day, the 22nd, Passe-partout replied, to a question of Sir +Francis Cromarty, that it was three a.m., but, as a matter of fact, +this wonderful watch was about four hours slow, as it was always kept +at Greenwich time, which was then nearly seventy-seven degrees west, +and the watch would of course get slower and slower. + +Sir Francis corrected Passe-partout's time, respecting which he made a +remark similar to that made by Mr. Fix. He endeavoured to convince the +valet that he ought to regulate his watch by each new meridian, and as +he was still going east the days became shorter and shorter by four +minutes for every degree. But all this was useless. Whether the +headstrong fellow understood the general or not, he certainly did not +alter his watch, which was steadily kept at London time. At any rate +it was a delusion which pleased him and hurt nobody. + +At eight o'clock in the morning the train stopped about fifteen miles +from Rothal, at a place where there were many bungalows and huts +erected. The guard passed along the line, crying out, "All change +here!" + +Phileas Fogg looked at Sir Francis Cromarty, who did not appear to +understand this unexpected halt. + +Passe-partout, not less astonished, leaped down, and in a moment or +two returned, exclaiming, "There is no railway beyond this place, +sir." + +"What do you mean?" inquired Sir Francis. + +"I mean that the train does not go any farther." + +The general immediately got out. Phileas Fogg followed quietly. Both +these gentlemen accosted the guard. + +"Where are we?" asked Sir Francis. + +"At the village of Kholby, sir," replied the guard. + +"Why do we stop here?" + +"Because the line is not finished beyond." + +"Not finished! How is that?" + +"There are about fifty miles yet to be laid between this point and +Allahabad, where we take the train again." + +"The papers announced the line complete." + +"I cannot help that, sir; the papers were mistaken." + +"But you book people 'through' from Bombay to Calcutta," persisted Sir +Francis, who was waxing angry. + +"Certainly we do; but it is an understood thing that the passengers +provide their own conveyance between Kholby and Allahabad." + +Sir Francis was furious. Passe-partout would have liked to have +knocked the guard down, if he had been able. He did not dare to look +at his master. + +"We had better get on, Sir Francis," said Mr. Fogg; "we must get to +Allahabad somehow; let us see how we can do so." + +"It strikes me that this delay will upset your arrangements +considerably, Mr. Fogg," replied Sir Francis. + +"Oh dear no! all this has been discounted," replied Fogg. + +"What! did you know that the line was unfinished?" + +"No; but I was quite sure that some obstacles would crop up to retard +me. Nothing is yet lost I have two days in reserve. The steamer does +not leave Calcutta for Hong Kong until the 23rd, at mid-day. This is +only the 22nd, and we shall reach Calcutta in good time even now." + +What could be urged against such an assured reply as this? It was only +too evident that the railway ceased at that point. Newspapers are so +fond of anticipating, and in this case they had been decidedly +premature in announcing the completion of the line. The majority of +the passengers had been made aware of the existing state of things, +and provided themselves with conveyance accordingly, whatever they +could obtain--"palkigharies" with four wheels, waggons drawn by zebus, +a sort of brahma ox, palanquins, ponies, &c. So it happened that there +was nothing left for Mr. Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty. + +"I shall walk," said Phileas Fogg. Passe-partout, who was close to his +master, made a very expressive grimace when he gazed at his elegant +but very thin slippers. Fortunately he had made a discovery, but +hesitated a little to announce it. + +"Sir," he said at length, "I think I have found means for our +transport." + +"What is it?" + +"An elephant. It belongs to a native who lives close by." + +"Let us go and see this animal," said Mr. Fogg. Five minutes later Sir +Francis and Mr. Fogg, accompanied by Passe-partout, reached the hut, +which was surrounded by a palisade. In the hut resided the native; +inside the palisade the elephant lived. The former introduced the new +arrivals to the latter, at their particular request. + +They found that the animal was half domesticated; it had originally +been purchased for a fighting elephant, not for carrying purposes. +With this end in view, the owner had begun to alter the naturally +placid disposition of the beast by irritating him, and getting him +gradually up to that pitch of fury called "mutsh" by the Hindoos, and +this is done by feeding the elephant on sugar and butter for three +months. This at first sight would appear scarcely the treatment likely +to conduce to such an object, but it is successfully employed. + +Fortunately, however, for Mr. Fogg, the elephant in question had not +been subjected to this treatment for a very long time, and the "mutsh" +had not appeared. + +Kiouni--for so was the animal called--was no doubt quite competent to +perform the journey required, and in the absence of other conveyance, +Phileas Fogg determined to hire him. + +But elephants in India are dear, for they are becoming somewhat +scarce. The males, which only are suited to the circus training, are +much in request. They seldom breed when in a domesticated state, so +they can only be procured by hunting. They are, therefore, the objects +of much solicitude, and when Mr. Fogg asked the owner what he could +hire his elephant for, the man declined point-blank to lend him at +all. + +Fogg persisted, and offered ten pounds an hour for the beast! It was +refused. Twenty? Still refused. Forty? Declined with thanks. +Passe-partout actually jumped at each "bid." But the native would not +yield to the temptation. + +Nevertheless the price tendered was a handsome one. Supposing that the +elephant took fifteen hours to reach Allahabad, the price would amount +to six hundred pounds! + +Phileas Fogg, without betraying the least irritation, then proposed to +the owner that he should sell the animal outright, and offered one +thousand pounds for him. + +But the Hindoo declined; perhaps he thought he would make more by so +doing. + +Sir Francis Cromarty then took Mr. Fogg aside, and requested him to +reflect ere he bid higher. Mr. Fogg replied that he was not in the +habit of acting on impulse, that a bet of twenty thousand pounds +depended upon the accomplishment of the journey, that the elephant was +absolutely necessary, and if he paid twenty times the value of the +animal, it must be had. + +So Mr. Fogg returned to the Indian, who perceived it was only a +question of asking. Phileas offered in quick succession twelve +hundred, fifteen hundred, eighteen hundred, and finally two thousand +pounds. Passe-partout, usually so ruddy, was now pale with emotion. At +two thousand pounds the native yielded. "I declare by my slippers, +that's a pretty price for an elephant!" exclaimed Passe-partout. + +This business over, there was nothing but to obtain a guide. That was +easily done. A young and intelligent-looking Parsee offered his +services. Mr. Fogg engaged him, and promised him a good reward, which +would naturally increase his intelligence. + +The elephant was got ready without delay. The Parsee was quite skilled +in the business of a "mahout." He placed a sort of saddle on the +elephant's back, and at each end of it he fixed a small howdah. + +Mr. Fogg paid the native the two thousand pounds in bank-notes, which +he took from the inexhaustible carpet-bag. Passe-partout writhed as +they were paid over. Then Mr. Fogg offered Sir Francis Cromarty a seat +on the elephant, which the general gratefully accepted. One traveller +more or less would not signify to such an animal. + +Provisions were purchased. Sir Francis and Mr. Fogg each occupied a +howdah, while Passe-partout sat astride between them. The Parsee +seated himself upon the elephant's neck, and at nine o'clock they +quitted the village, the elephant taking a short cut through the thick +palm-forest. + + + + + +CHAPTER XII. + +Showing what happened to Phileas Fogg and his Companions as they +traversed the Forest. + + + +The guide, hoping to shorten the journey, kept to the left of the +railroad line, which would be carried in a circuitous manner through +the Vindhia Mountains when completed. The Parsee, who was well +acquainted with all the byways, declared that twenty miles would be +saved by striking directly across the forest; so the party yielded. + +Sir Francis and Mr. Fogg, buried up to their necks in the howdahs, got +terribly shaken by the rough trotting of the elephant, which was urged +by the driver. But they put up with the inconvenience with true +British self-restraint; they spoke but seldom and scarcely looked at +each other. + +Passe-partout was obliged to be very careful not to keep his tongue +between his teeth, else it would have been bitten off, so unmercifully +was he jogged up and down. The brave fellow, sometimes thrown forward +on the animal's neck, sometimes upon the croup, performed a series of +vaulting movements something like a circus clown on the +"spring-board." But all the time he joked and laughed at the +somersaults he performed so involuntarily; occasionally he took out a +lump of sugar from his pocket and handed it to Kiouni, who took it in +his trunk without slackening his pace for a second. + +After proceeding thus for a couple of hours, the driver called a halt +and gave the elephant an hour's rest. The animal ate all the branches +and shrubs in the vicinity, as soon as he had quenched his thirst at a +neighbouring spring. Sir Francis did not complain of this delay; he +was terribly bruised. Mr. Fogg did not appear any more discomposed +than if he had only got out of bed. + +"He is a man of iron!" exclaimed the general, as he gazed at his +companion admiringly. + +"Of hammered iron," replied Passe-partout, who was preparing a hasty +breakfast. + +At noon the driver gave the signal for departure. The country soon +became very wild. The dense forest was succeeded by groves of dates +and palms; then came extensive arid plains dotted here and there with +bushes, and sprinkled with immense blocks of syenite. The whole of +this region of Bundelcund, which is seldom traversed, is inhabited by +a fanatical people inured to the most fearful practices of the +Hindoos. The English Government has scarcely yet entirely obtained the +control over this region, which is ruled by rajahs, who are very +difficult to bring to book from their almost inaccessible mountain +fastnesses. Many times the travellers noticed bands of fierce natives, +who gesticulated angrily at perceiving the swift-footed elephant pass +by; and the Parsee took care to give them all a wide berth. They +encountered very few wild animals; even monkeys were not numerous, and +they fled away with grimaces and gestures, which amused Passe-partout +very much indeed. + +One reflection, however, troubled Passe-partout exceedingly, and that +was how would his master dispose of the elephant when they reached +Allahabad? Would he take it on with him? That was scarcely possible. +The price of conveyance, added to the purchase-money, would be +ruinous. Would he sell the beast or set him free? No doubt the animal +deserved some consideration. Suppose Mr. Fogg made him, Passe-partout, +a present of the elephant? He would feel very much embarrassed. So +these considerations worried the valet not a little. + +At eight o'clock they had crossed the principal heights of the Vindhia +chain, and at a ruined bungalow upon the southern slope of the +mountains our travellers halted again. + +The distance traversed was about twenty-five miles, and they had still +as far to go to reach Allahabad. The night was quite chilly. A fire +lighted by the Parsee was very acceptable, and the travellers made an +excellent supper of the provisions they had purchased at Kholby. The +intermittent conversation soon gave way to steady snoring. The guide +kept watch by the elephant, which slept outside, supported by the +trunk of an enormous tree. + +Nothing happened to disturb the party during the night. Now and then +the growls of wild animals, or the chattering of monkeys, broke the +silence, but nothing more terrible was heard, and the larger animals +did not disturb the occupants of the bungalow. Sir Francis Cromarty +"lay like a warrior taking his rest." Passe-partout, in a restless +sleep, appeared to be practising the gymnastics he had executed on the +elephant's back. As for Mr. Fogg, he slept as peacefully as if he were +in his quiet bed in Saville Row. + +At six o'clock they resumed their journey. The guide hoped to reach +Allahabad that evening. In that case Mr. Fogg would only lose a +portion of the eight-and-forty hours already saved since the +commencement of the trip. + +They descended the last slopes of the Vindhias. The elephant resumed +his rapid pace. Towards mid-day the guide passed round the village of +Kallenger on the Cani, one of the small affluents of the Ganges. He +appeared to avoid all inhabited places, feeling more secure in the +deserted tracts. Allahabad was thence only a dozen miles off in a +north-easterly direction. They halted once more under a banana-tree, +the fruit of which, as wholesome as bread and "as succulent as cream," +as they said, was highly appreciated by our travellers. + +At two o'clock they entered a dense forest, which they had to traverse +for some miles. The guide preferred to travel in the shade of the +woods. So far at any rate they had encountered nothing unpleasant, and +there was every reason to suppose that the journey would be +accomplished without accident, when the elephant, after a few +premonitory symptoms, stopped suddenly. + +It was then four o'clock in the afternoon. + +"What is the matter?" asked Sir Francis Cromarty, putting his head up +over the top of his howdah. + +"I don't know, sir," replied the Parsee, listening intently to a +confused murmuring sound which came through the thickly-interlacing +branches. + +Soon the sound became more defined. One might have fancied it was a +concert at a great distance; composed of human voices and brass +instruments all performing at once. Passe-partout was all eyes and +ears. Mr. Fogg waited patiently without uttering a word. + +The Parsee leaped down, fastened the elephant to a tree, and plunged +into the thick underwood. In a few moments he came back, exclaiming: +"A procession of Brahmins is coming this way! Let us hide ourselves if +we can." + +As he spoke he loosed the elephant and led him into a thicket, bidding +the travellers to stay where they were. He was ready to remount should +flight be necessary, but he thought that the procession would pass +without noticing the party, for the thick foliage completely concealed +them. + +The discordant sounds kept approaching--a monotonous kind of chant, +mingled with the beating of tom-toms and the clash of cymbals. The +head of the procession soon became visible beneath the trees about +fifty paces off, and Mr. Fogg and his party easily distinguished the +curious individuals who composed it. + +The priests, wearing mitres and long robes trimmed with lace, marched +in front. They were surrounded by a motley crowd of men, women, and +children, who were chanting a sort of funeral hymn, broken at +intervals by the sound of the various instruments. Behind these came, +on a car (the large wheels of which, spokes and all, were ornamented +with the similitude of serpents), a hideous figure drawn by four +richly-caparisoned zebus. This idol had four arms, the body was +painted a dusky red, with staring eyes, matted hair, a protruding +tongue, and lips tinted with henna and betel. Round its neck was hung +a necklace of skulls, and it was girt with a zone of human hands; it +stood upright upon the headless trunk of a giant figure. + +Sir Francis Cromarty recognised the idol at once. + +"That is the goddess Kali," he whispered; "the goddess of love and of +death." + +"Of death I can understand, but not of love," muttered Passe-partout; +"what a villainous hag it is!" + +The Parsee signed to him to hold his tongue. + +Around the idol a number of fakirs danced and twirled about. + +These wretches were daubed with ochre, and covered with wounds, from +which the blood issued drop by drop; absurd idiots, who would throw +themselves under the wheels of Juggernaut's chariot had they the +opportunity. + +Behind these fanatics marched some Brahmins, clad in all their +oriental sumptuousness of garb, dragging a woman along, who faltered +at each step. + +This female was young, and as white as a European. Her head, neck, +shoulders, ears, arms, hands, and ankles were covered with jewels, +bracelets, or rings. A gold-laced tunic, over which she wore a thin +muslin robe, revealed the swelling contours of her form. + +Behind this young woman, and in violent contrast to her, came a guard, +armed with naked sabres and long damascened pistols, carrying a dead +body in a palanquin. + +The corpse was that of an old man clothed in the rich dress of a +rajah; the turban embroidered with pearls, the robe of silk tissue and +gold, the girdle of cashmere studded with diamonds, and wearing the +beautiful weapons of an Indian prince. + +The musicians brought up the rear with a guard of fanatics, whose +cries even drowned the noise of the instruments at times. These closed +the _cortege_. + +Sir Francis Cromarty watched the procession pass by and his face wore +a peculiarly saddened expression. Turning to the guide, he said: + +"Is it a suttee?" + +The Parsee made a sign in the affirmative, and put his fingers on his +lips. The long procession wended its way slowly amongst the trees, and +before long the last of it disappeared in the depths of the forest. +The music gradually died away, occasionally a few cries could be +heard, but soon they ceased, and silence reigned around. + +Phileas Fogg had heard what Sir Francis had said, and as soon as the +procession had passed out of sight, he said: + +"What is a suttee?" + +"A suttee," replied the general, "is a human sacrifice--but a +voluntary one. That woman you saw just now will be burned to-morrow +morning at daylight." + +"The scoundrels!" exclaimed Passe-partout, who could not repress his +indignation. + +"And that dead body?" said Mr. Fogg. + +"Is that of her husband--a prince," replied the guide. "He was an +independent rajah in Bundelcund." + +"Do you mean to say that these barbarous customs still obtain in +India--under British rule?" said Mr. Fogg, without betraying any +emotion whatever. + +"In the greater portion of India," replied Sir Francis Cromarty, +"these sacrifices do not take place; but we have no authority in the +savage districts, one of the principal of which is Bundelcund. The +entire district north of the Vindhia range is the theatre of pillage +and murder." + +"Poor creature," exclaimed Passe-partout; "burned alive!" + +"Yes," continued the general, "burned alive; and if she was not, you +have no idea to what a wretched condition she would be reduced by her +relatives. They would shave off her hair, feed her very scantily upon +rice, and hold no communication with her, for she would be regarded as +unclean, and would die like a dog. The prospect of such treatment, +even more strongly than affection or religious fanaticism, often urges +the widows to submit themselves to suttee. Sometimes, however, the act +is really voluntary, and energetic interference by the Government is +necessary to prevent it. Some years ago, when I was in Bombay, a young +widow asked the governor's leave to be burned with her late husband's +body. As you may imagine, he refused her request. Then the +disconsolate widow left the town, took refuge with an independent +rajah, and burned herself, to the satisfaction of all concerned." + +As the general proceeded, the guide nodded in assent to the +truthfulness of the relation, and when the speaker had finished, the +Parsee said: + +"But the suttee to take place to-morrow is not voluntary." + +"How do you know?" + +"Everyone in Bundelcund knows that," replied the guide. + +"Yet the unfortunate woman offered no resistance," said Sir Francis +Cromarty. + +"Because she was drugged with hemp and opium," replied the Parsee. + +"But whither are they taking her?" + +"To the Pagoda of Pillaji, two miles away from here. There she will +pass the night, and wait for the hour appointed for the sacrifice." + +"And the sacrifice will take place?" + +"At dawn to-morrow." + +As he spoke, the guide led forth the elephant and clambered up to his +seat on its neck; but just as he was about to whistle to the animal to +proceed, Mr. Fogg stopped him, and said to Sir Francis Cromarty, +"Suppose we save this woman?" + +"Save her!" exclaimed the general. + +"I have still twelve hours to spare," continued Fogg; "I can devote +that time to the purpose." + +"Well, I declare you are a man with a heart in the right place," cried +Sir Francis. + +"Sometimes it is," replied Mr. Fogg, smiling grimly, "when I have +time!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XIII. + +Showing how Passe-partout perceives once again that Fortune favours +the Brave. + + + +The project was a difficult one and a bold, almost impossible to carry +out. Mr. Fogg was about to risk his life, or at least his liberty, and +consequently the success of his undertaking; but, nevertheless, he +hesitated not a moment. Besides, he found in Sir Francis Cromarty a +sturdy ally. Passe-partout also was at their disposal; he was quite +ready, and his opinion of his master was rising every moment. He +possessed a heart, after all, beneath that cold exterior. +Passe-partout was beginning to love Mr. Fogg. + +The guide remained. What course would he take in this business? He +would probably side with the natives. At any rate, if he would not +assist, his neutrality must be assured. + +Sir Francis put the question to him plainly. + +"Your honour," replied the man, "I am a Parsee. The woman is a Parsee +also. You may dispose of me as you wish." + +"Good," replied Sir Francis. + +"But," continued the guide, "you must remember that not only do we +risk our lives in this affair, but we may be horribly tortured if we +are taken alive. So take care." + +"We have made up our minds to run the risk," said Mr. Fogg. "I think +we had better wait till nightfall before we act." + +"I think so too," said the guide, who then proceeded to give his +employers some information respecting the lady. He said she was a +Parsee, a celebrated Indian beauty, daughter of one of the richest +merchants in Bombay. She had received a complete English education; +her manners and tastes were all European. Her name was Aouda. She was, +moreover, an orphan, and had been married against her will to the +rajah. She had only been three months wed. Knowing the fate that +awaited her, she had attempted to escape, but was immediately retaken; +and the rajah's relatives, who were desirous, from motives of +interest, for her death, had devoted her to the suttee, which now +appeared inevitable. + +These particulars only served to confirm Mr. Fogg and his companions +in their generous resolve. It was then decided that the guide should +take them as near to the pagoda as possible without attracting +attention. + +In about half an hour the elephant was halted in the brushwood about +five hundred yards from the temple, which was not visible; but the +shouts of the fanatics were distinctly audible. + +The best manner of releasing the intended victim was then discussed. +The guide was acquainted with the pagoda in which he declared the +young woman was imprisoned. Was it possible to enter by one of the +doors, when all the band of priests, etc., were wrapped in a drunken +sleep? or, should they enter through a hole in the wall? This could +only be decided when they reached the pagoda. But one thing was very +certain, and that was that the deed must be done at night, and not at +daybreak, when the victim was being led to the sacrifice. Then human +aid would be powerless to save her. + +So the party waited till night. At about six o'clock in the evening it +would be dark, and then they would make a reconnaissance. The last +cries of the fakirs would by that time be hushed. The Hindoos would by +that time, according to custom, be wrapped in the intoxicating arms of +"bang"--liquid opium mixed with hemp; and it would be possible to +glide past them into the temple. + +The whole party, guided by the Parsee, then advanced stealthily +through the forest. After ten minutes' creeping beneath the branches of +the trees, they reached a rivulet, whence, by the glare of the +torches, they were enabled to distinguish the funeral pyre, composed +of the fragrant sandal-wood, and already saturated with perfumed oil. +Upon this pile lay the dead body of the deceased prince, which was to +be burned with his widow. A hundred paces from the pyre was the +pagoda, the minarets of which uprose beyond the tops of the +surrounding trees. + +"Come on," whispered the guide. + +With increasing caution the Parsee, followed by his companions, glided +silently amongst the tall grasses. The murmur of the breeze through +the trees was the only sound that broke the silence. + +The Parsee soon halted on the border of the clearing. Some torches lit +up the space. The ground was covered with groups of tipsy sleepers, +and bore a great resemblance to a battle-field strewn with dead +bodies. Men, women, and children lay all together. Some drunken +individuals still staggered about here and there. In the background +the temple loomed amid the thick trees. But greatly to the +disappointment of the guide, armed rajpoots kept watch by torchlight +upon the doors, in front of which they paced up and down with naked +swords. No doubt the priests within were equally vigilant. + +The Parsee advanced no farther. He perceived at once that it was +impossible to force an entrance to the temple, and he led his +companions back again. Sir Francis and Mr. Fogg also understood that +no more could be done in that direction. They stopped and consulted +together in undertones. + +"Let us wait a little," whispered the brigadier. "It is only eight +o'clock. Those sentries may go to sleep later." + +"That is possible, certainly," said the Parsee. + +So they all lay down under the trees and waited. + +The time passed very slowly. At intervals the guide would go forward +and reconnoitre. But the guards were always there; the torches burned +brightly still, and an uncertain glimmer penetrated through the +windows of the temple from the inside. + +They waited until nearly midnight. There was no change in the +situation. The sentries were sleepless, and it became evident that +they intended to keep watch all night. They were probably quite sober. +It now became necessary to try another plan and to cut through the +walls of the pagoda. There was then the chance of finding the priests +awake inside, watching their intended victim as closely as the +soldiers guarded the door. + +After a final consultation, the guide expressed himself ready to +proceed. Mr. Fogg, Sir Francis, and Passe-partout followed. They made +a long detour with the intention of approaching the pagoda from +behind. About half-past twelve they gained the walls without having +encountered anyone. Evidently no watch was kept at the side, but it +was equally evident that there was neither window nor door at the +back. + +The night was dark. The moon, then in her last quarter, appeared +scarcely above the horizon, and was covered frequently by thick +clouds. The trees also served to render the darkness more profound. It +was enough to have reached the wall, an opening must be discovered or +made. To accomplish this, Mr. Fogg and his companions had nothing but +their pocket-knives. Fortunately, the temple walls were only composed +of bricks and wood, which would not be very hard to cut through. Once +the first brick had been taken out, the rest was easy. + +They set about the work immediately, and as noiselessly as possible. +The Parsee and Passe-partout worked away to loosen the bricks in a +space about two feet wide. The labour was continued, and they were +getting on capitally, when a cry was heard from the interior of the +temple, and was immediately succeeded by others from the outside. +Passe-partout and the guide ceased working. Had they been heard, and +had the alarm been given? Common prudence necessitated a retreat, +which was effected in company with Sir Francis Cromarty and Phileas +Fogg. They ensconced themselves again beneath the trees to wait until +the alarm, if it were an alarm, had subsided, and ready in that event +to resume their operations. But, alas! the guards now completely +surrounded the pagoda and prevented all approach. It would be +difficult to depict the disappointment of these four men at this +unfortunate _contretemps_. As they were prevented from approaching the +victim, how could they hope to save her? Sir Francis Cromarty clenched +his hands, Passe-partout was almost beside himself, and even the guide +had some difficulty in preserving his self-restraint. The impassible +Phileas Fogg alone preserved his equanimity. + +"I suppose we may as well go away now?" whispered Sir Francis +Cromarty. + +"That's all we can do," the guide assented. + +"Don't be in a hurry," said Mr. Fogg. "It will suit me well enough if +we reach Allahabad at mid-day." + +"But what do you expect to do if we remain here?" said Sir Francis. +"It will be daylight in a couple of hours, and--" + +"We may get a chance at the last moment." + +The brigadier would have liked to have been able to read the +expression of Mr. Fogg's face. What was he thinking about, this +cool-headed Englishman? Would he, at the last moment, throw himself +upon the burning pile, and snatch her from the clutches of her +executioners openly? + +Such a proceeding would have been the height of folly, and no one +could for a moment imagine that Mr. Fogg was so foolhardy as that. +Nevertheless, Sir Francis consented to wait the _denouement_ of this +terrible scene. But the guide led the party to the edge of the +clearing, where, from behind a thicket, they could observe all the +proceedings. Meanwhile, Passe-partout had been hatching a project in +his busy brain, and at last the idea came forth like a flash of +lightning. His first conception of the notion he had repudiated as +ridiculously foolish, but at length he began to look upon the project +as feasible. "It is a chance," he muttered, "but perhaps the only one +with such bigoted idiots." At any rate he wriggled himself to the end +of the lowest branch of a tree, the extremity of which almost touched +the ground. + +The hours passed slowly on, and at length some faint indications of +day became visible in the sky. But it was still quite dark in the +neighbourhood of the pagoda. + +This was the time chosen for the sacrifice. The sleeping groups arose +as if the resurrection had arrived. The tom-toms sounded. Chants and +cries were once more heard. The sublime moment had come! + +Just then the doors of the pagoda were opened, and a strong light +flashed out from the interior. The victim could be perceived being +dragged by two priests to the door. It appeared to the spectators that +the unhappy woman, having shaken off the effects of her enforced +intoxication, was endeavouring to escape from her executioners. Sir +Francis Cromarty was deeply agitated, and seizing Mr. Fogg's hand +convulsively he perceived that the hand grasped an open knife. + +The crowd now began to move about. The young woman had been again +stupefied with hemp-fumes, and passed between the lines of fakirs who +escorted her, uttering wild cries as they proceeded. + +Phileas Fogg and his companions followed on the outskirts of the +crowd. Two minutes later they reached the bank of the stream, and +stopped about fifty paces from the funeral pyre, upon which the corpse +was extended. In the dim religious light, they could perceive the +outline of the victim close beside her deceased husband. + +A lighted torch was then quickly applied to the pile of wood, which, +saturated with oil, was instantly in a blaze. Sir Francis Cromarty and +the guide had to exert all their strength to restrain Mr. Fogg, who, +in his generous indignation, appeared about to rush upon the blazing +pile. + +But just as Phileas Fogg had succeeded in throwing them off, a change +came o'er the scene. A cry of terror rose from the natives, and they +bowed themselves to the earth in indescribable terror. + +The old rajah was not dead after all; there he was standing upright +upon the fiery funeral pile, clasping his young wife in his arms; +ready to leap from amid the smoke into the midst of the +horror-stricken crowd. The fakirs, the guards, the priests were all +seized with superstitious fear, and lay, faces to the earth, not +daring to lift their eyes to behold such a stupendous miracle. + +The resuscitated man was thus practically quite close to the place +where Phileas Fogg and Sir Francis Cromarty were standing with the +guide. + +"Let us be off," exclaimed the "spectre." + +It was only Passe-partout, who had, unperceived, gained the pyre under +cover of the smoke, and had rescued the young lady from certain death. +It was Passe-partout himself who, thanks to his happy audacity, was +enabled to pass unharmed through the terrified assemblage. + +In an instant the four friends had disappeared in the woods, and the +elephant was trotting rapidly away. But very soon the loud cries and +the clamour that arose told them that the trick had been discovered, +and a bullet whizzed by as an additional confirmation. For there upon +the blazing pile lay the rajah's corpse; and the priests quickly +understood that a rescue had been so far successfully accomplished. +They immediately dashed into the forest, accompanied by the soldiers, +who fired a volley; but the fugitives had got away, and in a few +moments more were out of reach of arrows and bullets both. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIV. + +In which Phileas Fogg descends the charming Valley of the Ganges, +without noticing its Beauties. + + + +The rash attempt had proved successful. An hour later, Passe-partout +was laughing at the result of his venturous plan. Sir Francis Cromarty +had shaken hands with him. His master had said, "Well done!" which +from him was high commendation indeed. To which expressions of +approbation, Passe-partout had replied that all the credit of the +affair belonged to his master. His own share in it had been an absurd +notion after all; and he laughed again when he thought that he, +Passe-partout, the ex-gymnast, ex-sergeant of the fire brigade, had +actually played the part of spouse of a beautiful young lady, the +widow of an embalmed rajah! + +As for the young lady herself, she was still insensible, and quite +unconscious of all that was passing or had lately passed. Wrapped up +in a railroad-rug, she was now reclining in one of the howdahs. + +Meanwhile the elephant, guided with unerring care by the Parsee, was +progressing rapidly through the still gloomy forest. After an hour's +ride, they arrived at an extensive plain. At seven o'clock they +halted. The young lady was still quite unconscious. The guide poured +some brandy down her throat, but she remained insensible for some time +afterwards. Sir Francis Cromarty, who was aware that no serious evil +effects supervened from the inhalation of the fumes of hemp, was in no +way anxious about her. + +But if her restoration to consciousness was not a subject of anxiety +to the brigadier, he was less assured respecting her life in the +future. He did not hesitate to tell Mr. Fogg that if Madame Aouda +remained in India, she would sooner or later be taken by her would-be +executioners. Those fanatics were scattered everywhere through the +peninsula, and there was not a doubt that, despite the English police, +the Hindoos would claim their victim, no matter in what presidency she +might endeavour to take refuge. And in support of his assertion, Sir +Francis instanced a similar case which had recently taken place. His +opinion, therefore, was that she would only be in absolute safety when +she quitted India for ever. + +Mr. Fogg replied that he would consider the matter, and give his +opinion later. + +About ten o'clock the guide announced that they were close to +Allahabad. Then they would be able to continue their journey by the +railroad, and in about four-and-twenty hours they would reach +Calcutta. Phileas Fogg would in that case be in time to catch the Hong +Kong steamer, which was to sail at noon on the 25th of October. The +young woman was safely bestowed in a private waiting-room, while +Passe-partout was hurriedly despatched to purchase various necessary +articles of clothing, etc, for her use. His master supplied the funds +for the purpose. + +Passe-partout hastened away, and ran through the streets of +Allahabad--the City of God--one of the most sacred cities of India, +inasmuch as it is built at the junction of the two holy streams of the +Ganges and the Jumna, whose waters attract pilgrims from every part of +the peninsula. We are also told that the Ganges has its source in +heaven, whence, owing to the influence of Bramah, it condescends to +earth. + +While he made his purchases diligently, Passe-partout did not forget +to look about him and see something of the city. It was at one time +defended by a splendid fort, which has since become the State prison. +Commerce and business no longer occupy their former places in +Allahabad. Vainly did the worthy European seek for such emporiums as +he would have met in Regent Street; he could find nothing better than +the shop of an old Jew clothesman--a crusty old man he was too. From +him he purchased a tweed dress, a large cloak, and a magnificent +otter-skin pelisse which cost seventy-five pounds. With these garments +he returned in triumph to the railway station. + +Mrs. Aouda had by that time partly recovered consciousness. The +influence of the drug administered by the priests was passing away by +degrees, and her bright eyes were once again resuming their soft and +charming Indian expression. + +The poet-king, Ucaf Uddaul, celebrating the charms of the Queen of +Ahundnagara, thus sings: + +"Her shining locks, parted in the centre of her forehead, set off the +harmonious contours of her white and delicate cheeks, all glowing in +their freshness. Her ebon brows have the shape and power of the bow of +Kama, the god of love; and beneath her silken lashes, her dark eyes +swim in liquid tenderness, as in the sacred lakes of the Himalayas is +reflected the celestial light. Her glittering, even, pearl-like teeth +shine between the smiling lips as the dewdrops in the half-closed +petals of the passion-flower. Her tiny ears, with curves divine, her +small hands, her little feet, tender as the buds of lotus, sparkle +with the pearls of Ceylon and the dazzling diamonds of the famed +Golconda. Her rounded, supple waist, which hand may circle round, +displays the curving outline of the hips, and swelling bosom, where +youth in all its loveliness expands its perfect treasures. Beneath the +tunic-folds the limbs seem formed within a silver mould by the +god-like hand of Vicvarcarnia, the immortal sculptor." + +Without exactly comparing Mrs. Aouda with the foregoing description, +it may be stated that she was a most charming woman, in the fullest +acceptation of the term. She spoke English with fluency and purity, +and the guide had only stated the truth when he had averred that the +Parsee lady had been transformed by her education. + +The train was about to start; Mr. Fogg was paying the Parsee guide his +hire as agreed--not a farthing in excess. This business-like +arrangement rather astonished Passe-partout, when he recalled all they +owed to the guide's devotion. In fact, the Parsee had risked his life +voluntarily by engaging in the affair at Pillaji, and if he should be +caught by the Hindoos he would very likely be severely dealt with. +There was still Kiouni, however. What was to be done with the +elephant, which had cost so much? But Phileas Fogg had already made up +his mind on that point. + +"Parsee," said he to the guide, "you have been most useful and devoted +to us. I have paid for your services, but not for your devotion. Would +you like to have the elephant? If so, he is yours." The eyes of the +guide sparkled. + +"Your honour is giving me a fortune!" he exclaimed. + +"Take him," replied Mr. Fogg, "and then I shall still be in your +debt." + +"Hurrah!" cried Passe-partout; "take him, my friend. Kiouni is a fine +animal;" and going up to the beast, he gave him some pieces of sugar, +saying, "Here, Kiouni, take this, and this." + +The elephant gave vent to some grunts of satisfaction, and then +seizing Passe-partout by the waist with his trunk, he lifted him up. +Passe-partout, not in the least afraid, continued to caress the +animal, which replaced him gently on the ground, and to the pressure +of the honest Kiouni's trunk, Passe-partout responded with a kindly +blow. + +Some short time after, Phileas Fogg, Sir Francis Cromarty, and +Passe-partout were seated with Mrs. Aouda, who occupied the best place +in a comfortable compartment of the train, which was speeding towards +Benares. This run of eighty miles from Allahabad was accomplished in +two hours, and in that time the young lady had quite recovered from +the drugs she had inhaled. Her astonishment at finding herself in the +train, dressed in European garments, and with three travellers utterly +unknown to her, may be imagined. + +Her companions in the first place showed her every attention, even to +the administration of a few drops of liqueur, and then the general +told her what had happened. He particularly dwelt upon the devotedness +of Phileas Fogg, who had risked his life to save hers, and upon the +termination of the adventure, of which Passe-partout was the hero. Mr. +Fogg made no remark whatever, and Passe-partout looked very bashful, +and declared it was not worth speaking of. + +Mrs. Aouda thanked her deliverers effusively by tears at least as much +as by words. Her beautiful eyes even more than her lips expressed her +gratitude. Then her thoughts flew back to the suttee, and as she +remarked she was still on Indian territory, she shuddered with horror. +Phileas Fogg, guessing her thoughts, hastened to reassure her, and +quietly offered to escort her to Hong Kong, where she could remain +till the affair had blown over. This offer the lady moat gratefully +accepted, for--curiously enough--a relative of hers, a Parsee like +herself, was then residing at Hong Kong, and was one of the principal +merchants of that British settlement. + +At half-past twelve the train stopped at Benares. Brahmin legends +state that this town is built upon the site of the ancient Casi, which +was at one time suspended between heaven and earth, like Mahomet's +coffin. But in these practical days, Benares, which orientals call the +Athens of India, rests prosaically upon the ground, and Passe-partout +caught many a glimpse of brick houses and numerous clay huts, which +gave the place a desolate appearance, without any local colour. + +Sir Francis Cromarty had now reached his destination; the troops he +was to command were encamped a few miles to the north of the town. He +took farewell of Phileas Fogg, wished him every success, and expressed +a hope that he would continue his journey in a more profitable and +less original manner. Mr. Fogg gently pressed his companion's hand. +Mrs. Aouda was more demonstrative; she could not forget what she owed +to Sir Francis Cromarty. As for Passe-partout, he was honoured with a +hearty shake of the general's hand, and was much impressed thereby. So +they parted. + +From Benares the railway traverses the valley of the Ganges. The +travellers had many glimpses of the varied country of Behar, the hills +covered with verdure, and a succession of barley, wheat, and com +fields, jungles full of alligators, neat villages, and thick forests. +Elephants and other animals were bathing in the sacred river, as were +also bands of Hindoos of both sexes, who, notwithstanding the advanced +season of the year, were accomplishing their pious ablutions. These +devotees were declared enemies of Buddhism, and were strict Brahmins, +believing in Vishnu, the sun god; Shiva, the personification of +nature; and Brahma, the head of priests and rulers. But how do Brahma, +Shiva, and Vishnu regard India, now completely Anglicised, with +hundreds of steamers darting and screaming along the holy waters of +the Ganges, frightening the birds and beasts and faithful followers of +the gods dwelling along the banks? + +The landscape passed rapidly by, and was occasionally hidden by the +stream. The travellers could now discern the fort of Chunar, twenty +miles south-west of Benares; then Ghazipore and its important +rose-water manufactories came in sight; then they caught a glimpse of +the tomb of Lord Cornwallis, which rises on the left bank of the +river; then the fortified town of Buxar; Patna, the great commercial +city and principal opium-market of India; Monghir, an European town, +as English as Manchester or Birmingham, with its foundries, factories, +and tall chimneys vomiting forth volumes of black smoke. + +Night fell, and still the train rushed on, in the midst of the roaring +and growling of wild animals, which fled from the advancing +locomotive. Nothing could of course then be seen of those wonders of +Bengal, Golconda, the ruins of Gom, and Morschabad, Burdwan, the +ancient capital, Hooghly, Chandernagore, in French territory, where +Passe-partout would have been glad to see his country's ensign. + +At last, at seven o'clock in the morning, they reached Calcutta. The +steamer for Hong Kong was not to leave till mid-day, so Phileas Fogg +had still five hours to spare. + +According to his journal, he was due at Calcutta on the 25th +October--twenty-three days from London; and at Calcutta he was as +arranged. He had neither gained nor lost so far. Unfortunately, the +two days he had had to spare he spent as we have seen while crossing +the peninsula; but we must not suppose that Phileas Fogg regretted his +actions for a moment. + + + + + +CHAPTER XV. + +In which the Bag of Bank-notes is lightened by some Thousands of +Pounds more. + + + +Passe-partout was the first to alight from the train; Mr. Fogg +followed, and helped out his fair companion. Phileas had counted upon +proceeding directly to the steamer, so as to settle Mrs. Aouda +comfortably on board. He was unwilling to leave her so long, as she +was on such dangerous ground. + +As Mr. Fogg was leaving the station a policeman approached him, and +said, "Mr. Phileas Fogg, is it not?" + +"It is," replied Phileas. + +"And this is your servant?" continued the policeman, indicating +Passe-partout. + +"Yes." + +"Will you be so good as to follow me?" + +Mr. Fogg did not appear in the least degree surprised. The policeman +was a representative of the law, and to an Englishman the law is +sacred. Passe-partout, like a Frenchman, wanted to argue the point, +but the policeman touched him with his cane, and his master made him a +sign to obey. + +"This young lady can accompany us?" said Mr. Fogg. + +"Certainly," replied the policeman. + +Mr. Fogg, Mrs. Aouda, and Passe-partout were then conducted to a +"palkighari," a sort of four-wheeled carriage, holding four people, +and drawn by two horses. They drove away, and no one spoke during the +twenty minutes' drive. + +The carriage passed through the "Black Town," and then through the +European quarter, which, with its brick houses, well-dressed people, +and handsome equipages, presented a marked contrast to the native +town. The carriage stopped before a quiet-looking house, which, +however, did not appear to be a private mansion. The policeman +directed his prisoners--for so we may term them--to alight, and +conducted them to a room, the windows of which were barred. + +"At half-past eight," he said, "you will be brought before Judge +Obadiah." He then went out and locked the door. + +"So we are prisoners," exclaimed Passe-partout, dropping into a chair. + +Mrs. Aouda, turning to Mr. Fogg, said tearfully: "Oh sir, pray do not +think of me any longer. It is on my account that you have been +arrested. It is for having saved me." + +Phileas Fogg calmly replied that such a thing was not possible. It was +quite out of the question that they could be arrested on account of +the suttee. The complainants would not dare to present themselves. +There must be some mistake, and Mr. Fogg added that in any case he +would see the young lady safe to Hong Kong. + +"But the steamer starts at twelve o'clock," said Passe-partout. + +"We shall be on board before that," replied the impassible Fogg. + +This was said so decidedly that Passe-partout could not help +muttering, "That's all right then, we shall be on board in time no +doubt." But in his soul he was not so very certain of it. + +At half-past eight the door opened, the policeman entered, and +conducted the friends into an adjoining room. This was the court, and +was pretty well filled by Europeans and natives. The three companions +were allotted seats on a bench lacing the magistrate's desk. Judge +Obadiah, followed by the clerk, entered almost immediately. He was a +fat, round-faced man. He took down a wig from a nail and put it on. + +"Call the first case," he began, but immediately putting his hand to +his head he said, "This is not my wig." + +"The fact is, your honour, it is mine," replied the clerk. + +"My dear Mr. Oysterpuff, how can you expect a judge to administer +justice in a clerk's wig?" + +The exchange was made. All this time Passe-partout was boiling over +with impatience, for the hands of the clock were getting on terribly +fast towards noon. + +"Now, then, the first case," said the judge. + +"Phileas Fogg," called out the clerk. + +"Here I am." + +"Passe-partout." + +"Here." + +"Good," said the judge. + +"For two days we have been awaiting you." + +"But of what do you accuse us?" cried Passe-partout impatiently. + +"You are going to hear," said the judge quietly. + +"Your honour," said Mr. Fogg, "I am a British citizen, and I have the +right--" + +"Have you not been properly treated?" asked the judge, + +"Oh yes, but--" + +"Very well, then. Call the plaintiffs." + +As the judge spoke the door opened, and three Hindoo priests were +introduced by an usher. + +"It is that, after all," muttered Passe-partout. "Those are the +fellows that wanted to burn our young lady." + +The priests stood erect before the judge, and the clerk read aloud the +complaint of sacrilege against Phileas Fogg and his servant, who were +accused of having defiled a place consecrated to the Brahmin religion. + +"You hear the charge," said the judge to Phileas Fogg. + +"Yes, your honour," replied the accused, looking at his watch, "and I +confess it." + +"You admit it?" + +"I admit it, and I wait to see what these priests in their turn will +confess respecting their doings at the Pagoda of Pillaji." + +The priests looked at each other. They evidently did not understand +the reference. + +"Of course," cried Passe-partout impetuously, "at the Pagoda of +Pillaji, where they were about to burn their victim." + +The priests looked stupefied, and the judge was almost equally +astonished. + +"What victim?" he asked. "To burn whom? In Bombay?" + +"Bombay!" exclaimed Passe-partout. + +"Of course. 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 shoes of the profaner +of the temple;" and he placed a pair of shoes upon the desk as he +spoke. + +"My shoes!" exclaimed Passe-partout, who was surprised into this +incautious admission. + +One can imagine the confusion which ensued. The incident at the pagoda +in Bombay had been quite forgotten by both master and man, and it was +on account of that that they were both detained. + +The detective Fix had seen at once the advantage he could derive from +that _contretemps_; so, delaying his departure for twelve hours, he +consulted with the priests at Malabar Hill and had promised them a +large reward, knowing very well that the English Government would +punish with extreme severity any trespass of such a description. Then +he had sent the priests by train on the track of the offenders. Owing +to the time spent by Phileas Fogg and his party in releasing the young +widow from the suttee, Fix and the Hindoo priests had reached Calcutta +first, but in any case Mr. Fogg and his servant would have been +arrested as they left the train in consequence of a telegraphic +despatch which had been forwarded to Calcutta by the authorities. The +disappointment of Fix may be imagined when he heard on his arrival +that Fogg had not reached Calcutta. He thought that his victim had +stopped at one of the intermediate stations, and Had taken refuge in +the southern provinces. For four-and-twenty hours Fix had restlessly +paced the railway station at Calcutta. What was his joy when that very +morning he perceived his man descending from the train in company with +a lady whose presence he could not account for. He had immediately +directed a policeman to arrest Mr. Fogg, and that is how the whole +party came to be brought before Judge Obadiah. + +If Passe-partout had been less wrapped up in his own business he would +have noticed the detective seated in the corner of the court, watching +the proceedings with an interest easy to be understood, for at +Calcutta, as heretofore, he still wanted the warrant to arrest the +supposed thief. + +But Judge Obadiah had noticed the avowal, which Passe-partout would +have given the world to recall. + +"So the facts are admitted," said the judge. + +"They are," replied Fogg coldly. + +"Well," continued the judge, "inasmuch as the English law is intended +to protect rigorously, and without distinction, all religions in +India, and as this fellow, Passe-partout, has confessed his crime, and +is convicted of having violated with sacrilegious feet the Pagoda of +Malabar Hill at Bombay during the day of the 20th of October, the said +Passe-partout is condemned to fifteen days' imprisonment and to pay a +fine of three hundred pounds." + +"Three hundred pounds!" exclaimed Passe-partout, who was scarcely +conscious of anything but the amount of the fine. + +"Silence!" shouted the usher. + +"And," continued the judge, "seeing that it is not proved that this +sacrilege was connived at by the master, but as he must be held +responsible for the acts and deeds of his servant, the said Phileas +Fogg is sentenced to eight days' imprisonment and a fine of one +hundred and fifty pounds. Usher, call the next case." + +Fix, in his corner, rubbed his hands to his satisfaction. Phileas Fogg +detained eight days at Calcutta! This was fortunate, by that time the +warrant would have arrived from England. Passe-partout was completely +dumbfoundered. This conviction would ruin his master. His wager of +twenty thousand pounds would be lost; and all because he, like an +idiot, had gone into that cursed pagoda. + +But Phileas Fogg was as cool and collected as if he were in no way +concerned in the matter. At the moment the usher was calling on the +next cause, Phileas rose and said, "I offer bail." + +"That is within your right," said the judge. + +Fix's blood ran cold; but he revived again, when he heard the judge +say, that as the prisoners were strangers, a bail of a thousand pounds +each would be necessary. So it would cost Mr. Fogg two thousand +pounds, if he did not put in an appearance when called upon. + +"I will pay the money now," said that gentleman; and from the bag +which Passe-partout still held, he drew bank-notes for two thousand +pounds, and placed them on the clerk's desk. + +"This sum will be restored to you, when you come out of prison," said +the judge. "Meantime you are free on bail." + +"Come along," said Phileas Fogg to his servant. + +"But I suppose they will give me back my shoes?" said Passe-partout +angrily. + +They gave him back his shoes. "They have cost us pretty dearly," he +muttered, "more than one thousand pounds apiece, without counting the +inconvenience to myself;" and with the most hang-dog appearance, +Passe-partout followed his master, who had offered his arm to the +young lady. Fix was still in hopes that his prey would not abandon +such a sum as two thousand pounds; so he followed Mr. Fogg closely. + +Phileas took a fly, and the whole party were driven down to the quays. +Half-a-mile from the pier the _Rangoon_ was moored, the "blue-peter" +at the mast-head. Eleven o'clock was striking, so Mr. Fogg had an hour +to spare. Fix saw him put off in a boat, with Mrs. Aouda and his +servant. The detective stamped with rage. + +"The rascal!" he exclaimed; "he is going then. Two thousand pounds +sacrificed. He is as reckless as a thief. I will follow him to the end +of the world, if necessary; but at the rate he is going, the stolen +money will soon be spent." + +The detective was not far wrong. In fact, since he had left London, +what with travelling expenses, "tips," the money paid for the +elephant, in fines, and in bail, Phileas Fogg had already disbursed +more than five thousand pounds, so that the percentage upon the sum +likely to be recovered by the detective (as he imagined) was growing +small by degrees and beautifully less. + + + + + +CHAPTER XVI. + +Fix does not at all understand what is said to him. + + + +The _Rangoon_, one of the P. and O. Company's vessels, plying between +India, China, and Japan, was an iron screw steamer of about one +thousand seven hundred and seventy tons, with engines of four hundred +horse-power. She was as fast but not so comfortable as the _Mongolia_, +and Mrs. Aouda was scarcely as well accommodated as Phileas Fogg would +have wished. But as the voyage was only three thousand five hundred +miles, that is to say eleven or twelve days' steaming, and the young +lady was not difficult to please, it was no great matter. + +During the first portion of the voyage she became well acquainted with +Phileas Fogg, and gave expression to her great gratitude on every +occasion. That phlegmatic gentleman listened to her protestations with +the most unmoved exterior, not an expression, not a movement evidenced +the slightest emotion; but he took care that the young lady should +want for nothing. He saw her at certain hours every day, if not to +talk, at least to listen to her conversation; he exhibited towards her +the greatest politeness, but the politeness of an automaton. Mrs. +Aouda did not know what to think of him, though Passe-partout had +given her a few hints about his eccentric master, and had told her of +the wager about going round the world. Mrs. Aouda had rather ridiculed +the idea, but after all did she not owe him her life? And Mr. Fogg +would not lose by being regarded through the glasses of gratitude. + +Mrs. Aouda confirmed the Parsee guide's explanation of her past +history. She was, in fact, of the highest native caste. + +Many Parsee merchants had made great fortunes in cotton in India. One +of them, Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, has been made a baronet by the +English Government, and Mrs. Aouda was connected with this personage, +who was then living in Bombay. It was a cousin of his whom she hoped +to join at Hong Kong, and with whom she trusted to find protection. +She could not say whether she would be received or not; but Mr. Fogg +told her not to trouble herself, as all would come mathematically +square. These were the words he used. It was uncertain whether the +young lady quite understood him. She fixed her great eyes--"those eyes +as limpid as the sacred lakes of the Himalayas"--upon him; but Mr. +Fogg was as impassive as ever, and did not show any disposition to +throw himself into those lakes. + +The first portion of the voyage passed very pleasantly. Everything was +favourable. The _Rangoon_ soon sighted the great Andaman, with its +picturesque mountain called Saddle Peak, two thousand four hundred +feet high, a landmark for all sailors. They skirted the coast, but +they saw none of the inhabitants. The appearance of the islands was +magnificent. Immense forests of palm, teak, and gigantic mimosas +(tree-ferns), covered the foreground of the landscape, while at the +back rose the undulating profile of the hills. The cliffs swarmed with +that species of swallows which build the edible nests so prized in +China. + +But the islands were soon passed, and the _Rangoon_ rapidly steamed +towards the Straits of Malacca, which give access to the Chinese Sea. + +Now what is Fix doing all this time? Having left instructions for the +transmission of the warrant to Hong Kong, he had embarked on board the +_Rangoon_ without being perceived by Passe-partout, and was in hopes +to be able to keep out of sight until the steamer should have reached +her destination. In fact, it would be difficult to explain his +presence on board without awakening the suspicions of Passe-partout, +who thought him in Bombay. But fate obliged him to resume acquaintance +with the lad, as we shall see later. + +All the aspirations and hopes of the detective were now centred in +Hong Kong, for the steamer would not stop at Singapore long enough for +him to do anything there. It was at Hong Kong that the arrest must be +made, or the thief would escape, and, so to speak, for ever. + +Hong Kong, in fact, was English territory, but the last British +territory which they would see on the route. Beyond that, China, +Japan, and America would offer an almost secure asylum to Mr. Fogg. If +they should find the warrant of arrest at Hong Kong, Fix could hand +Fogg over to the local police, and have done with him. But after +leaving the island a simple warrant would not be sufficient; a warrant +of extradition would be necessary, which would give rise to delays of +all kinds, and of which the criminal might take advantage and escape; +so if he did not arrest him at Hong Kong, he might give up the idea +altogether. + +"Now," said Fix to himself, "either the warrant will be at Hong Kong, +and I shall arrest my man, or it will not be there; and this time I +must delay his departure at any cost. I have failed both at Bombay and +Calcutta, and if I make a mess of it at Hong Kong, my reputation is +gone. I must succeed, at any cost; but what means shall I adopt to +stop him if the worst comes to the worst?" + +Fix then, as a last resource, made up his mind to tell Passe-partout +everything, and what sort of a man his master was, for he was not his +accomplice evidently. Passe-partout would no doubt under those +circumstances assist him (Fix). But in any case this was a dangerous +expedient, and one not to be employed except under pressure. A hint +from Passe-partout to his master would upset the whole thing at once. + +The detective, therefore, was very much embarrassed, and the presence +of Mrs. Aouda on board gave him more food for thought. Who was this +woman? and how did it happen that she was in Fogg's society? They must +have met between Bombay and Calcutta, but at what place? Was it by +chance, or had he purposely gone to seek this charming woman? for she +was charming no doubt--Fix had seen as much in the court at Calcutta. + +He was puzzled, and began to think that perhaps there had been an +elopement. He was certain of it. This idea now took complete +possession of Fix, and he began to think what advantage he could gain +from the circumstance: whether the young lady was married or not, +there was still the elopement; and he might make it so unpleasant for +Mr. Fogg at Hong Kong that he would not be able to get away by paying +money. + +But the _Rangoon_ had to get to Hong Kong first, and could he wait? +for Fogg had an unpleasant habit of jumping from one steamer to +another, and might be far away before anything had been settled. The +thing to do, therefore, was to give notice to the English authorities, +and to signal the _Rangoon_ before she arrived. This was not +difficult, as the steamer stopped at Singapore, and he could telegraph +thence to Hong Kong. + +In any case, before taking decisive action, he determined to question +Passe-partout. He knew it was not difficult to make the lad talk, and +Fix decided to make himself known. There was no time to lose, for the +steamer would reach Singapore the following day. + +That afternoon, therefore. Fix left his cabin, and seeing +Passe-partout on deck, the detective rushed towards him, exclaiming: + +"What, you on board the _Rangoon_?" + +"Mr. Fix, is it really you?" said Passe-partout, as he recognised his +fellow voyager of the _Mongolia_. "Why, I left you at Bombay, and here +you are on the way to Hong Kong. Are you also going round the world?" + +"No," replied Fix, "I think of stopping at Hong Kong for a few days, +at any rate." + +"Ah!" said Passe-partout, "but how is it I have not seen you on board +since we left Calcutta?" + +"The fact is I have not been very well, and obliged to stay below. The +Bay of Bengal does not suit me as well as the Indian Ocean. And how is +your master, Mr. Phileas Fogg?" + +"Oh, quite well, and as punctual to his time as ever; but Mr. Fix, you +do not know that we have got a young lady with us." + +"A young lady?" repeated the detective, who pretended not to +understand what was said. + +Passe-partout nodded, and immediately proceeded to give him the +history of the business at the pagoda, the purchase of the elephant, +the suttee, the rescue of Aouda, the judgment of the Calcutta court, +and their release on bail. Fix, who was quite familiar with the last +incidents, pretended to be ignorant of all, and Passe-partout was +quite delighted to have such an interested listener. + +"But," said Fix, when his companion had ceased, "does your master wish +to carry this young lady to Europe?" + +"By no means, Mr. Fix, by no means. We are simply going to Hong Kong, +to place her under the care of a relative of hers, a rich merchant +there." + +"Nothing to be done on that line," said the detective to himself, as +he concealed his disappointment. "Come and have a glass of gin, +monsieur." + +"With all my heart, Mr. Fix; the least we can do is to have a friendly +glass to our meeting on board the _Rangoon_." + + + + + +CHAPTER XVII. + +What happened on the Voyage between Singapore and Hong Kong. + + + +After that, Passe-partout and the detective met frequently, but the +latter was very reserved and did not attempt to pump his companion +respecting Mr. Fogg. He only encountered that gentleman once or twice, +for he kept very much in the cabin, attending on Mrs. Aouda, or +engaged in a game of whist. + +As for Passe-partout, he began to meditate very seriously upon the +curious chance which had brought Mr. Fix once again on his master's +track, and it certainly was somewhat astonishing. How was it that this +amiable, good-natured gentleman, whom they had met first at Suez, and +on board the _Mongolia_, who had landed at Bombay, where he said he +was going to remain, was now on board the _Rangoon_ bound for Hong +Kong, and, in a word, following Mr. Fogg step by step--that was the +question? It certainly was a most extraordinary coincidence, and what +did Fix want? Passe-partout was ready to wager his Indian shoes, which +all this time he had carefully preserved, that this man Fix would +leave Hong Kong with them, and probably on board the same steamer. + +If Passe-partout had worried his head for a hundred years, he never +would have hit upon the real object of the detective. It would never +have occurred to him that Phileas Fogg was being tracked round the +globe for a robbery. But as it is only human nature to find some +explanation for everything, this is how Passe-partout interpreted +Fix's unremitting attention, and after all it was not an unreasonable +conclusion to arrive at. In fact, he made up his mind that Fix was an +agent sent after Mr. Fogg by the members of the Reform Club, to see +that the conditions of the wager were properly carried out. + +"That's it," repeated Passe-partout to himself, very proud of his +shrewdness. "He is a spy these gentlemen have sent out. It is scarcely +a gentlemanly thing to do, Mr. Fogg is so honourable and +straightforward. Fancy sending a spy after us! Ah, gentlemen of the +Reform Club, this shall cost you dearly." + +Passe-partout, quite delighted with the discovery, determined to say +nothing to his master on the subject, lest he should be very justly +offended at his opponents' distrust, but he determined to chaff Fix at +every opportunity without betraying himself. + +On Wednesday, the 30th of October, the _Rangoon_ entered the Straits +of Malacca, which separate that peninsula from Sumatra, and at four +o'clock the next morning the _Rangoon_, having gained half a day in +advance of time, anchored at Singapore to coal. + +Phileas Fogg having noted the gain in his book, went ashore +accompanied by Mrs. Aouda, who expressed a wish to land for a few +hours. + +Fix, who was very suspicious of Fogg's movements, followed without +being noticed; and Passe-partout, who was secretly amused at the +detective's manoeuvres, went about his usual business. + +The island of Singapore, though not grand or imposing, still has its +peculiar beauties. It is a park traversed by pleasant roads. A +well-appointed carriage took Phileas Fogg and Aouda through +palm-groves and clove-plantations, various tropical plants perfumed +the air, while troops of monkeys gambolled in the trees; the woods, +also, were not innocent of tigers, and to those travellers who were +astonished to learn why these terrible animals were not destroyed in +such a small island, the reply would be that they swam across from the +mainland. + +After a couple of hours' drive, Mr. Fogg and Aouda returned to the +town and went on board ship again, all the time followed by the +detective. Passe-partout was awaiting them on deck; the brave fellow +had purchased some beautiful mangoes, and was enabled to offer them to +Mrs. Aouda, who received them gracefully. + +At eleven o'clock the _Rangoon_ resumed her voyage and a few hours +later Malacca had sunk below the horizon. They had about thirteen +hundred miles to traverse to reach Hong Kong, and Phileas Fogg hoped +to get there in six days, so as to be able to catch the steamer for +Yokohama on the 6th of November. + +The weather, which had hitherto been very fine, changed with the last +quarter of the moon. There was a high wind, fortunately favourable, +and a very heavy sea. + +The captain set the sails at every opportunity, and the _Rangoon_, +under these circumstances, made rapid progress. But in very rough +weather extra precautions were necessary, and steam had to be reduced. +This delay did not appear to affect Phileas Fogg in the least, but it +worried Passe-partout tremendously. He swore at the captain, the +engineers, and the company, and consigned all concerned to a warmer +climate than Hong Kong. Perhaps the thought of the gas that was still +burning in his room in London may have had something to do with his +impatience. + +"You seem in a great hurry to reach Hong Kong," said Fix to him one +day. + +"I am," replied Passe-partout. "You think Mr. Fogg is anxious to catch +the steamer for Yokohama?" + +"Very anxious indeed." + +"You believe in this journey round the world, then?" + +"Most decidedly; don't you?" + +"Not a bit of it." + +"You are a sly one," replied Passe-partout with a wink. + +This remark rather disturbed Fix, without his knowing why. Could the +Frenchman have discovered who he was? He did not know what to do. But +how could Passe-partout have found out his real object? And yet in +speaking as he did, Passe-partout must certainly have had some +ulterior motive. + +On a subsequent occasion the valet went still further, and said, half +maliciously: + +"Well, Mr. Fix, shall we be so unfortunate as to lose the pleasure of +your society at Hong Kong?" + +"Well," replied Fix, somewhat embarrassed, "I am not quite sure. You +see--" + +"Ah," said Passe-partout, "if you would only come with us I should be +so delighted. An agent of the company cannot stop halfway, you know. +You were only going to Bombay, and here you are almost in China. +America is not far off, and from America to Europe is but a step." + +Fix looked very hard at his companion, whose face was perfectly +innocent, and laughed too. But Passe-partout was in the humour for +quizzing, and asked him if he made much by his present business. + +"Yes and no," replied Fix, without flinching. "We have our good and +bad times, but of course I do not travel at my own expense." + +"Of that I am quite sure," said Passe-partout, laughing. + +Fix then returned to his cabin, where he remained deep in thought. +Somehow or another the Frenchman had found him out, but had he told +his master? Was he his accomplice or not? And must the whole thing be +given up? The detective passed many hours considering the matter in +all its bearings, and was as undecided at the end as he had been at +the beginning. + +But he retained his presence of mind, and resolved at length to deal +frankly with Passe-partout, if he could not arrest Fogg at Hong Kong. +Either the servant was an accomplice, knowing everything, and he would +fail; or the servant knew nothing, and then his interest would be to +quit the service of the criminal. + +Such was the state of affairs, and meantime Phileas Fogg appeared +perfectly indifferent to everything. But nevertheless there was a +disturbing cause not far off, which might be able to produce an +influence on his heart; but no, Mrs. Aouda's charms had no effect, to +the great surprise of Passe-partout. + +Yes, it certainly was a matter of astonishment to that worthy man, who +every day read the lady's gratitude to his master in Mrs. Aouda's +eyes. Phileas Fogg must certainly be heartless; brave he was no doubt, +but sympathetic, no. There was no proof that the incidents of the +journey had wakened any feelings in his breast, while Passe-partout +was continually indulging in reverie. + +One day he was contemplating the working of the machinery, when a +pitch of the vessel threw the screw out of the water. The steam roared +through the valves, and Passe-partout exclaimed, indignantly: "The +escape valves are not sufficiently charged! We make no way! That is +English all over. Ah! if this were only an American ship--we might +blow up, perhaps, but at any rate we should go quicker meantime." + + + + + +CHAPTER XVIII. + +In which Phileas Fogg, Passe-partout, and Fix severally go each about +his own business. + + + +During the latter part of the voyage the weather was very bad; the +wind was blowing freshly--almost a gale--right in the teeth of the +_Rangoon_, which rolled considerably, and disturbed the passengers +very much. + +In fact, on the 3rd and 4th of November there was quite a tempest, and +the _Rangoon_ was obliged to proceed slowly. All the sails were +furled, and the captain was of opinion that they would be twenty hours +late at Hong Kong, or perhaps more, if the storm lasted. + +Phileas Fogg gazed at the turbulent sea as coolly as ever; he betrayed +no impatience, even though twenty hours' delay would upset his +calculations, by causing him to lose the Yokohama steamer. It seemed +almost as if the storm were part of his programme, and Mrs. Aouda, who +sympathised with him, was surprised to find him quite unmoved. + +But Fix did not look upon these things with unconcern; he was very +glad that the storm had happened, and would have been delighted if the +_Rangoon_ had been obliged to scud before the tempest. All these +delays were in his favour, because they tended towards detaining Mr. +Fogg at Hong Kong; he did not mind the sea-sickness he suffered, and +while his body was tortured, his spirit was exultant. + +But Passe-partout was very much annoyed by this bad weather. All had +gone well till now. Everything had appeared to favour his master, +hitherto. Steamers and railways obeyed him; wind and steam had united +to assist him. Was it possible that the hour of misfortune had struck? +Passe-partout felt as if the wager of twenty thousand pounds was to +come out of his own purse. The storm exasperated him, the wind made +him furious, and he would liked to have whipped this disobedient sea. +Poor fellow! Fix all the time carefully concealed his personal +satisfaction, for had Passe-partout perceived it, Fix would have had a +bad time. + +Passe-partout remained on deck as long as the storm lasted, for it was +quite impossible for him to go down below. He assisted the crew in +every way in his power, and astonished the sailors by his activity. He +questioned the captain, the officers, and the men hundreds of times as +to their progress, and got laughed at for his pains. He wanted to know +how long the tempest would last, and was referred to the barometer, +which had evidently not made up its mind to rise; even when +Passe-partout shook it, it would not change its mind. + +At last the storm subsided, and the wind veered round to the south, +which was in their favour. Passe-partout regained his serenity as the +weather improved. Sails were once more set on the _Rangoon_ and she +resumed her route at great speed, but she could not make up for lost +time. It could not be helped, however, and land was not signalled till +five o'clock on the morning of the 6th of November. The itinerary of +Phileas Fogg showed that they ought to have arrived the day before, so +they were twenty-four hours behindhand, and the Yokohama steamer would +be missed. + +At six o'clock the pilot came on board. Passe-partout longed to ask +the man if the Yokohama steamer had sailed, but he preferred to nurse +his hopes till the last moment. He had confided his troubles to Fix, +who, sly fellow as he was, pretended to sympathise with him, and told +him he would be in time if his master took the next steamer, a remark +which put Passe-partout into a violent rage. + +But if he did not like to ask the pilot, Mr. Fogg, having consulted +his Bradshaw, did not hesitate to inquire when the steamer left for +Yokohama. + +"To-morrow, at the morning's flood-tide," replied the pilot. + +"Ah, indeed," said Mr. Fogg, without manifesting any emotion. + +Passe-partout could have embraced the pilot for this information, +while Fix would gladly have twisted his neck. + +"What is the name of the steamer?" asked Mr. Fogg. + +"The _Carnatic_," replied the pilot. + +"Ought she not to have sailed yesterday?" + +"Yes; but one of her boilers required repairing, so she will not start +till to-morrow." + +"Thank you," replied Mr. Fogg, as he descended quietly to the cabin. + +Passe-partout wrung the pilot's hand, exclaiming, "Well, you are a +good fellow." + +Probably to this day the pilot has not the slightest idea of what +Passe-partout was driving at. He merely whistled, and went back to his +station on the bridge to guide the steamer through a flotilla of +junks, tankas, and fishing-boats, and a crowd of other vessels which +encumbered the waters of Hong Kong. + +At one o'clock the steamer was alongside the quay, and the passengers +went ashore. + +On this occasion it must be confessed that fortune had singularly +favoured Phileas Fogg. But for the necessary repairs to her boilers, +the _Carnatic_ would have sailed on the 5th, and the travellers bound +for Japan would have been obliged to wait for eight days for the next +steamer. Mr. Fogg, it is true, was twenty-four hours behindhand, but +this would not seriously affect his journey. + +In fact, the steamer which plied from Yokohama to San Francisco was +connected with the Hong Kong boat, and would not start till the +arrival of the latter; so, if he were twenty-four hours late at +Yokohama, he would make it up in crossing the Pacific. At present, +however, Phileas Fogg found himself twenty-four hours late during the +thirty-five days since he quitted London. + +The _Carnatic_ would sail the next morning at five o'clock, so Mr. +Fogg had still sixteen hours to devote to Mrs. Aouda. He landed with +the young lady upon his arm, and conducted her to the Club-house +Hotel, where apartments were engaged for her accommodation. Mr. Fogg +then went in search of her relatives, telling Passe-partout to remain +until his return, so that the young lady might not feel herself quite +alone. + +Mr. Fogg made his way to the exchange, for he rightly conjectured that +such a rich man as Jejeeb would be most likely heard of in that +direction. + +The broker to whom Mr. Fogg addressed himself knew the man for whom he +was inquiring, but he had left China two years before, and gone to +live in Holland, he thought; for he had principally traded with Dutch +merchants. + +Phileas Fogg returned to the hotel, and informed Mrs. Aouda that her +cousin had left Hong Kong, and had gone to live in Holland. + +Mrs. Aouda made no reply for a moment; she passed her hand across her +brow, and appeared lost in thought. At length, in a gentle voice, she +said, "What ought I to do, Mr. Fogg?" + +"Your course is simple enough," he replied; "come on to Europe." + +"But I cannot intrude upon you." + +"You do not intrude in the least. Passe-partout." + +"Sir." + +"Go to the _Carnatic_ and secure three berths." + +Passe-partout was delighted to think that the young lady was going to +continue her journey with them, for she had been very kind to him. He +accordingly quitted the hotel to execute his master's orders +cheerfully. + + + + + +CHAPTER XIX. + +Showing how Passe-partout took too great an interest in his Master, +and what came of it. + + + +Hong Kong is only an island, which fell into the possession of the +English by the Treaty of Nankin, in 1843. In a few years the +colonising enterprise of the British made of it an important city and +a fine port--Victoria. The island is at the mouth of the Canton river, +sixty miles only from Macao, upon the opposite bank. Hong Kong has +beaten the other port in the struggle for commercial supremacy, and +the greater traffic in Chinese merchandise finds its way to the +island. There are docks, hospitals, wharfs, warehouses, a cathedral, a +Government house, macadamised roads, &c., which give to Hong Kong as +English an aspect as a town in Kent or Surrey, which had by some +accident fallen to the antipodes. + +Passe-partout, with his hands in his pockets, wandered towards Port +Victoria, gazing at the people as they passed, and admiring the +palanquins and other conveyances. The city appeared to him like +Bombay, Calcutta, and Singapore; or like any other town colonised by +the English. + +At the port situated at the mouth of the Canton river was a regular +confusion of ships of all nations, commercial and warlike: junks, +sempas, tankas, and even flower-boats, like floating garden-borders. +Passe-partout remarked several of the natives, elderly men, clothed in +nankeen; and when he went to a barber's to be shaved, he inquired of +the man, who spoke pretty good English, who they were, and was +informed that these men were all eighty years of age, and were +therefore permitted to wear the imperial colour, namely yellow. +Passe-partout, without exactly knowing why, thought this very funny. + +After being shaved, he went to the quay from which the _Carnatic_ was +to start, and there he found Fix walking up and down, in a very +disturbed manner. + +"Ho, ho!" thought Passe-partout, "this does not look well for the +Reform Club;" and with a merry smile he accosted the detective without +appearing to have noticed his vexation. Fix had indeed good reasons +for feeling annoyed. The warrant had not arrived. No doubt it was on +its way, but it was quite impossible it could reach Hong Kong for +several days, and as this was the last British territory at which Mr. +Fogg would touch, he would escape if he could not be detained somehow. + +"Well, Mr. Fix," said Passe-partout, "have you decided to come to +America with us?" + +"Yes," replied Fix, between his clenched teeth. + +"Come along, then," said Passe-partout, laughing loudly; "I knew you +could not leave us. Come and engage your berth." + +So they went to the office, and took four places. But the clerk +informed them that the _Carnatic_, having had her repairs completed, +would sail that evening at eight o'clock, and not next morning, as +previously announced. + +"Very good," said Passe-partout, "that will suit my master exactly. I +will go and tell him." + +And now Fix determined to make a bold move. He would tell +Passe-partout everything. This was perhaps the only way by which he +could keep Phileas Fogg at Hong Kong. + +As they quitted the office. Fix offered his companion some +refreshment, which Passe-partout accepted. They saw a tavern close by, +which they entered, and reached a large well-decorated room, at the +end of which was a large camp-bedstead furnished with cushions. On +this lay a number of men asleep. About thirty people were seated at +small tables drinking beer, porter, brandy, or other liquors; and the +majority of drinkers were smoking long pipes of red clay filled with +little balls of opium steeped in rose-water. From time to time a +smoker would subside under the table, and the waiters would carry him +and place him on the bed at the end of the room. There were about +twenty of these stupefied smokers altogether. + +Fix and Passe-partout perceived that they had entered a smoking-house, +patronised by those wretched idiots devoted to one of the most +injurious vices of humanity--the smoking of opium, which the English +merchants sell every year to the value of one million four hundred +thousand pounds. The Chinese Government has vainly endeavoured by +stringent laws to remedy the evil, but in vain. The habit has +descended from the rich to the poorest classes, and now opium is +smoked everywhere at all times by men and women, and those accustomed +to it cannot do without it A great smoker can consume eight pipes a +day, but he dies in five years. + +It was to one of these dens that Fix and Passe-partout had come for +refreshment; the latter had no money, but accepted his companion's +treat, hoping to return the civility at some future time. Fix ordered +two bottles of port, to which the Frenchman paid considerable +attention, while Fix, more cautious, watched his companion narrowly. +They talked upon many subjects, and particularly respecting Fix's +happy determination to sail in the _Carnatic_; and that put +Passe-partout in mind that he ought to go and inform his master +respecting the alteration in the time of the steamer's departure, +which, as the bottles were empty, he proceeded to do. + +"Just one moment," said Fix, detaining him. + +"What do you want, Mr. Fix?" + +"I want to speak to you seriously." + +"Seriously!" exclaimed Passe-partout. "Well, then, let us talk +to-morrow, I have no time to-day." + +"You had better wait," said Fix; "it concerns your master." + +Passe-partout looked closely at his companion, and as the expression +of his face was peculiar he sat down again. + +"What have you got to say to me?" he said. + +Fix placed his hand on his companion's arm, and said, in a low voice, +"You have guessed who I am, eh?" + +"Rather," replied Passe-partout. + +"Well, then, I am going to tell you everything." + +"Yes, now that I know everything, my friend. That's pretty good. +However, go on; but first let me tell you that those gentlemen have +sent you on a wild-goose chase." + +"It is evident that you do not know how large the sum in question is," +said Fix. + +"Oh yes, but I do," said Passe-partout, "it is twenty thousand +pounds." + +"Fifty-five thousand," replied Fix, shaking the Frenchman's hand. + +"What!" exclaimed Passe-partout, "has Mr. Fogg risked fifty-five +thousand pounds? Well, then, all the more reason we should not lose +any time," he added, as he rose from his chair. + +"Fifty-five thousand pounds," continued Fix, pressing his companion +into his seat again, as a flask of brandy was placed before them; "and +if I succeed I shall get a percentage of two thousand pounds. If you +will assist me I will give you five hundred." + +"Assist you!" exclaimed Passe-partout, as he stared wildly at the +detective. + +"Yes, assist me to keep Mr. Fogg here for some hours longer." + +"What is that you say?" said Passe-partout. "Not content with tracking +my master, do these gentlemen suspect his good face and wish to put +obstacles in his way? I am ashamed of them." + +"What are you talking about?" said Fix. + +"I say it is a piece of meanness; they might just as well pick Mr. +Fogg's pocket." + +"That is just the very thing we want to do." + +"Then it is a conspiracy, is it?" exclaimed Passe-partout, who was +getting excited by the brandy which he unconsciously had swallowed, "a +regular conspiracy; and they call themselves gentlemen and friends!" + +Fix began to feel very puzzled. + +"Friends!" exclaimed Passe-partout, "members of the Reform Club, +indeed! Do you know, Mr. Fix, that my master is an honest man, and +when he has made a bet he wins it fairly?" + +"But can you guess who I am?" said Fix, looking steadily at +Passe-partout. + +"An agent of the members of the club, whose business it is to hinder +my master; and a dirty job it is, too; so although I have found you +out long ago, I did not like to betray you to Mr. Fogg." + +"Then he knows nothing about it," said Fix quickly. + +"Nothing," replied Passe-partout, emptying his glass once more. + +The detective passed his hand over his eyes and considered what he was +to do. Passe-partout appeared sincere, and this rendered his plan all +the more difficult; he evidently was not his master's accomplice. "He +will, therefore, help me," said Fix to himself. + +There was no time to lose. At any risk Fogg must be stopped at Hong +Kong. + +"Listen," said Fix, in a sharp tone; "I am not what you think me." + +"Bah!" said Passe-partout. + +"I am a detective, sent out by the police authorities in London." + +"You a detective?" + +"Yes, I can prove it. Here is my authority;" and drawing a paper from +his pocketbook, he exhibited his instructions to the stupefied +Passe-partout, who was unable to utter a word. + +"This wager of Mr. Fogg's," continued Fix, "is merely to blindfold you +and his colleagues at the Reform Club. He had a motive in securing +your unconscious complicity." + +"But why?" said Passe-partout. + +"For this reason. On the 28th of last September, the sum of fifty-five +thousand pounds was stolen from the Bank of England, by a person whose +description is fortunately known. That description tallies exactly +with Mr. Fogg's appearance." + +"Absurd," exclaimed Passe-partout, striking the table with his fist; +"my master is the most honest man in the world." + +"What do you know about it?" replied Fix. "You only entered his +service on the day he left on a mad excursion, without luggage, and +carrying an immense sum in bank-notes; and do you dare to maintain +that he is an honest man?" + +"Yes, yes," repeated the other mechanically. + +"Do you wish to be arrested as an accomplice?" + +Passe-partout clutched his head with both hands; he was stupefied. He +did not dare to look at the detective. Phileas Fogg a robber! This +brave, generous man, the rescuer of Aouda, a thief? And yet +circumstantial evidence was strong. Passe-partout did not wish to +believe it. He could not believe in his master's guilt. + +"Well, then, what do you want me to do?" he said, with an effort. + +"Look here," said Fix: "I have tracked Mr. Fogg so far, but as yet I +have not received a warrant, which I asked to be sent from London. You +must help me to keep your master in Hong Kong." + +"But I--" + +"If so, I will share with you the reward of two thousand pounds +promised by the bank." + +"Never!" replied Passe-partout, who attempted to rise, but fell back +utterly exhausted and stupefied. + +"Mr. Fix," he stammered, "even if you have told the truth, supposing +my master is the thief you are searching for--which I deny--I have +been, I am still in his service; he is kind and generous to me, and I +will never betray him for all the gold in the world." + +"You refuse, then?" + +"Absolutely." + +"Well, then," said Fix, "forget all I have said. And now let us have a +drink." + +"Yes, let us have another glass." + +Passe-partout felt that the liquor was overcoming him more and more. +Fix having made up his mind that he must be separated from his master +at any price, determined to finish the matter. On the table were some +pipes of opium. Fix handed one of these to Passe-partout, who took a +few puffs and fell back perfectly insensible. + +"At last," muttered Fix, as Passe-partout collapsed. "Mr. Fogg will +not hear of the change of time for the sailing of the _Carnatic_, and +if so, he will have to go without this infernal Frenchman." + +Then paying the score, he quitted the tavern. + + + + + +CHAPTER XX. + +Showing how Fix and Fogg come face to face. + + + +While these events, which gravely compromised Mr. Fogg's future, were +passing, that gentleman and Mrs. Aouda were walking through the town. +Since she had accepted Mr. Fogg's escort to England, she wished to +make some purchases for the voyage, for a lady could not travel with a +hand-bag, as a gentleman might do. So she bought some necessary +clothing, etc., and Mr. Fogg overcame all her excuses with his +characteristic generosity. + +"It is in my own interest," he invariably replied; "a part of my +programme." + +Having purchased what they required, they returned to dinner at the +hotel Mrs. Aouda subsequently retired to rest, leaving Mr. Fogg +reading _The Times_ and _Illustrated News_. + +Had Mr. Fogg been a man likely to be astonished at anything, he would +have been surprised at the absence of his servant at bedtime; so +believing that the steamer did not start for Yokohama till the +following morning, he did not trouble himself; but Passe-partout did +not appear when Mr. Fogg rang for him next morning, and then he learnt +that his servant had not come in during the night. Without a word Mr. +Fogg packed his bag, and sent to call Mrs. Aouda and for a palanquin. +It was eight o'clock, and the _Carnatic_ was to sail at high-water at +half-past nine. Mr. Fogg and his companion got into the palanquin and +reached the quay. Then, and not till then, they were informed that the +_Carnatic_ had left the previous evening. + +Mr. Fogg, who had made up his mind to find the steamer and the servant +both awaiting him, was obliged to go without either. He showed no +anxiety, merely remarking to Mrs. Aouda, "An incident of travel, +madam, nothing more." + +At this moment, a man who had been watching them approached. It was +Fix. He approached Mr. Fogg, and said: + +"Were you not one of the passengers on board the _Rangoon_ yesterday, +as well as myself?" + +"Yes, sir," replied Mr. Fogg coldly; "but I have not the honour--" + +"Excuse me, but I expected to find your servant here." + +"Do you know where he is?" asked the young lady quickly. + +"What!" exclaimed Fix, in feigned surprise, "is he not with you?" + +"No," replied Mrs. Aouda, "he has been absent since yesterday. Perhaps +he has sailed in the _Carnatic_." + +"Without you, madam?" said the detective. "You will excuse my +question, but you counted on leaving in that steamer?" + +"Yes, sir." + +"So did I, madam; and I am terribly disappointed. The fact is, the +_Carnatic_ was ready for sea twelve hours sooner than was expected, and +now we shall have to wait twelve days for another steamer." + +Fix was delighted as he said this. In eight days the warrant would +arrive. His chances were good. But his disgust may be guessed when he +heard Fogg say, in his usual calm tone, "I suppose there are other +ships besides the _Carnatic_ in Hong Kong harbour;" and offering his +arm to Mrs. Aouda, he turned away towards the docks. + +Fix followed him in a dogged sort of manner. He appeared to be +attached to Fogg by some invisible cord. But fortune had evidently +abandoned Phileas Fogg. For three mortal hours he wandered about the +docks, endeavouring to charter a vessel to take him to Yokohama; but +all the ships were either loading or unloading, and could not go. The +detective's spirits rose again. + +But Mr. Fogg was not discouraged. He made up his mind to continue his +search, even if he had to cross to Macao. At length he was accosted by +a sailor. + +"Is your honour looking for a boat?" + +"Have you a boat ready to sail?" asked Mr. Fogg. + +"I have. A pilot-boat, No. 43; the best in the harbour." + +"Can she sail fast?" + +"She can make eight or nine knots an hour, or more. Would you like to +see her?" + +"Yes." + +"You will be pleased, I am sure. Is it for a trip that you require +her?" + +"Somewhat more than that; for a voyage." + +"A voyage?" + +"I want you to take me to Yokohama." + +The sailor folded his arms and looked steadily at Mr. Fogg. "Is your +honour serious?" he said. + +"Yes. I have lost the _Carnatic_, and I must be at Yokohama on the +14th, at latest, to catch the steamer for San Francisco." + +"I am very sorry," replied the pilot, "but it is impossible." + +"I will give you a hundred pounds a day and a bonus of two hundred +pounds, if you arrive in time." + +"Are you in earnest?" asked the pilot. + +"Very much so," replied Mr. Fogg. + +The pilot took a turn up and down the wharf; he looked out to sea, and +was evidently struggling between his wish to get the money and his +fear of venturing so far. Fix, all this time, was on tenter-hooks. + +Mr. Fogg turned to Mrs. Aouda, and asked her if she were afraid. + +"Not with you, Mr. Fogg," replied the young lady. + +Just then the pilot returned, twirling his hat in his hands. + +"Well, pilot?" said Mr. Fogg. + +"Well, your honour," replied the pilot; "I cannot risk my life, or my +men, or even you in such a voyage, in so small a ship, at this time of +year. Besides, we could not get to Yokohama in time. It is one +thousand six hundred and fifty miles away." + +"Only one thousand six hundred," said Mr. Fogg. + +"Oh, it is all the same." Fix breathed again. "But," continued the +pilot, "we might manage it in another way." + +Fix scarcely dared to breathe. + +"How do you mean?" asked Fogg. + +"By going to Nagasaki, which is only eleven hundred miles, or to +Shanghai, which is eight hundred. In the latter case we shall be able +to keep close in-shore, and have advantage of the current." + +"But," replied Fogg, "I must take the American mail steamer at +Yokohama, and not at Shanghai or Nagasaki." + +"Well, why not?" replied the pilot. "The _San Francisco_ does not +start from Yokohama; it starts from Shanghai, and only calls at +Yokohama and Nagasaki." + +"Are you quite sure of that?" + +"Certain." + +"And when does she leave Shanghai?" + +On the 11th, at seven o'clock in the evening. So we have four days, +which are ninety-six hours; and at the rate of eight knots an hour, if +the wind hold, we shall be able to reach Shanghai in time." + +"And when will you be able to start?" + +"In an hour. I only want to buy some provisions and bend the sails." + +"Well, it is a bargain. Are you the owner?" + +"Yes; my name is John Bunsby, owner of the _Tankadere_." + +"Would you like something on account?" + +"If convenient to your honour." + +"Here are two hundred pounds. Sir," continued Fogg, turning to Fix, +"if you would like to take advantage of this opportunity--" + +"Thank you, sir," replied Fix. "I was about to beg the favour of you." + +"Well, then, we shall be ready in half an hour." + +"But what shall we do about the servant?" said Mrs. Aouda, who was +much distressed at Passe-partout's absence. + +"I will do all I can for him," replied Fogg; and while they directed +their steps towards the police-office. Fix went on board the +pilot-boat. Phileas left the description of his servant with the +police, and a sum of money to be spent in seeking him. The same +formality was gone through at the French Consulate; and then procuring +their luggage, which had been sent back to the hotel, they went down +to the wharf. + +Three o'clock struck; the pilot-boat No. 43 was ready to start. She +was a pretty little schooner, about twenty tons, built for speed, like +a racing-yacht. She was as bright and clean as possible, and Bunsby +evidently took a pride in his little craft. Her masts raked rather. +She carried foresail and the usual sails for a ship of her tonnage. +She could evidently make good way, as indeed she had proved by winning +several prizes. + +The crew consisted of the owner and four other men, all well +acquainted with the neighbouring seas, which they scoured in search of +ships wanting pilots. John Bunsby was a man of about five-and-forty, +vigorous and full of decision and energy, calculated to reassure the +most nervous passengers. + +Phileas Fogg and Mrs. Aouda went on board, where they found Fix +already installed. The accommodation was not extensive, but everything +was clean and neat. + +"I am sorry I have nothing better to offer you," said Mr. Fogg to Fix. +The latter bowed without replying, for he felt somewhat humiliated in +accepting Mr. Fogg's kindness under the circumstances. + +"At any rate," he thought, "if he is a rascal he is a very polite +one." + +At ten minutes past three the sails were hoisted, the English flag was +run up to the peak; the passengers took a last look at the quays in +the hope of descrying Passe-partout, but they were disappointed. Fix +was somewhat afraid that some chance might bring the lad whom he had +treated so badly in that direction, and then an explanation would +surely have ensued of a nature by no means satisfactory to the +detective. But the Frenchman did not turn up, and no doubt he was +still under the influence of the opium. + +So John Bunsby stood out to sea, and the _Tankadere_, with the wind on +the quarter, went bounding briskly over the waves. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXI. + +Showing how the Owner of the _Tankadere_ nearly lost the Bonus of Two +Hundred Pounds. + + + +This voyage of eight hundred miles was one of great risk at that +season of the year in those seas, which are usually very rough, +particularly during the equinoxes, and it was then the beginning of +November. + +It would have been very much to the advantage of the owner of the +_Tankadere_ to have gone on to Yokohama, as he was paid so much a day, +but such a voyage would have been extremely rash. It was a risk to go +to Shanghai; still, John Bunsby had confidence in his ship, which +sailed like a bird, and perhaps he was right. + +"There is no need for me to urge you to speed," said Fogg to Bunsby, +when they had got out to sea. + +"Your honour may depend upon me," replied Bunsby; "I will do all I +can." + +"Well, it is your business and not mine, pilot, and I trust you +thoroughly." + +Phileas Fogg, standing upright, with his legs stretched apart, was as +steady as a sailor as he gazed over the foaming sea. Mrs. Aouda, +seated aft, was somewhat nervous as she contemplated the ocean. The +sails bellied out overhead like great wings, and the schooner ran +before the wind at a great pace. Night fell. The moon was only in the +first quarter, and her light would soon be quenched beneath the +horizon. Clouds were rising in the east, and already banking up. + +The pilot hung out the vessel's lights, an indispensable proceeding, +for collisions were by no means unfrequent, and any such occurrence, +at the speed they were now going, would shatter the gallant little +craft to pieces. + +Fix, seated up in the bows, held himself aloof, as he knew Fogg was +not much of a talker; besides, he did not quite like to enter into +conversation with this man whose good offices he had accepted. He +thought of the future, for it now seemed certain that Fogg would not +stop at Yokohama, but would immediately take the steamer for San +Francisco, so as to reach America, where he would be safe. Fogg's plan +seemed to the detective to be very simple. + +Instead of embarking in England for the United States, like a common +swindler, Fogg had made a tour three-parts round the globe, so as to +gain the American continent more safely; and once there, he could +enjoy himself comfortably with his spoil. But what could Fix do in the +United States? Should he give up the man? No, certainly not; and until +he had obtained an act of extradition, he would not lose sight of him. +This was his duty, and he would carry it out to the bitter end. There +was one thing, at any rate, to be thankful for, Passe-partout was not +now with his master; and after Fix's confidence imparted to him, it +was very important that the servant should not see his master again in +a hurry. + +Phileas Fogg was himself thinking about his servant, who had so +curiously disappeared. But after consideration of the circumstances, +it did not appear improbable that the young man had gone on board the +_Carnatic_ at the last moment. This was also Mrs. Aouda's opinion, for +she deeply regretted the worthy fellow's absence, as she was so deeply +indebted to him. They might, therefore, find him at Yokohama, and if +he were on the _Carnatic_, it would be easy to ascertain the fact. + +About ten o'clock the breeze began to freshen, and though it might +have been prudent to take in a reef or two, the pilot, after taking an +observation, let the sails stand, for the _Tankadere_ carried her +canvas well; but everything was prepared to furl the sails in case of +necessity. + +At midnight, Phileas Fogg and Mrs. Aouda went below. Fix had already +turned in, but the owner and his crew remained on deck all night. + +By sunrise next morning the schooner had made a hundred miles. The log +showed they were going about eight or nine knots an hour. They were +still carrying on, and, if the wind held, the chances were in their +favour. The vessel made her way along the coast all that day. The sea +was not so rough, as the wind blew off-shore, which was a very +fortunate circumstance for such a small vessel. + +About noon the breeze fell a little, and shifted to the south-east. +The owner spread his topsails, but furled them again, as the breeze +showed signs of freshening once more. + +Mr. Fogg and Mrs. Aouda did not suffer from sea-sickness, and ate with +a good appetite, and Fix, invited to partake of the meal, was obliged +to accept very unwillingly. He did not like to travel and eat at the +expense of the man he was tracking; but yet he was obliged to eat, and +so he ate. + +After dinner he found an opportunity to speak to Mr. Fogg privately. +"Sir," he said--this term scorched his lips, so to speak, and he had +to control himself; his impulse was to arrest this "gentleman"--"sir," +said he, "it is very good of you to give me a passage; but although I +cannot spend money as freely as you do, I shall be happy to pay my +expenses." + +"You need not say anything about that," replied Mr. Fogg. + +"But if I insist upon it?" + +"No, sir," replied Fogg, in a tone which admitted of no discussion, +"this is included in my general expenses." + +Fix bowed, he felt half stifled; and going forward, he sat down and +did not speak for the whole day. + +Meantime they were making good progress. John Bunsby was in hopes of +succeeding, and frequently said to Mr. Fogg that "they would be in +time;" to which Fogg merely replied that "he counted upon it." The +crew, also inspired by the hope of reward, worked hard. Not a sheet +required bracing, not a sail that was not well hoisted, not one +unnecessary lurch could be attributed to the steersman. They could not +have worked the schooner better if they had been sailing a match in +the Royal Yacht Club Regatta. + +By the evening the log showed that they had run two hundred and twenty +miles, and Mr. Fogg hoped that when he arrived at Yokohama he would +not have to record any delay in his journal. If so, the only check he +had met with since he left London would not affect his journey. + +Towards morning the _Tankadere_ entered the Straits of Fo-kien, which +separate Formosa from the Chinese coasts. The sea was very rough, and +it was difficult to stand on deck. At daybreak the wind freshened +still more, and there was every appearance of a storm. The mercury +rose and fell at intervals. In the south-east the sea rose in a long +swell, which betokened a tempest. + +The pilot studied the aspect of the heavens for a long time, and at +last said to Mr. Fogg: + +"I suppose I may tell your honour what I think?" + +"Of course," replied Fogg. + +"Well, then, we are going to have a storm." + +"From the north or south?" asked Mr. Fogg calmly. + +"From the south. A typhoon is approaching." + +"I am glad it is coming from the south, it will help us on." + +"Oh, if you look on it in that light," said Bunsby, "I have no more to +say." + +The presentiments of Bunsby were fulfilled. During the summer the +typhoon would have been probably dissipated in an electric cascade, +but in the winter it would probably have its course. So the pilot took +his precautions. He took in his sails and set merely the storm-jib, +and waited. + +The pilot begged his passengers to go below, but in such a narrow and +confined space the imprisonment was far from agreeable, so none of +them would quit the deck. + +About eight o'clock the hurricane, with torrents of rain, burst upon +them. With nothing but the small jib, the _Tankadere_ was almost +lifted out of the water by the tempest. She darted through the sea +like a locomotive at full-speed. + +All that day the vessel was hurried towards the north, borne on the +top of the monstrous waves. Time after time she was almost engulfed, +but the careful steering of the pilot saved her. The passengers were +drenched with spray, but took it philosophically. Fix grumbled, no +doubt; but the brave Aouda regarded her companion and admired his +coolness, while she endeavoured to imitate it. As for Phileas Fogg, he +took it as a matter of course. + +Hitherto the _Tankadere_ had been sailing northwards, but towards +evening, as the pilot had feared, the wind veered round to the +north-west The schooner plunged terribly in the trough of the sea, and +it was fortunate she was so solidly built. The tempest increased if +possible at night, and John Bunsby began to feel anxious; he consulted +his crew as to what they should do. + +He then came to Mr. Fogg, and said, "I think we should make for one of +the ports hereabouts." + +"So do I," replied Fogg. + +"Yes," said the pilot; "but which?" + +"I only know of one," said Fogg quietly. + +"And that is--?" + +"Shanghai." + +This reply took the pilot aback rather at first; but recognising Mr. +Fogg's firmness, he said: "Yes, your honour is right, Shanghai be it." + +So they kept their course. + +The night was fearful; it seemed a miracle that the little vessel did +not founder. Twice she was caught in the trough of the sea, and would +have gone down, but that everything was let fly. Mrs. Aouda was +knocked about, and more than once Mr. Fogg rushed to her assistance, +though she made no complaint. + +At daybreak the storm was still raging, but suddenly the wind backed +to the south-east. This was a change for the better, and the +_Tankadere_ again proceeded on her course, though the cross-sea gave +her some tremendous blows, sufficient to have crushed a less solid +craft. The coast was occasionally visible through the mist, but not a +sail was in sight. + +At noon the weather cleared a little, the gale had blown itself out, +and the travellers were enabled to take some rest. The night was +comparatively quiet, and the pilot was induced to set a little more +sail, and at day-break next morning John Bunsby was able to declare +that they were less than a hundred miles from Shanghai. + +A hundred miles, and only one day to accomplish the distance. On that +evening they ought to be at Shanghai if they wished to catch the +steamer for Yokohama; but for the storm, which had delayed them +several hours, they would then have been within thirty miles of their +destination. + +The breeze continued to fall, and the sea went down. All canvas was +spread, and at twelve o'clock the Tankadere was only forty-five miles +from Shanghai. Six hours still remained, and all were afraid they +could not do it. Everyone on board, except Phileas Fogg no doubt, felt +the keenest anxiety. They must maintain a speed of nine knots an hour, +and the wind was falling rapidly, and coming in puffs. + +Nevertheless, the schooner was so light and carried such a spread of +canvas, besides being aided by the shore currents, that at six o'clock +Bunsby reckoned they were only ten miles from the Shanghai river. The +town itself was situated about twelve miles higher up. + +At seven o'clock they were still three miles from Shanghai. The pilot +swore a formidable oath as he perceived the bonus of two hundred +pounds slipping away from him. He looked at Mr. Fogg; Mr. Fogg was +impassible, although his whole fortune was in the balance. + +At this moment a long black funnel, from which a thick train of smoke +was issuing, appeared. This was the American steamer leaving Shanghai +at the proper time. + +"Confound it!" cried Bunsby, as he kept the schooner away a point. + +"Signal her," said Fogg quietly. + +There was a small brass cannon on the forecastle, which was used +during fogs. + +This piece was charged to the muzzle, but just as the pilot was going +to fire, Phileas said: + +"Hoist your flag." + +The ensign was run up half-mast. This was a signal of distress, and +they hoped that the steamer would see it and heave-to to assist them. + +"Fire!" exclaimed Mr. Fogg. + +And the report of the little cannon immediately boomed over the sea. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXII. + +Showing how Passe-partout finds out that, even at the Antipodes, it is +prudent to have Money in his Pocket. + + + +The _Carnatic_, bound for Japan, left Hong Kong on the 7th of +November. Two cabins were unoccupied--they had been engaged by Mr. +Phileas Fogg. The following morning the sailors were astonished to +perceive a dishevelled, half-stupefied figure emerge from the +fore-cabin and sit down on deck. + +This passenger was Passe-partout, and this is what had happened: + +Soon after Fix had left the opium-tavern, two waiters had laid +Passe-partout upon the couch reserved for smokers; three hours later +Passe-partout, haunted by one idea, woke up and struggled against the +stupefying influence of the drug. The thought of his unfulfilled +duties assisted him to shake off his torpor. He left the den of +drunkenness, and guiding himself by the walls, he staggered on, crying +out, as in a dream: "The _Carnatic_, the _Carnatic_!" + +The steamer was alongside the wharf, ready to start. Passe-partout had +but a few paces to traverse; he rushed across the gangway, and fell +senseless on the deck just as the paddles began to revolve. The +sailors, accustomed to this sort of thing, took him down to the +fore-cabin, and when he awoke he was fifty miles from Hong Kong. + +This is how he found himself on board the _Carnatic_, inhaling the +sea-air, which sobered him by degrees. He began to collect his +thoughts, which was no easy matter, but at length he was able to +recall the occurrences of the day before--Fix's confidence and the +opium-smoking, etc. + +"The fact is," he thought, "I have been very tipsy. What will Mr. Fogg +say? At any rate, I have not missed the steamer, and that is the +principal thing;" then he thought of Fix. "As for him," he muttered, +"I trust he has not dared to follow us on board this ship, as he said. +A detective tracking my master, and accusing him of robbing the Bank +of England! Bosh! he is no more a robber than I am an assassin." + +Now, was he to tell all this to his master? Would it not be better to +wait till they all reached London, and when the detective had followed +them all round the world, to have a good laugh at him? This was a +point to be considered. The first thing was to find Mr. Fogg and ask +his pardon. + +Passe-partout accordingly got up; the sea was rough, and the ship +rolled considerably. It was with some difficulty he reached the +quarterdeck, but could not see anyone at all like his master or Mrs. +Aouda. + +"All right," he thought, "the lady is not up yet, and Mr. Fogg is +probably playing whist as usual." + +Passe-partout accordingly went down to the saloon. Mr. Fogg was not +there. All he could do now was to ask the purser for his master's +cabin. That individual replied that he knew no passenger by the name +of Fogg. + +"Excuse me," said Passe-partout, "he is a tall, cool, quiet-looking +gentleman, and is accompanied by a young lady." + +"There is no young lady on board," said the purser. "However, here is +the passenger-list, and you can see for yourself." + +Passe-partout did so. His master's name was not entered. + +Suddenly an idea occurred to him, and he said: "Am I on the +_Carnatic_?" + +"Yes," replied the purser. + +"On the way to Hong Kong?" + +"Yes, decidedly." + +Passe-partout for the moment was afraid he had got on the wrong ship, +but if he was on the _Carnatic_ it was evident his master was not. + +Passe-partout fell back on a chair. He was thunder-struck. All at once +the light broke in upon his mind; he remembered that the hour of the +ship sailing had been altered, that he ought to have told his master, +and he had not done so. It was therefore his fault that they had +missed the vessel. + +His fault no doubt, but still more the fault of that traitor who had +endeavoured to keep his master at Hong Kong, and had made him +(Passe-partout) tipsy. He saw it all now. His master was ruined, +arrested, and imprisoned perhaps. Passe-partout was furious. Ah, if +Fix ever came within his reach, what a settling of accounts there +would be! + +Passe-partout by degrees recovered his composure, and began to look +things in the face. He was on his route to Japan, at any rate, but he +had no money in his pocket, and this was not a pleasant reflection. He +literally did not possess a penny. Fortunately his passage had been +paid, so he had five or six days to make up his mind. He ate +accordingly for the whole party, and as if there was nothing to be got +to eat when he reached Japan. + +The _Carnatic_ entered the harbour of Yokohama on the morning tide of +the 13th, and came alongside the quay, near the Custom House, amidst a +crowd of ships of every nationality. + +Passe-partout went on shore to this curious land without any +enthusiasm; he had nothing to do but to wander aimlessly through the +streets. He first found himself in a thoroughly European quarter of +the town, with houses ornamented with verandahs and elegant +peristyles. This portion of the town occupied all the space between +the promontory of the Treaty and the river, and included docks and +warehouses, with many streets and squares. Here, as at Hong Kong and +Calcutta, were a crowd of Americans, English, Chinese, and Dutch +merchants ready to buy or sell almost anything, and Passe-partout felt +as strange amongst them as a Hottentot might have done. + +He had one resource at any rate, he could apply to the French or +English consuls; but he shrank from telling his adventures, which were +so intimately connected with his master. So before doing so, he +thought he would try every other chance for a livelihood. + +After traversing the European quarter, he entered the Japanese +district, and made up his mind to push on to Yeddo if necessary. + +The native quarter of Yokohama is called Benter, after the sea-goddess +worshipped on the neighbouring islands. Here he noticed beautiful +groves of fir and cedar; sacred gates of peculiar construction; +bridges, enclosed by bamboos and reeds; and temples, surrounded by +immense and melancholy-looking cedars, wherein Buddhist priests and +votaries of Confucius resided. There were long streets with crowds of +infants, who looked as if they were cut out of Japanese screens, and +who were playing with bandy-legged poodles, and with yellow cats +without tails, of a very lazy and very affectionate disposition. + +The streets were crowded with people passing and repassing: priests, +policemen, custom-house officers, and soldiers--the Mikado's guard, in +silken doublets and coats of mail, as well as other soldiers of all +descriptions; for in Japan the army is as much regarded as it is +despised in China. There were friars, pilgrims with long robes, and +civilians with long black hair, large heads, long waists, thin legs, +and short of stature; with complexions, some copper-colour, some pale, +but never yellow like the Chinese, from whom the Japanese differ +essentially. Amongst the carriages, the palanquins, the barrows with +sails, bamboo litters, he noticed many very pretty women moving about +with tiny steps, on tiny feet, and shod with canvas shoes, with straw +sandals and wooden clogs. They appeared to have small eyes, fiat +chests, black teeth, according to fashion; but wearing gracefully the +national robe called "kirimon," a sort of dressing-gown, crossed with +a silk scarf and tied behind in a large knot, a mode which Parisian +ladies have borrowed from the Japanese. + +Passe-partout wandered about in the crowd for some hours, looking at +the shops, at the glittering jewellers' establishments; the +restaurants, which he could not enter; the tea-houses, where they +drank "saki," a liquor made from the fermentation of rice; and +comfortable-looking tobacco-shops, where they smoked, not opium, which +is almost unknown in Japan, but a fine tobacco. Thence he went on into +the fields amongst the rice-plantations; there were flowers of all +sorts, giving forth their last perfumes--beautiful camellias, not on +bushes, but on trees; and bamboo enclosures, with cherry, plum, and +apple trees, Which the natives cultivate rather for their blossom than +their fruit. On almost every cedar-tree an eagle was perched, and on +the willows were melancholy herons, standing on one leg; and crows, +ducks, hawks, wild geese, and a quantity of cranes, which are looked +upon as sacred by the Japanese, as conferring upon them long life and +happiness. + +As he wandered on, Passe-partout noted some violets amid the grass. +"Good," he said, "here is my supper;" but he found they were +scentless. + +"No chance there," he thought. + +Certainly, as a precaution, he had taken care to have a good meal +before he left the _Carnatic_, but after walking a whole day, he felt +somewhat hungry. He had already remarked that the butchers' shops +displayed neither mutton, pork, nor kids; and as he knew that it was +forbidden to kill oxen, which are reserved for farming, he concluded +that meat was scarce in Japan. He was not mistaken, but he could have +put up with wild boar even, partridges, quails, fish, or fowl, which +the Japanese eat almost exclusively with rice. However, he kept his +spirits up, and looked forward to a meal next day. + +Night fell, and Passe-partout re-entered the native quarter, where he +wandered through the streets in the midst of coloured lanterns, +looking on at the conjurers, and at the astrologers, who had collected +a crowd round their telescopes. Then he wandered back to the harbour, +lighted up by the fishermen's torches. + +At length the streets began to get empty, and to the crowd succeeded +the patrols. These officers, in their splendid uniforms and followed +by their attendants, looked like ambassadors; and every time +Passe-partout met one of these parties, he said to himself: + +"Good, good; another Japanese embassy going to Europe." + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIII. + +In which Passe-partout's Nose gets immeasurably long. + + + +Next morning, Passe-partout, very tired and very hungry, began to +think that he ought to eat something, and the sooner the better. He +still had his watch, which he could sell, but he would rather die of +hunger than do that; so now or never, he must make use of his +powerful, if not melodious, voice, with which nature had endowed him. +He knew several French and English songs, and resolved to make the +attempt. The Japanese were no doubt fond of music, since they were +always beating cymbals, tomtoms, and drums, and they would no doubt +appreciate European talent. + +But perhaps it was somewhat early to start a concert, and the +_dilettanti_, awakened inopportunely, would not, perhaps, pay him in +current coin of the realm. So Passe-partout decided to wait; and +meantime it occurred to him that he might as well change his clothes +for some more in keeping with his present position, and afterwards he +might be able to purchase something to eat. + +He immediately set about to carry out the idea, and after a long +search he discovered a dealer in old clothes, with whom he made an +exchange, and left the shop dressed in a Japanese robe and discoloured +turban; but he had some money in his pocket also. + +"All right," he thought; "I must only fancy myself at a carnival." + +Passe-partout's first care was to enter a quiet-looking tea-house, and +then, with a portion of fowl and some rice, he breakfasted like a man +who had not yet solved the problem as to where dinner was to come +from. + +"Now," he thought, after a hearty meal, "I must consider what I am +about. All I can do now is to sell this dress for another still more +Japanesey. I must think of some means of quitting this Country of the +Sun as quickly as possible, and I shall not have a very pleasant +recollection of it." + +He accordingly went to look at the steamers about to sail to America, +for he intended to offer himself as a cook or steward, in exchange for +his passage and food. Once at San Francisco he would manage to get on. +The important thing was to cross the ocean. He was not the man to +think about a thing very long, so he went at once to the docks; but +his project, which had appeared so simple in idea, was not so easy to +execute. What need was there for a cook or steward on board an +American mail-boat? And how could they trust him in his present +costume? What reference or recommendation could he offer? + +As he was turning these questions over in his mind his gaze fell upon +a placard, which a circus clown was carrying through the streets. The +notice was in English, and read as follows: + + + + THE + HONOURABLE WILLIAM BATULCAR'S TROUPE + OF + JAPANESE ACROBATS. + + POSITIVELY THE LAST REPRESENTATIONS, PRIOR TO THEIR + DEPARTURE FOR AMERICA, + + OF THE + + LONG - NOSES - LONG - NOSES. + + _Under the Special Patronage of the God Tingou._ + + GREAT ATTRACTION! + + + +"The United States of America!" exclaimed Passe-partout; "that suits +me all round." + +He followed the "sandwich-man," and was soon in the Japanese quarter +once again. In about a quarter of an hour they stopped before a large +hut, adorned with flags, upon which a troupe of jugglers were +depicted, without any attempt at perspective. + +This was the establishment of the Honourable Mr. Batulcar, a sort of +Barnum, a director of a troupe of acrobats and jugglers, who were +giving their last representations, prior to their departure to the +United States. Passe-partout entered and asked for the proprietor. Mr. +Batulcar appeared in person. + +"What do you want?" he said to Passe-partout, whom he took for a native. + +"Do you need a servant, sir?" asked Passe-partout. + +"A servant!" echoed the Barnum, as he stroked his beard; "I have two, +obedient and faithful, who have never left me, and serve me for +nothing but nourishment; and here they are," he added, as he extended +his brawny arms, on which the great veins stood out like whipcord. + +"So I can be of no use to you, then?" + +"Not the least." + +"The devil! It would have been very convenient if I could have sailed +with you." + +"Ah, yes," said the Honourable Batulcar; "you are just about as much a +Japanese as I am a baboon, I guess. What are you dressed up like that +for?" + +"One is obliged to dress as one can." + +"That's a fact. You are a Frenchman, ain't you?" + +"Yes; a Parisian." + +"Then I suppose you know how to make grimaces?" + +"Well," replied Passe-partout, somewhat vexed that his nationality +should provoke such a question. "It is true that we Frenchmen do know +how to make grimaces, but no better than Americans." + +"That's so. Well, if I cannot take you as a servant I can engage you +as a clown. You see, my lad, this is how it is: in France they exhibit +foreign clowns, and in foreign countries French clowns." + +"I see." + +"You are pretty strong, I suppose?" + +"More particularly when I get up after dinner." + +"And you know how to sing?" + +"Yes," replied Passe-partout, who at one time had sung in the street +concerts. + +"But can you sing standing on your head with a top spinning on the +sole of your left foot, and a sword balanced on your right foot?" + +"Something of that sort," replied Passe-partout, who recalled the +acrobatic performances of his youth. + +"Well, that is the whole business," replied the Honourable Mr. +Batulcar. + +And the engagement was ratified there and then. + +At length Passe-partout had found something to do. He was engaged to +make one of a celebrated Japanese troupe. This was not a high +position, but in eight days he would be on his way to San Francisco. + +The performance was advertised to commence at three o'clock, and +although Passe-partout had not rehearsed the "business," he was +obliged to form one of the human pyramid composed of the "Long-Noses +of the God Tingou." This was the great attraction, and was to close +the performance. + +The house was crowded before three o'clock by people of all races, +ages, and sexes. The musicians took up their positions, and performed +vigorously on their noisy instruments. + +The performance was very much the same as all acrobatic displays; but +it must be stated that the Japanese are the cleverest acrobats in the +world. One of them, with a fan and a few bits of paper, did the +butterfly and flower trick; another traced in the air with the smoke +of his pipe a compliment to the audience; another juggled with some +lighted candles which he extinguished successively as they passed his +mouth, and which he relit one after the other without for a moment +ceasing his sleight-of-hand performances; another produced a series of +spinning-tops which, in his hands, played all kinds of pranks as they +whirled round--they ran along the stems of pipes, on the edges of +swords, upon wires, and even on hairs stretched across the stage; they +spun round crystal goblets, crossed bamboo ladders, ran into all the +comers of the stage, and made strange music, combining various tones, +as they revolved. The jugglers threw them up in the air, knocked them +from one to the other like shuttlecocks, put them into their pockets +and took them out again, and all the time they never ceased to spin. + +But after all the principal attraction was the performance of the +"Long-Noses," which has never been seen in Europe. + +These "Long-Noses" were the select company under the immediate +patronage of the god Tingou. Dressed in a costume of the Middle Ages, +each individual wore a pair of wings; but they were specially +distinguished by the inordinate length of their noses and the uses +they made of them. These noses were simply bamboos from five to ten +feet long, some straight, some curved, some ribbed, and some with +warts painted on them. On these noses, which were firmly fixed on +their natural ones, they performed their acrobatic feats. A dozen of +these artists lay upon their backs, while their comrades, dressed to +represent lightning-conductors, leaped from one to the other of their +friends' noses, performing the most skilful somersaults. + +The whole was to conclude with the "Pyramid," as had been announced, +in which fifty "Long-Noses" were to represent the "Car of Juggernaut." +But instead of forming the pyramid on each other's shoulders, these +artistes mounted on each others noses. Now one of them, who used to +act as the base of the car, had left the troupe, and as only strength +and adroitness were necessary for the position, Passe-partout had been +selected to fill it on this occasion. + +That worthy fellow felt very melancholy when he had donned his +costume, adorned with parti-coloured wings, and had fixed his six-foot +nose to his face; but, at any rate, the nose would procure him +something to eat, and he made up his mind to do what he had to do. + +He went on the stage and joined his colleagues; they all lay down on +their backs, and then another party placed themselves on the long +noses of the first, another tier of performers climbed up on them, +then a third and a fourth; and upon the noses a human monument was +raised almost to the flies. + +Then the applause rose loud and long. The orchestra played a deafening +tune, when suddenly the pyramid shook, one of the noses at the base +fell out, and the whole pyramid collapsed like a house of cards! + +It was all owing to Passe-partout. Clearing himself from the scramble, +and leaping over the footlights, without the aid of his wings, he +scaled the gallery, and fell at the feet of one of the spectators, +crying out, as he did so, "Oh my master, my master!" + +"You!" + +"Yes, it is I." + +"Well then, under those circumstances you had better go on board the +steamer." + +So Mr. Fogg, Aouda, who accompanied him, and Passe-partout hastened +out of the theatre. At the door they met the Honourable Mr. Batulcar, +who was furious, and demanded damages for the breaking of the +"Pyramid." Mr. Fogg quickly appeased him by handing him a roll of +notes. + +At half-past six, the appointed hour for the sailing of the vessel, +Mr. Fogg, Mrs. Aouda, and Passe-partout, who still wore his wings and +long nose, stepped upon the deck of the American mail-steamer. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIV. + +In which the Pacific Ocean is crossed. + + + +The reader will easily guess what happened at Shanghai. The signals +made by the _Tankadere_ were perceived by the mail-steamer, and soon +afterwards, Phileas Fogg having paid the price agreed upon, as well as +a bonus of five hundred and fifty pounds, he and his party were soon +on board the steamer. + +They reached Yokohama on the 14th, and Phileas Fogg, leaving Fix to +his own devices, went on board the _Carnatic_, where he heard, to +Aouda's great delight, and probably to his own though he did not +betray it, that a Frenchman named Passe-partout had arrived in her the +day before. + +Mr. Fogg, who was obliged to leave for San Francisco that very +evening, immediately set about searching for his servant. To no +purpose was it that he inquired at the Consulate or walked about the +streets, and he gave up the search. Was it by chance or presentiment +that he visited Mr. Batulcar's entertainment? He would not certainly +have recognised his servant in his eccentric dress, but Passe-partout +had spied his master out. He could not restrain a movement of the +nose, and so the collapse had occurred. + +All this Passe-partout learnt from Mrs. Aouda, who also told him how +they had come from Hong Kong with a certain Mr. Fix. + +Passe-partout did not even wink at the name of Fix, for he thought the +moment had not yet come to tell his master what had passed; so in his +recital of his own adventures, he merely said that he had been +overtaken by opium. + +Mr. Fogg listened coldly to his excuses, and then lent him money +sufficient to obtain proper clothes. In about an hour he had got rid +of his nose and wings, and was once more himself again. + +The steamer in which they were crossing was called the _General +Grant_, and belonged to the Pacific Mail Company. She was a +paddle-steamer of two thousand five hundred tons, had three masts, and +at twelve knots an hour would not take more than twenty-one days to +cross the ocean; so Phileas Fogg was justified in thinking that he +would reach San Francisco on the 2nd of December, New York on the +11th, and London on the 20th, so gaining several hours on the fatal +21st. + +Nothing of any consequence occurred on the voyage. The Pacific fully +bore out its name, and was as calm as Mr. Fogg himself. Mrs. Aouda +felt more and more attached to this taciturn man by even stronger ties +than gratitude. She was more deeply impressed than she was aware of, +and almost unconsciously gave herself up to emotion, which, however, +did not appear to have any effect upon Mr. Fogg. Besides, she took the +greatest interest in his projects--anything that threatened to +interfere with his plans disquieted her extremely. She frequently +consulted with Passe-partout, and he, guessing how deeply she was +interested, praised his master all day long. He calmed her +apprehensions, insisted that the most difficult part of the journey +had been accomplished, that they would be soon in civilised countries, +and the railway to New York and the transatlantic steamer to Liverpool +would bring them home within their time. + +Nine days after leaving Yokohama, Mr. Fogg had traversed just exactly +one half of the globe. On the 23rd of November this _General Grant_ +passed the 180th meridian, the antipodes of London. Of the eighty days +he had had, he had, it is true, spent fifty-two, and only twenty-eight +remained; but it must be remarked that if he had only gone halfway, +according to the difference of meridians, he had really accomplished +two-thirds of his journey. He had been obliged to make long detours; +but had he followed the 50th parallel, which is that of London, the +distance would only have been twelve thousand miles, whereas by the +caprices of locomotion he had actually been obliged to travel +twenty-six thousand miles, of which he had now finished seventeen +thousand five hundred. But now it was all plain sailing, and Fix was +not there to interfere with him. + +It also happened on that day that Passe-partout made a great +discovery. It may be remembered that he had insisted on keeping London +time with his famous family watch, and despised all other timekeepers +on the journey. Now on this day, although he had not touched it, his +watch agreed exactly with the ship's chronometer. His triumph was +complete, and he almost wished Fix had been there that he might crow +over him. + +"What a lot of falsehoods the fellow told me about the meridians, the +sun, and the moon. Nice sort of time we should keep if we listened to +such as he. I was quite sure that the sun would regulate itself by my +watch one of these days." + +Passe-partout did not know that if his watch had been divided into the +twenty-four hours like Italian clocks, the hands would now show that +it was nine o'clock in the evening instead of nine o'clock in the +morning--that is to say, the one-and-twentieth hour after midnight, +which is the difference between London time and that at the 180th +meridian. But this Passe-partout would not have acknowledged even if +he understood it, and, in any case, if the detective had been on +board. Passe-partout would have argued with him on any subject. + +Now, where was Fix at that moment? + +Fix was actually on board the _General Grant_. + +In fact, when he reached Yokohama, the detective immediately went to +the English Consulate, where he found the warrant which had come by +the _Carnatic_, on which steamer they thought he himself had arrived. +His disappointment may be guessed, for the warrant was now useless, +and an act of extradition would be difficult to cause Fogg to be +arrested. + +"Well," he thought, when his first anger had evaporated, "if the +warrant is no use here it will be in England. The fellow is returning +to his native land, thinking he has put the police off the scent. I +will follow him; but I hope to goodness some of this money will be +left. He must already have spent more than five thousand pounds; +however, the bank can afford it." + +So he made up his mind to proceed on the _General Grant_, and was +actually on board when Mr. Fogg and Mrs. Aouda arrived. He was +surprised to recognise Passe-partout in such a dress, but he quickly +went down-stairs to avoid explanation, and hoped, thanks to the number +of passengers, that he would remain unperceived by his enemy. But that +very day he came face to face with Passe-partout. + +Passe-partout, without a word, caught him by the throat, and greatly +to the delight of the bystanders, who immediately made bets on the +result, he proved the superiority of the French system of boxing over +the English. + +Passe-partout was much refreshed by this exercise. Fix rose in a very +dishevelled condition, and asked his adversary "whether he had quite +finished?" + +"For the present, yes." + +"Then let me speak to you." + +"But--" + +"It is all in your master's interest." + +Passe-partout seemed conquered by the detective's coolness, and +followed Fix to the fore part of the ship. + +"You have given me a licking," said the detective. "So far, so good. I +expected it; but just now you must listen to me. Hitherto I have been +playing against Mr. Fogg. I am now in his favour." + +"Oh, then you believe him honest at last?" + +"By no means. I think he is a thief. Be quiet, hear me out. So long as +Mr. Fogg was on British territory, I did all I could to detain him +till the warrant for his arrest arrived. It was I who put the Bombay +priests on your track. I hocussed you at Hong Kong. I separated you +from your master, and caused him to lose the Yokohama steamer." + +Passe-partout clenched his fists as he listened. + +"But now," continued Fix, "Mr. Fogg appears likely to return to +England. All right, I will follow him. But in future I will do as much +to keep his way clear, as I have done to prevent his progress. I have +changed my game, and have done so for my own interest; your interest +is the same as mine, for it will be only in England that you will ever +find out whether your master is honest or not." + +Passe-partout listened attentively, and felt that Fix meant what he +said. + +"Are we friends?" asked Fix. + +"Friends, no; allies, yes; but only to a certain point, for at the +least sign of treason, I will twist your neck." + +"That's a bargain," said the detective calmly. + +Eleven days afterwards, viz. on the 3rd of December, the _General +Grant_ entered the Golden Gate of San Francisco. + +Mr. Fogg had neither gained nor lost a day. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXV. + +A Glimpse of San Francisco. A Political Meeting. + + + +At seven o'clock in the morning, Mr. Fogg and his companions landed in +America, or rather upon the floating pier at which the steamers load +and unload. There they mingled with ships and steamers of all +nationalities, and steam ferry-boats with two or three decks which +performed the service on the Sacramento and its affluents. + +Passe-partout was so delighted to reach America, that he thought it +necessary to execute one of his most active leaps. But when he landed +upon the quay, he found the planks worm-eaten, and he went through +them. His cry of alarm frightened all the birds which perched upon +these floating quays. + +Mr. Fogg's first care was to ascertain when the next train left for +New York. It started at six o'clock, so they had a whole day before +them. Then hiring a carriage, they drove to the International Hotel. +From his position on the box of the vehicle, Passe-partout observed +with great curiosity the wide streets, the rows of lofty houses, the +churches and other places of worship built in the Anglo-Saxon gothic +style, immense docks, palatial warehouses, innumerable cabs, +omnibuses, and tramway-cars; while Americans, Europeans, Chinese, and +Indians occupied the pathways. San Francisco surprised Passe-partout. +It was no longer the habitation of bandits, incendiaries, and +assassins, who gambled for gold-dust, a revolver in one hand and a +knife in the other. This "good time" had passed. The city was now the +hive of commerce. The tower of the city-hall overlooked the labyrinth +of streets and avenues, which crossed each other at right angles, +amongst which verdant squares extended; and the Chinese quarter looked +like an importation from the Celestial Empire in a toy-puzzle. +Sombreros, red shirts, and Indian head-dresses had given way to silk +hats and black coats, and some of the principal streets were lined +with splendid shops, offering the products of the whole world for +sale. + +When Passe-partout reached the International Hotel, he could scarcely +recognise that he was not in England. The ground-floor of this immense +building was occupied by a bar, at which free lunch of cold meat, +oyster soup, biscuits and cheese, was always to be had; wine or beer +had to be paid for. The restaurant was comfortable. Mr. Fogg and Mrs. +Aouda sat down to a table, and were waited on by the blackest of +negroes. + +After breakfast, Phileas Fogg, accompanied by Mrs. Aouda, went to the +English Consul to have his passport _vised_. On the pavement he met +his servant, who wanted to know whether he should not purchase some +revolvers and rifles. Passe-partout had heard of Sioux and Pawnees, +who are in the habit of stopping the trains. His master replied that +the precaution was needless, but permitted him to do what he pleased +in the matter, and pursued his way to the Consulate. + +He had not gone very far when, of course by the merest chance, he met +Fix. The detective appeared very much astonished. Was it possible that +he and Mr. Fogg had crossed in the same steamer, and never met? Fix +professed himself honoured at meeting the gentleman to whom he owed so +much. Business called him to Europe, and he would be proud to travel +in such agreeable company. + +Mr. Fogg replied that the honour would be his, and thereupon Fix, who +had made up his mind not to lose sight of the other, requested +permission to accompany Mr. Fogg in his walks about the city, which +was granted. + +So the three travellers soon found themselves in Montgomery Street, +and on the outskirts of a great crowd. People were everywhere looking +on and shouting, going about carrying large printed bills; flags, and +streamers were waving, and everyone was calling out "Hurrah for +Camerfield!" or "Hurrah for Maudiboy!" + +It was a political meeting, at least Fix thought so; and said to Mr. +Fogg that it might perhaps be better not to mingle with the crowd for +fear of accidents. + +Mr. Fogg agreed, and added "that blows, even though inflicted in a +political sense, were nevertheless blows." + +Fix smiled, and then in order to be able to see without being hustled, +the three travellers mounted a flight of steps at the upper end of the +street. Opposite was a large platform towards which the crowd appeared +to be moving. + +Mr. Fogg could not form any opinion as to what the meeting was about. +Perhaps it was the nomination of a governor of a State, or of a member +of Congress, which was not unlikely. Just then the excitement of the +crowd became greater, fists were raised as if to register a vote by a +show of hands. The crowd swayed backwards and forwards, flags were +displayed and immediately torn to pieces, hats were smashed, and the +greater part of the crowd seemed to have grown suddenly shorter. + +"It is evidently a political meeting," said Fix; "perhaps it is about +the Alabama Claims, although they are settled by this time." + +"Perhaps it is," replied Mr. Fogg. + +"At any rate," continued Fix, "here are the candidates. The Honourable +Mr. Camerfield and the Honourable Mr. Maudiboy have met." + +Aouda, leaning upon Mr. Fogg's arm, was regarding the tumult with +curiosity, and Fix was about to ask the reason of the disturbance when +the uproar increased to a terrific extent. The crowd became more +excited, blows were exchanged, boots and shoes were sent whirling +through the air, and the spectators thought they could hear the crack +of revolvers mingling with the cries of men. The combatants approached +the steps on which the party had taken refuge. One of the candidates +had evidently been repulsed, but whether Camerfield or Maudiboy had +got the best of it, mere spectators could not tell. + +"I think we had better retire," said Fix; "if there is any discussion +about England, and we were recognised, we might receive some injury." + +"An Englishman--" began Mr. Fogg. + +But he never finished the sentence, for a tremendous uproar arose on +the terrace just behind them, and there were loud shouts for Maudiboy, +a party of whose adherents were taking their opponents in the flank. + +Our travellers were now between two fires; it was too late to escape; +the torrent of men armed with life-preservers and sticks could not be +withstood. Phileas Fogg and Fix did all they could to protect their +fair companions with the weapons nature had provided, but +unsuccessfully. A great ruffian, with a red beard, who appeared to be +the chief of the band, was about to strike Mr. Fogg, and would +probably have done him serious injury if Fix had not stepped in and +received the blow in his stead, thereby getting his hat completely +smashed. + +"You low Yankee!" exclaimed Mr. Fogg contemptuously. + +"You English beast!" replied the other. + +"We shall meet again." + +"Whenever you please." + +"What is your name?" + +"Phileas Fogg; and yours?" + +"Colonel Stamp Proctor." + +And the tide of humanity swept past, overturning Fix, who, however, +speedily regained his feet, and though much dishevelled was not +seriously hurt. His overcoat was torn in two, and his trousers were +more like those worn by the Indians; but fortunately Aouda had +escaped, and Fix only showed any traces of the encounter. + +"Thank you," said Mr. Fogg to the detective when they were out of the +crowd. + +"Don't mention it," replied Fix; "let us go on." + +"Where to?" + +"To a tailor's." + +In fact this course had become necessary, for the clothes of both men +were torn as badly as if they had taken an active part in the contest, +but in an hour they were newly clad and safely back at the hotel +again. + +There they found Passe-partout waiting and armed with a dozen +six-barrelled central-fire revolvers. When he perceived Fix with Mr. +Fogg he frowned, but when Mrs. Aouda had told him all that had passed +his brow cleared. Fix evidently was no longer an enemy; he was an +ally, and was adhering to his agreement. + +After dinner they took a carriage and drove to the railway-station. As +Mr. Fogg was getting into the cab he said to Fix, "Have you seen that +Colonel Proctor since?" + +"No," replied Fix. + +"I will make a point of coming back to America to find him out," +replied Fogg coolly. "It would never do for an Englishman to allow +himself to be treated as he treated us." + +The detective smiled, but made no reply. It was evident, however, that +Mr. Fogg was of that race of Britons who, though they do not permit +duelling at home, fight in foreign countries when their honour is in +any way attacked. + +At a quarter to six the travellers reached the railway-station, and +found the train ready. Mr. Fogg called a porter and asked him the +reason of the excitement that afternoon. + +"It was a meeting, sir," replied the porter. + +"I thought there was some great commotion in the streets." + +"It was merely an election meeting." + +"For a commander-in-chief, no doubt?" suggested Mr. Fogg. + +"Oh dear no," replied the man. "It was for a justice of the peace." + +On this reply Phileas Fogg entered the train, which started almost +immediately. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVI. + +Showing how Mr. Fogg and Party journeyed in the Pacific Express. + + + +"From ocean to ocean," as the Americans say, and this sentence is the +usual expression to intimate the crossing of the continent by the +Pacific Railway. That line is really divided into two, viz. the +Central Pacific, between San Francisco and Ogden; and the Union +Pacific, between Ogden and Omaha. There are five trunk-lines from +Omaha to New York. + +New York and San Francisco are thus united by a continuous iron road +more than three thousand seven hundred and eighty-six miles in length; +between the Pacific and Omaha the railroad traverses a country still +inhabited by Indians and wild beasts, and a vast extent of territory +which the Mormons began to colonise in 1845, when they were driven out +from Illinois. + +Formerly, under the most favourable circumstances, the journey from +New York to San Francisco occupied six months, now it is accomplished +in seven days. + +It was in 1862 that, notwithstanding the opposition of Confederate +members of Congress, who desired a more southerly route, the railroad +track was planned between the forty-first and the forty-second +parallels of latitude. President Lincoln himself fixed the termination +of the new line at Omaha, in Nebraska. The work was immediately begun +and continued with characteristic American energy, which is neither +red-tapeish nor bureaucratic. The rapidity of the work did not affect +its completeness; they laid a mile and a half of line across the +prairie every day; an engine, carrying the rails to be used next day, +ran on the line only just laid, and advanced as quickly as they were +fixed. + +The Pacific railroad has several branches in the States of Iowa, +Kansas, Colorado, and Oregon. When it leaves Omaha the line runs along +the left bank of the river Platte, as far as the mouth of the northern +branch, follows the south branch, crosses the Laramine territory and +the Wahsatch Mountains to Salt Lake City (the Mormon capital), plunges +into the Tuilla Valley across the desert, Mounts Cedar and Humboldt, +the Humboldt river and the Sierra Nevada, and then descends by +Sacramento to the Pacific; the gradient all the way, even over the +Rocky Mountains, not exceeding a hundred and twelve feet to the mile. + +Such was the line along which Phileas Fogg hoped to be carried to New +York in seven days in time to reach the Steamer to Liverpool on the +11th. + +The car in which our travellers were seated was a sort of long +omnibus, with four wheels at each end, without compartments; rows of +seats were placed at each side, a passage running between them from +end to end of this carriage, and practically of the train, for every +carriage was closely connected with the next. There were drawing-room +cars, smoking-cars, and restaurants. The only thing wanting was the +theatre-car, but no doubt that will some day be supplied. Vendors of +books and papers, eatables, drinkables, and tobacco, continually +passed through the train. + +The train started from Oakland Station at six p.m. It was already +dark, and snow was threatening; the pace did not exceed twenty miles +an hour, including stoppages. There was not much conversation amongst +the passengers, and most of them soon went to sleep. Passe-partout was +next to the detective, but did not address him, for after what had +happened there could be no sympathy between them. Fix had not altered, +but Passe-partout was extremely reserved, and on the least suspicion +would have strangled his former friend. + +In about an hour snow began to fall, but not sufficiently thick to +hinder the progress of the train. Nothing could be seen from the +windows but an immense white sheet, against which the steam of the +engine looked gray. + +At eight o'clock the steward entered and said that bed-time had come. +The backs of the seats were thrown down, bedsteads were pulled out, +and berths improvised in a few moments. By this ingenious system each +passenger was provided with a bed, and protected by curtains from +prying eyes. The sheets were clean, the pillows soft. There was +nothing to do but to go to bed and sleep, which everybody did as if +they were on board ship, while the train rushed on across the State of +California. + +The territory between San Francisco and Sacramento is not very hilly, +and the railroad runs in a north-easterly direction along the American +river which falls into the Bay of San Pablo. The hundred and twenty +miles' distance between these cities was accomplished in six hours, +and as it was midnight when they passed through Sacramento, the +travellers could see nothing of the city. + +Leaving Sacramento and passing Junction, Rochin, Auburn, and Colfax, +the railroad passes through the Sierra Nevada range, and the train +reached Cisco at seven o'clock. An hour afterwards the sleeping-car +was retransformed to an ordinary carriage, and the passengers were +enabled to look out upon the magnificent scenery of this mountainous +country. The track followed all the caprices of the mountains, at +times suspended over a precipice, boldly rounding angles, penetrating +narrow gorges which had apparently no outlet. The engine, with fire +gleaming from the grate and black smoke issuing from its funnel, the +warning-bell ringing, the "cow-catcher" extending like a spur, mingled +its whistlings and snortings with the roar of torrents and waterfalls, +and twining its black smoke around the stems of the pine-trees. There +are few tunnels or bridges on this portion of the route, for the line +winds round the sides of the mountains and does not penetrate them. + +About nine o'clock the train entered the State of Nevada by the Carson +Valley, still proceeding in a north-easterly direction. At midday the +train quitted Reno, where it had stopped twenty minutes for luncheon. + +After lunch the passengers took their places in the car again, and +admired the scenery. Sometimes great troops of buffaloes were massed +like an immense moveable dam on the horizon. These immense troops +frequently oppose an impassable barrier to the trains, for they cross +the track in close array in thousands and thousands, occupying several +hours in their passage. On these occasions the train is brought to a +standstill and obliged to wait till the track is clear. + +In fact, an incident of this kind happened on this occasion. About +three o'clock in the afternoon a troop of ten or twelve thousand +beasts blocked the line. The engineer slackened speed and tried to +proceed slowly, but he could not pass the mass of buffaloes. + +The passengers could see the buffaloes defiling quietly across the +track, and now and then bellowing loudly. They were larger than +European bulls, the head and shoulders being covered with a long mane, +beneath which rises a hump; the legs and tails are short. No one would +ever think of attempting to turn them aside. When once they have taken +a certain direction, they cannot be forced to swerve from it. They +compose a torrent of living flesh which no dam can withstand. + +The passengers gazed on this curious spectacle, but the man most +interested of all in the speedy progress of the train, Phileas Fogg, +remained calmly in his place to wait till the buffaloes had passed by. +Passe-partout was furious at the delay which the animals caused, and +wished to discharge his armoury of revolvers at them. + +"What a country this is!" he exclaimed. "Fancy a whole train being +stopped by a herd of cattle, which do not hurry themselves in the +least, as if they were not hindering us; I should like to know whether +Mr. Fogg anticipated this delay. And here we have an engine-driver who +is afraid to run his train against a few cows." + +The engine-driver certainly did not attempt to do so, and he was quite +right. No doubt he might have killed two or three of the first +buffaloes he came in contact with; but the engine would soon have been +thrown off the line, and progress would have been hopeless. + +The best thing to do, then, was to wait patiently, and trust to make +up time when the buffaloes had passed; but the procession of animals +lasted for fully three hours, and it was night before the track was +clear. The head of the column had ere this disappeared below the +southern horizon. + +It was eight o'clock when the train had traversed the defiles of the +Humboldt range, and half-past nine when it entered Utah, the region of +the great Salt Lake and the curious Mormon territory. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVII. + +Showing how Passe-partout went through a Course of Mormon History, at +the rate of Twenty Miles an Hour. + + + +During the night of the 5-6th December, the train kept in a +south-easterly direction for about fifty miles, and then went up in a +north-east course towards Salt Lake. + +About nine o'clock in the morning, Passe-partout went out upon the +platform to get a breath of fresh air. The weather was cold and the +sky was dull, but there was no snow falling then. The sun in the mist +looked like an enormous disc of gold, and Passe-partout was +calculating what it would be worth in English money, when he was +disturbed by the appearance of a very curious personage. + +This individual, who had got into the train at Elko, was tall and of +dark complexion, had a black moustache, wore black stockings, and +black hat and clothes, except his necktie, which was white, and his +gloves, which were dog-skin. He looked like a minister. He went the +whole length of the train, and fastened a small notice-bill on the +door of every car. Passe-partout read one of these "posters," and +learnt that the Honourable Elder William Hitch, Mormon Missionary, +would take advantage of the occasion to deliver a lecture upon +Mormonism, in car No. 117, at eleven o'clock in the fore-noon till +twelve noon, and invited all those who wished to learn something about +the "Latter-day Saints" to attend the lecture. + +"Faith, I'll go," muttered Passe-partout, who knew nothing about +Mormonism, except the plurality of wives. + +The news spread rapidly amongst the passengers, and about thirty out +of the hundred travellers were attracted to car No. 117. Passe-partout +took a front seat. Neither his master nor Fix troubled themselves +about the matter. + +At the hour named the elder William Hitch got up, and in a somewhat +irritable manner, as if he had been already contradicted, cried out: + +"I tell you that Joe Smith is a martyr, and his brother Hiram is +another, and the way the Government is persecuting Brigham Young will +make him a martyr also. Now who dares say anything to the contrary?" + +No one ventured to contradict him, and his vehemence certainly +contrasted strangely with his calm features. But no doubt his anger +was kindled by the indignities to which the Mormons had been actually +exposed. The United States Government had certainly had a great deal +of trouble to bring these fanatics to reason. It was now master of +Utah, after having imprisoned Brigham Young on the charges of +rebellion and polygamy. Since that time the followers of the prophet +had redoubled their efforts, and, if not by deeds, by words resisted +the authority of the United States Government. Elder W. Hitch, as we +have seen, was endeavouring to gain converts in the railroad-cars. + +Then he went on to recite passionately the history of Mormonism from +patriarchal times. How in Israel a Mormon prophet of the tribe of +Joseph published the annals of the new religion, and left them to his +son Morom; and how, many centuries later, a translation of this +wonderful book was made by Joseph Smith, junior, a Vermont farmer, who +revealed himself as a prophet in 1823, when the angel appeared to him +and gave him the sacred roll of the book. + +About this time several of the audience left the car, but the lecturer +continued to relate how Smith, junior, his father and brothers, and a +few disciples founded the religion of the Latter-day Saints, which can +count its converts not only in America, but in Scandinavia, England, +and Germany. Also how a colony was established in Ohio, where a temple +was erected at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, and a town +built at Kirkland. How Smith became an opulent banker, and received a +papyrus scroll written by Abraham and several celebrated Egyptians. + +The narrative being very tiresome, the greater part of the audience +decamped, but the lecturer nevertheless continued his tale respecting +Joe Smith, his bankruptcy, his tarring and feathering, his +reappearance at Independence, Missouri, as the head of a flourishing +community of about three thousand disciples, his pursuit, and +settlement in the Far West. + +By this time Passe-partout and ten others were all that remained of +the audience, who were informed that after much persecution Smith +reappeared in Illinois and founded the beautiful city of Nauvoo, on +the Mississippi, of which he became chief magistrate; how he became a +candidate for the Presidency of the United States; how he was drawn +into an ambuscade at Carthage, imprisoned, and assassinated by a band +of masked murderers. + +Passe-partout was now absolutely the only listener, and the lecturer +looking him steadily in the face recalled to his memory the actions of +the pious Brigham Young, and showed him how the colony of Mormon had +flourished. + +"And this is why the jealousy of Congress is roused against us. Shall +we yield to force? Never! Driven from State to State we shall yet find +an independent soil on which to rest and erect our tents. And you," he +continued to Passe-partout, "and you, my brother, will not you pitch +your tent beneath the shadow of our flag?" + +"No," replied Passe-partout firmly, as he walked away, leaving the +Mormon elder by himself. + +While the lecturer had been holding forth the train had been +progressing rapidly, and had reached the north-west extremity of Salt +Lake. From that point the passengers could see this immense inland +sea--the Dead Sea, as it is sometimes called, and into which an +American Jordan flows. It is even now a splendid sheet of water, but +time and the falling-in of the banks have in some degree reduced its +ancient size. + +Salt Lake is seventy miles long and thirty-five wide, and is more than +three miles above the level of the sea. Though quite different from +Lake Asphaltites, it contains salt in large quantities. The specific +gravity of the water is one thousand one hundred and seventy; the same +distilled is one thousand. No fish can live in it; and though brought +down by the Jordan, Weber, and other rivers, soon perish; but it is +not true that its density is so great that no men can swim in it. + +The surrounding country is well cultivated, for the Mormons are great +farmers, and various flowers, etc., would have been observed later. +Just then the ground was sprinkled with snow. + +The train got to Ogden at two o'clock, and did not start again until +six; so Mr. Fogg and party had time to visit the City of the Saints by +the branch-line to Ogden. They passed a couple of hours in that very +American town, built, like all cities in the Union, with the +"melancholy sadness of right angles," as Victor Hugo said. In America, +where everything is supposed to be done on the square, though the +people do not reach that level, cities, houses, and follies are all +done "squarely." + +At three o'clock our travellers were walking about the city. They +remarked very few churches, but the public buildings were the house of +the prophet, the court, the arsenal; houses of blue brick, with +porches and verandahs surrounded by gardens, in which were palm-trees +and acacias, etc. A stone wall ran round the city. In the principal +street was the market-place and several hotels; amongst them Salt Lake +House rose up. + +There was no crowd in the streets, except near the temple. There was a +superabundance of females, which was accounted for by the peculiar +tenets of Mormons; but it is a mistake to suppose that all the Mormons +are polygamists. They can do as they please; but it may be stated that +the females are chiefly anxious to wed, as unmarried women are not +admitted to the full privileges of membership. These poor creatures do +not appear to be well off or happy. Some perhaps are rich and clothed +in European style, but the majority were dressed _a la Indienne_. + +Passe-partout beheld these women with some degree of awe, but above +all he pitied the husbands of these wives. It seemed to him to be an +awful thing to guide so many wives through all the mazes of life, and +to conduct them to the Mormon paradise, with the prospect of meeting +the glorious Joe Smith, who no doubt was there a shining light. He +felt quite disgusted, and he fancied--perhaps he was mistaken--that +some of the young ladies gazed at him alarmingly, and in a manner to +compromise his liberty. + +Fortunately his sojourn in the City of the Saints was not of long +duration. At four o'clock the travellers took their places in the +return train. The whistle sounded, but just as the train began to move +a cry was heard, "Stop, stop!" + +But the train did not stop. The gentleman who uttered these cries was +a Mormon too late for the train. He ran till he was out of breath. +Fortunately the railroad was quite open, there were no barriers nor +gates to pass. He rushed along the line, jumped upon the footboard of +the last carriage, and then threw himself panting into the nearest +seat. Passe-partout, who had been watching him intently, learnt that +he had run away after some domestic quarrel, and when the Mormon had +recovered his breath Passe-partout plucked up courage to inquire how +many wives the fugitive had left, as, judging from his anxiety to get +away, he must have had twenty at least. + +"One, sir," replied the Mormon, raising his arms to heaven. "One, sir; +and, by thunder, that one was quite enough!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XXVIII. + +In which Passe-partout cannot make anyone listen to the Language of +Reason. + + + +The train leaving Salt Lake and Ogden Station went on northwards as +far as Weber River, about nine hundred miles from San Francisco; from +this point it turned to the west across the Wahsatch range. It was in +this part of the State that the American engineers had found the +greatest difficulty. In this portion of the line also the Government +subsidy had been raised to forty-eight thousand dollars a mile, +instead of the sixteen thousand dollars a mile on the plains; but the +engineers, so it is said, had stolen a march on nature, turned all the +difficulties instead of cutting through them, and pierced only one +tunnel of fourteen thousand feet in length. + +At Salt Lake the line reached its greatest altitude--from that point +it took a long curve towards Bitter-creek Valley, and then rose again +to the watershed between the valley and the Pacific Creeks were +numerous hereabout, and Muddy Creek, Green Creek, and others were +successively crossed on culverts. As they approached the end of their +journey Passe-partout became more and more impatient, while Fix was +very anxious to get on, for he feared delays and accidents, and was +more anxious to reach England than even Phileas Fogg. + +The train stopped for a short time at Fort Bridger at ten o'clock, and +twenty miles farther on entered Wyoming State, formerly Dakota. The +next day, the 7th of December, they stopped at Green River. Sleet had +fallen during the night, but not sufficient to interfere with the +traffic. However, this bad weather annoyed Passe-partout very much, +for any great fall of snow would have compromised the success of the +journey. + +"Any way, it is absurd of my master having undertaken such a journey +in winter; he might just as well have waited for fine weather and had +a better chance." + +But while the honest fellow was worrying himself about the weather, +Mrs. Aouda was disquieted for an entirely different reason, as amongst +the passengers who had alighted at Green River she recognised Colonel +Stamp Proctor, who had insulted Mr. Fogg at the San Francisco meeting. +She drew back, as she did not wish to be recognised, but the +circumstance affected her deeply. + +In fact she had become attached to the man who, notwithstanding his +coldness of manner, betrayed every day the interest he took in her. No +doubt she herself was not aware of the depth of the sentiment with +which he inspired her, which she believed to be gratitude, but was +doubtless a deeper feeling. Her heart almost ceased to beat at the +moment she recognised Mr. Fogg's enemy. Evidently it was mere chance +which had led Colonel Proctor to this particular train, but he and Mr. +Fogg must be kept apart at all hazards. + +She took an opportunity, when Mr. Fogg was asleep, to tell them whom +she had seen. + +"That man Proctor on the train!" cried Fix. "Well, you may be quite +easy, madam; before he sees Mr. Fogg he has to settle with me. It +seems to me that in this matter I have been the most insulted of any." + +"And I have a little business with him also, though he is a colonel," +added Passe-partout. + +"Mr. Fix," replied Mrs. Aouda, "Mr. Fogg would permit nobody to +interfere with his quarrel. He has declared that he will come back to +America to find out that man who insulted him. If then he sees Colonel +Proctor, we cannot prevent a meeting which might have most deplorable +results. They must not see each other." + +"You are right, madam," replied Fix; "a meeting would spoil +everything. Whether victor or not, Mr. Fogg would be delayed, and--" + +"And," added Passe-partout, "that would just play into the hands of +the Reform Club. In four days we shall be in New York. If during that +time my master does not leave his car, the chances are he will not +meet the American. At any rate, we must try to prevent a meeting." + +The conversation ceased, for Mr. Fogg just then awoke and looked out +of window at the snow. Shortly afterwards Passe-partout whispered to +the detective, "Would you really fight for him?" + +"I would do anything in the world to get him back to Europe alive," +replied the detective in a determined tone. + +Passe-partout shuddered, but his confidence in his master was +unshaken. + +And now the question was, how could they detain Mr. Fogg in the car +and prevent him meeting the Colonel? It ought not to be a very +difficult matter, for Phileas was naturally of a sedentary +disposition. However, the detective found a way, for shortly +afterwards he said to Mr. Fogg: + +"The time passes very slowly." + +"Yes," replied Fogg, "but it does pass." + +"On board the steamer," continued the detective, "you used to like a +game of whist." + +"Yes," replied Fogg, "but here I have neither cards nor partners." + +"Ah, we can easily purchase cards. As for partners, if madam can take +a hand--" + +"Certainly," replied the young lady. "I know whist, it is part of an +English education." + +"And," continued Fix, "I also have some little knowledge of the game, +so we can play dummy." + +"As you like," said Fogg, delighted to play his favourite game even in +the train. + +Passe-partout was immediately despatched to the steward, and he +quickly returned with two packs of cards, some markers, and a board +covered with cloth. + +The game commenced, Mrs. Aouda played fairly well, and was +complimented by Phileas. As for the detective, he was a first-rate +player, and a worthy opponent of Mr. Fogg. + +"Now," thought Passe-partout, "we have got him down and he won't +move." + +At eleven o'clock in the morning the train reached the watershed at +Bridger Pass, at an elevation of seven thousand five hundred and +twenty-four feet above the level of the sea. After traversing about +two hundred miles more, the travellers found themselves in one of +those extensive plains which proved so convenient to the laying of the +railway. + +At half-past twelve the travellers got a glimpse of Fort Halleck, and +in a few hours afterwards they had crossed the Rocky Mountains. They +were now in hopes that no accident would imperil the journey; the snow +had ceased, and the air was frosty. Some large birds, startled by the +locomotive, rose up, but no wild beasts appeared; the whole plain was +a desert. + +After a comfortable breakfast in his own car, Mr. Fogg and his +companions resumed their whist. Just then a loud whistling was heard, +and the train came to a stop. Passe-partout put his head out, but +could see no cause for the stoppage. Mrs. Aouda and Fix were afraid +that Mr. Fogg would get up and see what was the matter, but he merely +told his servant to ascertain the reason of the delay. + +Passe-partout jumped down. He found a number of passengers already on +the ground, and amongst them Colonel Proctor. + +The train had been stopped by signal. The engine-driver and guard were +talking excitedly with the signalman, whom the station-master at +Medicine Bow had sent down. The passengers joined in the discussion, +and prominent amongst them was Colonel Proctor. + +Passe-partout, as he joined the group, heard the signalman say: "You +cannot pass. The bridge is unsafe, and will not bear the weight of the +train." + +The viaduct in question was a suspension-bridge over a rapid about a +mile farther on. The signalman said that many of the supports were +broken, and that it was impossible to cross; he did not exaggerate the +danger, and it may be taken for granted that when an American is +prudent there is good reason for not being rash. + +Passe-partout did not dare to tell his master, but remained, listening +with clenched teeth, motionless as a statue. + +"That is all very fine," said Colonel Proctor, "but I guess we ain't +going to stop here to take root in the snow." + +"We have telegraphed to Omaha for a train, Colonel," said the guard; +"but it can't reach Medicine Bow in less than six hours." + +"Six hours!" exclaimed Passe-partout. + +"Yes," replied the guard; "but it will take us that time to reach +Medicine Bow on foot." + +"Why, it is only a mile from here," said one of the passengers. + +"Only a mile, but on the other side of the river." + +"And can't we cross in a boat?" asked the Colonel. + +"Quite impossible; the creek has swollen with the rains; we shall have +to go round ten miles to a ford." + +The Colonel vented a choice collection of oaths, condemning the +company, the guard, and creation generally; and Passe-partout, who was +very angry, felt inclined to join him. Here was a material obstacle +which all his master's money would not be able to remove. + +The disappointment of the passengers was general, for, without +reckoning the delay, they found themselves obliged to walk fifteen +miles in the snow. The commotion would have attracted Phileas Fogg's +attention had he not been entirely absorbed in his game. + +Nevertheless, Passe-partout would have told him of it if the engineer, +a true Yankee, named Foster, had not said: + +"Perhaps there is a way we can get over after all, gentlemen." + +"Over the bridge?" asked a passenger. + +"Yes." + +"With the train, do you mean?" asked the Colonel. + +"With the train." + +Passe-partout stopped and listened anxiously for the engineer's +explanation. + +"But the bridge is almost broken," said the guard. + +"Never mind," replied Foster: "I think that by putting on full-steam +we may have a chance of getting across." + +"The devil!" muttered Passe-partout. + +But a certain number of the passengers were attracted by the +suggestion; Colonel Proctor was particularly pleased, and thought the +plan quite feasible. He related various anecdotes concerning +engineers, whom he had known, who crossed over rivers without any +bridges at all by merely putting on full-steam, etc. The end of it was +that many of the passengers agreed with the engineer. + +"The chances are fifty to a hundred about our getting over," said one. + +"Sixty!" said another. + +"Eighty, ninety!" said a third. + +Passe-partout was dumfounded, and although he was very anxious to +cross the river, he thought the proposed plan a little too American. + +"Besides," he thought, "there is an easier way, which does not seem to +have occurred to either of them;" so he said aloud to one of the +passengers: + +"The engineer's plan seems to me somewhat dangerous; but--" + +"Eighty chances!" replied the person addressed, turning away. + +"I know that," replied Passe-partout, as he spoke to another; "but an +idea--" + +"Ideas are no use," replied the American; "the engineer tells us we +can cross." + +"No doubt," replied Passe-partout; "but perhaps it would be more +prudent--" + +"What, prudent!" exclaimed Colonel Proctor, who was ready to quarrel +with anyone suggesting prudence. "Do you not understand that we are +going across at full speed? Do you hear, at full speed?" + +"I know, I know," said Passe-partout, whom no one would allow to +finish his sentence; "but it would be, if not more prudent, since that +word displeases you, at any rate more natural--" + +"Who is this, what's this? Who is talking about natural?" cried the +passengers on all sides. + +Poor Passe-partout did not know which way to turn. + +"Are you afraid?" asked Colonel Proctor. + +"I afraid?" cried Passe-partout; "you think so, do you? I will show +these people when a Frenchman can be as American as themselves." + +"All aboard!" cried the guard. + +"Yes, all get in," muttered Passe-partout; "but you cannot prevent my +thinking that it would be much more natural for us to cross the bridge +on foot and let the train follow." + +But no one heard this wise reflection, and if so, probably no one +would have acknowledged its justice. + +The passengers took their places, as did Passe-partout, without saying +what had happened. The whist-players were still deep in their game. + +The engine-driver whistled and then backed his train for nearly a +mile, then whistling again he started forward. The speed increased to +a fearful extent, and rushing along at a pace of nearly a hundred +miles an hour, seemed hardly to touch the rails at all. + +They passed over like a flash of lightning. No one saw anything of the +bridge; the train leaped, as it were, from bank to bank, and could not +be stopped till it had passed the station for some miles. + +Scarcely had the train crossed the bridge when the whole structure +fell with a tremendous crash into the rapids beneath! + + + + + +CHAPTER XXIX. + +In which certain Incidents are told which are never met with except on +Railroads in the United States. + + + +That evening the train proceeded without interruption; passed Fort +Saunders, crossed Cheyenne Pass, and arrived at Evans' Pass. Here the +railroad reached its greatest elevation, eight thousand and ninety-one +feet above the sea. The track was now downhill all the way to the +Atlantic, across naturally level plains. From here the Grand Trunk +Line led to Denver, the capital of Colorado State, rich in gold and +silver mines, and boasting more than fifty thousand inhabitants. + +Three days and three nights had now been passed in accomplishing one +thousand three hundred and eighty-two miles; four days and four nights +more would suffice to reach New York, and Phileas Fogg had not lost +time. + +During the night they had passed Camp Walbach, and entered Nebraska at +eleven, passing Julesburg on the south branch of the Platte river. It +was here that General Dodge inaugurated the Union Pacific road on the +23rd of October, 1867. Here two powerful locomotives with nine +carriages full of guests stopped, three cheers were given, the Sioux +and Pawnee Indians had a sham fight, fireworks were let off, and the +first number of a paper called _The Railway Pioneer_ was printed in a +press carried in the train. + +Fort MacPherson was passed at eight in the morning; they had still +three hundred and fifty-seven miles to go to Omaha. At nine o'clock +the train stopped at North Platte, a town built between the two arms +of the river. + +The hundred-and-first meridian was now passed. + +Mr. Fogg and his partner had resumed their whist; none of them, not +even the dummy, complained of the length of the journey. Fix had at +first won several guineas which he now seemed about to lose, but he +was not a less passionate player than Fogg. Fortune distinctly +favoured that gentleman, and showered trumps and honours upon him. + +On one occasion he was on the point of playing a spade, when a voice +behind him said, "I should play a diamond." + +The players all looked up, and beheld Colonel Proctor. He and Fogg +recognised each other at the same moment. + +"Oh, you are that Britisher, are you?" exclaimed the Colonel. "So you +are going to play a spade?" + +"Yes, and I play it too," replied Fogg coldly, as he threw down the +ten. + +"Well, I choose to have diamonds," said Proctor insolently. He made a +movement as if to seize the card just played, adding, "You know +nothing about whist." + +"Perhaps I do, as well as other people," said Fogg, rising. + +"You have only got to try, you son of a John Bull," said the stout +man. + +Mrs. Aouda now turned very pale; she seized Fogg by the arm, and +pulled him back. Passe-partout was quite ready to throw himself upon +the American, who continued to regard his adversary with an insolent +stare, but Fix rose and said, "You forget that this is my business, +sir; I was not only insulted, but struck." + +"Mr. Fix, excuse me," said Fogg; "this is entirely my business. By +pretending that I did not know how to play, the Colonel has insulted +me, and shall give me satisfaction." + +"When and where you please," said the American; "name your weapons." + +Aouda tried to keep Mr. Fogg back; the detective also tried to make +the quarrel his own; Passe-partout wanted to throw the Colonel out of +the window, but a sign from his master checked him. Mr. Fogg left the +car, and the American followed him to the platform. + +"Sir," said Fogg, "I am in a great hurry to return to Europe; any +delay will be very prejudicial to my interest." + +"What is all that to me?" said the Colonel. + +"Sir," continued Fogg, very politely, "after our dispute at San +Francisco, I had promised myself to return to America and find you +out, when I had finished my business in England." + +"Really!" + +"Will you meet me six months hence?" + +"Why don't you say six years?" + +"I said six months," said Fogg, "and I shall not fail to be at the +rendezvous." + +"This is all humbug," cried Proctor; "it must be now or never." + +"Very well," said Mr. Fogg; "are you going to New York?" + +"No." + +"To Chicago?" + +"No." + +"To Omaha?" + +"It can't matter to you. Do you know Plum Creek?" + +"No," replied Mr. Fogg. + +"It is the next station. We shall stop there ten minutes; we shall +have lots of time to exchange shots." + +"All right," replied Mr. Fogg; "I will stop at Plum Creek." + +"I guess you will stay there altogether," replied the American, with +unparalleled insolence. + +"Who knows?" replied Mr. Fogg, entering the car as coolly as ever, and +commenced to reassure Mrs. Aouda, by telling her that braggarts need +never be feared. He then asked Fix to be his second in the approaching +duel, which Fix could not well refuse to be; and then Phileas Fogg sat +down quietly and resumed his whist, without betraying the least +emotion. + +At eleven o'clock the whistle of the engine announced their approach +to Plum Creek. Mr. Fogg got up, and followed by Fix and Passe-partout, +carrying a brace of revolvers, went out upon the platform. Mrs. Aouda +remained in the car, as pale as death. + +At that moment the door of the next car opened, and Colonel Proctor +appeared, followed by his second, a Yankee of the same stamp as +himself. They were about to descend when the guard ran up and said, +"You cannot get out, gentlemen." + +"Why not?" demanded the Colonel. + +"We are twenty minutes late, and cannot stop." + +"But I am going to fight a duel with this gentleman." + +"I am very sorry," said the guard, "but we must be off at once; there +is the bell ringing." + +As he was speaking the train started. + +"I am really extremely grieved, gentlemen," said the guard, "and under +any other circumstances I should have been able to have obliged you. +But though you cannot stop to fight, there is nothing to prevent your +doing so as you go along." + +"Perhaps that would not suit that gentleman," said the Colonel in a +jeering tone. + +"It will suit me quite well," replied Phileas Fogg. + +"Well, we are actually in America, I see," thought Passe-partout; "and +the guard is a gentleman of the highest standing." + +The two adversaries, their seconds, and the guard passed down to the +rear of the train. The last car had only about a dozen passengers in +it, and the conductor asked them if they would mind moving, as the two +gentlemen had a little affair of honour to settle. + +The passengers were very glad to oblige the gentlemen, and they +retired accordingly. + +The car, about fifty feet long, was very suitable for the purpose. The +combatants could advance towards one another between the seats, and +fire at their leisure. Never had there been a duel more easy to +arrange. Mr. Fogg and Colonel Proctor, each carrying a six-barrelled +revolver, entered the car. Their seconds, having locked them in, +withdrew to the platform. The duellists were to begin to fire at the +first whistle of the engine, then, after a lapse of two minutes, what +remained of the two gentlemen would be taken from the car. + +Nothing could be easier. It was even so simple, that Fix and +Passe-partout could hear their hearts beating as they listened. + +Everyone was on the _qui vive_ for the first whistle, when suddenly +savage cries resounded, accompanied by shots, which certainly did not +come from the duellists. On the contrary, the reports rose all along +the train; cries of terror were heard inside the cars. + +Colonel Proctor and Mr. Fogg, revolvers in hand, were hastily +released, and rushed forward into the thick of the struggle, when they +perceived that the train had been attacked by a band of Sioux. This +was not the first time that this hardy tribe had attacked the train. +According to custom, they leaped on the footboards as the train +proceeded, as easy as a circus-rider would mount a horse at full +gallop. The Sioux were armed with guns, to which the passengers +replied with revolvers. The Indians had first mounted the engine, and +stunned the engine-driver and firemen with blows on the head. A chief +wished to stop the train, but not knowing how to do so had opened +instead of closing the regulator, and the train was now proceeding at +tremendous speed. Others of the tribe had entered the cars as actively +as apes, and were now engaged in a hand-to-hand fight with the +passengers. They pillaged the baggage-waggon, and were all the time +fighting incessantly. + +The travellers defended themselves courageously; they barricaded some +of the cars which were besieged like forts, carried along at the rate +of forty or fifty miles an hour. Mrs. Aouda had been most courageous. +Revolver in hand, she defended herself heroically, firing through the +broken windows whenever she caught sight of a savage. As many as +twenty Sioux had fallen, and lay crushed by the wheels; and many +passengers, grievously wounded, lay stretched upon the seats. + +But it was necessary to put an end to the fight, which had lasted for +ten minutes, and would result in a victory for the Indians if the +train were not stopped. Fort Kearney Station, where there was a guard, +was only a couple of miles farther on, and if that were passed, the +Indians would be masters of the train till the next station was +reached. The guard was fighting bravely by the side of Mr. Fogg, when +he was shot down. As he fell he cried, "If the train is not stopped in +less than five minutes, we are all lost!" + +"It shall be stopped," said Fogg, who was about to rush out. + +"Stay where you are, sir," said Passe-partout, "this is my business." + +His master had not time to stop the brave fellow, who, unseen by the +Indians, managed to creep along beneath the carriages, and then +calling all his agility to his aid, with marvellous dexterity he +managed to reach the fore part of the train without being seen. There, +suspended by one hand between the baggage-waggon and the tender, with +the other hand he unfastened the coupling-chains; but owing to the +great tension, he was not able to loose the draw-bar, but it was +fortunately jerked out as the train jolted. The locomotive, thus +detached, sped along at a tremendous pace in front, while the train +gradually slackened speed, and the breaks assisting it, it was pulled +up within a hundred feet of Fort Kearney. The soldiers, attracted by +the sound of firing, hastily turned out; but the Indians did not wait +for them. They all disappeared before the train stopped. + +But when the travellers came to count the passengers, they found that +several were missing, and amongst the absentees was the brave +Frenchman who had devoted himself to save them. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXX. + +In which Phileas Fogg simply does his Duty. + + + +Three of the travellers, including Passe-partout, had disappeared, but +it was impossible to say whether they had been killed or taken +prisoners. + +Several were wounded, but none mortally. Colonel Proctor was one of +the most severely hurt; he had fought bravely, and was carried with +the other wounded into the station, where he was attended to as well +as the circumstances admitted of. + +Mrs. Aouda was safe, and Phileas Fogg, who had been in the midst of +the fight, had not received a scratch. Fix had a flesh-wound in the +arm, but Passe-partout was missing, and Aouda could not help weeping. +Meanwhile the travellers all got out of the train, the wheels of which +were covered with blood and jagged pieces of flesh. Red tracks were +visible on the whitened plain. The Indians were disappearing in the +south along the Republican River. + +Mr. Fogg was standing motionless with folded arms, and Aouda looked at +him without speaking, but he understood her; he had to make up his +mind. If his servant were a prisoner, ought he not to rescue him from +the Indians? + +"I will find him, living or dead," he said simply to Aouda. + +"Oh Mr. Fogg!" exclaimed the young lady, seizing his hands, upon which +her tears fell fast. + +"Living," added Mr. Fogg, "if we lose no time." + +By this resolution Phileas Fogg sacrificed everything, he pronounced +his own ruin. A delay of even one day would lose the steamer at New +York and his wager. But he thought it was his duty, and did not +hesitate. + +The commandant of Fort Kearney was present; his company were under +arms to repel any further attack. + +"Sir," said Mr. Fogg to him, "three passengers are missing." + +"Dead?" asked the captain. + +"Dead or prisoners," replied Fogg; "I must find out which. Is it your +intention to pursue the Sioux?" + +"That would be a very serious thing," replied the captain. "The +Indians may retreat beyond the Arkansas, and I cannot leave the fort +undefended." + +"Sir," replied Fogg, "the lives of three men are in question." + +"No doubt; but can I risk fifty to save three?" + +"I do not know if you can, sir; but I know you ought." + +"Sir," replied the captain, "no one here is fit to teach me my duty." + +"Very well," said Fogg coldly, "I will go alone." + +"You, sir!" exclaimed Fix, who now approached. "Do you mean to go +alone in pursuit of the Indians?" + +"Do you wish me to leave that unfortunate man to perish to whom +everyone here owes his life? I shall certainly go." + +"No, sir, you shall not go alone," said the captain, who was moved in +spite of himself. "You are a brave fellow. Now, then, thirty +volunteers," he added, turning to the troops. + +The whole company advanced at once. The captain had only to pick his +men. Thirty were chosen, and a steady old non-commissioned officer put +in command. + +"Thanks, captain," said Mr. Fogg. + +"You will let me go with you?" said Fix. + +"You can do as you please, sir, but if you wish to do me a service you +will remain with Mrs. Aouda. Should anything happen to me--" + +The detective turned very pale. Should he separate from the man he had +followed so persistently? Should he leave him to wander thus in the +prairie? Fix gazed attentively at Mr. Fogg, and notwithstanding his +suspicions and the struggle going on within him, his eyes fell before +that frank look. + +"I will remain," he said. + +In a few moments Mr. Fogg, having shaken hands with the young lady and +confided his precious bag to her care, departed with the soldiers. But +before marching away he said to his escort, "My friends, I will divide +a thousand pounds amongst you if we save the prisoners." + +It was then a little past midday. + +Mrs. Aouda retired to a waiting-room, and there she remained thinking +of the generosity and courage of Phileas Fogg, who had sacrificed his +fortune and was now risking his life for what he believed to be his +duty. In her eyes Mr. Fogg was a hero. + +But Fix's thoughts were very different; he could scarcely conceal his +agitation; he walked up and down the station and soon recovered +himself. Now that Fogg had gone, Fix perceived how foolish he had been +to let him go. He began to accuse himself in pretty round terms, as if +he had been his own inspector. + +"What a fool I have been," he thought. "The fellow has gone and won't +come back. How is it that I, actually with a warrant for his arrest in +my pocket, could have been so played upon? Well, I am an ass!" + +Thus reasoned the detective as he walked up and down the platform. He +did not know what to do. Sometimes he thought he would tell Aouda +everything, but he knew how she would receive his confidence. He then +thought of following Fogg over the prairie, and he thought it not +impossible he might find him, as the footsteps of the escort would be +imprinted in the snow. But after a further fall they would soon be +obliterated. + +Fix became discouraged, and felt inclined to give up the whole thing. +He had now an opportunity to leave Kearney Station and pursue his way +homewards. In fact about two o'clock, in the midst of a snowstorm, +long whistles were heard from eastward; a great shadow was slowly +advancing; no train was expected from that direction. The assistance +telegraphed for could not possibly arrive so soon, and the train to +San Francisco was not due till the next day. The mystery was soon +explained. + +It was the runaway locomotive that was approaching. After it had left +the train, it had run a long distance till the fire got low and the +steam went down. Then it stopped, still bearing the half-conscious +engine-driver and firemen. When they found themselves alone in the +prairie they understood what had happened, and they had no doubt they +would find the train somewhere on the track, helpless. The +engine-driver did not hesitate. To go on to Omaha would be only +prudent, while to return would be dangerous. He nevertheless built up +the fire and ran back to Fort Kearney, whistling through the mist as +he went. + +The travellers were all delighted to see the engine attached to the +train once more. They could now resume their journey, so fatally +interrupted. + +When the engine was coupled on, Mrs. Aouda asked the guard if he were +really going to start? + +"Right away, ma'am," he replied. + +"But the prisoners, our unfortunate companions--" + +"I cannot interrupt the service," he replied; "we are three hours late +already." + +"And when will the next train arrive from San Francisco?" + +"To-morrow evening." + +"That will be too late. It must wait." + +"That is impossible. If you wish to go on, please get in." + +"I will not go," replied the lady. + +Fix heard this conversation. A short time before, when there was no +chance of his going on, he had decided to leave Kearney, and now that +it was necessary for him to take his place, something seemed to detain +him. The conflict in his mind waxed fiercer, he wished to fight it +out. + +Meantime the passengers, some of them wounded, including Colonel +Proctor, took their places in the train, which started immediately and +soon disappeared, the steam mingling with the falling snow. + +Fix had remained behind. + +Some hours passed away. The weather was wretched and very cold. Fix +remained seated, apparently asleep, on a bench. Aouda, notwithstanding +the tempest, continually came out of the room set apart for her, and +walking to the extremity of the platform, attempted to penetrate the +thick falling snow, as she listened intently for some sound of the +return of the escort. But she saw and heard nothing, and would return +chilled to the bone, only to sally forth once more in vain. + +Night fell, the troops had not returned; the commandant began to feel +anxious, though he did not betray his anxiety. The snow fell less +thickly now, but the cold was intense; absolute silence reigned +around. All night Mrs. Aouda kept wandering about, filled with the +most dismal forebodings--her imagination suggested a thousand dangers, +and her anxiety was terrible. + +Fix remained immovable, but he did not sleep either. A man approached +him once and spoke to him, but a shake of the head was the only reply +he received. + +Thus passed the night. At sunrise it was possible to distinguish +objects at the distance of two miles; but towards the south, in which +direction the party had gone, there was no sign. It was then seven +o'clock. + +The captain, who was now seriously alarmed, did not know what to do. +Should he send a second detachment after the first, and sacrifice more +men on the slender chance of saving those who had already gone? But he +did not hesitate long, and was on the point of ordering a +reconnaissance to be made, when the sound of firing was heard. The +soldiers rushed out of the fort and perceived the little troop +returning in good order. + +Mr. Fogg was marching at their head. Close to him were Passe-partout +and the other two passengers, rescued from the hands of the Sioux. +They had encountered the Indians ten miles from Kearney. Just before +they arrived Passe-partout and his companions had turned upon their +captors, three of whom the Frenchman had knocked down with his fists, +when his master and the escort came to his assistance. + +The party was welcomed most joyously. + +Phileas Fogg distributed the promised reward to the soldiers, while +Passe-partout muttered, and not without reason, "I must confess that I +cost my master pretty dearly." + +Fix looked at Mr. Fogg without speaking, and it would have been +difficult to analyse his thoughts at that moment. Mrs. Aouda, whose +feelings were too deep for expression, took Mr. Fogg's hands in hers +and pressed them without speaking. + +Ever since his return Passe-partout had been looking for the train; he +hoped to find it there ready to start for Omaha, and trusted that the +lost time might be regained. + +"But where is the train?" he exclaimed. + +"Gone," replied Fix. + +"When is the next train due here?" asked Mr. Fogg. + +"Not until this evening." + +"Ah!" replied the impassible gentleman simply. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXI. + +In which the Detective forwards Mr. Fogg's Interest considerably. + + + +Phileas Fogg was twenty hours behind time, and Passe-partout, the +involuntary cause of the delay, was desperate; he had decidedly ruined +his master. + +The detective approached Mr. Fogg, and, looking at him attentively, +said, "Seriously, sir, are you really in such a hurry?" + +"Very seriously I am," replied Fogg. + +"It is absolutely necessary, then, for you to be in New York on the +11th--before the departure of the English mail-steamer?" + +"I have a very great interest in so doing." + +"If, then, your voyage had not been interrupted, you would have +reached New York on the morning of the 11th?" + +"Yes, with twelve hours to spare." + +"Well, you are now twenty hours late. Twelve from twenty leaves +eight--you must regain those eight hours. Do you wish to try?" + +"On foot?" + +"No, on a sledge," replied Fix; "on a sledge with sails; a man has +proposed it to me." + +It was, in fact, the man who had spoken to Fix during the night, and +whose offer he had refused. + +Mr. Fogg did not immediately reply, but Fix pointed out the man, and +Fogg went up and spoke to him. Shortly after they entered a hut built +just beyond the fort. Here Mr. Fogg was shown a very curious +vehicle--a sort of sledge, with room for five or six people. A high +mast was firmly supported by wire rigging, and carried a large sail; +it was also furnished with a rudder. In fact it was a sledge rigged +like a cutter. During the winter, on the frozen plains, the trains +cannot run, and these sledges make rapid passages from station to +station, and when running before the wind they equal, if they do not +exceed, the speed of the train. + +The arrangement was soon made. The strong west wind was in their +favour. The snow was hard, and Mr. Mudge, the owner, was confident of +being able to reach Omaha in a few hours. Thence were plenty of trains +to Chicago and New York. It was just possible to recover the lost +time, and they did not hesitate to make the attempt. + +Mr. Fogg did not wish to expose Aouda to the cold, and suggested that +she should remain at the station with Passe-partout, who would escort +her to England under more favourable circumstances; but she refused to +leave Mr. Fogg, greatly to the delight of Passe-partout, who would not +leave his master alone with Fix. + +The detective's thoughts would be difficult to guess. Was his +conviction shaken by Fogg's return, or did he still regard him as a +scoundrel who hoped to be safe in England on his return? Perhaps Fix's +opinion concerning Fogg had altered; but he would do his duty, +nevertheless; and he would do his duty and hasten his return to +England as much as possible. + +At eight o'clock the sledge was ready. The passengers took their +places, the sails were hoisted, and the vehicle sped over the snow at +forty miles an hour. The distance between Fort Kearney and Omaha, as +the crow flies, is two hundred miles at most. If the wind held they +could reach Omaha by one o'clock, if no accident happened. + +What a journey it was! The travellers huddled close together, unable +to speak in consequence of the intense cold. The sledge glided over +the snow like a boat on a lake, and when the wind rose it was almost +lifted off the ground. Mudge steered in a straight line, and +counteracted the occasional lurches of the vessel. They hoisted all +sail, and certainly could not be going less than forty miles an hour. + +"If nothing carries away," said Mudge, "we shall get there in time." + +Mr. Mudge had an interest in accomplishing the journey, for Mr. Fogg, +as usual, had promised him a handsome reward. + +The prairie was as flat as possible, and Mudge steered perfectly +straight, taking the chord of the arc described by the railroad, which +follows the right bank of the Platte River. Mudge was not afraid of +being stopped by the stream, for it was frozen over. So the way was +free from all obstacles, and there were but two things to fear--an +accident or a change of wind. But the breeze blew steadily in the same +direction, and even increased in force. The wire lashing hummed like +the chords of a musical instrument, and the sledge sped along +accompanied by a plaintive harmony of peculiar intensity. + +"Those wires give us the fifth and the octave," said Mr. Fogg. + +These were the only words he spoke throughout the passage. Mrs. Aouda +was well wrapped up in furs. Passe-partout's face was as red as the +setting sun, and, with his usual confidence, began to hope again. +Instead of reaching New York in the morning they would get there in +the evening, perhaps before the departure of the steamer for +Liverpool. Passe-partout had a great desire to clasp Fix by the hand, +for he did not forget that it was the detective who had procured the +sledge, the only means of reaching Omaha in good time; but some +presentiment induced him to remain quiet. However, Passe-partout would +never forget Mr. Fogg's devotion in rescuing him from the Indians. + +The sledge still flew along. The plain and the streams were covered +with the mantle of snow. A great uninhabited island appeared to be +enclosed between the Union and Pacific Railroad and the branch-line +which unites Kearney with St. Joseph. Not a house was in sight. They +occasionally passed some gaunt tree, and sometimes flocks of wild +birds rose about them, or a band of starving wolves pursued the +sledge. On these occasions Passe-partout, revolver in hand, was ready +to fire on those which came too near. Had an accident happened, the +wolves would have made short work of the travellers; but the sledge +held on its course, and soon left the howling brutes behind. + +At midday Mudge thought they were crossing the Platte River. He said +nothing, but he was sure that Omaha was only twenty miles farther on. +And in fact in less than an hour their skilful steersman left the helm +and hauled down his sails, while the sledge ran on with its acquired +impetus. At length it stopped, and Mudge, pointing to a cluster of +snow-covered houses, said, "Here we are!" + +They had arrived at the desired station, which was in constant +communication with the Eastern States. Passe-partout and Fix jumped +down and stretched their stiffened limbs. They then assisted Mr. Fogg +and Mrs. Aouda to alight. The former paid Mudge handsomely. +Passe-partout shook his hands warmly, and then the whole party rushed +towards the railway-station. + +A train was ready to start, and they had only just time to jump in; +though they had seen nothing of Omaha, they did not regret it, as they +were not travelling for pleasure. + +The train rushed across the State of Iowa, past Conneil Bluffs, Des +Morines, and Iowa city. During the night they crossed the Mississippi +at Davenport and entered Illinois. Next day, the 10th, at four p.m., +they reached Chicago, which had risen from its ashes, and, more +proudly than ever, was seated on the borders of the beautiful Lake of +Michigan. + +They were still nine hundred miles from New York, but there were +plenty of trains. Mr. Fogg passed at once from one train to another, +which started at full-speed as if it knew he had no time to lose. It +crossed Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey like lightning, +through towns with antique names containing streets and tramways, but +as yet no houses. At length the Hudson Plain appeared, and at a +quarter-past eleven p.m., on the 11th, the train stopped in the +station on the right bank of the river, before the very pier from +which the Cunard, otherwise known as the British and North American, +Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's steamers start. + +The _China_ had left for Liverpool three-quarters of an hour +previously. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXII. + +In which Phileas Fogg struggles against Ill-luck. + + + +The _China_ seemed to have carried off Mr. Fogg's last hope, for no +other steamers of any other line would be of use. The _Pereire_, of +the French Transatlantic Company, did not leave till the 14th, while +the boats of the Hamburg American Company also went to Havre, and not +direct to Liverpool or London; and this extra passage from Havre to +Southampton would upset his calculations. + +The Inman steamer _City of Paris_ would not start till next day--that +would be too late. Nor would the White Star Line serve his purpose; +all of which Mr. Fogg learnt from "Bradshaw." Passe-partout was +completely upset; it was maddening to lose the steamer by +three-quarters of an hour, and it was his fault, too, for putting +obstacles in his master's way; and when he looked back at the +incidents of the journey, the sums expended on his account, the +enormous wager, and tremendous charges of the now useless trip, he was +overwhelmed. Mr. Fogg, however, did not reproach him, but as he +quitted the pier, said: "We will see to-morrow what is best to be +done. Come along." + +The party crossed the river, and drove to the St. Nicholas Hotel, in +Broadway, where they engaged rooms; but Fogg was the only one who +slept. Next day was the 12th of December. From that day, at seven in +the morning, to the 21st, at a quarter to nine in the evening, was a +period of nine days, thirteen hours, and forty-five minutes; so if +Phileas Fogg had sailed in the _China_, he would have reached London +in time to win his wager. + +Mr. Fogg left the hotel by himself, telling the others to wait his +return, but to be ready to leave at a moment's notice. He went down to +the Hudson River, to see if there were any vessels about to start. +Several were getting ready to go to sea, but the majority of them were +sailing ships, which of course did not suit Mr. Fogg. He appeared to +have lost his last hope, when he perceived a small screw-steamer +moored off the battery; the funnel was pouring forth black smoke, and +everything looked like a speedy departure. Mr. Fogg hailed a boat, and +soon found himself on board the _Henrietta_, which was an iron +steamer. The captain was on board, and approached Mr. Fogg to answer +his inquiries. This captain was a man about fifty, a regular sea-wolf. + +"Are you the captain?" asked Mr. Fogg. + +"I am." + +"I am Phileas Fogg, of London." + +"And I am Andrew Speedy, of Cardiff." + +"You are about to sail, I suppose?" + +"In an hour." + +"Where are you bound?" + +"For Bordeaux." + +"And your cargo?" + +"I am only in ballast." + +"Have you any passengers?" + +"I never take passengers; they are always in the way, and always +talking." + +"Does your ship steam well?" + +"Between eleven and twelve knots. The _Henrietta_ is well known." + +"Would you like to take me and my three friends to Liverpool?" + +"To Liverpool! Why not China at once?" + +"I said Liverpool." + +"No." + +"No?" + +"No, I tell you. I am bound for Bordeaux, and to Bordeaux I shall go." + +"Will money have any effect?" + +"Not the least." + +The captain spoke in a tone which did not admit of argument. + +"But the owners of the _Henrietta_?" began Fogg. + +"I am the owner. The vessel belongs to me." + +"I will hire it from you." + +"No." + +"I will buy it, then." + +"No." + +Mr. Fogg did not betray the slightest disappointment, notwithstanding +the gravity of the situation. Things were not at New York as at Hong +Kong, nor was the captain of the _Henrietta_ like the pilot of the +_Tankadere_. Hitherto money had smoothed all obstacles. Now it failed. + +Nevertheless, some means of crossing the Atlantic must be found, and +Phileas Fogg, apparently, had an idea, for he said to the captain: + +"Will you take me to Bordeaux, then?" + +"Not if you gave me two hundred dollars." + +"I will give you two thousand dollars." + +"What, for each passenger?" + +"Yes." + +"And there are four of you?" + +"Yes." + +This reply caused Captain Speedy to scratch his head. There were eight +thousand dollars to be gained, by simply going his own route; and such +a sum might well overcome his antipathy to passengers. Besides, +passengers at two thousand dollars apiece become valuable merchandise. + +"I start at nine o'clock," said Captain Speedy quietly; "and if you +and your party are ready, why, there you are." + +"We shall be on board at nine," replied Mr. Fogg, not less quietly. + +It was then half-past eight. To land again, drive up to the hotel, and +bring off his party to the _Henrietta_, did not take Mr. Fogg very +long. He even offered a passage to the inseparable Fix. All this was +done by Mr. Fogg as coolly as possible. + +They were all on board by the time the _Henrietta_ was ready to start. + +When Passe-partout heard what the voyage was going to cost, he uttered +a prolonged "Oh!" which descended through all the notes of the gamut. + +As for Fix, he concluded at once that the Bank of England would not +recover much of the money, for by the time they reached England, if +Mr. Fogg did not throw away any more money, at least seven thousand +pounds would have been spent. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXIII. + +In which Phileas Fogg rises to the Occasion. + + + +An hour later the _Henrietta_ passed the light-ship at the mouth of +the Hudson, rounded Sandy Hook, and skirting Fire Island and Long +Island, steamed rapidly eastward. + +At noon next day Phileas Fogg mounted the bridge, to ascertain the +ship's position, for Captain Speedy was safely locked up in his cabin, +where he was using some very strong, but, under the circumstances, +excusable language. + +The fact was that Mr. Fogg wished to go to Liverpool, and the captain +did not; and had made such good use of the time he had been on board, +and of his money, that he had won the whole crew, who were not on the +best terms with the captain, over to his side. And this is why Phileas +Fogg was in command, why the captain was shut up in his cabin, and why +the ship was heading for Liverpool. By the way Mr. Fogg managed the +vessel, it was evident he had been a sailor. + +How the adventure ended will be seen later on. Aouda was anxious, but +said nothing. Fix had been completely upset from the first; but +Passe-partout thought the manoeuvre simply splendid. The captain had +said that the _Henrietta_ could make between eleven and twelve knots, +and he had not exaggerated. + +If, then--for there were still ifs--if the sea did not get too rough, +nor the wind shift to the east, nor any accident happen to the +machinery, it was possible for the _Henrietta_ to cross the Atlantic +in nine days. But it was not improbable that, when he reached +Liverpool, Mr. Fogg would have to answer some awkward questions about +the _Henrietta_, as well as about the bank business. + +For the first few days everything went well, and the _Henrietta_ +steamed and sailed like a transatlantic liner. + +Passe-partout was charmed. This last exploit of his master delighted +him above everything; he was the life and soul of the crew, and his +good spirits were infectious. He had forgotten the past vexation, and +only looked forward to the future. He kept his eye warily upon Fix, +but scarcely spoke, for the old intimacy no longer existed between +them. + +It must be confessed that Fix did not understand what was going on. +The seizure of the _Henrietta_, the bribery of the crew, and Fogg's +seamanlike qualities perfectly astounded him; he did not know what to +think; for a gentleman who had begun by stealing fifty-five thousand +pounds might end by stealing a vessel, and Fix not unnaturally came to +the conclusion that the _Henrietta_ would not reach Liverpool at all, +but proceed to some port where Mr. Fogg, turned pirate, would be in +safety. The detective was sorry he had gone into the business. + +All this time Captain Speedy continued to grumble and swear in his +cabin, and Passe-partout, who took him his meals, was obliged to be +very circumspect. Mr. Fogg did not seem to care whether there was a +captain on board or not. + +On the 13th they passed the Banks of Newfoundland. This was a +dangerous part of the coast, particularly in winter, when fogs and +gales are frequent. On this occasion the barometer had been falling +all the preceding day, and during the night the cold became more +intense, and the wind chopped to the south-east. + +This was unfortunate. Mr. Fogg furled his sails and put on full-steam; +nevertheless the speed fell off, as the vessel pitched heavily. The +wind rose, and the position of the _Henrietta_ became precarious. + +Passe-partout's face darkened as the sky, and for two days he was in +mortal terror. But Mr. Fogg was a bold sailor, and kept the ship head +to sea without even reducing the steam. The _Henrietta_ rushed through +the waves and deluged her decks. Sometimes the screw was clear out of +the water, but still they kept on. + +Although the wind did not increase to a tempest, it held to the +south-east, so the sails were rendered useless, and a great aid to the +screw was thus lost. + +The 16th of December was the seventy-fifth day since Fogg's departure +from London, and half the voyage across the Atlantic had been +accomplished, and the worst was over. In the summer, success would +have been assured, but in winter the weather had them at its mercy. +Passe-partout said nothing, but consoled himself with the reflection +that the steam would not fail them, and he hoped on. + +One day the engineer came on deck and spoke anxiously to Mr. Fogg. +This consultation made Passe-partout very uneasy; he would have given +his ears to have heard what they were saying; he managed to catch a +few words, and heard his master say, "Are you sure?" + +"Quite certain," replied the engineer; "you must not forget that we +have been piling up the fire ever since we left, and though we had +sufficient coal to go under easy steam to Bordeaux, we had not enough +to carry us to Liverpool at full pressure." + +"I will think about it," said Mr. Fogg; and then Passe-partout +understood it all. + +The coal was failing! + +"If my master can get over this," he thought, "he will be a clever +fellow." + +He was so agitated he could not help imparting his knowledge to Fix, +who replied, "Then you really think we are going to Liverpool?" + +"Of course we are." + +"You idiot!" replied the detective, shrugging his shoulders, as he +turned away. + +Passe-partout would have revenged himself for this insult if he had +not reflected that the unlucky Fix was very probably disappointed and +humiliated at having followed a false scent all the way round the +world. + +But what would Phileas Fogg do now? No one could say; but he himself +appeared as cool as ever, and to have decided, for he told the +engineer, the same evening, to keep the full-steam on till the coal +was exhausted. + +So the _Henrietta_ proceeded at full-steam until, on the 18th, the +coals began to give out, as the engineer had foretold. + +"Keep up the steam as much as possible," said Mr. Fogg. + +About midday, Phileas Fogg, having taken the ship's reckoning, told +Passe-partout to release Captain Speedy. The Frenchman would rather +have unloosed a tiger, and said, as he went aft, "What an awful rage +he will be in." + +A few minutes later a bomb appeared on deck. This bomb was Captain +Speedy, and looked ready to burst. + +"Where are we?" was his first remark, as soon as his anger would allow +him to speak. "Where are we?" he repeated, looking round. + +"Seven hundred and seventy miles from Liverpool," replied Mr. Fogg +calmly. + +"Pirate!" roared Andrew Speedy. + +"I requested your attendance, sir." + +"You robber!" + +"Sir," said Mr. Fogg, "I wish to ask you to sell me your vessel." + +"Never, by all the devils!" + +"Then I shall be obliged to burn her." + +"Burn my ship?" + +"Yes, at least the upper works, as we are in want of fuel." + +"Burn my ship!" roared Captain Speedy; "why she is worth fifty +thousand dollars!" + +"Here are sixty thousand dollars," replied Fogg, as he offered him a +roll of bank-notes. + +This had a great effect upon Captain Speedy. In an instant he forgot +his anger, his incarceration, and all his complaints. The ship was +twenty years old, he would make his fortune. The bomb would not burst +after all. Mr. Fogg had extinguished the fuze. + +"I shall still keep the hulk, I suppose?" + +"The hulk and the engine are yours. Is it a bargain?" + +"Yes." And Speedy, seizing the proffered money, put it (speedily) into +his pocket. + +All this time Passe-partout was as pale as a ghost, while Fix looked +as if he were going into a fit. Twenty thousand pounds expended, and +the captain still possessed the hull and the machinery, the most +valuable portion of the vessel! It was true that fifty-five thousand +pounds had been stolen. + +When Speedy had pocketed the money, Mr. Fogg said to him: "Don't be +astonished at all this; you must know that if I do not reach London on +the 21st of December, I shall lose twenty thousand pounds. Now you see +I lost the steamer at New York--you refused to take me to Liverpool--" + +"And I was right," replied the captain, "for I have made twenty +thousand dollars by the refusal." Then he added, more seriously: + +"Do you know one thing, Captain--" + +"Fogg," said that worthy. + +"Captain Fogg; you've got a spice of the Yankee in you!" And having +paid him this compliment, as he fancied, he was going below, when Fogg +said, "Now the vessel is mine!" + +"Certainly; from truck to keelson--the wood I mean!" + +"All right. Please have all the woodwork cut away and burnt." + +It was absolutely necessary to burn the dry wood for fuel; and that +day the poop, cabin fittings, bunks, and the spar-deck were consumed. + +Next day, the 19th December, they burned the masts and spars. The crew +worked with a will, and Passe-partout sawed away as lustily as any ten +men. Next day the upper works disappeared, and the _Henrietta_ was +then only a hulk. But on that day they sighted the Fastnet Light and +the Irish coast. By ten o'clock they passed Queenstown. Phileas Fogg +had now only twenty-four hours left to reach Liverpool, even if he +kept up full-speed; and the steam was likely to give out apparently. + +"Sir," said Speedy, who was now almost as much interested as the rest, +"I should really suggest your giving up the game. Everything is +against you. We are only just passing Queenstown." + +"Ah," exclaimed Fogg, "is that Queenstown where the lights are?" + +"Yes." + +"Cannot we enter the harbour?" + +"Not before three o'clock; the tide will not serve." + +"Let us wait then," said Fogg calmly, without betraying any emotion +that, by a last effort, he was about to conquer his ill-luck. + +Queenstown is the port at which the American mails are landed, which +are then forwarded to Dublin by an express train, and from thence to +Liverpool[A] by fast steamers, thus gaining twelve hours upon the +fastest vessels. + + + +[Footnote A: Holyhead.--_Trans_.] + + + +Mr. Fogg calculated upon gaining this space of time, and so, instead +of reaching Liverpool next evening, he would be there at noon, and be +able to reach London by a quarter to nine p.m. + +About one a.m. the _Henrietta_ entered Queenstown, and Mr. Fogg, +exchanging a clasp of the hand with Captain Speedy, left that +personage upon the vessel, now a mere hulk. + +All the party went ashore at once. Fix was much inclined to arrest +Fogg on the spot, but refrained. Why? Did he think he was mistaken +after all? At any rate he would not abandon Mr. Fogg. They all got +into the train at half-past one a.m., and were in Dublin at daybreak, +and immediately embarked on the mail-steamer which, disdaining to ride +over the waves, cut through them. + +At twenty minutes to twelve (noon) Mr. Fogg disembarked at +Liverpool.[B] He was within six hours' run from London now. + + + +[Footnote B: Holyhead.--_Trans_.] + + + +But at that moment Fix approached him, and putting his hand upon Mr. +Fogg's shoulder, said: + +"Are you really Phileas Fogg?" + +"Yes," was the reply. + +"Then I arrest you in the Queen's name!" + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXIV. + +In which Passe-partout uses Strong Language. + + + +Phileas Fogg was in prison. He had been shut up in the Custom House, +pending his removal to London. + +Passe-partout would have attacked Fix when he arrested his master, had +not some policemen prevented him. Mrs. Aouda was quite upset by the +occurrence, which was quite unintelligible to her. Passe-partout +explained to her how it had come to pass, and the young lady, who was +of course powerless, wept bitterly. + +Fix had merely done his duty, whether Mr. Fogg was guilty or not +guilty. The judge would decide that. + +It then occurred to Passe-partout that this was all his fault. Why had +he not communicated the facts to Mr. Fogg? He should have told him who +Fix was and his errand. Thus forewarned he could have given proofs of +his innocence, and at any rate the detective would not in that case +have travelled at Mr. Fogg's expense, and arrested him the moment he +landed. As he thought of all this Passe-partout was ready to shoot +himself. Neither he nor Aouda left the Custom House, notwithstanding +the cold weather. They were anxious to see Mr. Fogg once more. + +As for that gentleman he was completely ruined, and at the very moment +he had succeeded in his attempt. The arrest was fatal. He had just +eight hours and forty-five minutes to reach the Reform Club, and six +hours would have sufficed to get to London. + +Could anyone have seen Mr. Fogg they would have found him seated +calmly on a form in the Custom House, as cool as ever. Resigned is +scarcely the word to apply to him, but to all appearance he was as +unmoved as ever. If he was raging within he did not betray any +symptoms of anger. Was it possible that he still hoped to succeed? + +At any rate he had carefully placed his watch on the table before him, +and was watching it intently. Not a word escaped him, but his eyes +wore a curious fixed expression. Honest or not, he was caught and +ruined. + +Was he thinking of escape, did he think of looking for an outlet? It +was not unlikely, for every now and then he got up and walked round +the room. But the door and window were both firmly closed and barred. +He sat down, and drawing his journal from his pocket, read: + + + +"21st December, Saturday, Liverpool." + + + +To this he added-- + + + +"Eightieth day, 11.40 a.m." + + + +Then he waited. The clock of the Custom House struck one. Mr. Fogg +perceived that his watch was two minutes fast. + +Two o'clock came! Admitting that he could at that moment get into an +express train, he might yet arrive in London and reach the Reform Club +in time. + +At 2.33 he heard a noise outside of opening doors. He could +distinguish Passe-partout and Fix's voices. Mr. Fogg's eyes glittered. +The door was flung open and Mrs. Aouda, Fix, and Passe-partout rushed +in. + +"Ah sir!" exclaimed Fix, hurrying up to the prisoner, "a thousand +pardons--an unfortunate resemblance! The true thief is arrested. You +are free, free!" + +Phileas Fogg was free. He walked quietly up to the detective, looked +him steadily in the face for a second, and with a movement of his arm +knocked him down! + +"Well hit!" exclaimed Passe-partout. "By jingo, that's a proper +application of the art of self-defence!" + +Fix lay flat on the ground, and did not say a word. He had only +received his deserts. Mr. Fogg, Aouda, and Passe-partout immediately +quitted the Custom House, jumped into a cab, and drove to the +railway-station. + +Mr. Fogg inquired when there would be a train for London. It was 2.40; +the train had left five-and-thirty minutes before. Mr. Fogg ordered a +"special." + +There were plenty of engines capable of running at a high speed, but +the train could not be got in readiness before three. At that hour Mr. +Fogg having said a few words to the engine-driver respecting a certain +"tip," was rushing up to London, accompanied by Mrs. Aouda and his +faithful Passe-partout. + +The distance was accomplished in five hours and a half, a very easy +thing when the line is clear, but there were some unavoidable delays, +and when the special arrived in London the clock pointed to ten +minutes to nine. + +Thus Phileas Fogg, having accomplished his journey round the world, +had returned five minutes too late! + +He had lost his wager. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXV. + +Passe-partout obeys Orders quickly. + + + +The inhabitants of Saville Row would have been astonished, next day, +if they had been told that Mr. Fogg had returned, for the doors and +windows of his house were still shut, and there was no change visible +exteriorly. + +When he left the railway-station, Mr. Fogg had told Passe-partout to +purchase some provisions, and then he quietly went home. + +Mr. Fogg preserved his usual impassibility under the trying +circumstances; he was ruined, and all through the fault of that +blundering detective. After having achieved his long journey, overcome +a thousand obstacles, braved a thousand dangers, and even found time +to do some good on the way, to fail at the very moment that success +was certain was indeed terrible. A very small portion remained to him +of the large sum he had taken away with him; his whole fortune was +comprised in the twenty thousand pounds deposited at Baring's, and +that sum he owed to his colleagues at the club. After having paid all +expenses, even had he won he would have been none the richer, and it +is not likely he wished to be richer, for he was one of those men who +bet for reputation; but this wager would ruin his altogether. However, +he had fully made up his mind what to do. + +A room had been set aside for Aouda, who felt Mr. Fogg's ruin very +deeply. From certain words she had heard she understood he was +meditating some serious measures. Knowing that Englishmen of an +eccentric turn of mind sometimes commit suicide, Passe-partout kept +watch on his master unobserved; but the first thing the lad did was to +extinguish the gas in his room, which had been burning for eighty +days. In the letter-box he had found the gas company's bill, and +thought it was quite time to put a stop to such an expense. + +The night passed. Mr. Fogg went to bed, but it is doubtful whether he +slept. Aouda was quite unable to rest, and Passe-partout kept watch +like a dog at his master's door. + +Next day, Mr. Fogg told him, shortly, to attend to Mrs. Aouda's +breakfast, while he would have a cup of tea and a chop. He excused +himself from joining Aouda at meals on the plea of putting his affairs +in order, and it was not till evening that he asked for an interview +with the young lady. + +Passe-partout having received his orders had only to obey them, but he +found it impossible to leave his master's room. His heart was full, +his conscience was troubled with remorse, for he could not help +blaming himself for the disaster. If he had only warned his master +about Fix, Mr. Fogg would not have brought the detective to Liverpool, +and then-- + +Passe-partout could hold out no longer. + +"Oh, Mr. Fogg!" he exclaimed, "do you not curse me? It is all my +fault--" + +"I blame no one," replied Phileas Fogg, in his usual calm tone. "Go!" + +Passe-partout quitted the room and sought Mrs. Aouda, to whom he +delivered his message. + +"Madam," he added, "I am powerless. I have no influence over my +master's mind; perhaps you may have." + +"What influence can I have?" she replied; "Mr. Fogg will submit to no +one. Has he really ever understood how grateful I am to him? Has he +ever read my heart? He must not be left alone an instant. You say he +is going to see me this evening?" + +"Yes, madam. No doubt to make arrangements for your sojourn in +England." + +"Let us wait, then," replied the young lady, becoming suddenly +thoughtful. + +So, through all that Sunday, the house in Saville Row appeared +uninhabited; and for the first time since he had lived in it, Phileas +Fogg did not go to his club as Big Ben was striking half-past eleven. + +And why should he go to the Reform Club? His friends did not expect +him. As he had not appeared in time to win the wager, it was not +necessary for him to go to the bank and draw his twenty thousand +pounds. His antagonists had his blank cheque; it only remained for +them to fill it up and present it for payment. + +As Mr. Fogg, then, had no object in going out, he stayed in his room +and arranged his business matters. Passe-partout was continually +running up and down stairs, and thought the day passed very slowly. He +listened at his master's door, and did not think it wrong; he looked +through the keyhole, for every instant he feared some catastrophe. +Sometimes he thought of Fix, but without any animosity. Fix, like +everyone else, had been mistaken, and had only done his duty in +following Mr. Fogg, while he (Passe-partout)-- The thought haunted +him, and he thought himself the most wretched of men. + +He was so unhappy that he could not bear to remain alone, so he +knocked at Mrs. Aouda's sitting-room, and, permitted to enter, sat +down in a corner, without speaking. She, too, was very pensive. + +About half-past seven Mr. Fogg asked permission to go in; he took a +chair and sat close by the fireplace, opposite to the young lady; he +betrayed no emotion--the Fogg who had come back was the same as the +Fogg who had gone away. There was the same calmness, the same +impassibility. + +For five minutes he did not speak, then he said: "Madam, can you +forgive me for having brought you to England?" + +"I, Mr. Fogg!" exclaimed Mrs. Aouda, trying to check the beating of +her heart. + +"Pray allow me to finish," continued Mr. Fogg. "When I asked you to +come to this country I was rich, and had determined to place a portion +of my fortune at your disposal. You would have been free and happy. +Now I am ruined." + +"I know it, Mr. Fogg," she replied; "and I, in my turn, have to ask +your pardon for having followed you, and, who knows, retarded you, and +thus contributed to your ruin." + +"You could not have remained in India," replied Mr. Fogg, "and your +safety was only assured by taking you quite away from those fanatics +who wished to arrest you." + +"So, Mr. Fogg," she replied, "not satisfied with having saved me from +death, you wished to insure my comfort in a foreign country." + +"I did," replied Fogg; "but fate was unpropitious. However, I wish to +place at your disposal the little I have left." + +"But," she exclaimed, "what will become of you, Mr. Fogg?" + +"Of me, madam? I am in want of nothing." + +"But," she continued, "how can you bear to look upon the fate in store +for you?" + +"As I always look at everything," replied Mr. Fogg; "in the best way I +can." + +"At any rate," said Aouda, "your friends will not permit you to want +anything." + +"I have no friends, madam." + +"Your relations, then." + +"I have no relations now." + +"Oh then indeed I pity you, Mr. Fogg. Solitude is a terrible thing. +Not a single person to whom you can confide your sorrow? Though they +say that even grief, shared with another, is more easily supported." + +"So they say, madam." + +"Mr. Fogg," said Aouda, rising and extending her hand to him, "do you +care to possess at the same time a relative and a friend? Will you +take me for your wife?" + +Mr. Fogg had risen also. There was an unusual gleam in his eyes, and +his lips trembled. Aouda looked at him. In this regard of a noble +woman, who had dared everything to save the man to whom she owed her +life, her sincerity, firmness, and sweetness were all apparent. He was +at first astonished, and then completely overcome. For a moment his +eyes closed, as if to avoid her glance, and when he opened them again +he said simply: + +"I love you. By all I hold sacred, I love you dearly; and I am yours +for ever." + +"Ah!" exclaimed Mrs. Aouda, as she pressed her hand upon her bosom. + +Passe-partout was immediately summoned. Mr. Fogg was still holding the +lady's hand. Passe-partout understood it all, and his face became +radiant. + +Mr. Fogg asked him if it were too late to notify the Rev. Samuel +Wilson, of Marylebone Church, about the wedding. + +Passe-partout smiled, as he replied, "It is never too late." It was +then five minutes past eight. + +"Will the wedding take place to-morrow, Monday?" he said + +"Shall we say to-morrow?" asked Mr. Fogg, turning to Aouda. + +"If you please," she replied, blushing. + +Passe-partout hurried away as fast as he could go. + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXVI. + +In which Phileas Fogg's Name is once again at a Premium on the +Exchange. + + + +It is now time to say something of the change which English opinion +underwent when the true bank robber, one James Strand, was arrested in +Edinburgh on the 17th of December. + +Three days before Fogg was a criminal, followed by the police; now he +was a gentleman, who had only been taking an eccentric journey round +the world. There was great discussion in the papers, and those who had +laid wagers for or against Mr. Fogg rose once more as if by magic. The +"Fogg Bonds" were once more negotiated, and Phileas Fogg's name was at +a premium. + +The members of the Reform Club passed those three days in great +discomfort. Would Phileas Fogg, whom they had forgotten, return? Where +was he on that 17th of December, which was the seventy-sixth day after +his departure, and they had had no news of him? Had he given in, and +renounced the struggle, or was he continuing the journey at a more +reasonable rate, and would he appear on Saturday, the 21st of +December, at a quarter to nine in the evening, as agreed upon? + +We cannot depict the intense agitation which moved all classes of +society during those three days. Telegrams were sent to America and +Asia for news of Mr. Fogg, and people were sent, morning and night, to +Saville Row; but there was no news. Even the police did not know what +had become of Fix. But all these things did not prevent bets being +made, even to a greater amount than formerly. Bonds were quoted no +longer at a hundred per cent. discount, but went up to ten and five; +and even old Lord Albemarle was betting at evens. + +So that Saturday night a great crowd was assembled in Pall Mall and +the Reform Club. Traffic was impeded; disputes, arguments, and bets +were raging in every direction. The police had the greatest difficulty +to keep back the crowd, and as the hour when Mr. Fogg was due +approached, the excitement rose to fever-heat. + +That evening that gentleman's five friends had assembled in the +drawing-room of the club. There were the two bankers, John Sullivan +and Samuel Fallentin; Andrew Stuart, the engineer; Gauthier Ralph, the +director of the Bank of England; and Thomas Flanagan, the brewer; all +awaiting Mr. Fogg's return with the greatest anxiety. + +At twenty minutes past eight Stuart rose and said: "Gentlemen, in +twenty-five minutes the time agreed upon will have expired." + +"At what time was the last train due from Liverpool?" asked Flanagan. + +"At 7.23," replied Ralph; "and the next does not arrive till past +midnight." + +"Well, then, gentlemen," replied Stuart, "if Mr. Fogg had arrived by +the 7.23, he would have been here before now, so we may look upon the +bet as won." + +"Do not be in too great a hurry," replied Fallentin. "You know that +our friend is very eccentric, and his punctuality is proverbial. I, +for one, shall be astonished if he does not turn up at the last +minute." + +"For my part," said Stuart, who was very nervous, "if I should see him +I could not believe it was he." + +"In fact," replied Flanagan, "Mr. Fogg's project was insane. No matter +how punctual he may be, he cannot prevent some delay; and a day or two +would throw all his arrangements out of gear." + +"And you will remark besides," said Sullivan, "that we have not +received any news from him all the time he has been away, although +there are telegraphs all along his route." + +"He has lost, gentlemen," said Stuart, "a hundred times over. The only +ship he could have come by and been in time was the _China_, and she +arrived yesterday. Here is a list of the passengers, and Phileas +Fogg's name is not included. On the most favourable computation our +friend can scarcely have reached America. I do not expect him for the +next twenty days, and my Lord Albemarle will lose his five thousand +pounds." + +"Then we have nothing to do," replied Ralph, "but to present his +cheque at Baring's to-morrow." + +The hands of the clock were then pointing to twenty minutes to nine. + +"Five minutes more," said Stuart. + +The five friends looked at each other. One could almost hear their +hearts beating, for it must be confessed that even for such seasoned +players the stakes were pretty high, but they did not wish their +anxiety to be remarked, and on Fallentin's suggestion they sat down to +whist. + +"I would not give up my four thousand pounds," said Stuart as he sat +down, "if anyone were to offer me three thousand nine hundred and +ninety-nine." + +The clock pointed to eighteen minutes to nine. + +The players took up their cards, but kept looking at the clock. No +matter how safe they felt, the minutes had never appeared so long. + +"8.43," said Flanagan, as he cut the pack Ralph passed to him. + +At that moment the silence was profound, but the cries of the crowd +outside soon rose again. The clock beat out the seconds with +mathematical regularity, and each of the players checked every tick of +the pendulum. + +"8.44," said Sullivan, in a voice which betrayed his nervousness. + +One minute more and they would have won their bet. They laid down +their cards and counted the seconds. + +At the fortieth second no news; at the fiftieth still nothing. At the +fifty-fifth second a loud roar was heard from the street mingled with +cheers and oaths. + +All the players rose simultaneously. + +At the fifty-seventh second the door of the room was thrust open, and +before the pendulum had marked the minute Phileas Fogg advanced into +the room, followed to the door by an excited crowd who had forced +their way in, and he said in his usual calm tone, + +"Here I am, gentlemen." + + + + + +CHAPTER XXXVII. + +Showing how Phileas Fogg gained only Happiness by his Tour round the +World. + + + +Yes, it was Phileas Fogg in person. + +Our readers will recollect that at five minutes after eight that +evening--about twenty-five hours after our travellers' arrival in +London--Passe-partout had been requested to arrange about a certain +marriage with the Rev. Samuel Wilson. Passe-partout had gone on his +mission rejoicing, but the clergyman was not at home. He naturally +waited, but he was kept at least twenty minutes. + +It was 8.35 when he left the clergyman's house, but what a state he +was in! His hair was disordered, he ran home without his hat, +overturning the passers-by as he went rushing along the pathway. + +In three minutes he was back in Saville Row, and he rushed +breathlessly into Mr. Fogg's room. + +He was unable to speak. + +"What is the matter?" asked Mr. Fogg. + +"Oh, sir--the marriage--impossible." + +"Impossible?" + +"Impossible for to-morrow." + +"Why so?" + +"Because to-morrow is--Sunday." + +"It is Monday," said Mr. Fogg. + +"No, to-day is Saturday." + +"Saturday? impossible." + +"It is, it is!" exclaimed Passe-partout. "You have made a mistake of +one day. We arrived twenty-four hours before our time, but we have +only ten minutes left now." + +As he spoke Passe-partout fairly dragged his master out of his chair. + +Phileas Fogg, thus seized, had no choice. He rushed downstairs, jumped +into a cab, promised the driver a hundred pounds, ran over two dogs, +came into collision with five cabs, and reached the Reform Club at +8.45. + +So Phileas Fogg had accomplished the journey round the world in eighty +days, and had won his bet of twenty thousand pounds. + +Now how was it that such a methodical man could have made a mistake of +a day? How could he imagine that he had got back on Saturday the 21st +when it was really Friday the 20th, seventy-nine days after his +departure? + +The reason is very simple. + +Phileas Fogg had unconsciously gained a day, simply because he +journeyed always eastward, whereas, had he journeyed westward, he +would have lost a day. + +In fact, travelling towards the east, he had gone towards the south, +and consequently the days got shorter as many times four minutes as he +crossed degrees in that direction. There are three hundred and sixty +degrees, and these multiplied by four minutes give exactly twenty-four +hours; that is the day Fogg gained. In other words, while Phileas +Fogg, going east, saw the sun pass the meridian eighty times, his +friends in London only saw it seventy-nine times, and that is why on +that day, which was Saturday, and not Sunday, as Mr. Fogg thought, +they expected him at the Reform Club. + +Passe-partout's wonderful watch, which had always kept London time, +would have confirmed this had it only marked the days as well as the +hours and minutes. + +So Phileas Fogg had won his twenty thousand pounds, but as he had +expended nearly nineteen thousand pounds, his gain was small. However, +he had not bet for money. He actually divided the thousand pounds that +remained between honest Passe-partout and the unfortunate Fix, against +whom he bore no malice. But from Passe-partout's share he deducted, on +principle, the cost of the gas which had been burning for one thousand +nine hundred and twenty hours. That same evening Mr. Fogg, as +tranquilly as ever, said to Aouda, "Is the prospect of our marriage +still agreeable to you?" + +"Mr. Fogg," she replied, "it is I who ought to have asked you that +question. You were ruined then, but now you are rich." + +"Excuse me, madam," he replied, "this fortune belongs to you. If you +had not thought of the wedding, my servant would never have gone to +see Mr. Wilson, and I should not have found out my mistake." + +"Dear Mr. Fogg," said the young lady. + +"My dearest Aouda," replied Phileas Fogg. + +The marriage took place forty-eight hours afterwards, and +Passe-partout, beaming and resplendent, gave the bride away. Had he +not saved her life, and was he not entitled to the honour? + +On the wedding morning Passe-partout knocked at his master's door. + +"What is the matter, Passe-partout?" + +"Well, sir, I have just this moment found out that we might have gone +round the world in seventy-eight days only." + +"No doubt," replied Mr. Fogg, "if we had not crossed India; but if I +had not crossed India we should not have rescued Mrs. Aouda, and she +would never have been my wife." + +And Mr. Fogg shut the door quietly. + +So Phileas Fogg won his wager, and made the tour of the world in +eighty days. To do this he had made use of every means of +transport--steamers, railways, carriages, yacht, trading-ship, +sledges, and elephants. That eccentric gentleman had displayed all +through his most marvellous qualities of coolness and exactness; and +after all what had he really gained? What had he brought back? + +"Nothing," do you say? Well, perhaps so, if a charming woman is +nothing, who, however extraordinary it may appear, made him the +happiest of men. + +And in truth, reader, would not you go round the world for less than +that? + + + +THE END. + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Round the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS *** + +***** This file should be named 32972.txt or 32972.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/2/9/7/32972/ + +Produced by Alex Kirstukas + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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