Around the World in Eighty Days

d looking about on the quay, as if he did not feel

detective, coming up with hi

responded Passepartout. "Thanks

re looking

that I seem to be journeying

es

Eg

nly, in

in Af

Afri

was between twenty minutes past seven and twenty minutes before nine in the morning, between the Northern and the Lyons stations, through

a great hu

must buy some shoes and shirts. We came a

excellent shop for g

sieur, you a

er, Passepartout chatting

he; "don't let me

of time; it's onl

ch. "Twelve!" he exclaimed; "why, i

atch is

wn from my great-grandfather! It doesn't vary five min

time, which is two hours behind that of Suez. You o

te my wat

will not agree

the sun, monsieur. The

b with a defiant gesture. After a few minutes sile

the evening, Monsieur Fogg came home from his club,

is your mas

ahead. He is goin

e world?"

, between us, I don't believe a word of it. That wouldn

g is a chara

ld say

he r

nd he doesn't spare the money on the way, either: he has offered a large reward

nown your maste

his service the very

ies; the pretext of an eccentric and foolhardy bet-all confirmed Fix in his theory. He continued to pump poor Passepartout, and learned that he really knew little or nothing of his master, who lived a solitary existence in

from here?" ask

is a ten days'

at country

nd

As

tain

tell you there's one thing

t bu

ense. I have calculated, monsieur, that I lose two shillings every four and twenty hours,

project. Passepartout and he had now reached the shop, where Fix left his companion to make his purchases, after recommending him

ave spotted my man. He passes himself off as an odd

"and counts on returning to London after puttin

bout that,"

you not m

not mi

us to prove, by the visa, tha

no idea; but

most important parts of his c

earances are wholly against this

y, take passage on board the Mongolia, follow my rogue to India, and there, on English

e he sent the dispatch which we have seen to the London police office. A quarter of an hour later found Fix, with a small bag in his hand