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32 - Around The World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne · Classic Adventure Books Library

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  Chapter thirty two, in which Phileas Fogg engages in a direct struggle with bad
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  fortune. The China, in leaving seemed to have carried off Phileas Fogg's last
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  hope. None of the other steamers were able to serve his projects. De
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  Pereire of the French Transatlantic Company, whose admirable steamers are equal to any in
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  speed and comfort, did not leave until the fourteenth The Hamburg boats did not
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  go directly to Liverpool or London, but to Hove, and the additional trip
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  from Hove to Southampton would render Phileas Fogg's last efforts of no avail. The
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  Inmand steamer did not depart till the next day and could not cross the Atlantic
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  in time to save the wager. Mister Fogg learned all this in consoling his
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  Bradshaw, which gave him the daily movements of the Transatlantic steamers. Passepartout was
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  crushed. It overwhelmed him to lose the boat by three quarters of an hour.
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  It was his fault, for instead of helping his master, he had
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  not ceased putting obstacles in his path. And when he recalled all the incidents
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  of the tour, when he counted up the sums expended in pure loss and
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  on his own account. When he thought that the immense stake, added to
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  the heavy charges of this useless journey, would completely ruin mister Fogg, he
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  overwhelmed himself with bitter self accusations. Mister Fogg, however, did not reproach
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  him, and on leaving the Cunard Pier only said, we will consult about
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  what is best tomorrow come. The party crossed the Hudson in the Jersey City
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  ferryboat and drove in a carriage to the Saint Nicholas Hotel on Broadway. Rooms
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  were engaged and the night passed briefly to Phileas Fogg, who slept profoundly,
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  but very long, to Aouda and the others, whose agitation did did not
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  permit them to rest. The next day was the twelfth of December. From
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  seven in the morning of the twelfth to a quarter before nine in the evening
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  of the twenty first, there were nine days, thirteen hours and forty five
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  minutes. If Phileas Fogg had left in the China, one of the fastest
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  steamers on the Atlantic, he would have reached Liverpool and then London within the
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  period agreed upon, mister Fogg left the hotel alone, after giving passepartout instructions
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  to await his return and inform Aouda to be ready at an instant's notice.
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  He proceeded to the banks of the Hudson and looked about among the vessels moored
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  or anchored in the river for any that were about to depart. Several had
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  departure signals and were preparing to put to sea at morning tide. For in
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  this immense and admirable port, there is not one day in a hundred that
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  vessels do not set out for every quarter of the globe. But they were
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  mostly sailing vessels, of which, of course Phileas Fogg could make no use.
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  He seemed about to give up all hope when he spied, anchored at
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  the battery a cable's length off at most a trading vessel with a screw well
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  shaped, whose funnel puffing a cloud of smoke, indicated that she was getting
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  ready for departure. Phileas Fogg hailed the boat, got into it, and
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  soon found himself on board the Henrietta, iron hulled wood built above. He
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  ascended to the deck and asked for the captain who forthwith presented himself. He
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  was a man of fifty, a sort of sea wolf, with big eyes,
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  a complexion of oxidized copper red hair, and thick neck, and a
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  growling voice. The captain asked, mister Fogg, I am the captain.
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  I'm Phileas Fogg of London, and I am Andrew Speedy of card If you
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  are going to put to sea in an hour? You are bound for Bordeaux,
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  and your cargo no freight going in ballast? Have you any passengers?
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  No passengers, Never have passengers too much in the way. Is your vessel
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  a swift one between eleven and twelve knots? The Henrietta well known? Will
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  you carry me and three other persons to Liverpool? To Liverpool? Why not
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  to China? I said Liverpool. No, no, no, I am
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  setting out for Bordeaux and shall go to Bordeaux. Money is no object none.
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  The captain spoke in a tone which did not admit of a reply,
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  but the owners of the Henrietta resumed Phileas Fogg. The owners are myself,
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  replied the captain. The vessel belongs to me. I will freight it for
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  you. No, I will buy it of you. No, Phileas Fogg
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  did not betray the least disappointment, but the situation was a grave one.
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  It was not at New York, as at Hong Kong, nor with the
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  captain of the Henrietta, as with the captain of the Tankadere. Up to
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  this time money had smoothed away every obstacle. Now money failed. Still,
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  some means must be found across the Atlantic on a boat, unless by balloon,
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  which would have been venturesome, besides not being capable of being put in
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  practice. It seemed that Phileas Fogg had an idea. For he said to
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  the captain, well, will you carry me to Bordeaux? No, not
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  if you paid me two hundred dollars. I offer you two thousand apiece apiece,
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  and there are four of you four. Captain Speedy began to scratch his
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  head. There were eight thousand dollars to gain without changing his route, for
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  which it was well worth conquering the repugnance he had for all kinds of passengers.
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  Besides passengers at two thousand dollars, are no longer passengers, but valuable
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  merchandise. I start at nine o'clock, said Captain Speedy. Simply, are
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  you and your party ready, we will be on board at nine o'clock,
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  replied no less simply, mister Fogg, it was half past eight, did
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  disembark from the Henrietta, jump into a hack, hurry to the Saint Nicholas
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  and return with aouda Passepartout, And even the inseparable fix was the work of
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  a brief time, and was performed by mister Fogg with the coolness which never
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  abandoned him. They were on board when the Henrietta made ready to weigh anchor.
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  When Passepartout heard what this last voyage was going to cost, he uttered
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  a prolonged oh, which extended throughout his vocal gamut. As for fix,
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  he said to himself that the Bank of England would certainly not come out of
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  this affair well indemnified. When they reached England. Even if mister Fogg did
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  not throw some handfuls of bank bills into the sea, more than seven thousand
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  pounds would have been spent. End of chapter