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18 - Around The World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne · Adventure Books Collection

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  Chapter eighteen, in which Phileas Fogg passed partout and fix go each about his
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  business. The weather was bad during the latter days of the voyage. The
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  wind, obstinately remaining in the northwest, blew a gale and retarded the steamer.
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  The rangoon rolled heavily, and the passengers became impatient of the long,
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  monstrous waves which the wind raised before their path. A sort of tempest arose
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  on the third of November, the squall knocking the vessel about with fury,
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  and the waves running high. The rangoon reefed all her sails, and even
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  the rigging proved too much whistling and shaking amid the squall. The steamer was
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  forced to proceed slowly, and the captain estimated that she would reach Hong Kong
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  twenty hours behind time, and more if the storm lasted. Phileas Fogg gazed
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  at the tempestuous sea, which seem to be struggling especially to delay him.
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  With his habitual tranquility, he never changed countenance for an instant, though a
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  delay of twenty hours, by making him too late for the Yokohama boat,
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  would almost inevitably cause the loss of the wager. But this man of nerve.
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  Manifested neither impatience nor annoyance. It seemed as if the storm were a
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  part of his program and had been foreseen. Aouda was amazed to find him
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  as calm as he had been from the first time she saw him. Fix
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  did not look at the state of things in the same light. The storm
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  greatly pleased him. His satisfaction would have been complete had the rangoon been forced
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  to retreat before the violence of wind and waves. Each delay filled him with
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  hope, for it became more and more probable that fog would be obliged to
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  remain some days at Hong Kong. And now the heavens themselves became his allies.
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  With the gusts and squalls. It mattered not that they made him sea
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  sick. He made no account of this inconvenience, and whilst his his body
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  was writhing under their effects, his spirit bounded with hopeful exultation. Passepartout was
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  enraged beyond expression by the unpropitious weather. Everything had gone so well till now
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  earth and sea had seen to be had his master's service. Steamers and railways
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  obeyed him. Wind and steam united to speed his journey. Had the hour
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  of adversity come past Partout was as much excited as if the twenty thousand pounds
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  were to come from his own pocket. The storm exasperated him, The gale
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  made him furious, and he longed to lash the obstinate sea into obedience.
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  Poor fellow Fix carefully concealed from him his own satisfaction, for had he betrayed
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  it, Past Partu could scarcely have restrained himself from personal violence. Pastpartu remained
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  on deck as long as the tempest lasted, being unable to remain quiet below,
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  and taking it into his head to aid the proput of the ship by
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  lending a hand with the crew. He overwhelmed the captain, officers and sailors,
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  who could not help laughing at his impatience. With all sorts of questions.
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  He wanted to know exactly how long the storm was going to last,
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  whereupon he was referred to the barometer, which seemed to have no intention of
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  rising. Passepartout shook it, but with no perceptible effect, for neither shaking
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  nor maledictions could prevail upon it to change its mind. On the fourth,
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  however, the sea became more calm and the storm lessened its violence, the
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  wind veered southward and was once more favorable. Passepartout cleared up with the weather.
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  Some of the sails were unfurled, and the rangoon resumed its most rapid
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  speed. The time loss could not, however, be regained. Land was
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  not signaled until five o'clock in the morning of the sixth. The steamer was
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  due on the fifth Phileas Fogg was twenty four hours hours behindhand, and the
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  Yokohama steamer would of course be missed. The pilot went on board at six
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  and took his place on the bridge to guide the rangoon through the channels to
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  the port of Hong Kong. Passepartout longed to ask him if the steamer had
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  left for Yokohama, but he dared not, for he wished to preserve the
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  spark of hope, which still remained till the last moment he had confided his
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  anxiety to fix who The sly rascal tried to console him by saying that mister
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  Fogg would be in time if he took the next boat, but this only
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  put Passepartout in a passion. Mister Fogg, bolder than his servant, did
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  not hesitate to approach the pilot, and tranquility asked him if he knew when
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  a steamer would leave Hong Kong for Yokohama at high tide tomorrow morning, answered
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  the pilot, Ah, said mister Fogg, without betraying any astonishment. Passepartout,
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  who heard what pas As, would willingly have embraced the pilot, while
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  fix would have been glad to twist his neck. What is the steamer's name,
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  asked mister Fogg. The carnatic ought she not have gone yesterday? Yes,
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  sir, but they had to repair one of her boilers, and so
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  her departure was postponed till tomorrow. Thank you, returned mister Fogg, Descending
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  mathematically to the saloon. Passepartout clasped the pilot's hand and shook it heartily in
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  his delight, exclaiming, Pilot, you are the best of good fellows.
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  The pilot probably does not know to this day why his responses won him this
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  enthusiastic greeting. He remounted the bridge and guided the steamer through the flotilla of
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  junks, tankas, and fishing boats which crowded the harbor of Hong Kong.
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  At one o'clock the Rangoon was at the quay and the passengers were going ashore.
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  Chance had strangely favored Phileas Fogg, for had not the Carnatic been forced
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  to lie over for repairing her boilers, she would have left on the sixth
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  of November, and the passengers for Japan would have been obliged to wait for
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  a week the sailing of the next steamer. Mister Fogg was, it is
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  true, twenty four hours behind his time, but this could not seriously imperil
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  the remainder of his tour. The steamer which crossed the Pacific from Yokohama to
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  San Francisco made a direct connection with that from Hong Kong, and it could
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  not sail until the latter reached Yokohama. And if mister Fogg was twenty four
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  hours late on reaching Yokohama, this time would no doubt be easily regained in
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  the voyage of twenty two days across the Pacific. He found himself then about
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  twenty four hours behindhand. Thirty five days after leaving London, the Carnatic was
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  announced to leave Hong Kong at five the next morning. Mister Fogg had sixteen
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  hours in which to attend to his business there, which was to deposit Aouda
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  safely with her wealthy relative. On landing, he conducted her to a palanquin
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  in which they repaired to the Club Hotel. A room was engaged for the
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  young woman, and mister Fogg, after seeing that she wanted for nothing,
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  set out in search of her cousin Gigi. He instructed passepartout to remain at
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  the hotel until his return, that Aouda might not be left entirely alone.
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  Mister Fogg repaired to the exchange, where he did not doubt everyone would know
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  so wealthy and considerable a personage as the Parsi merchant. Meeting a broker,
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  he made the inquiry to learn that Jiji had left China two years before,
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  and, retiring from business with an immense fortune, had taken up his residence
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  in Europe, in Holland. The broker thought with the merchants of which country
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  he had principally traded Phileas Fogg returned to the hotel, begged a moment's come
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  conversation with Aouda, and without more ado apprized her that Jiji was no longer
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  at Hong Kong, but probably in Holland. Aouda at first said nothing.
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  She passed her hand across her forehead and reflected a few moments. Then,
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  in her sweet, soft voice, she said, what ought I to do?
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  Mister Fogg? It is very simple, responded the gentleman, go on
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  to Europe, but I cannot intrude. You do not intrude, nor do
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  you in the least embarrass my project. Passepartout. Messieurs go to the Carnatic
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  and engage three cabins. Passepartout, delighted that the young woman who was very
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  gracious to him was going to continue the journey with them, went off at
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  a brisk gait to obey his master's order. End of chapter