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08 - Around The World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne · Thrilling Adventures - Daily

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  Chapter eight, in which Passepartout talks rather more, perhaps than is prudent.
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  Fix soon rejoined Passepartout, who was lounging and looking about on the quay,
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  as if he did not feel that he at least was obliged not to see
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  anything. Well, my friend said the detective coming up with him. Is
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  your passport vizit? Ah, it's you, is it, Monsieur, responded
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  Passepartout, Thanks, yes, the PASSPORTI is all right, and you are
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  looking about you. Yes, but we travel so fast that I seem to
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  be journeying in a dream. So this is Suez, Yes, in Egypt,
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  certainly in Egypt, and in Africa, in Africa, in Africa,
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  repeated Passepartout. You just think, Monsieur. I had no idea that we
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  should go farther than Parris. And all that I saw Paris was between twenty
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  minutes past seven and twenty minutes before nine in the morning, between the Northern
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  and the Lyons stations, through the window of a car, and in a
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  driving rain. How I regret not having seen once more Pere Lachaise and the
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  circus in the Champselysee. You are in a great hurry then I am not,
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  but my master is by the way, I must buy some shoes and
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  shirts. We came away with our trunks only with a carpet bag. I
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  will show you an excellent shop forgetting what you want. Really, monsieur,
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  you are very kind. And they walked off together, pass partout chatting volubly
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  as they went along. Above All said he don't let me lose the steamer.
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  You have plenty of time. It's only twelve o'clock. Pass Partout pulled
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  out his big watch twelve. He exclaimed, why it's only eight minutes before
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  ten? Your watch is slow. My watch a family watch, monsieur,
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  which has come down from my great grandfather. It doesn't very five minutes in
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  the year. It is a perfect chronometer. Look you, I see how
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  it is said fix. You have kept London time, which is two hours
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  behind that of Suez. You ought to regulate your watch at noon in each
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  country. I regulate my watch never. Well, then it will not agree
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  with the sun so much, the worse for the sun, monsieur. The
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  sun will be wrong then, and the worthy fellow returned the watch to its
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  fob with a defiant gesture. After a few minutes, silence, Fix resumed
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  you left London hastily then, I rather think so. Last Friday, at
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  eight o'clock in the evening, Monsieur Fogg came home from his club, and
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  three quarters of an hour afterwards we were off. But where is your master
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  going? Always straight ahead? He is going round the world, round the
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  world, cried Fix. Yes, and in eighty days he says it is
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  on a wager. But between us, I don't believe a word of it.
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  That wouldn't be common sense. There's something else in the wind. Ah,
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  Mister Fogg is a character, is he? I should say he was?
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  Is he rich? No doubt? For he is carrying an enormous son
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  in brand new banknotes with him, and he doesn't spare the money on the
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  way either. He has offered a large reward to the engineer of the Mongolia
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  if he gets us to Bombay well in advance of time. And you have
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  known your master a long time, why no I entered his service the very
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  day we left London. The effect of these replies upon the already suspicious and
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  excited detective may be imagined. The hasty departure from London soon after the robbery,
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  the large sum carried by mister Fogg. His eagerness to reach distant countries
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  the pretext of an eccentric and foolhardy bet All confirmed Fix in his theory.
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  He continued to pump poor Passepartout and learned that he really knew little or nothing
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  of his master, who lived a solitary existence in London, was said to
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  be rich, though no one knew whence came his riches, and was mysterious
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  and impenetrable in his affairs and habits. Fix felt sure that Phileas Fogg would
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  not land at sue As, but was really going on to Bombay? Is
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  Bombay far from here? Asked Passepartout. Pretty far? It is ten days
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  voyage by sea? And in what country is Bombay? India? In Asia?
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  Certainly the deuce. I was going to tell you that there's one thing
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  that worries me. My burner, what burner, my guests burner which I
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  forgot to turn off, and which is at this moment burning at my expense.
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  I have calculated, monsieur, that I lose two shillings every four and
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  twenty hours, exactly sixpence more than I earn. And you will understand that
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  the longer our journey. Did Fix pay any attention to pass Partou's trouble about
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  the gas, It is not probable he was not listening, but was cogitating
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  a project pass Partwo and he had now reached the shop where Fix left his
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  companion to make his purchases after recommending him not to miss the steamer and herhurried
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  back to the consulate. Now that he was fully convinced Fix had quite recovered
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  his equanimity, Consul said he I have no longer any doubt I have spotted
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  my man. He passes himself off as an odd stick who is going round
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  the world in eighty days. Then he's a sharp fellow, returned the Consul,
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  and counts on returning to London after putting the police of the two countries
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  off his track. We'll see about that, replied Fix. But are you
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  not mistaken? I am not mistaken. Why was this robber so anxious to
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  prove by the visa that he had passed through Suez? Why? I have
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  no idea, but listen to me, he reported in a few words the
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  most important parts of his conversation with Passepartout, in short, said, the
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  consul appearances are wholly against this man. And what are you going to do?
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  Send a dispatch to London for a warrant of arrest to be dispatched instantly
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  to Bombay, take passage on board the Mongolia, follow my rogue to India,
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  and there on English ground, arrest him politely, with my warrant in
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  my hand and my hand on his shoulder. Having uttered these words with a
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  cool, careless air, the detective took leave of the consul and repaired to
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  the Telegraph office, whence he sent the dispatch which we have seen, to
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  the London Police Office. A quarter of an hour later, found Fix with
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  a small bag in his hand, proceeding on board the Mongolia, and ere
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  many moments longer the noble steamer rode out at full steam upon the waters of
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  the Red Sea. End of Chapter