Around the World in Eighty Days

ndred and seventy-six times, reached the Reform Club, an imposing edifice in Pall Mall, which could not have cost less than three millions. He repaired at once to the dining-room, the nine windo

y handed him an uncut Times, which he proceeded to cut with a skill which betrayed familiarity with this delicate operation. The perusal of this paper absorbed Phileas Fogg until a quarter before four, whilst the Standard, his next task, occupied him till the dinner hour. Dinner passed as breakfast had done, and Mr. Fogg re-appeared in the reading-room and sat down to the Pall Mall at twenty minutes before six. Half an hour later

homas Flanagan, "what

art, "the Bank wi

Skilful detectives have been sent to all the principal ports of America and t

he robber's descrip

is no robber at all," re

s off with fifty-five th

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s a manufact

raph says that h

nesty of the public. There are neither guards nor gratings to protect its treasures; gold, silver, banknotes are freely exposed, at the mercy of the first comer. A keen observer of English customs relates that, being in one of the rooms of the Bank one day, he had the curiosity to examine a gold ingot weighing some seven or eight pounds. He took it up, scrutinised it, passed it to his neighbour, he to the next man, and so on until the ingot, going from hand to hand, was transferred to the end of a dark entry; nor did it return to its place for half an hour. Meanwhile, the cashier had not so much as raised his head. But i

been observed going to and fro in the paying room where the crime was committed. A description of him was easily procured and sent to the detectives; and some hopeful spirits, of whom Ralph was one, did not despair of his app

ity. But Stuart was far from sharing this confidence; and, as they placed themselves at the whist-table, they continued to argue the matter. Stuart and Flanagan pla

he chances are in favour of the th

ly to?" asked Ralph. "No

sh

ould he

w that. The worl

a low tone. "Cut, sir," he added, h

g the rubber, after which

y `once'? Has the w

r, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years

e thief can get

play, Mr. Stuart,"

shed, said eagerly: "You have a strange way, Ralph, of proving that the

s," interrupte

t the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula

to Suez via

nd steamboats .....

, by steamer ......

cutta, by rail ...

ng Kong, by steamer

Yokohama (Japan),

n Francisco, by ste

to New York, by rai

ndon, by steamer an

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made a false deal. "But that doesn't take into account bad weat

ileas Fogg, continuing to p

ls," replied Stuart; "suppose they stop the trains,

ed Fogg; adding, as he threw

ed them up, and went on: "You are right,

ly also, M

ee you do it i

on you. Sh

ur thousand pounds that such a journey, m

on the contrary,"

make it

und the world i

es

like nothi

he

n you that I shall d

ing to be annoyed at the persistency of his

," said Phileas Fogg.

th a feverish hand; then s

"it shall be so: I will wag

r Stuart," said Fallen

ager," returned St

rs, he continued: "I have a deposit of twenty thousa

n. "Twenty thousand pounds, which you w

not exist," quietly

the estimate of the least possible ti

nimum suffices

mathematically from the trains upon the steamer

ump-mathe

are j

ly. "I will bet twenty thousand pounds against anyone who wishes that I will make the tour of the world in eighty day

, Fallentin, Sullivan, Flanagan, an

in leaves for Dover at a quarte

evening?" a

shall be due in London in this very room of the Reform Club, on Saturday, the 21st of December, at a quarter before nine p.m.; or else the twen

aked the twenty thousand pounds, half of his fortune, because he foresaw that he might have to expend the other half to carry out this difficult, not to say unattainable, project. As

ered to suspend the game so that Mr. Fogg

nquil response. "Diamonds are trump