Around the World in 80 Days - 31

by Jules Verne in English Adventure Stories

CHAPTER 31 IN WHICH FIX, THE DETECTIVE, CONSIDERABLY FURTHERS THE INTERESTS OF PHILEAS FOGG Phileas Fogg found himself twenty hours behind time. Passepartout, the involuntary cause of this delay, was desperate. He had ruined his master! At this moment ...Read Moredetective approached Mr. Fogg, and, looking him intently in the face, said: ‘Seriously, sir, are you in great haste?’ ‘Quite seriously.’ ‘I have a purpose in asking,’ resumed Fix. ‘Is it absolutely necessary that you should be in New York on the 11th, be-fore nine o’clock in the evening, the time that the steamer leaves for Liverpool?’ ‘It is absolutely Read Less