Part 27 (2/2)
”You have only to try, son of John Bull,” replied the colonel
Aouda turned pale, and her blood ran cold She seized Mr Fogg's arently pulled him back Passepartout was ready to pounce upon the A insolently at his opponent
But Fix got up, and, going to Colonel Proctor said, ”You forget that it is I hom you have to deal, sir; for it was I whom you not only insulted, but struck!”
”Mr Fix,” said Mr Fogg, ”pardon ain insultedthat I should not play a spade, and he shall give me satisfaction for it”
”When and where you will,” replied the American, ”and hatever weapon you choose”
Aouda in vain atte As vainly did the detective endeavor to make the quarrel his Passepartout wished to throw the colonel out of the , but a sign fro left the car, and the A to his adversary, ”I aet back to Europe, and any delay whatever will be greatly to e”
”Well, what's that to , very politely, ”after ourat San Francisco, I determined to return to America and find you as soon as I had coland”
”Really!”
”Will you appoint afor six months hence?”
”Why not ten years hence?”
”I say six , ”and I shall be at the place ofpromptly”
”All this is an evasion,” cried Sta to New York?”
”No”
”To Chicago?”
”No”
”To Omaha?”
”What difference is it to you? Do you know Plu
”It's the next station The train will be there in an hour, and will stop there ten minutes In ten ed”
”Very well,” said Mr Fogg ”I will stop at Pluuess you'll stay there too,” added the A, returning to the car as coolly as usual He began to reassure Aouda, telling her that blusterers were never to be feared, and begged Fix to be his second at the approaching duel, a request which the detective could not refuse