Part 32 (1/2)

Captain Speedy began to scratch his head There was eight thousand dollars to gain, without changing his route, for which it orth conquering the repugnance he had for all kinds of passengers Besides, passengers at two thousand dollars are no longer passengers, but valuable merchandise ”I start at nine o'clock,” said Captain Speedy, simply ”Are you and your party ready?”

”We will be on board at nine o'clock,” replied Mr Fogg

It was half-past eight To disembark from the Henrietta, jump into a hack, hurry to the St Nicholas, and return with Aouda, Passepartout and even the inseparable Fix was the work of a brief ti with the coolness which never abandoned hih anchor

When Passepartout heard what this last voyage was going to cost, he uttered a prolonged ”Oh!” which extended throughout his vocal galand would certainly not coland, even if Mr Fogg did not throw some handfuls of bank-bills into the sea, more than seven thousand pounds would have been spent!

Chapter 33

In Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion

An hour later, the Henrietta passed the lighthouse which marks the entrance of the Hudson, turned the point of Sandy Hook, and put to sea During the day she skirted Long Island, passed Fire Island, and directed her course rapidly eastward

At noon the next day, a e to ascertain the vessel's position It ht that this was Captain Speedy Not the least in the world It was Phileas Fogg, Esquire

As for Captain Speedy, he was shut up in his cabin under lock and key, and was uttering loud cries, which signified an anger at once pardonable and excessive

What had happened was very sio to Liverpool, but the captain would not carry hie for Bordeaux, and, during the thirty hours he had been on board, had so shrewdly ed with his banknotes that the sailors and stokers, ere only an occasional crew, and were not on the best terms with the captain, went over to hi was in command instead of Captain Speedy; why the captain was a prisoner in his cabin; and why, in short, the Henrietta was directing her course towards Liverpool It was very clear, to see Mr Fogg e the craft, that he had been a sailor

How the adventure ended will be seen soon Aouda was anxious, though she said nothing As for Passepartout, he thought Mr

Fogg's lorious The captain had said ”between eleven and twelve knots,” and the Henrietta confirmed his prediction

If, then--for there were ”ifs” still--the sea did not become too violent, if the wind did not veer round to the east, if no accident happened to the boat or its ht cross the three thousand miles from New York to Liverpool in the nine days, between the 12th and the 21st of December It is true that, once arrived, the affair on board the Henrietta, added to that of the Bank of England, ined or could desire

During the first days, they went along sh The sea was not very unpropitious, the wind seemed stationary in the northeast, the sails were hoisted, and the Henrietta ploughed across the waves like a real trans-Atlantic steahted His nored, enchanted him Never had the crew seen so jolly and dexterous a fellow He formed warm friendshi+ps with the sailors, and aed the vessel like gentlemen, and that the stokers fired up like heroes His loquacious good-huotten the past, its vexations and delays He only thought of the end, so nearly accomplished

Sometimes he boiled over with impatience, as if heated by the furnaces of the Henrietta Often, also, the worthy fellow revolved around Fix, looking at him with a keen, distrustful eye, but he did not speak to hier existed

Fix, iton The conquest of the Henrietta, the bribery of the crew, Foggthe boat like a skilled seaman, amazed and confused him

He did not knohat to think For, after all, a ht end by stealing a vessel; and Fix was not unnaturally inclined to conclude that the Henrietta, under Fogg's co to Liverpool at all, but to some part of the world where the robber, turned into a pirate, would quietly put himself in safety The conjecture was at least a plausible one, and the detective began to seriously regret that he had embarked on the affair

As for Captain Speedy, he continued to howl and growl in his cabin Passepartout, whose duty it was to carry hireatest precautions Mr Fogg did not seem even to know that there was a captain on board

On the 13th they passed the edge of the banks of Newfoundland, a dangerous locality During the winter, especially, there are frequent fogs and heavy gales of wind Ever since the evening before, the baroe in the atht the temperature varied, the cold became sharper, and the wind veered to the southeast

This was a , in order not to deviate from his course, furled his sails and increased the force of the stea to the state of the sea, the long waves of which broke against the stern She pitched violently, and this retarded her progress The breeze little by little swelled into a teht not be able to ht on the waves

Passepartout's visage darkened with the skies, and for two days the poor fellow experienced constant fright But Phileas Fogg was a bold ainst the sea

He kept on his course, without even decreasing his steam The Henrietta, when she could not rise upon the waves, crossed the safely So its protruding end, when a mountain of water raised the stern above the waves, but the craft always kept straight ahead

The wind, however, did not grow as violent as ht have been feared It was not one of those tempests which burst, and rush on with a speed of ninety miles an hour It continued fresh, but, unhappily, it re the sails useless

The 16th of Dece's departure from London, and the Henrietta had not yet been seriously delayed Half of the voyage was almost accomplished, and the worst localities had been passed In suh certain In winter, they were at the ; but he cherished hope in secret, and comforted himself with the reflection that, if the wind failed theht still count on the steaineer caan to speak earnestly with hi why--it was a presentiuely uneasy He would have given one of his ears to hear with the other what the engineer was saying He finally ed to catch a feords, and was sure he heard his master say, ”You are certain of what you tell ineer ”You must remember that, since we started, we have kept up hot fires in all our furnaces