Part 33 (1/2)
”Here are sixty thousand,” replied Phileas Fogg, handing the captain a roll of bank bills This had a prodigious effect on Andrew Speedy An Aht of sixty thousand dollars The captain forgot in an instant his anger, his ier The Henrietta enty years old It was a great bargain The bo had taken away the match
”And I shall still have the iron hull,” said the captain in a softer tone
”The iron hull and the engine Is it agreed?”
”Agreed”
And Andrew Speedy, seizing the banknotes, counted the this colloquy, Passepartout was as white as a sheet, and Fix see an apoplectic fit Nearly twenty thousand pounds had been expended, and Fogg left the hull and engine to the captain, that is, near the whole value of the craft! It was true, however, that fifty-five thousand pounds had been stolen from the Bank
When Andrew Speedy had pocketed thesaid to him, ”Don't let this astonish you, sir You must know that I shall lose twenty thousand pounds, unless I arrive in London by a quarter before nine of the evening of the 21st of December I missed the steamer at New York, and as you refused to take me to Liverpool--”
”And I did well,” cried Andrew Speedy; ”for I have gained at least forty thousand dollars by it!” He added, ”
”Captain Fogg, you've got so paid his passenger what he considered a high co said, ”The vessel now belongs to me?”
”Certainly, from the keel to the truck of the masts--all the wood, that is”
”Very well Have the interior seats, bunks, and frames pulled down, and burn them”
It was necessary to have dry wood to keep the steam up to the adequate pressure, and on that day the poop, cabins, bunks and the spare deck were sacrificed On the next day, the 19th of December, the masts, rafts and spars were burned The creorked lustily, keeping up the fires Passepartout hewed, cut and saith all his e for dereater part of the deck and top sides disappeared on the 20th, and the Henrietta was now only a flat hulk But on this day they sighted the Irish coast and Fastnet Light By ten in the evening they were passing Queenstown Phileas Fogg had only twenty-four hours th of time was necessary to reach Liverpool, with all steaether!
”Sir,” said Captain Speedy, as now deeply interested in Mr
Fogg's project, ”I really pity you Everything is against you We are only opposite Queenstown”
”Ah,” said Mr Fogg, ”is that place where we see the lights Queenstown?”
”Yes”
”Can we enter the harbor?”
”Not under three hours Only at high tide”
”Wait,” replied Mr Fogg cal in his features that by a supreme inspiration he was about to attempt once more to conquer ill fortune
Queenstown is the Irish port at which the trans-Atlantic steamers stop to put off the mails These mails are carried to Dublin by express trains always held in readiness to start From Dublin they are sent on to Liverpool by the ain twelve hours on the Atlantic stea twelve hours in the sa at Liverpool the next evening by the Henrietta, he would be there by noon, and would therefore have ti
The Henrietta entered Queenstown Harbor at one o'clock in the rasped heartily by the hand by Captain Speedy, left that gentleman on the leveled hulk of his craft, which was still worth half what he had sold it for