Part 13 (2/2)
”I will pay it at once,” said Mr Fogg, taking a roll of bank-bills fro them on the clerk's desk
”This sum will be restored to you upon your release froe ”Meanwhile, you are liberated on bail”
”Co to his servant
”But let therily
”Ah, these are pretty dear shoes!” he muttered, as they were handed to him ”More than a thousand pounds apiece; besides, they pinchhis arm to Aouda, then departed, followed by the crestfallen Passepartout Fix still nourished hopes that the robber would not, after all, leave the two thousand pounds behind him, but would decide to serve out his week in jail, and issued forth on Mr
Fogg's traces That gentlee, and the party were soon landed on one of the quays
The Rangoon was nal of departure hoisted at thewas an hour in advance of tie and push off in a boat for the steamer, and stamped his feet with disappointment
”The rascal is off, after all!” he exclaial as a thief! I'll follow him to the end of the world if necessary; but, at the rate he is going on, the stolen money will soon be exhausted”
The detective was not far wrong inLondon, ith travelling expenses, bribes, the purchase of the elephant, bails, and fines, Mr Fogg had already spent e of the sum recovered from the bank robber pro
Chapter XVI
IN WHICH FIX DOES NOT SEEM TO UNDERSTAND IN THE LEAST WHAT IS SAID TO HIM
The Rangoon--one of the Peninsular and Oriental Co in the Chinese and japanese seas--was a screw stea about seventeen hundred and seventy tons, and with engines of four hundred horse-power She was as fast, but not as well fitted up, as the Mongolia, and Aouda was not as co could have wished However, the trip fro only co fro wo the first days of the journey Aouda becaave evidence of her deep gratitude for what he had done The phlegentleman listened to her, apparently at least, with coldness, neither his voice nor his htest e should be wanting to Aouda's coularly each day at certain hours, not so much to talk himself, as to sit and hear her talk He treated her with the strictest politeness, but with the precision of an autoed for this purpose Aouda did not quite knohat to iven her some hints of hisher of the wager which was sending hi her life, and she always regarded hiratitude
Aouda confir history
She did, indeed, belong to the highest of the native races of India
Many of the Parseein cotton; and one of thelish governreat man, and it was his cousin, Jeejeeh, who
Whether she would find a protector in hi essayed to cal would be ed Aouda fastened her great eyes, ”clear as the sacred lakes of the Hi, as reserved as ever, did not seem at all inclined to throw hie passed prosperously, amid favourable weather and propitious winds, and they soon careat Andaal, with its picturesque Saddle Peak, two thousand four hundred feet high, loo near the shores, but the savage Papuans, who are in the lowest scale of humanity, but are not, as has been asserted, cannibals, did not make their appearance
The panorama of the islands, as they steamed by them, was superb Vast forests of palantic round, while behind, the graceful outlines of thethe coasts swarmed by thousands the precious shose nests furnish a luxurious dish to the tables of the Celestial Empire The varied landscape afforded by the Andaoon rapidly approached the Straits of Malacca, which gave access to the China seas
What was detective Fix, so unluckily drawn on froed to e seen by Passepartout, after leaving orders that, if the warrant should arrive, it should be forwarded to hi; and he hoped to conceal his presence to the end of the voyage
It would have been difficult to explain why he was on board without awakening Passepartout's suspicions, who thought him still at Bombay
But necessity impelled him, nevertheless, to renew his acquaintance with the worthy servant, as will be seen