Part 33 (1/2)
”Burn my vessel!” cried Captain Speedy, who could scarcely pronounce the words ”A vessel worth fifty thousand dollars!”
”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 on 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 coainst you We are only opposite Queenstown”
”Ah,” said Mr Fogg, ”is that place where we see the lights Queenstown?”
”Yes”
”Can we enter the harbour?”
”Not under three hours Only at high tide”
”Stay,” 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 by the Henrietta, he would be there by noon, and would therefore have ti
The Henrietta entered Queenstown Harbour at one o'clock in the , after being grasped heartily by the hand by Captain Speedy, left that gentleman on the levelled hulk of his craft, which was still worth half what he had sold it for
The party went on shore at once Fix was greatly te on the spot; but he did not Why? What struggle was going on within hied his rave ot upon the train, which was just ready to start, at half-past one; at dawn of day they were in Dublin; and they lost no ti to rise upon the waves, invariably cut through the at last disembarked on the Liverpool quay, at twenty minutes before twelve, 21st December He was only six hours distant from London