Nebraska advertiser., 1881-10-13
CHAPTER NNII.

And the booming of the little cannon
sounded through the air.
CHAPTER xxi.
IN VIII CH pass srARrOUT SEES VERY WELL.
THAT, EVEN AT TII ANTIpOutS, m is pRtr-
DENT To HAVE SOME MONEN lN ONES
POCKET
The Carnatc, having left Hong Kong
on the 9th of November, at half-past
six p. IN, turned under full head of
steam toward the japanese shores. She
carried full load of freight and pas
sengers. Two cabins aft were unoccu-
pied. They were the ones retained for
Mr. PhileaS Fogg.
The next morning the men in the for
ward part of the vessel saw, not with
out some surprise, passenger, with
half-stupeiicd eyes and disordered
head, coming out of the second cabin,
and, with tottering steps, taking seat
ON deck.
This passenger was Passepartout him
self. This is what happened;
Some minutes after Fix left the
smoking-hOuse two walters raised Pas
separtout, who was in deep sleep, and
laid him on the bed reserved for the
smokers. But, three hours later, Pas
separtout, pursued even in his bad
dreams by fixed idea, woke again and
struggled against the stupefying action
of the narcotic. The thought OF unac-
complished duty shook of his torpor.
He left this drunkard's : bed, rccling,
supporting himself by the wall, falling
and rising, but always and irreSistiblv
urged on by sort of instinct. lie
finally went out of the smoking house,
crying in a dream, "the Carnatic! the
Carnaticn'
The steamer was there, steam up,
ready to leave. Passepartout had only
few steps to 90. He rushed upon the
plank, crossed it, and fell unconscious
on the forward deck at the moment
that the Carnatic was slipping her
moorngs.
Some of the sailors. as men accus-
toned to these kind of scenes, took the
poor fellow down into second cabin,
and Passepartout only walked the next
morning, one hundred and fifty miles
from the Chinese coast.
This is then why PaSscpartout found
himself this morning on the Carnatic' s
deck taking full draughts of the fresh
sca-brcezes. The pure air sobercd him
He commenced to collect his ideas, but
he did not succeed without difficulty
But, finally, he recalled the scenes of
, the day before, the condolences of FiN,
the smokng-house, etc.
1T is evident he said 10 himself,
"that | have been abominably drunk!
What will Mr.. Fogg say? I'm any event
/ have not missed the steamer, and this
| is the Dri npip1l thiuO -
Then, thinking of Fix, he said to him
self:
"As for him, hope we are now rid
er what he proposed to me, to follow us
on the Carnatic. A police detective on
my masters heels, accused OF the rob-
berry committed upon the Bank of En-
gland! Pshaw! Mr. Fogg is as much
a robbcr as ! am murderer
Ought Passepartout to tell these
things to his master? Would it be
proper to inform him of the part played
by Fix in this affair." Would it not be
b0tter TO wait until his return to Lon
don, to tell him that an agent of the
Metropolitan police had followed him,
and then have laugh with him2 Yes,
doubtless. In any event, it was "A mat
ter to be looked into. The most press
ing thing was to reioin Mr.. FOgg and
get him to pardon him for his ineXcusa-
bic conduct.
PassepartOut then rose. The sea was
rough, and the ship rolled heavily. The
worthy fellow--his legs not very steady
yet--reached as well as he could the
atter-deck of the ship.
lie saw no one on the deck that re-
sembled either his master or Mrs.
AOuda.
Good, said he, Mrs. Aouda is
still abed at this hour. AS for Mr.
| Fogg, he has probably found some
whist-Player, and according to his hab-
So saying, Passepartout descended to
the saloon. Mr., Fogg was not there.
Passepartout had but one thing to do;
to ask the purser which cabin Mr. fogg
occupied. The purser replied that he
did not know any passenger OF that
name.
"Pardon me, said Passepartout,
pcrsisting, The gentleman in ques-
ton is tall, cold, non-communicatiyo,
accompanied by young LADY
We have no young lady on board, y
replied the purscr, $40 convince you,
here is the list Of passengers. You can
examine it,"
Passepartout looked over the list.
His masters name did not appear.
He felt bewildered, Then an idea
| struck him,