The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-09-28
CHAPTER Ill.
IN WHICH A CONVERSATION TAKES PLAC
WHICH MAY COST PHILEAS VoGa DEARLY.

IN WHICH a CONVERSATION TAKES PLACE
WHICH MAY COST PHILgAs FoOG DEARLY.
PhiIess Fogg had left his house in
Seville Row at half,past eleven, am: and
his left foot five hundred and seventy
five times and his left foot before his
right foot five hundred and seventy six
times, he arrived at the Reform Club.
a spacious and lofty building in Pail
Mall, which cost not less than three
millions to build
Phileas Fogg repaired Immediately
to the dining-room. whose nine win
dows opened upon fine garden with
trees already gilded by autumn. There,
he took his seat at his regular table
where his plate was awaiting him. His
breakfast consisted of a side dish, a
boiled fish with Reading sauce of first
quality, a scarlet slice of roast beef
garnished with mushrooms, a rhubarb
and goOseberry tart, and bit of Ches-
ter cheese, the whole washed down
with few cups of that excellent tea,
specially gathered for the stores of the
Reform Club.
At forty-seven minutes past noon
this gentleman rose and turned his
steps toward the large hall. sumptu-
Gus apartment adorned with paintings
in elegant frames. There, servant
handed him the Times uncut, the tire
some cutting of which he managed with
steadiness of hand which denoted
great practice in this difficult operation.
The reading of this journal occupied
Phileas Fogg until a quarter before
four, and that of the Standard, which
succeeded it. lasted until dinner. This
repaSt passed off in the same wav as the
breakfast, with the addition of Royal
British Sauce"
At twenty minutes before six the
gentleman reappeared in the large hall,
and was absorbed in the reading of the
Morning Chronicle.
Half an hour later various members
of the Reform Club entered and came
near the fireplace, in which a coal fire
was burning. They were the usual
partners of Phileas Fogg, like himself
passionate players of whist; the engi-
neer Andrew Stuart, the bankers John
Sullivan and Samuel Fallentin, the
brewer Thomas Flanagan, Gauthier
Ralph, one of the directors of the Bank
of England-rich and respected person.
ages, even in this club counting among
its members the elite of trade and
finance.
"Well, Ralph" asked Thomas Flan-
agan, chow about that robbery?'
Why replied Andrew Stuart
10 L. l. N 10
al hope, on the contrary" said
Gauthier Ralph, "that we will put our
hands on the robber. Detectives, very
skillful fellows, have been sent to
America and the Continent, to all the
principal ports of embarkation and de-
barkation, and it will be difficult for
this fellow to escape.
but YOU have the description of the
robber?' asked Andrew Stuart.
''In the first place, he is not a rob-
Der, (" replied Gauthier Ralph, seriously.
How, he is not a robber, this fellow
who has distracted filty-iive thousand
pounds in bank-notes?'
mo" replied Gauthier Ralph.
lis he. then ga manufacturers said
John Sullivan.
1.-The Morning Chronicle assures us
that he is gentleman. :"
The party that made this reply was
no other than Phileas Fogg, whoss head
then emerged from the mass of papers
heaped around him At the same time.
he greeted his colleagues, whoreturned
his salutation. The matter under dis
eussion, and which the various Journals
of the United Kingdom were discussing
ardently, had occurred three DAYS be.
fore, on the 18th of September A
package of bank notes, making the
enormous sum of ffry4fye thousand
pounds, had been taken from the coun-
ter of the principal cashier Of the Bank