The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-10-11

IL WAS dSSe )stlboub . Adult, WtlOY l6'tN-
ing his post, clearing the footlights
without the aid of his wings. and climb
ing up to the right hand gallery, fell at
the feet of spectator, crying:
"Ah! my master! my mastern'
"You hereP"
"Myselfn'
'.Well, then. in that case. to the
steamer young man!''
Mr.. Fogg, Mrs Aouda, who accom-
panied him, and Passepartout rushed
through the Hobbies to the outside of
the building. But here they found the
Honorable Batulcar, furious. claiming
damages for the breakage Phileas
Fogg appeased his argtr by throwing
him handful of bank notes. Mr. Fogg
and Mrs Aouda set foot on the Ameri-
can steamer, followed by Passepartout,
with his wings on his back, and on his
face the nose six feet long which he had
| not yet been able TO tear off!
CHAPTER XIV.
DURING WHICH Is ACCOMPLISHED THE VOYAGE
ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
What had happened in sight of
Shanghai is understood. The signals
made by the Tankadere had been OBJ
served by the Yokohama steamer. The
Captain, seeing flag at half-mast, had
turned his vessel toward the little
schooner. A few minutes after; Phileas
Fogg, paying for his passage at the
pr,ee agreed upon. put in the pocket of
John Bunsby, master, five hundred and
| Ac 4 l. IL
| tleman, Mrs. Aouda and Fix assembled
to the deck of the steamer, which i'm
medlate1y took its course for Nagasaki
and Yokohama.
Having arrived on the morning of
the 14th of November, on time, Phileas
Fogg, letting Fix go about his business,
had gone aboard the Carnatic, and
there he learned, to the great Joy of
Mrs. Aouda-and perhaps to his own.
but he did not let it appear-that the
| Frenchman, Passepartout, had really
arrived the day before at Yokohama.
Phileas Fogg, who was to start again
the same evening for San Francisco, set
Immediately in search of his servant.
| He inquired IN vain of the French and
English Consular agents, and, after use
lessly running through the streets of
Yokohama, he despaired OF finding
Passepartout again, when chance, or
| perhaps sort of presentiment, made
| him enter the theater of the Honorable
Batulcar. He would certainly not have
recognized his servant under this &C.
centric mountebank dress; but the lat
ter, lying on his back, saw his master
/ IN "a 10 oA IN
a movement of his nose. Thence a
breaking of the equilibrium and what
| followed.
This is what Passepartout learned
| from Mrs. Aouda's mouth, who told
| him then how the voyage had been
made from Hong Kong to Yokohama,
in company with a Mr. Fix, on the
| schooner Tankadere.
| At the name of Fix Passepartout did
| not change countenance. He thought
that the time had not come to tell his
master what had passed between the
| detective and himself Thus. in the
story which Passepartout told of his adj
ventures he only accused and excused
himself of having been overcome by
the intoxication of opium in smoking
house in Hong Kong.
Mr.. Fogg listened coldly to this mar.
rative without replying; then he opened
| for his servant a credit sufficient fol
him to procure on board more suitable
garments. And, indeed, an hour had
not passed when the good fellow, hay
ing cut oft his nose and shed his wings,
had nothing more about him which re
called the sectary of the god Tingou.
The steamer making the voyage from
| Yokohama to San Francisco belong ed
to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company,
and was named the General Grant. She
was large side-wheel steamer of two
thousand five hundred tons, vel
equipped and of great speed. Ar
enormous waiking-beam rose and fell
successfully above the deck; at one 8
its ends moved the piston-rod, which
changing the movement in straight
line to q circular one, was applied di
reetfy to the shaft of the wheels. The
4 General Grant was rugged as three
masted schooner and she had a large
surface of sails, which aided her steam
j power materially. By making twelve
7, miles an hour the steamer would only
i need twenty-cne days to cross the Pa
cific. Phileas Fogg then had gooe
reasons for believing that, landed a
San Francisco on the I'd of December
he would be in New York on the It'll
and in London on the goth, thus gain
ing some hours on the fatal date Of the
| 21st of December.
] The passengers aboard the steamer
were quite numerous some English
men, many Americans, genuine emf
| grafton of coolies to America, and {
certain number of officers of the Indiar
absence by making the tour of the
world.
During this voyage there was no nau
tical incident. The steamer, borne III
on its large wheels, supported by II
, large amount of canvas, rolled but lit
, tie The Pacific Ocean justified it,
name sufficiently. Mr.. Fogg was a
calm and non-communicative ~ usual
| His young companion felt herself NOR,
: and more attached to this man by othel
| ties than those of gratitude. This silen
7 nature, so generous IN short, made ;
r greater impression upon her than sh,
thought, anu, almost Hhkn0Wn TO h6f
: self, she allowed herself to have feeling
which did no. soo.a 10 affect in any way
? the enigmatical Fogg.
D Besides, Mrs. Aouda was very mucl
interested in the gentleman's plans
s She was uneasy at the retarding cir
r cumstances which might prevent tn,
success of the tour She frequentI,
talked with Passepartout, who readily
detected the feelings of Mrs. Aouda'i
i heart. This good fellow had the mos
r implicit faith with regard to his master
. he did not exhaust his praises of tn,
honesty, the generosity, the devotion o
Phileas Fogg; then he reassured Mrs
] Aouda as to the issue of the VOYAGE. re
peating that they had left the fantastic
countries of China and Japan. that the
! were returning to civilized countries
: and finally, that a train from San Fran
cisco to New York, and a transatlantic
J steamerarom New York to Liverpool
I would be sufficient, doubtless, TO iinisl
! this impossible tour7of the world in tn