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Phileas Fogg and Passepartout sat on the train through the night, the next day and the next night. Everything was different outside from one minute to the next minute. Passepartout watched the many changes. through the window. They were very interesting to him. Phileas Fogg was not interested.
At 8 o'clock in the morning, on 22nd October, the train stopped near the station at Rothal. A man from the railway came to the train window. 'Everybody, get out of the train, please,' he called.
'Why do we have to get out?' asked Phileas Fogg.
'Because there is no more railway after this. It begins again at Allahabad, about fifty miles from here.'
'But it's in The Times,' said Phileas Fogg. He had the centre page of the newspaper with him. 'Look. The paper says, "The railway between Rothal and Allahabad is open now" '.
'The paper is wrong.'
'But your company sells tickets from Bombay to Calcutta,' the Englishman said.
'Oh yes,' the railwayman answered. 'But everybody knows that they have to go from Rothal to Allahabad on foot or on a horse.'
He was right. The other people in the train knew about the railway. They left the train quickly and went to the village. They took all the horses. 'We'll walk,' said Phileas Fogg.
Passepartout looked down at his feet. He didn't have any shoes. His shoes were in the Malabar temple in Bombay.
'There's an elephant over there,' he said.
The man with the elephant smiled a wide smile. A man with an elephant is a rich man when there isn't a railway. Phileas Fogg started at ten pounds an hour. No? Twenty? No? Forty? No.
In the end, the man sold the elephant to Phileas Fogg for two thousand pounds.
'Elephant meat is expensive,' Passepartout thought.
Next, they had to find a guide. They didn't know the way to Allahabad. That was easier. A young Indian from the village saw them with the elephant.
'Do you want a guide?' he asked. He spoke English too.
Every two hours, the guide stopped the elephant. It ate and drank some water. Phileas Fogg, Passepartout and the guide sat under a tree, out of the sun. Then they started again. They moved quickly, and climbed higher.
elephant (n) An elephant is a very large, grey Indian or African animal with big
ears.
guide (n) A guide shows places to visitors. That is his or her job.
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By 8 o'clock in the evening, they were over the Vindhia mountains. They were half-way to Allahabad. The guide stopped for the night.
They started again at 6 o'clock the next morning, and at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, they were near Allahabad.
They were in some trees when suddenly the elephant stopped. They heard the sound of singing and loud music. The guide drove the elephant into the thickest trees.
'It is a dead man,' said the guide, quietly. "They are taking a dead man to a temple. Tomorrow, they will start a fire and put the dead man on the fire.'
Through the trees, they saw a lot of people. Some men wore the same orange clothes as the three men at the Malabar temple. Some men played music. Some women and children walked behind them. Then they saw a young woman. Some men pushed her in front of them. she was very weak. She couldn't walk very well. Men at the back carried a dead man in fine clothes.
"The dead man was important,' said the guide. 'The young woman was his wife, and they will put her on the fire tomorrow with her dead
husband.'
'What?' said Phileas Fogg. Are you saying that this woman wants to die with her husband?'
'Sometimes a wife wants to die when her husband dies,' answered the guide. 'But this young woman does not want to die. Those people, the people in the orange clothes, say she has to do it.'
'No!' said Passepartout. 'But can't she get away from them?'
'They put something in her food,' the guide said. 'Look - she is very tired. Then she will sleep.'
'We'll get her out of here,' said Phileas Fogg.
'Please think before you try that,' said the guide. 'These people are dangerous.'
'But, Mr Fogg, the bet ...' said Passepartout.
Phileas Fogg looked at the timetable. 'I am one day early. We can use the day well and get the young woman away from here.'
'Well,' said the guide. 'We can follow them, but we can not go too near. They are going to a temple about two miles from here. I know about the young wife too. Her name is Aouda. Her father had a big company in Bombay. But her father and mother died and she had to marry that old man. We can not do anything now. But I will help you when it gets dark.'
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Aouda
People sang and shouted. The noise came through the trees. The guide stopped the elephant, and they walked. They could see the temple, white in the dark night. Some men with guns sat round it and watched.
"The young woman is inside the temple,' said the guide, quietly. The dead man was on top of some wood, to the right. 'When the sun comes up, they will put the woman next to her husband. Then they will start the fire.'
'We'll have to think of something. We have to get the young woman out of there,' said Phileas Fogg.
But Phileas Fogg and the guide did not have any ideas. And the men with guns round the temple did not go to sleep. They watched. They watched very carefully.
After an hour or two the guide said, 'Mr Fogg, where is your servant?' Phileas Fogg could not answer that. Passepartout was not there.
The sun came up in the east. The people woke and went noisily to the wood with the dead man on top. Then some men brought Aouda out of the temple. She did not move when they put her down on top of the wood, next to her dead husband. There was something in her food again
that morning.
Some men brought fire to the wood. Phileas Fogg stood up and opened his mouth. He wanted to shout, 'Stop!'
'Get down!' said the guide. 'They will kill us!'
But suddenly everything changed. The people gave a great shout, and they fell down on their faces with their eyes to the ground.
The old man was not dead. He stood up and took the young woman's hand. Then he came down through the fire. He walked over the people on the ground. Then he and the woman ran to Phileas Fogg and the guide.
'Let's go!' He said. 'Quickly!'
It was Passepartout.
A minute later, the three men and the young woman were on the elephant. Aouda slept and knew nothing about it.
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The sun was high and hot in the sky. It was nearly 10 o'clock in the morning.
The young guide said, "There, that is Allahabad. The railway starts again there. The train journey to Calcutta is about a day and a night.' Phileas Fogg took a room at the railway station for Aouda. He sent Passepartout into the town for clothes and other things for the young woman. When the train was ready, Aouda was better.
Before they got in the train, Phileas Fogg paid the guide.
"That's your money, because you were our guide,' he said. 'But you helped us in other ways. Would you like the elephant?'
The young guide gave a big smile. That was his only answer.
On the journey to Calcutta, Aouda learned about her night in the temple and about Passepartout and the fire. She said 'Thank you' again and again, but she was afraid of her husband's family. She didn't want them to catch her again.
'I'll take you to Hong Kong,' Phileas Fogg said, 'and you can stay there.'
It was kind, but he spoke quite coldly.
She happily said, 'Oh, thank you! I have an uncle in Hong Kong. He will look after me.'
The train got to Calcutta at 7 o'clock in the morning. Phileas Fogg had five hours before the
ship left for Hong Kong.
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Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Aouda left the station at Calcutta. They wanted to go to the passport office and then to the ship. But a policeman came to them and said: 'Are you Mr Phileas Fogg, and is this your servant?'
'Yes.'
'Please follow me.'
Phileas Fogg's face did not change. He didn't feel anything, or he didn't show it.
'Can this young woman come with us?' he asked.
The policeman said, 'Yes.'
At the police station, the policeman took them to a large room with a big cupboard in it. Then, the three men in orange clothes from the Malabar temple in Bombay came in. One man carried Passepartout's shoes.
'The temple in Bombay!' said Passepartout.
The men from the temple were in Calcutta because Fix brought them from Bombay. Fix told the Calcutta police about the Malabar temple. Now, he was in the big cupboard in the room, and he listened to everything.
The policeman said, 'People from other countries cannot come to India and wear their shoes in a temple. It is not right. You will have to stay in prison. You can tell your story next week. Then perhaps you will have to stay in prison.'
Fix was very happy about that. "The warrant will arrive before then,' he thought.
Passepartout felt bad. He was not afraid of prison, but he thought of Phileas Fogg and his bet. A bet of twenty thousand pounds,' he thought. 'And we will lose it because I went into a temple in shoes!'
prison (n) A prison is a building. Killers have to live in prison for years before they
can leave.
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Phileas Fogg's face did not change. He said: 'I want bail.' 'Yes, you can have bail,' said the policeman.
Fix, in the cupboard, was angry.
'But,' the policeman said, 'because you do not live in this country, bail will be one thousand pounds each. You will have to come back here in a week, and then you will get your money back. You can tell your story then.'
Fix was happy about that. He thought, 'Fogg won't pay two thousand pounds of bail money. He'll stay in prison and wait.' To Fix, Phileas Fogg was a bank thief, not a man with a twenty thousand pound bet.
'I'll pay,' said Phileas Fogg.
'You will get this money back,' said the policeman, 'when you come back next week. But now you can go, on bail.'
Passepartout turned to the three men from the temple. 'Please,' he said, give me my shoes back.'
The Frenchman put on his shoes again. Then Fogg, Aouda, and Passepartout went to the port as quickly as they could. Fix followed. He was very angry. 'That's two thousand pounds of the Bank of England's money,' he thought. 'I'll have to take Fogg back to England quickly.'
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Hong Kong
On the ship to Hong Kong, the Rangoon, Aouda learned a little about Phileas Fogg. She liked him.
Fix was on the ship, too. He thought about the warrant. Was it now on its way from Bombay to Hong Kong?
On the first day, Passepartout did not know that Fix was on the ship
too. But then he saw the detective.
'What is Mr Fix doing on this ship?' the Frenchman thought. 'We saw him in Suez, and now here he is again. Is he following us? Why?' Passepartout thought about it, and then he had an idea. 'He is following Mr Fogg. He is working for the five men at the Reform Club. He is watching Mr Fogg because of the bet.'
Passepartout was angry with the five men, but he didn't tell Phileas Fogg about Fix. The five men were Mr Fogg's friends. Passepartout didn't want Mr Fogg to think badly of them. He really liked Mr Phileas Fogg now. He wanted him to win his bet. It was important to him.
The weather was bad, and the Rangoon arrived at Hong Kong twenty-four hours late. Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Aouda went to the office of the ship company.
'Are we too late for the Carnatic?' Phileas Fogg asked. "The timetable
says she left Hong Kong for Yokohama yesterday.'
'No,' said the man at the office. 'The Carnatic had a problem with one engine. She's here. She'll leave tomorrow.'
"Thank you,' said Phileas Fogg.
Phileas Fogg took Aouda to the best hotel in Hong Kong. Then he went out and looked for her uncle. An hour later, he came back. Aouda's uncle did not live in Hong Kong now. He was in Holland.
Engine (n) When its engine doesn't work, a car doesn't move.
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