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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. To be continued...🪶 🌍 @English_4U 🌍
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