25 Which Gives a Brief Glimpse of San Francisco at Election Time

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter I
2. Contents V
3. Translator’s Preface VII
4. In which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Mutually Accept Each Other as Master and Manservant 1
5. Where Passepartout is Convinced he has Found Perfection at Last 6
6. Where a Conversation Takes Place that could Cost Phileas Fogg a Fortune 9
7. In which Phileas Fogg Astounds his Manservant Passepartout 16
8. In which a New Share Shows up on the London Stock Market 20
9. In which Fix the Investigator is Understandably Impatient 24
10. Which Demonstrates Once Again that Passports are no Help in Police Work 29
11. In which Passepartout Says a Bit More than maybe he Ought to 32
12. Where the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Cooperate with Phileas Fogg’s Objectives 36
13. Where Passepartout gets off Easy with just the Loss of his Shoes 42
14. Where Phileas Fogg Buys a Fabulously Expensive form of Transportation 48
15. Where Phileas Fogg and his Companions Venture through the Forests of India and what Comes of it 56
16. In which Passepartout Proves Once Again that Luck and Pluck are Partners 63
17. In Which Phileas Fogg Goes Down the Whole Wonderful Valley of the Ganges without even Thinking to Look at it 70
18. Where the Bag of Banknotes gets Lighter by Another Couple Thousand Pounds 77
19. Where Fix Plays Dumb when he Hears Certain Things 83
20. Which Deals with this and that During the Crossing from Singapore to Hong Kong 88
21. In which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix go about their Separate Business 94
22. Where Passepartout Grows Extremely Concerned for his Master and What Comes of it 99
23. In Which Fix Makes Direct Contact with Phileas Fogg 106
24. Where the Tankadère’s Skipper is in Real Danger of Losing his £200 Bonus 112
25. Where Passepartout Finds that Even Halfway Around the World, it’s Wise to have a Little Money in your Pocket 120
26. In Which Passepartout’s Nose gets Outlandishly Long 126
27. During Which they Cross the Whole Pacific Ocean 134
28. Which Gives a Brief Glimpse of San Francisco at Election Time 139
29. In Which we Ride an Express Train on the Pacific Railroad 146
30. During Which Passepartout Takes a Course in Mormon History at a Speed of Twenty Miles per Hour 152
31. In Which Passepartout can’t get Anybody to Use his Head 158
32. Which will Describe Assorted Incidents that are Met with only on Union Railroads 165
33. In Which Phileas Fogg Simply does what’s Right 174
34. Where Inspector Fix Behaves in Phileas Fogg’s Best Interests 181
35. In which Phileas Fogg Grapples with Misfortune 187
36. In which Phileas Fogg Rises to the Occasion 191
37. Which gives Passepartout the Chance to Crack an Outrageous but Possibly Original Joke 200
38. In which Passepartout doesn’t Need to be told Twice to do what his Master Says 203
39. Where Shares in Phileas Fogg are Back at a Premium on the Stock Market 208
40. Which Demonstrates that Phileas Fogg didn’t Gain a Thing by Going Around the World— Other than Happiness 212
41. Textual Notes 216
42. Recommended Reading 219