Around the World in Eighty Days Page #4

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l'm afraid l'll be forced to take you on.

l'm with you.

So am l. What about you, Ralph?

My affiliation with the Bank of England

naturally precludes my betting...

but as a member of this club l might,

under very special circumstances.

Then it's agreed?

-We all accept?

-Yes.

Good. lf l remember correctly,

the boat train for Dover...

leaves London Bridge station

at 8:
45 tonight.

-l will be on it.

-Tonight?

Don't you need some days

to settle your affairs...

-to make preparations?

-No. l'm quite ready now.

You engage to be back here in London,

in the Reform Club...

on Saturday, September 21 at 8:45 p.m.

Right, gentlemen.

Clubs, l believe, are still trumps?

Shall we finish the game?

-Yes, please?

-Come to my bedroom at once,

Yes, sir.

-l called you twice.

-l came as fast as possible, sir.

You are not supposed to be home yet, sir.

My usual routine is beside the point.

We leave for the Continent in 10 minutes.

-Monsieur is going traveling?

-Yes. Around the world.

Then you will not be here for breakfast.

Around the world?

Exactly. Now reassemble your faculties

and start packing.

Which clothes does monsieur....

l mean, which trunks?

None whatever. Just take two shirts

and three pairs of hose for each of us.

-But l have only one shirt, sir.

-Then take that.

We'll buy whatever else we need en route.

Give me that red bag.

Open it up.

We're going to need plenty of money.

Whatever you do,

never let this out of your sight.

Monsieur can trust me.

l will cherish it like a woman.

Don't make love to it. Just watch it.

Excuse me, sir. My cousin.

MademoiseIIe,

Excuse me, sir. lt's not my cousin.

Thomas Cook and Son.

You purchase the tickets.

l'll be back in a moment.

All right, sir.

Now, monsieur, train to Marseilles...

steamer to Bombay via Suez,

across lndia by train...

and steamer again to Hong Kong.

Only one drawback.

With this route,

you miss Bali and the women.

But no, women of Bali

cannot be described.

-Please try.

-No, monsieur. Words would fail me.

ln any case, in Yokohama,

you will encounter the geisha girls...

and those, monsieur,

are not to be sneezed at.

l shall remember.

ln Yokohama,

l must not sneeze at geisha girls.

Then, between San Francisco

and New York...

you will discover lndian maidens galore...

statuesque, barbaric creatures.

What a crime you have only 80 days.

However, first things first.

Here are your tickets to Marseilles.

Cancel those tickets.

They are of no further use to us.

We cannot go by train.

Has something happened? A wreck?

An avalanche has sealed

the Montfort tunnel...

and nothing can get through for a week.

Then the roads are blocked, too.

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