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Around the World in 80 Days

The commissioner of police was sitting in his office at
nine o’clock one evening, when the following telegraphic
dispatch was put into his hands:
Suez to London.

Rowan, Commissioner of Police, Scotland Yard:
I’ve found the bank robber, Phileas Fogg. Send with
out delay warrant of arrest to Bombay.
Fix, Detective.
The effect of this dispatch was instantaneous. The
polished gentleman disappeared to give place to the bank
robber. His photograph, which was hung with those of
the rest of the members at the Reform Club, was minutely
examined, and it betrayed, feature by feature, the
description of the robber which had been provided to the
police. The mysterious habits of Phileas Fogg were
recalled; his solitary ways, his sudden departure; and it
seemed clear that, in undertaking a tour round the world
on the pretext of a wager, he had had no other end in
view than to elude the detectives, and throw them off his
track.

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