AN hour after the "Henrietta" passed the lighthouse
which marks the entrance of the Hudson, turned the
point of Sandy Hook, and put to sea. During the day
she skirted Long Island, passed Fire Island, and
directed her course rapidly eastward.

At noon the next day, a man mounted the bridge to
ascertain the vessel's position. It might be thought
that this was Captain Speedy. Not the least in the
world. It was Phileas Fogg, Esquire. As for Cap-
tain Speedy, he was shut up in his cabin under lock
and key, and was uttering loud cries, which signified
an anger at once pardonable and excessive.

What had happened was very simple. Phileas Fogg
wished to go to Liverpool, but the captain would not
carry him there. Then Phileas Fogg had taken pas-
sage for Bordeaux, and, during the thirty hours he had
been on board, had so shrewdly managed with his
bank-notes that the sailors and stokers, who were only
an occasional crew, and were not on the best terms
with the captain, went over to him in a body. This

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