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Chapter 13

           Thiswouldbeutterfolly,anditwashardtoadmitthatFoggwassuchafool.SirFrancisconsented,however,toremaintotheendofthisterribledrama. Theguideledthemtotherearoftheglade,wheretheywereabletoobservethesleepinggroups. 

           MeanwhilePassepartout,whohadperchedhimselfonthelowerbranchesofatree,wasresolvinganideawhichhadatfirststruckhimlikeaflash,andwhichwasnowfirmlylodgedinhisbrain. 

           Hehadcommencedbysayingtohimself,"Whatfolly!"andthenherepeated,"Whynot,afterall?It’sachanceperhapstheonlyone;andwithsuchsots!" Thinkingthus,heslipped,withthesupplenessofaserpent,tothelowestbranches,theendsofwhichbentalmosttotheground. 

           Thehourspassed,andthelightershadesnowannouncedtheapproachofday,thoughitwasnotyetlight. Thiswasthemoment.Theslumberingmultitudebecameanimated,thetambourinessounded,songsandcriesarose;thehourofthesacrificehadcome. Thedoorsofthepagodaswungopen,andabrightlightescapedfromitsinterior,inthemidstofwhichMr.FoggandSirFrancisespiedthevictim.Sheseemed,havingshakenoffthestuporofintoxication,tobestrivingtoescapefromherexecutioner.SirFrancis’sheartthrobbed;and,convulsivelyseizingMr.Fogg’shand,foundinitanopenknife. Justatthismomentthecrowdbegantomove. Theyoungwomanhadagainfallenintoastuporcausedbythefumesofhemp,andpassedamongthefakirs,whoescortedherwiththeirwild,religiouscries. 

           PhileasFoggandhiscompanions,minglingintherearranksofthecrowd,followed; andintwominutestheyreachedthebanksofthestream,andstoppedfiftypacesfromthepyre,uponwhichstilllaytherajah’scorpse. 

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