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Chapter 15

           Fix’sdisappointmentwhenhelearnedthatPhileasFogghadnotmadehisappearanceinCalcuttamaybeimagined.Hemadeuphismindthattherobberhadstoppedsomewhereontherouteandtakenrefugeinthesouthernprovinces.Fortwenty-fourhoursFixwatchedthestationwithfeverishanxiety;atlasthewasrewardedbyseeingMr.FoggandPassepartoutarrive,accompaniedbyayoungwoman,whosepresencehewaswhollyatalosstoexplain.Hehastenedforapoliceman;andthiswashowthepartycametobearrestedandbroughtbeforeJudgeObadiah.

           HadPassepartoutbeenalittlelesspreoccupied,hewouldhaveespiedthedetectiveensconcedinacornerofthecourt-room,watchingtheproceedingswithaninteresteasilyunderstood;forthewarranthadfailedtoreachhimatCalcutta,asithaddoneatBombayandSuez.

           JudgeObadiahhadunfortunatelycaughtPassepartout’srashexclamation,whichthepoorfellowwouldhavegiventheworldtorecall.

           "Thefactsareadmitted?"askedthejudge.

           "Admitted,"repliedMr.Fogg,coldly.

           "Inasmuch,"resumedthejudge,"astheEnglishlawprotectsequallyandsternlythereligionsoftheIndianpeople,andasthemanPassepartouthasadmittedthatheviolatedthesacredpagodaofMalabarHill,atBombay,onthe20thofOctober,IcondemnthesaidPassepartouttoimprisonmentforfifteendaysandafineofthreehundredpounds."

           "Threehundredpounds!"criedPassepartout,startledatthelargenessofthesum.

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