Around the World in Eighty Days, Chapter 19: riassunto

Cosa succede

1. Passepartout explores Hong Kong and meets Fix, who still lacks the warrant needed to arrest Fogg.
2. They book four cabins and learn that the repaired Carnatic departs that evening rather than the following morning.
3. Fix invites Passepartout into an opium den and delays his return with wine and conversation.
4. Passepartout mistakes Fix for an agent of the Reform Club until Fix proves that he is a detective.
5. Fix accuses Fogg of stealing bank money and offers Passepartout a reward for helping detain him.
6. Passepartout refuses, so Fix gives him an opium pipe, leaves him unconscious, and departs.

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Cosa notare

Passepartout makes loyalty more important than the reward or Fix’s suspicions. His refusal leads Fix to incapacitate him instead.

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