Around the World in Eighty Days, Chapter 29 summary
Chapter 29 of 37 · 9 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 29, Phileas Fogg accepts Stamp Proctor’s challenge, but a Sioux attack interrupts their planned duel aboard the train. Passepartout disconnects the cars from the speeding locomotive, allowing them to stop near soldiers at Kearney, but the passenger count reveals that he and several others are missing.
What happens
- The train crosses the high passes and enters Nebraska while Phileas Fogg remains on schedule.
- Stamp Proctor insults Fogg over his card play, and Fogg accepts a duel at Plum Creek.
- A delay prevents the station stop, so the conductor arranges a duel inside an emptied car.
- Sioux attackers interrupt the duel, overpower the engine crew, loot baggage, and fight the passengers.
- Passepartout crawls beneath the cars and disconnects them from the locomotive, allowing the brakes to stop them near Kearney.
- Soldiers approach and the attackers flee, but Passepartout is among the missing passengers.
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What to notice
The apparent rescue ends with a new danger. Passepartout saves the train, but his absence leaves his own safety uncertain.
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How does Passepartout help stop the train?
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