. Around the world in eighty days. ioner. Sir Franciss heart throbbed ; and convul-sively seizing Mr. Foggs hand, found in it an open at this moment the crowd began to move. The youngwoman had again fallen into a stupor, caused by the fumesof hemp, and passed among the fakirs, who escorted herwith their wild, religious cries. Phileas Fogg and his companions, mingling in the rearranks of the crowed, followed ; and in two minutes theyreached the banks of the stream, and stopped fifty pacesfrom the pyre, upon which still lay the rajahs corpse. Inthe semi-obscurity they saw the victim,
. Around the world in eighty days. ioner. Sir Franciss heart throbbed ; and convul-sively seizing Mr. Foggs hand, found in it an open at this moment the crowd began to move. The youngwoman had again fallen into a stupor, caused by the fumesof hemp, and passed among the fakirs, who escorted herwith their wild, religious cries. Phileas Fogg and his companions, mingling in the rearranks of the crowed, followed ; and in two minutes theyreached the banks of the stream, and stopped fifty pacesfrom the pyre, upon which still lay the rajahs corpse. Inthe semi-obscurity they saw the victim, quite senseless,stretched out beside her husbands body. Then a torchwas brought, and the wood, soaked with oil, instantly tookfire. At this moment Sir Francis and the guide seized PhileasFogg, who, in an instant of mad generosity, was about torush upon the pyre. But he had quickly pushed themaside, when the whole scene suddenly changed. A cry ofterror arose. The whole multitude prostrated themselves,terror-stricken, on the THEEE TVAS A CEY OF TEREOE. [Page 96. AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS. 97 The old rajah was not dead, then, since he rose of asudden, Hke a spectre, took up his wife In his arms, anddescended from the pyre In the midst of the clouds ofsmoke, which only heightened his ghostly appearance. Fakirs and soldiers and priests, seized with instant terror,lay there, with their faces on the ground, not daring to lifttheir eyes and behold such a prodigy. The Inanimate victim was borne along by the vigorousarms which supported her, and which she did not seem inthe least to burden. Mr. Fogg and Sir Francis stood erect,the Parsee bowed his head, and Passepartout was, no doubt,scarcely less stupefied. The resuscitated rajah approached Sir Prancis and , and, In an abrupt tone, said, Let us be off! It was Passepartout himself, who had slipped upon thepyre in the midst of the smoke and, profiting by thestill overhanging darkness, had delivered the young womanfro
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