Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days

Chapter 36: In Which Phileas Fogg's Name Is Once More at a Premium on 'change (continued)

At the fifty-seventh second the door of the saloon opened; and the pendulum had not beat the sixtieth second when Phileas Fogg appeared, followed by an excited crowd who had forced their way through the club doors, and in his calm voice, said, "Here I am, gentlemen!"