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As traveling companions on the millionaire 's yacht , the two men leave New York on September twentieth . Golding is bent on the successful launching of the big bond issue , with the gold mining scheme as a secondary consideration ; Nevins has only the awful work before him to consider . London becomes the permanent abode of the two , their trips to France being short and frequent . The newly constructed Channel tunnel connecting England with the continent is a transportation improvement which makes it possible for one to leave London , at ten o'clock in the morning and be in Paris at one in the afternoon . The Air line to Paris enters the sub-marine tunnel at a point twelve miles north of Dover and emerges on the plains eight miles south of Calais . As an engineering feat the construction of the tunnel has been heralded as unparalleled . It is by this speedy route that Golding and Nevins make three trips to Paris .