If it was anything extraordinary, I wanted to see it.

Of course, I woke up Rectus, and we put on our clothes.

There was now a good deal of noise on deck.
"Perhaps we have run into some vessel and sunk her," said Rectus, opening the door, with his coat over his arm.

He was in an awful hurry to see.
"Hold up here!" I said.

"Don't you go on deck in this storm without an overcoat.