"Let's wake them up." "Don't you think they can put it out ?" he asked, as we ran back.
"Can't tell," I answered.

"But we must get ready,--that's what we've got to do." I am sure I did not know how we were to get ready, or what we were to do, but my main idea was that no time was to be lost in doing something.
The first thing was to awaken our friends.
We found the steward in the saloon.

There was only one lamp burning there, and the place looked dismal, but there was light enough to see that he was very pale.
"Don't you intend to wake up the people ?" I said to him.
"What's the good ?" he said.

"They'll put it out." "They may, and they mayn't," I answered, "and it wont hurt the passengers to be awake." With this I hurried to the Chippertons' state-room--they had a double room in the centre of the vessel--and knocked loudly on the door.

I saw the steward going to other doors, knocking at some and opening others and speaking to the people inside.
Mr.Chipperton jumped right up and opened the door.