"I am willing; where's Terror? Ah! here he is; old fellow, come along and keep faithful watch over your friends."
"Boys," said Tim O'Rooney, with a strange, husky intonation, "you remember my dream about this steamer burning?"
"Yes; what of it?"
"It is coming thrue!"
He spoke the truth!
CHAPTER III.
AFLOAT.
As Tim O'Rooney spoke, he pointed to the bow of the steamer, where, in the bright moonlight, some smoke could be seen rising—where, too, the next instant, they caught sight of a gleam of fire.
"Oh, heaven! what shall we do?" exclaimed Elwood, struck with a panic.