“Wade! Fire!” he exclaimed. Then he added, “Great cats, the room is full of smoke. It’s here. In this building. Wade! Wade!”
He bounced out of bed and went groping about the room in the blackness trying to find the electric light switch. He found it, snapped it on but no light responded. The electric current had failed.
“Jiminy crickets! No light! This is a mess! Wade! Wade!”
“Wad’deyah wan’?” grumbled Wade sleepily. Jeff heard him toss in his bed.
“Asleep in all this racket. Think of that,” cried Jeff groping toward Wade’s corner of the room. He found the bed and seizing his roommate he shook him roughly.
“Lemme go. Git out, you chump,” grumbled the still sleeping Wade kicking violently at Jeff.
“Come out of this, you chump,” yelled Jeff, seizing him and dragging him from the bed to the floor.
Wade fell out of bed with a thump and grumblingly got to his feet.
“What’s all the infernal racket for, Jeff? What’s— Say, I smell smoke. Jeff! What—!”