About midday
No one could say ; but he himself appeared as cool as ever , and to have decided , for he told the engineer , the same evening , to keep the full-steam on till the coal was exhausted . So the _ Henrietta _ proceeded at full-steam until , on the 18th , the coals began to give out , as the engineer had foretold . `` Keep up the steam as much as possible , '' said Mr. Fogg . About midday , Phileas Fogg , having taken the ship 's reckoning , told Passe-partout to release Captain Speedy . The Frenchman would rather have unloosed a tiger , and said , as he went aft , `` What an awful rage he will be in . '' A few minutes later a bomb appeared on deck . This bomb was Captain Speedy , and looked ready to burst .