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`` Do not let the fires go down , '' replied Mr. Fogg . `` Keep them up to the last . Let the valves be filled . '' Towards noon Phileas Fogg , having ascertained their position , called Passepartout , and ordered him to go for Captain Speedy . It was as if the honest fellow had been commanded to unchain a tiger . He went to the poop , saying to himself , `` He will be like a madman ! '' In a few moments , with cries and oaths , a bomb appeared on the poop-deck .