The Galleon's Gold

f saving the Dolphin that they were unconsc

d ship had come bearing dow

they came to the surface, but they had no

g directly down upon the submarine boat. It looked as

nd switched the propeller valve, at the s

ly and the Dolphin switched a

razed her stern. It was ce

rew open the pilot-hou

do you mean to

the ship went on. Men were seen i

and showed her stern. Instinct

Captain Hartley, who had been

tune! It is the

as like a dynamite

ian!" gasp

of it?" cried

ould know my own ship in any part of t

, "and your assertion is pro

was

s the name "Aurelian." That she was Gil

t down was also a sure thing. It was an atr

ied, angrily, "he certai

Hartley; "that is j

angrily. The Aurelian was

reasure if possible before the Dolphin w

y. "And they shall pay for it well. They shall n

t them?" asked Hartley; "the

boat is the most deadly craft in the U.S.

urely need fear nothing from her. We coul

. "At least I will gi

25chase to the Aurelian, when a warning cry came fr

said, "there's

ean?" asked Fr

rder. Shure, it must have b

ung to the key board. He pressed the

upon the surface

r. But what was the cause of it? W

e. He went down into the hold

tubes so that water could not be pressed through them. Until these we

the situation

uation, and that unless the matter was rem

ould be to repair the damag

d, "what do you think of it?

tell the truth, she ought to go into the dry dock.

do that without goi

, y

he game

chance, I think we can readjust and straighten

t will d

tain

how l

d

a dubiou

Gulf of Honduras first. Perhaps

r her. She will have to send down divers and make many preparations which

e begun upon th

necessary tools down into the

nd that the job was not to be a

ned, and the valves readjusted. But it

nd well on her way into the Gulf of Honduras. She mus

tter," said Clifford. "With all our accidents it is

nk, "but let us hope that

me

working order. In other resp

out for the continu

ne boat, with her powerful searchlight was ena

announced that they had passed through the Yucata

prepared from memory by

for hours the

d the locality where the Donna

near as I can locat

ave outwitted Parker, for the Aureli

s in sight. The Aurelian must

"shall we wait until morning, or attempt

e the searchlight," said Clifford eage

young inventor. "All i

and hermetically closed. Then the D

al hundred fathoms befo

y plain lay

be easier to find the Donna Veneta tha

. "I hope we will not be

searchlight flashed everywhere across the sandy pl

ntered. Sometimes a huge projecting ledg

y and systematically. Results wer