Boy Scouts in a Submarine; Or, Searching an Ocean Floor

and the pumps in the next compartment soon cleared not only

, he hastened to the conning tower, where he found Jack, glass in hand, sweeping the moonlit sea eagerly. There was a faint haze off to the wes

did yo

use Jack's manner indicated

adow," was

n, the shadow of a cloud, or a cloud itself," sugg

sky. There was no

he kind," Jack mused, "for no boa

submarine?

you mean

see a s

ns were aske

ne, but I don't believe any cloud passing o

ened his eyes wide as he examined the weapon and noted

you get it?

he bo

ind it lyi

s I reached the

d the Diver get away so

Diver," agreed Frank, takin

d, "but, of course, the initia

we're i

here so soon after our arri

replied, his manner showing how fully he

is that she g

und the

ht have

g of the Cutaria dow

ered Jimmie, making his appe

have towed it awa

cried the othe

d, "we're up against th

re we'll ha

other outfit?" asked Frank. "So

re would b

with Ned," Jimmie edged in. "Yo

keep our lights low. If the Diver is here, the Moores are a

w having been shuttered on the outside by a system of protection which was one of the best features of the

e the wreck

and see," sh

rkness?" a

l ever be, unless some subterranean volcano lights up and

rest to-night, but it may be advisable to get to work at once.

ticking to the first proposition, "is h

may be some other cr

dropped that knife is a submarine, else how could sh

around the Sea Lion!" Jack crea

of prowling around ou

dn't hear anything

water," suggested Frank. "Thos

t and look arou

w desperate the Moores must be, and he had no doubt that in some

under sixty feet of water," he finally said, "you

watch the boat and com

run this shebang, all right. G

ction, "we may as well shift the Sea Lion and inspect

be the wreck,

seemed to separate the boys from the elevation, and preparations were made for going

see that the air pumps are kept going. Any motion of the boat, you understan

d the little fellow. "Go ahead and I'll run things all

he change to the new location. As she moved along she wa

was desired to navigate. The delicate mechanisms designed to show depth, pressure

grinning through the glass panel. When the boat was brough

walked seemed very different from the smooth sand level Ned had seen before. There wer

n which Ned had observed on his first trip out. It was not, however, a submerged roc

him to go, and was satisfied that he had found the lost mail ship. The sand

e boy discovered the wound which had brought the stately vessel to her p

ks had been beaten down, probably snapped off at the collision, but th

ect his air-hose and line from the jagged edges of the wound, crept inside. His electric flashlight revealed the interior

was still air imprisoned in the broken ship. At that distance from the su

p should have gone down so quickly. Telegraphic reports at the time of the accident-if it was an accide

urned back to where he had left Jack and Frank. He had found it impossible, on account of the shifting to t

bulkhead back of him. It sounded almost like the hiss of escaping steam. The lad knew that it must be a strong vi

e the fact that it was actually uniform sound he he

ying to his ears, through the thin sides of the air-hose, the story

convinced that some unknown power was at work i

created by steel striking steel. The jar broug

e boy mused, "or there is so

egan an examination of the sand along the line of the bottom. His air-hose was not long enough to admit of pas

there?" asked he as soon as

ed Frank, with a laugh. "Water wo

" observed Jack. "I heard a

ieve it!" Ji

ou ever sit on the bottom of the swimm

laughed the l

heard a

such a noise as one would hear

ses down there, too, and I'll tel

" roared

ed Frank. "I didn't see a

but I'm going to get a longer air-hose, shift the Sea Lion s

Jack. "I want to he

men down there removin