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

indow. He could distinguish little in the faint sifting of moonlight which dropped d

for the lights which his chums might be obliged to turn on. As the reader knows, however, t

ttle bit lonesome, the boy stood at his post for about a quarter of

emed to move up and down as it came to the little undulations in the ocean f

in' back alone. Now, I wonder if any

hought that in case of accident he would have been notified by the lifting lines. Th

pped. He was now about fifty feet below the window out of which Jimmie looked, for the Sea Lion

hat it was moving about on the bottom. Lights, of course, do not show in water

umbling about on the bottom. He watched intently for a moment

s line, and when I saw him fumbling he must have been removing the

the glass panel of the water chamber door, waiting for whoever it was to enter, close

uspicious action on the part of the other caused him to hesitate. He could observe the actions of the man i

air which was being pumped into it, he laid the hose carefully in a slide-covered groove in the edge of the door. The hose did not

power that forced the water out of the chamber. Only one infer

stranger. This was merely an attemp

off his weights in order to gain the chamber, which neither one of the boys would have found necessa

xiety for the next move. The man, whoever he was, wa

ors who were not receiving their air from the Sea Lion. No one was believed to know

the water in the chamber began to lower. When the wat

the end over a hook provided for that purpose. When the water was all o

gs here directly,

ve the man now, for, with the water out of the chamber, the light carried by the man inside shon

trying to put away the thought that the intruder had

wned, on the floor of the ocean. The thought was

nd fill the chamber with water. The man in there

t for some other method of meeting the dangerous situation. He could hear the

the hidden spring which would open the door from the other side, and sprang for the bar which secu

r-hose protecting the boys outside, if he has not already d

of rope. Making a running noose in one end, he released seve

ally. "If I can get this rope around his body and over his arms, I'll be the boss of

d him that the intruder had discovered the spring. Thi

he shadows, prepared to throw his lasso

el

rried a hoar

one h

was swinging his light about so as t

rms!" Jimmie mused. "I'd lik

nt stepped out of the shelter of the doorway. This was what

er's head and arms. The lad's hours of practice wh

ran to the back of the room. He heard the other fal

d reached to a shelf for a weapon. When he faced hi

he helmet opening where the air-hose had entered. The pri

boy. "Look what one can

age was the

helmet!" comm

lenge came fro

ou. But I'll have this gun handy, and if you try any fo

o as evil a face as he had ever seen. It was the face of a

the captive. "If you know what's good fo

you?" ask

y. The enraged man was tu

. "I'll have to put you

don't

flush!" the

ease

leveled the weapon a

ut the boys' air-hose, and I'll have to get back to New York the

naged to rise to a sitting position. Hi

red, "I didn't

equal to su

told

wished devoutly that he coul

u not to?" h

ve shook

ow his name

re sailing

that he is call

w comes it that you know so muc

es you th

r, and also the spring that open

, t

pon, though nothing could have ind

o do when I got he

ms on the way here?

he

he wr

boat?" was th

er side of

are after

cour

portant

othing ab

he name of

Sha

laughed Jimmie. "Used to

n't k

you come

t the

remov

cour

th to the boys who are out

r machine. I know something about such contrivances, and