Part 30 (1/2)
”That's the only reasonable explanation”
”But what could they have been doing?”
”That remains to be seen; but it's our duty to try to find out”
”What's your plan?”
”Well, that scraping noise appeared to me to come from the under side of the hull”
”Yes”
”Then that's the place to look for et at it?”
”Dive over and feel around at about the place where we heard the sound”
”That was on the port side and apparently right under the cabin floor”
”Then that's the place to look”
As he spoke, the young leader of the Eagles stripped off his shi+rt, for the night arm and he was coatless, and then divested himself in turn of his shoes and trousers
This done, he turned to Merritt
”I don't know just why, old fellow,” he said, ”but I've got an idea input up to-night”
”What do youinto his comrade's eyes as he clasped Rob's extended hand For soh hier was that Rob dreaded he did not know, but there was soave him that almost seemed like a farewell clasp
Before his inquiry was fairly out of Merritt's ed his palm and slipped silently over the side of the submarine As the waters closed above him, Merritt aler, terrible and i flash But it was too late to recall his co, he was called upon to brave it out alone
Earlier that evening a slided ale on the coast, and, waiting till darkness had descended, made at top speed for the vicinity of the submarine island
The men who had chartered the craft were two in nu driven over there that afternoon froton One was an old man, stoop-shouldered and bleary-eyed The other was an individual of about thirty, tall, e in his crafty eyes, which darted back and forth as if constantly on the lookout for so directly to the Bellport Hotel, they had inquired of Enos Hardcastle, the proprietor, where they could hire a motor boat
”A fast one?” croaked the old man
”The faster the better,” supple voice
Enos scratched his head