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Back there in a crowd of cadets stood the machinist upon whom the submarine boys were depending for the best showing that the Farnum could make. But why don't we rise again when the ice floe slips off us? It was not until after supper that Eph turned the talk back to Sam Truax. Well, that's queer, remarked Jack. He rushed at telephone number look-up Jack, aiming a kick. It was, indeed, a cozy place.     I guess ye're all right, went on the doorman. David Pollard, his sensitive nature suffering extremely, shrank back out of the crowd. For some time the submarine boys strolled about, enjoying the air and the views they obtained of buildings and grounds. Probably he's the same fellow.     Then he sprang to the conning tower, and, with a jerk, opened the levers that admitted water to the tanks. Well, it certainly looked queer, agreed Mark.     Toward evening, on the seventh day after their adventure with the Sargasso Sea, the travelers closed the man hole, and with air tanks telephone number look-up well filled slowly sank beneath the waves. Presently the sloop's hull was lost to Eph's sight beyond the gunboat. The two craft were held together until Jack and Hal had been passed, still unconscious, over the side. That same evening about ten o'clock the submarine boys were on their way from the village to the Pollard when they heard the fire alarm. You'll stay here in the engine room.     Now Jacob Farnum came alongside in the shore boat. Instantly the other cadets became all attention. In a few minutes the ship was on top of the waves, the adventurers freed from the double danger of the mud and sharks. Come down, and I'll teach you a few things, you rascal! And, though I have no soda fountain, continued the bearded one, I can offer you some soft drinks.     David Pollard followed.     You telephone number look-up may as well stop! With the aid of these, said the professor, I will be able to go out, walk along the ocean bed, and investigate the mystery.     Almost immediately he closed his eyes, drifting off into stupor. After the meal had been cleared away they all sat in the darkened cabin looking out at the water as it slipped past the glass windows. Ennerling turned to stare at the boy in amazement. Then, at last, the Hudson, uninjured, ran off into deep water and shortly afterwards anchored in safety.     It had settled low in the water, and was quite deep by the head, so that, at telephone number look-up times, the waves broke over the bow in a shower of spray. I reckon it's all settled except the signing of the papers, ventured Hal Hastings. That officer came over in the cutter. The boys followed their uniformed guide through the streets of Easton, and were soon at the station house. Our only chance is to rise to the surface, for I do not believe the creature will follow us there.         Brave though he was, the young submarine expert felt suddenly cold and creepy, though he did not once think of giving up the fight.     Though the Italians did not by any means relax their hold, they used no more force than seemed necessary for their purpose. Once more they attacked the big mud bank with their shovels. Then you took Truax to a voodoo doctor to-night? But we may run into an iceberg, objected the old hunter, who was inclined to be cautious.     Under a hundred fathoms of good salt water! I wonder if Jack and Hal are in it? Yet they don't want to have any Melville eavesdropper seeing them with me. That's the thing we fellows have telephone number look-up been working on, and here's the result. We can land this submarine right up beside you, responded the midshipman, if you keep straight to your present course. At the telephone number look-up other end of the line was an iron bolt for weight. Has anything happened? Thank you, said the doctor, making a comical telephone number look-up face. And we need the investment, continued George Melville. Ere long her port side gangway was lowered. Here, let me take him.     A tramp of a quarter of a mile brought them to a little clearing in the woods.     It's easier to go away quietly and let him find out his mistake.     She was running along, submerged to a depth of two hundred feet, when there came a sudden jar, and the ship stopped.     I guess we'll have to dig our way out, said the professor, after taking a careful view of the big mud bank from the conning tower. Mr.Farnum, surveying them inscrutably, still held the door open. Jack was to watch the various gages and registers to give warning of any danger. Melville, pantingly, as he reached the scene. We're practically a part of the United States Navy for these few days, and naval rules will govern any game we may get into. Then he took his place in the conning tower with Andy Sudds.     He's been engaged in some conspiracy against us, and I'm going to fathom it all, and have the fellow sent up for years and years at hard labor. Then the colored man was carried out on the deck, where the fresh air and some restoratives the professor used soon revived him.     At the first house they came to the boys stopped and told about the accident.     The salt of the sea water they were boiled in was more than sufficient. Straight across the sandy beach they flew, directly toward the crowd of natives on the ship. Judging from what we can see of the town from here, we'll be ready to go back long before midnight, Jack Benson laughingly told his companion. We telephone number look-up are in the middle of the southern Atlantic now.     Save for the splash and lapping of the waves and the sound of the wind, it was as quiet as the proverbial graveyard. When they hear about it, broadcast, won't they think that the 'Pollard' is the only real thing in submarines? Why, just think of those boys; what a bright lot they are! You are sure of that, Mr.Trahern?     Good-bye, sah, an' mah compliments to yo', Marse Benson. That's all very interesting to look at, half shuddered one of the women. There is no reason why she should not, and yet- The old man paused. It was all an accident. Yes, tell us, insisted a man.     The explorers groped their way to the left, having fortunately grasped hands after firing their guns, to prevent being separated in case the terrible fish began a death struggle. They are telephone number look-up pulling us backward! Mark came up on deck, and the two boys looked over the scene. Yes, Hal admitted, looking more puzzled. I do not think you quite understand, went on Mr.Melville, regarding the boatbuilder coldly. Jack to himself as he made a dive toward telephone number look-up the object in white. At just the right instant Eph bent over, securing the forward tackle to the buoy, then straightened up, saluting the young captain, as he called: Single tackle all fast, sir. What do you want to do, Mr.Somers telephone number look-up? You swung the ship around to port, and- Silence, now, if you please, while men are trying to get this vessel out of a scrape a boy got her into, commanded Mr.Mayhem, sternly.     We hope that some day we shall be, was Jack's slow response. Nor could any of the three repress a quick start. Eph, hanging at the rail in the silence that followed, had no notion of whether his request had been a correct one.     The gigantic fish had been killed, and its body no longer obstructed progress. For more than an hour the submarine boys wandered about.