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The professor had not fallen because he clung to the steering wheel. The ship gave a sudden lurch. "We're sinking!" cried Bill, rushing to the conning tower from the engine-room. "That's only the action of one of the emergency levers," said the professor calmly. "It forces compressed air into the tanks the more quickly to empty them of water. I think we are safe."
She learned to be very fond of Lynda was often sweetly affectionate with her; but in the wonderful home, her very own, waited upon and cared for, it was Conning who most appealed to her. For him she watched and waited at the close of day, and if she were out with Lynda she became nervous and worried if they were delayed as darkness crept on.
It’s a simpleton’s job up in the conning tower to-day. All he has to do is to shift the wheel a little to port, or to starboard, just so as to keep the proper interval from the ’Dad’ boat. Besides, I’ve been up there on relief, for an hour while you slept, and Hal came down and sat with the engines. Cheer up, Jack. No one misses you from the conning tower.”
That lake just ahead seems to offer a good place," and he pointed to a large sheet of water that sparkled in the distance, for by this time they had all gone back to the conning tower. The lake was in the midst of a wood that extended for some distance on all sides, and was down in a sort of valley. The ship headed toward it, and in a short time a landing was made close to shore.
"I'll manage it, Simple, or my name is not Thompson," replied the master, jumping into the quarter-boat, conning the vessel in that exposed situation, as we received the enemy's fire. "Look out, my lads, and pour it into her now, just as you please," said I to the men.
"Jack, Washington, everybody! Hurry up!" "What's the matter?" asked the inventor, running to the conning tower. In answer Mark pointed outside. "A snow storm!" exclaimed the captain. "We must expect them up north. But this is worse than I thought!" He glanced ahead. Nothing could be seen but a wall of white.
The Diesel subsided with a few spasmodic coughs into silence, and as I jumped out of my bunk and groped for my short sea boots, the navigator and helmsman came tumbling down the conning tower, with the navigator shouting, "Take her down," as hard as you like. The men at the planes had them "hard-to-dive" in an instant.
No more submarine explosions came, and the boys sat on the dark conning tower until nearly midnight, watching the people on the Shark flying about, evidently laboring under great excitement. The diver had not returned. The machinery was evidently out of order and the Shark might as well have tied to the bottom for all the speed she could make.
"Fire!" That last word was bellowed below through the megaphone. Jack, his eyes staring forward, saw something leap near the bow, and saw an upward dash of spray. The torpedo had left the tube. "Hard-aport, Eph! Swing her right over. So!" From his own post in the conning tower Benson signaled for slow speed, now. It would never do to stop the overheated engines utterly.
The old book was not of much value; I derived some benefit from it, however, and, conning it intensely, at the end of a few weeks obtained some insight into the structure of these two languages.
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