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Updated: May 10, 2025
Then a hammer and a bagful of wooden pins were placed in his hands. "Now, Joe, are ye aisy?" asked Rooney, holding the front-glass in his hand, preparatory to sealing his friend up. "All right," answered Baldwin.
Then Edgar with one hand turned the lamp full on his companion's front-glass so as to see his face, while with the other hand he pointed to the treasure. Joe's eyes expressed surprise, and his mouth smiling satisfaction.
At the same moment one of the supernumeraries advanced with the front-glass or bull's-eye in his hand, and the men at the pumps gave a turn or two to see that all was working well. "All right?" demanded the supernumerary. "Right," responded Maxwell, in a voice which issued sepulchrally from the iron globe.
Dinner being over, Maxwell put on his diving-dress; the Chinamen set the pump going, and the front-glass was screwed on. Air was forced into the dress until it was completely inflated and looked as if ready to burst, while Maxwell stood on the deck holding on to a back-stay.
The youth looked up, and now perceived the advantage of the fourth hole or window, just over the forehead, which is peculiar to the Denayrouze helmet, most others having only three openings. He could look up by merely raising his eyes, whereas with the other helmets it is necessary to bend well back in order to get the front-glass to face upwards.
Just then a dead cat, that had been flung into the harbour the night before, and had not been immersed long enough to rise to the surface, floated past with the tide, and its sightless eyeballs and ghastly row of teeth glared and glistened on him, as it surged against his front-glass.
A comrade at once advanced and unscrewed his front-glass, and then, but not till then, did the men at the pumps cease their labours. "All right," said Maxwell, stepping over the side and seating himself on his plank. "Stand by," said Baldwin. The two satellites did not require that order, for they were already standing by with a small electrical machine.
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