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"I believe I'll go down and take a look at the leak," announced Danvers, slowly. "Then, while you're gone," said Benson, "I'll keep the searchlight steadily on what I can see of the top of that mast-stump." "Why not keep on in toward the shore?"
Danvers came up again. "It's all right," he said. "I can't see that the leak threatens to become serious, unless we should happen to hit that mast-stump again." "I believed it was all right," the young captain replied, quietly, "after having heard Mr. Somers's report." "You three boys certainly stick together and admire each other, don't you?" laughed Danvers. "We've every reason to, sir.
Finally, by dint of throwing, I got the rope-loop round a mast-stump, drew myself up, and made fast the boat, my left hand cut by some cursed shell: and all for what? the imperiousness of a whim. The faint moonlight shewed an ample tract of deck, invisible in most parts under rolled beds of putrid seaweed, and no bodies, and nothing but a concave, large esplanade of seaweed.
That, then, was what we struck on the mast-stump of a water-logged, sunken derelict! If our underhull plates are sprung, down we go to the bottom!" They waited, in dreadful anxiety, for the report of Eph from the region of the keel plates. They were far out to sea, and a submarine cannot carry a lifeboat! All now waited on Eph's word during the next few moments.
Benson, lad, you did a wonderfully keen job." "You don't think there'd be any risk, then, in sailing back and forth amid this wreckage?" asked Jack. "Risk? Not a bit," retorted Danvers. "Why, look over there!" as he swung the searchlight in a new direction. "There's that submerged mast-stump, free of the wreck and floating horizontally, now."
You can't just hang off like this over here, and shoot at that mast. That wouldn't do any good." "Yes, I know all that," said Jack, eagerly. "Then what's your plan, Benson?" "Why, sir, we've got, first of all, to sail as close as we dare to that mast-stump. Then we've got to use a sounding line to find out in which direction the hull of the sunken derelict lies.
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