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Updated: May 1, 2025
Yet neither of these young men knew better what to do than did the third. All they could do was to stiffen and to stand loyally beside their comrade in charge. Perhaps for not half a second did Osgoodby hesitate. Then he took the only chance that he saw; he threw the wheel over to port, jamming it there. In strained, awful silence, the three waited.
Up above, in the tower, the midshipman bending over the compass, suddenly realized that daylight was filtering down through the water. In another instant the midshipman glanced up to find the tower above the surface. Yet Cadet Midshipman Osgoodby gasped as though he had intended to scream instead.
But Cadet Osgoodby, now at the wheel, did not sufficiently understand the use of the diving controls. Whatever was to be done had to be accomplished in the fewest seconds, or the little submarine craft was bound to be ground to scrap iron under the great bows of the steamship. Both of the other midshipmen saw the danger in the same instant as did Midshipman Osgoodby.
Midshipman Osgoodby threw the helm over once more, then started in to get closer to them. At the same time he passed the word below. Captain Jack Benson was the first to reach the tower. In an instant the young submarine skipper threw the power off. "We can't go closer without the danger of running 'em down," quivered the submarine boy.
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