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The captain was, as the reader knows, profoundly ignorant of everything connected with the bags except their existence, but he had his suspicions, and thought this a rather knowing way of inducing Stumps to commit himself. His surprise, then, may be imagined when Stumps, instead of replying, leaped up and dashed wildly out of the room, overturning the pot of beer upon Captain Rik's legs.
A flash of lightning revealed Captain Rik's face in such a way that Ebenezer Smith resolved to obey him to the letter. It was at this point of their conversation that the Gleam went down or out and they sank with a gurgle, coming up next moment, however, with a gasp. Strange to say, after the first plunge and overthrow amid the boiling waves, the swimmers found themselves in almost still water.
A few weeks after the utterance of Captain Rik's famous prophecy, Robin, Sam, Stumps, and Slagg found themselves on board of a large submarine cable steam-ship, named the Triton, ploughing the billows of the Southern Ocean.
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