"We'd like awfully to know just how the feat is
accomplished, and you have equally good reasons for not telling us."
"Have you much genius for machinery?" whispered one of the women writers
to a man beside her. "For, you know, we've been promised a chance to
visit the boat. If you keep your eyes open, very likely you can detect
how it is possible to leave the 'Pollard' when she's on the bottom--a
performance that isn't possible with any other type of submarine torpedo
boat."
Jacob Farnum now slipped away to countermand his orders for a diver and
wrecking apparatus, the newspaper people also seizing the chance to send
another wire to their home newspapers.
After that Captain Jack received one-third of the party aboard the
"Pollard." He gave them a short trip on the surface. Then, pressed to
do so, he submerged the boat for two minutes. After that the rest of
the correspondents were taken out and below the water. Most people are
not particularly eager, at first, for a trip under the water in submarine
boats, but with the newspaper fraternity it is different. They are
always on the lookout for any new experience, no matter how dangerous it
may seem to be. It is a part of their calling.
Yet not one in all this party of thirty trained, keen-minded people
managed to penetrate the secret of how Captain Jack had been able to
leave and return to the "Pollard" while that craft lay on the bottom of
the harbor.
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