Let us return to the
surface for a welcome look at the sky."
"Will you hold your watches, gentlemen," inquired Captain Jack, "in
order to see how much time passes before we are running on the surface?"
One of the members of the board, watch in hand, climbed up the staircase
to stand beside Eph in the conning tower.
"Awash, sir," Eph soon called down.
The time was noted.
"Now, show us anything that you wish," suggested Commander Ennerling.
Captain Jack looked significantly at Messrs. Pollard and Farnum. Both
nodded.
"Then, sir," rejoined Captain Benson, "if don't mind, we'll run back to
Dunhaven, and show you a specialty of ours in the harbor at Dunhaven."
"Very good," agreed the president of the board.
Not until they were in sight of the little harbor was the manhole opened.
Now, some of the party stepped out onto the platform deck and remained
there a few minutes.
"I'll have to ask you to come inside, now, gentlemen," requested Jack
Benson, courteously, after making an unobserved signal to someone on
shore. "We're going down to the bottom of the harbor."
As soon as the "Pollard" had sunk, and rested on bottom, Jacob Farnum
invited the members of the board into one of the staterooms aft.
"For just a few minutes, gentlemen," he explained, "we want to keep
you from seeing something."
As soon as the visitors were out of the way, Captain Jack sprang forward
to the torpedo tube.
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