The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip / Making Good" as Young Experts"

nutes more

our show,

has gone

ssing about the worried bui

e, isn't there?" demanded another jou

dejectedly, again looking at the watch in his hand. "It's

u going to d

way to resc

die, without lifting a

-in heaven's n

ed in on the builder. David Pollard, his sensitive nat

n his face. "There isn't a diver in or near Dunhaven, and that unfortunate boat is down in seventy feet of water. I'm going to rush a wire to the nearest

of the women writers. "Those brave,

ted down there, below?

off a message for a diver-also for a wrecking company to send tugs and floa

ate to save them?" asked a newspaper

, telephoning for a messenger boy. While wai

e evening editions. The messenger boy, when he arrived on a run, was all but loaded do

led. There was not a sign of the suspe

ince the boat sank," calle

supposed to do, anyw

mouth, as though to spea

insisted

us," insi

r the waters. "Say, you lubbers,

om all who turned so swiftly

wed above the surface of the harbor, but

le waiting, now thrust out their oars, making quick

awing suspense over, felt as though his knees must give way under him. Then, by a mig

wner. "You come in here mighty quick! Give a

standing in the bow of the sh

wn below, all this time

Eph was ta

ng a

th the gasoline motor

"What were you trying to do

ed?" asked Jack, smiling inn

der. "I've telegraphed for a diver

the order, air," a

elay? What did it mean?" persisted

I dropped a word or two about trying to

rtainly succeeded. Why, in five or ten minutes more the evening papers in half a dozen cit

your papers?" asked Jack Bens

urse w

ther. "We've got to send the follo

to a sense of what they were th

Let's find out what the

ped like the 'Pollard' isn't a death-trap for the crew, if it should hap

. Farnum. "But, Jack, why did yo

accidents to submarines, and the great dread over the fate of the crew," l

y," murmured the newspaper woman who had sobbed. "

that the boat didn't get disabled in any way, I'm

t did this last time, will it?"

Benson, "and you'll see me once more bef

eh, and needless tears on

"the dramatic will be confi

, just where he had come up, and there the heavy anchor wa

oing straight down. A tug at the line showed

spaper folks, accustomed to all manne

shouted David Po

s the manhole cover was raised, Eph Somers stepped into view at the steering wheel. The "Pollard" moved over to her

g is done, Mr. Farnum," begged one of the

ely, though he was tempted to laugh over the mystery h

me the chor

ole world one of the strongest points in our plan of submarine operation. You will understand that, of cours

ts, thoughtfully. "We'd like awfully to know just how the feat is

promised a chance to visit the boat. If you keep your eyes open, very likely you can detect how it is possible to leave

diver and wrecking apparatus, the newspaper people also seiz

es. 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,

ed to penetrate the secret of how Captain Jack had been able to leave and

o his home, where luncheon was served. The boatbuilder, by the use of all his tact, kept the par

next day's papers appeared there was much in them about the wonderful work done by Captain Jack Benson in a "Pollard" s

splendid bit of business, Jack, and you boys have helped it all through in great fashion. To-day, we

being a lot talked abou

ning two or three of

ed about," returned Don

onceited to-day, but it

his pride shall go d

d' coul

t to do it?" inquired the elder