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know where they are. You see the
galleon may not have foundered per-
pendicularly. She may have been car
ried along ever SO far by submarine
current. y
"Then the Eureka would be treated
in the same way" suggested Dolly,
eagerly, land SO if the pair started
from the same place on the surface up
above, they should arrive at the same
place on the sea floor below"
i "That's very neat piece of argu-
ment, replied the doctor; $50 neat, in
fact, that I won't spoil it by pointing
out all the several ways in which it
would fall through. But I'll just pre-
sent you with one point gratis. The sea
isn't like grassfeld. You can stick a
post in it to mark any particular spot
You have to fix positions which are out
I! of sight of land by observations, and
observations at sea are usually more ap-
proximate than accurate. We improve
as years go on, however, and have ev-
cry reason to think that the galleons
position was known as nearly as modern
science could work it, But you must
remember that Nicholas lived in much
more rough and ready days, and though
he made landfall directly after sinking
1 the Santa Catarina, and could check his
observations, they can't be expected to
be within a mile or mile and half Of
the truth What we shall have to do is
to quarter the sea floor systematically,
showing the craft along as fast as the
screw will make her move, and search
ing the waters on either side of our
course as far as this oxyhydrogen light
will show through them.
s'Ha, close to bottom now! Look at
the manometeri Only ten fathoms
more, if the soundings are correctl
Colepepper, will you and Guthrie go
off and bear hand at the crank? Min
! utes are precious. I want her under
weigh as soon as the bottom is in sight
Dolly, you stay with me- Your eyes are
better than mine, and we must have q
sharp lookout.
Captain Colepepper hurried off to the
part of the hold in which the crank APP
paratus was situated, and Guthrie with
him, and before minute had passed
the hand driven screw was revolving
and the Eureka had begun her search.
But this search, which Miss Colepep-
per had thought would be matter of
a few hours, dragged itself on through
many weary days of the most irksome
toll. and there was yet no sign Of the
foundered galleon.
/ Tor $1,<, c<<oxe~,,,, :, ~ a., J<11,o-k
/ the coming tower there was always the
excitement which came from the posi-
bility that the next sweep Of the search
light might reveal the longed for heap
Of wreckage, but for the workers down
in the stuffy hold there was nothing but
/ the dullest of monotony-push and pull,
push and pull, day after day, at the
arrangement of cranks and levers which
turned the screw Those same cranks
and levers no doubt reflected credit on
DR. Tring's inventive ingenuity, but
after the first hour of acquaintance
with them the members of the Eureka's
crew began to lose interest in them and
in the end came almost to hate them.
1t is said that the strangest thing
diver finds when he first takes to max
ing descents below the sea 8 surface is
the absolute silence amid which he
moves. The workers in the Eureka were
saved from this experience. Speech was
permitted to them, and for the first few
days at least they chatted a good deal
MS they worked, but in time the numb
ing grip Of deadly monotony took hold
Of them and seemed to choke their in
tellects, SO that it became their habit to
go through with the loathed toll in
silence.
The place where they did this work,
facetiously called the ''engine room, -
was situated little abaft 'midships
and lay Immediately above the keelson.
1t was dark. for the supply of condensed
gases for the oxyhydrogen light was
limited, and, as DR.. Tring pointed out,
one does not need light to push and
pull at crank which cannot get out
Of position. Moreover, it was the stuff
lest place i'll the ship and. by universal
consent the most Objectionable Save
for the lookout and steersman in the
coming tower, all hands were in this
engine room when the Eureka was un-
der weigh beneath the surface, though
even when the six of them were work
ing their hardest her pace was desper-
ately slow.
Cain Laversha. whose services above
the surface had been almost valueless,
here fell into the knack at once and
/ professed himself quite contented with
his occupation. 1t was mcnotonous, and
he liked monotony, and there was no
brain effort required. The rest toiled
because they had to, and tried to keep
their spirits up by remembering the
golden end which their hopes told them
was coming to the weary labor.
1t was not the first spell which came
SO unkindly. The conditions of work
ing were such that even that was, of
course, not pleasant. But then no one
expected it to last for long, and SO all
endured it cheerfully. But when it