ke it?" asked

exclaim

" crie

Washington. "'Nebber in all my born days

," remarked Andy Sudds. "There's so

trip to the pole," remarked the professor. "Now we wil

hut them off, as they could see out into the ocean when the int

of him. Then he started the engine, slowly at first, and gradually increasing the spee

ng her back to the starting point. She worked as smoothly

note of anxiety into his voice. He slowed down the engine and started the powerful pumps that were to

e felt her beginning to rise. Up and up she went

ne shot upward to the surface and lay undulating on

ted Jack. "We'

!" exclaimed

st whispered. "The pumps worked. The Porpo

the dock, where she was moored,

great trip," remarked the professor. "I want to give her a little

ey had lived during the building of the submarine. Dinner was prepa

e ship is finished as far as we can do anything, and we may as wel

ofessor replied, "but if you would like to remain i

u have been very kind to us, and we would do anything we could for, bu

hough he seemed disappointed. "I will

ure of the two young machinist

them staying wit

are to make the trip. They need not be machinists, but we will have to have some

ame a rap on the door.

am bery busy jest at de present occasioness an' he'll be most extremely discommodated if yo' obtrude yo'

utside, laughing heartily. "Just you tell the

ssor started and Mark and Jack wond

in, Washington," c

'em," objected

em both

cabin, and in came two men, who

" asked the professor,

her, Tom," remarked t

" exclaimed Andy Sudds. "Wa'al I'll be

ob locating you. I guess Washington didn't know us since we

fooled the professor,"

so Bill and I thought it would be a good time to hunt up the professor. We heard he was down in this neig

as he came forward to welcome the two young men. "Do y

forget it in a hu

" put in Tom. "We hoped you might

answered t

t is

under th

new proposition to them. Yet they recalled that they

of the crew?" asked the inventor,

unt on me!"

es I'll go too!

be all one to us if Professor Henderson

fessor. "You certainly cam

ing the eating of which they told of their experiences since landing from the a

ovements to the Porpoise. Tom and Bill were much astonished at their first sight of the quee

the inventor one evening. "We will be gone all day if nothing happens to make the

overhauled, the professor explained that he intended making a trip, entirely under

watch the various gages and registers to give warning of any danger. The professor, of course, would be in the conning tower and operate the craft. Andy was to be

beneath the waves. The engine that worked the endless screw was star

!" yelled

as covered as shown by the patent log. The lights were turned off, and through

the professor to Andy. The inventor started the pu

ted the old hunter, gra

shadow, loomed up in the du

?" cried th

hit somethin' ha

aimed the inventor as he jammed

th a shock that made her shiver from stem to stern