At 7 o'clock, the sun streaming high in the heavens, Jack appeared on deck. A moment later Frank who had been relieved by the second officer during the night, also emerged from his cabin.
Both turned their eyes over the stern, where the night before the two British cruisers had been following, offering protection in whatever danger threatened.
The cruisers were not in sight. There was not even a cloud of smoke to show their presence anywhere on the wide sea. They had turned off on another course during the darkness.
"Well," said Jack, "it's up to us to get into port safely. We have been thrown upon our own resources."
"Yes," Frank agreed. "Captain Marcus has put great confidence in us. It's up to us to make good."
"Well," declared Jack slowly, "we'll do it."
"Yes," said Frank, "we will!"
CHAPTER XII
QUELLING AN OUTBREAK
Among the prisoners who were being sent home to England on the Lena was the German commander who had been captured at Duala, Colonel Von Roth. He had given his parole, and accordingly had not been put in irons with the other prisoners in the hold, but had been given a cabin to himself near the one which Frank and Jack shared jointly.