It needed but a glance to determine the identity.
“Is he—alive?” was the next question.
To Ned it did not seem so, for the figure was very still. Overcoming a natural hesitancy, Ned placed his hand over the professor’s heart. He detected a slight beat, so faint as to be almost imperceptible.
[“Yes—he’s alive—just about,” Ned called up], after a moment.
[“YES—HE’S ALIVE—JUST ABOUT,” NED CALLED UP.]
“Badly hurt?” asked Jerry, next.
“Hard to say,” was Ned’s reply. “We’ve got to get him up, anyhow.”
“Of course,” Jerry shouted back. And then, with him, the problem became one of deciding how best to aid the luckless professor.