[CHAPTER XXIII]
THE DECISION
“Can we see him?”
“Where will he go?”
“What is he going to do?”
Jerry, Ned and Bob thus eagerly questioned the three machinists, and Ted Rowland answered:
“If you go into the forward cabin you can look out through the side windows and watch him. Don’t turn on the light, or you can’t see as well. Dr. Klauss carries a submarine lamp with him, and you can make him out by that.”
“Come on!” cried Jerry, eagerly, and he and his chums, followed by Grace, Mr. Sheldon and Professor Snodgrass, went into the main cabin. The two stolid Germans remained in the motor room, seemingly on guard.
“Why did you not want me to go out there in a diving suit?” asked the scientist of Mr. Sheldon, when they were away from the doctor’s friends and his crew.