“Good!” cried the scientist. “You do not know how happy you have made me. Let us go down at once, and I will get into one of the diving suits.”
“And so will I!” cried Jerry.
“What! Are you going to take a chance?” asked Bob.
“It isn’t much of a risk,” declared the tall lad. “I watched Dr. Klauss do it.”
“I think I’ll try it, too,” decided Ned.
“Well, let’s first find a place where the bottom is not too far down,” suggested Mr. Sheldon, with a smile. “Then after the professor gets his crabs we will start for home.”
“Oh, how glad I will be!” cried Grace, who, now that the struggle was over, had joined her father. “Oh, to be safe ashore once again!”
“Yes, it will seem good,” agreed Jerry. “I only wish we could arrange to keep this boat, though.”
“We sure could have good times in her,” added Ned. “I wonder if we couldn’t go back, and pick up our Comet on the way?”
“The Comet must have sunk long ago,” declared Bob. “But we might rescue that old sailor.”