Should they go off the new Holland would be blown to atoms!
CHAPTER IX.
ANOTHER BLOWING UP.
For the moment after Captain Oscar Pelham made his terrible discovery that Lieutenant Raxtell intended to blow up the new Holland he could neither move nor speak.
He clearly saw that the lieutenant was mad, but what had caused his insanity was a mystery.
His face was like chalk, and his eyes rolled in a fashion horrible in the extreme.
"We will all go to heaven!" he heard the naval officer mutter. "All go to heaven—and that will be better than going home. Home! Ha! ha! So the admiral would not give me shore leave? I will show him a trick or two! Here goes!"
"Hold!"
The cry came from Oscar, and aroused as from a dream, he hurled himself upon the madman and bore him to the floor.