"Well, that was the seventh pile, all right. I can't believe the case is there."
"We ought to try it by daylight," said the Chinaman. "Suppose we ring off and come back in the early morning, Eddie?"
"That's what we shall have to do, I guess. Still, one couldn't see much down there anyhow without a light. That's what we ought to have."
"Are there electric lights made for the use of divers?"
"Sure."
"Well, if we don't succeed I'll buy one, no matter what it costs. I don't propose to give this thing up for two or three days anyhow. But you will try it again, Eddie?" he added persuasively.
"Oh, yes," replied Ed. "I don't mind trying it again, but say, Pow, does the paper tell which end of the pier to count the piles from?"
"Why, no, it don't."
"Which end did you count from?"
"The outside end."