CHAPTER XIV
DOWN THE AMMUNITION HOIST
The searchlights flashed out over the troubled sea. Nothing but water—angry, foaming water—could be seen. Not a sign that looked as if it might be a man were they able to pick up.
"They're trying to find us. They think we have gone overboard," muttered Dan Davis. He uttered a loud shout.
At that instant there sounded another shout close by him. At first he thought it was the echo of his own voice. All at once he made the discovery that some one else was near.
"Hello!" shouted Dan.
"Hello yourself!"
"Is that you, Sam?"
"No, it's only part of me. Most of me has been blown overboard. That you, Dan?"
"Ye-e-e-s," answered Davis in a choking voice. "Yell, Sam, if you've got any voice left. Yell for your life. They don't see us."