When the boys reached the house, Emile went up-stairs to his room.
As soon as he had disappeared, Phœnix took Phil and Chap a little way down the road.
“Look here,” he said, in a low voice, although there was nobody near, “when I dived that last time I found something.”
“What?” asked Chap and Phil together.
“The side of a big ship,” said Phœnix.
CHAPTER XIII.
OLD BRUDEN FINDS HIS MASTER.
The assertions of Phœnix in regard to the side of a ship which he had found when he made his last dive from the scow were very positive.
“I had an idea,” he said, “that Frenchman was studying out something. I knew he didn’t dive in and swim ever so far under water for nothing, and when he came out he wanted us all to go home as fast as we could. That looked like a trick, and I thought I’d just dive in and see what he had been after; and as sure as I’m born, there is a side of a ship down there! I swam right up to it, and it’s straight up and down like the wall of a house. As I came up I put my foot against it, and pushed off towards the scow.”
This report filled Chap with joy, which was somewhat dampened by the thought that Emile had also found the sunken ship.