"Black Bears in chains!" he roared.
"Huh, where have you Wolves been?" demanded Jack. "These cops said they had you in a pen!"
While the Coroner was making his examination the chief ordered the irons removed from the wrists of the boys. For a time the Coroner appeared to be puzzled. He lifted the hands of the apparently dead man and dropped them again. Then he held a pocket mirror before his lips.
"Look here," he said, presently, "I don't believe this man is dead."
"I hope you are right," Ned said, hopefully. "Still, the poison I got near killed me, while he must have gotten much more."
There was a short silence, during which the Coroner held his watch.
CHAPTER VI
NIGHT ON AN OCEAN FLOOR
"Over there, straight to the west," Ned said, pointing from the conning tower of the submarine, "is the coast of China, not far from seventy-five miles away."
"And there, to the north," Frank said, "lie the Taya Islands. The big fellow beyond is Hainan."