CHAPTER XI
JIMMIE GOES OUT HUNTING
"I hope she'll make for some port where there is an American man-of-war,"
Ned said, as the sea grew shallower.
"You bet she won't," Jack replied. "She'll make for some out-of-the-way place where she can get rid of her plunder."
"Why don't we go back an' see if she took all the plunder out of the wreck?" asked Jimmie.
"If we lose sight of her now," Ned answered, "we may have hard work picking her up again. If there is anything left in the wreck it will keep. The thing to do now is to catch her and recover what she took away, then have her held to await the action of the Washington authorities."
"But we ain't catchin' her!" urged the little fellow.
"Well, we are not losing her," Jack replied, "and that is the principal thing."
"She may give us a long chase," Ned went on, "for she undoubtedly knows that we are in pursuit, so we must get ready to travel over a good deal of ocean floor before we get our hands on the thieves."
The chase went on all day and all the ensuing night. At dawn of the second day the Diver ran up into what seemed to be a little bay protected by two long points of land. The Sea Lion halted outside and waited. Once she came to the surface in order to purify the boat, and Ned took observations.