Just then the leader lowered the glasses.
"Take a look for yourself, Jack," he said; and there was a slight smile on his face while speaking, that told of a discovery of some sort.
While Jack was fixing the glasses to suit his needs, for everybody's eyes are not just alike, Jimmy was trying to make use of his doubled-up hands in order to help his vision.
"'Tis meself that believes it's smoke!" he declared, with animation.
"How about it, Jack?" demanded Teddy.
The one indicated did not keep them in suspense needlessly.
"Yes, Jimmy hit the bull's-eye that time," he remarked.
"Then it is smoke?" queried Frank.
"Not only that, but I can make out what seem to be a number of small objects that must be vessels of some sort," Jack went on to say.
"The disappearing fleet!" gasped Jimmy.