This is the song of the submarine
Afloat on the waters wide.
Like a sleeping whale
In the starlight pale,
Just flush with the swirling tide.
The salt sea ripples against her plates
The salt wind is her breath,
Like the spear of fate
She lies in wait,
And her name is "Sudden Death."

I watch the swift destroyers come,
Like greyhounds lank and lean,
And their long hulks sleek
Play hide-and-seek
With me on the waters green.
I watch them with my single eye,
I see their funnels flame,
And I sing Ho! Ho!
As I sink below,
Ho! Ho! for a glorious game!

I roam the seas from Scapa Flow
To the Bight of Heligoland;
In the Dover Strait
I lie in wait
On the edge of Goodwin's Sand.
I am here and there and everywhere,
Like the phantom of a dream,
And I sing Ho! Ho!
Through the winds that blow,
The song of the submarine!

William Booth.

CONTENTS

PART I

I. [Rejected for Service. Mr. John Carey's Explanation ]11
II. ["There is Something very wrong about this House" ]23
III. [Bernard Carey, Lieutenant-Commander of Submarines ]37
IV. [Doris and Marjorie give a Supper Party. The Arrow flies in Morstone Sea-Wood ]59

PART II

V. [At Midnight on the Marshes. The Secret of the Old Hulk ]77
VI. [How John Carey fought with the German Giant in the Saloon, and "Mr. Jones" met Unexpected Things in the Night ]103
VII. [The Murder of Mr. Lockhart ]122
VIII. [The Truth at Last, the Incredible Truth! And how they fought for the Submarine ]128