Responding to the inrush of water the submarine heeled. And then a strange sight was witnessed. Just as the breathless sailors on the “Logan” looked for the underseas craft to plunge under the waves she did something very different.
How it happened no one can ever tell; the cause none can guess with anything like certainty.
Did a chorus of despairing shrieks come from the bowels of that dying sea monster? There were those on the “Logan” who were sure they heard cries of terror.
The last shot.
Instead of sinking, the submarine continued on over—and turned turtle. Her dripping hull glistened in the forenoon sun!
It was too much for the tensed nerves of the American sailor men.
“Hurrah!” they let loose. “Hurrah! Hur—”
“Stop that cheering!” rose Darrin’s heaviest tones over the tumult. “The enemy are dying.”
“They’re only Huns!” answered a voice from below.