Boom!
"There goes the main bulkhead. It's all up with her now."
Yells and cries rent the air. Men were leaping into the sea from the doomed ship, and though the men in the life-boat could not see, they could hear.
"I can't stand this!" gritted the Iron Boy, jamming the tiller hard over.
"What are you going to do?" demanded one of the sailors.
"I'm going in there after those men," answered Steve Rush.
"It's sure death!"
"We'll go, just the same."
"No we won't; we'll pull out of here like lightning."
Steve grabbed up a boat hook.