"I'd rather fight 'em," declared old Sam stoutly.
"Well, what is your plan, Tom?" inquired the professor.
"My plan is to get Mr. Ironsides back on board," announced Tom quietly.
The sheer audaciousness of this proposal made even the staid professor emit a whistle of astonishment.
"Im-possible," he declared, with finality.
"Not at all, if we could get out of the submarine," persisted Tom.
"But we can't. Even if we unbolted a plate or one of the lenses and squeezed through, there are still two armed men on the deck. There is no way."
"There is a way, and I mean to try it," declared Tom. "Listen."