“I did. She came up a foot or two.”
“Good. Then she’ll come up when we get the other one hooked on.”
“I guess so. But we’re going to have a harder time with that other one.”
“How come?”
“I noticed going down that it was two or three feet behind the stern, that means that we’ll have to lift it on.”
“Well, I guess we can do it.”
They waited until they were thoroughly rested and then again dove for the bottom. As Jack had said the second barrel was resting behind the stern. But, as Bob said, it was not hard to lift in the water and they had little trouble in getting it onto the stern before having to come up for air.
“I told you we could do it,” Bob panted as he stretched out on the bottom of the boat.
“There’s no ring at the stern to hook into,” Jack reminded him.
“That’s so.”