Down into the sea plunged the Pegasus.
A cry of alarm escaped her crew when they felt her falling, and the next moment the ship dissolved from view into the thick fog bank.
Down rushed the Pegasus like a meteor.
She struck the sea with a violent thud.
A shower of brine flew up over her, and the next moment she disappeared from view under the water.
The ship thus escaped, bearing Murdock away.
CHAPTER VI.
FOILED AGAIN.
The Pegasus rose to the surface at once and floated like any ship, but she had taken in considerable water and was badly crippled.
Frank heard a mocking laugh come from amid the fog in the voice of Martin Murdock, as the ship receded.
It filled the inventor with wrath.