“I am captivated!” he declared. “It exceeds my most sanguine hopes. Frank, it is grand!”
The young inventor was much pleased with this rhapsody.
“I thought you would like it,” he said.
The cabin was furnished with the elegance of a fashionable salon. Expensive furnishing and draperies played their part.
Along the walls of the cabin extended the tubes of the generator which supplied the boat with pure air while under water.
These and the generator were examined curiously by Stanhope. Then they passed on into the living compartments of the boat, and thence to the engine-room.
Here was all the delicate electric machinery which furnished the motive power of the boat.
It was carefully inspected, as well as the mechanism of the reservoirs which regulated the descent and ascent of the Dolphin.
Then Frank led Stanhope to a neat little stateroom with a luxurious couch and said:
“These are your quarters, George. I trust they will suit you.”