“Most certainly; but do you think it is sufficient?”
“We can only try.”
“That is right.”
Frank went forward and placed the torpedo in the tube.
This was operated by pneumatic pressure, but the force of expulsion was great enough to send it a long way.
Frank now fired the tube. The torpedo shot forth and struck the whale in its side. The result was instantaneous.
There was a shock. The Dolphin reeled and the water boiled about her. Then as it cleared it was seen that the monster had been literally blown in two pieces.
The ram was almost liberated, and as the air bladder of the fish was broken it now began to sink.
Frank now rushed back to the cabin.
Quickly he donned his diving suit. Stanhope, seeing the risk, tried to remonstrate with him.