“And why not?”
“There is every indication that it is perpetually blocked with ice. No vessel could find its way through.”
“Yet we did.”
“You are caught!” he said. “We will allow that it is navigable for a submarine boat. But only think! Very shortly we shall be in quest of the silver whale!”
“Let us hope that we shall succeed in finding him,” cried Stanhope, hopefully. “And also the confession which will save Valentine Tucker.”
“Amen to that.”
The Dolphin plowed the waters of the Behring Sea. The frightful cold of the Arctic waters now began to lessen.
It was evident that they were nearing the warmer waters of the Pacific. And in due time the Aleutian Isles were passed.
CHAPTER VI.
THE ENGLISH SHIP.
The Dolphin had made a wonderful trip.