“Thunder!” gasped the astonished sailor. “Did you pull me out of the water?”
“Yes.”
“But I thought I went down.”
“You did go down. We picked you up from the bottom.”
The sailor looked astonished.
He was recovering quickly. In a few moments he was able to rise.
“You don’t mean to tell me that we’re on the bottom of the ocean this minute?”
“That is true.”
A more astonished person was never seen. He went to one of the bull’s-eyes and looked out.
“Well, I’ll take my ‘davy!” he cried. “You weren’t born to be drowned, Matt Williams, and that’s sure. Who’d ever have dreamed of a thing like this?”