Was it still safely riding the sea outside, or was it sunk beneath the tons and thousands of tons of falling ice?
Frank remembered the shock he had felt while in the berg.
But even as they stood there in their uncertainty, a strange thing happened before their eyes.
There was a mighty commotion of the waters in the basin.
CHAPTER VII.
THE CAIRN.
Pomp’s position was one of awful peril. The huge whale was making for him like an avalanche.
It was not likely that the monster was intending to assail him.
It simply happened that Pomp was in the cetacean’s way.
The darky dropped the jack-screws, completely overcome with terror.
“Massy sakes alibe!” he groaned. “Dis chile am lost!”