“Let us go down into the cabin.”
“Lead on, sor.”
This Bell proceeded to do.
He led the way to the hatch, and then began to descend the stairs.
All had been dark in the cabin, but the lights on their helmets displaced the gloom.
And as they reached the bottom stair and their helmet lights illumined the place, a horrible sight was revealed.
The cabin seemed literally filled with dead bodies.
CHAPTER XII.
A FEARFUL SITUATION.
These were bloated and swelled to a horrible extent by the water.
They had in many cases become decomposed, but many of them floated and, attracted by the current caused by the entrance of the divers, came straight toward them.