Quickly Bell overtook his colleague. The two divers fairly embraced in their joy.
“I thought you were lost,” cried Bell. “I gave you up for dead.”
“Then you fell into the same trap!”
“Yes.”
“My soul! How terrible our position is!”
“Yes; it is bad.”
“We must get out of here or die. Do you believe it possible to do so?”
Captain Bell shrugged his shoulders.
“We have only to try,” he said.
“You are right.”