And as fortune had it, it did not.
Presently its course seemed changed somewhat and it apparently bore down upon the hulk.
“We are saved!” cried Frank.
“Heaven has not deserted us,” said Von Bulow, joyously.
And indeed it was a narrow escape for the trio of divers.
There had been almost the moral certainty that they were doomed to find a grave at the bottom of the sea.
But this danger had passed and rescue was at hand. Their joy cannot be fully imagined or expressed.
Captain Bell was so overcome by it that he danced a hornpipe on the rotten deck of the old hulk.
Just as soon as the hulk came within the radius of the searchlight’s glare Barney had seen it.
It was the work of but a very few moments for the Celt to change the course of the Dart.