Gerald Broadmayne, lately promoted to lieutenant in consideration of his services in the operations against the Alerte, had to give evidence at the trial. But there were two points upon which he was silent: Cain's real name and former rank in the Royal Navy was one; the other was the incident of the air-lock.
Often Broadmayne thought of that air-lock, especially when he gazed at the skull and cross-bones bedecked relic of the Alerte. It was to him a fascinating and yet unsolved mystery. Did Cain succeed in his desperate effort to escape? Or did the bed of the land-locked Bahia Arenas hold the secret of the fate of the captain of the pirate submarine until the sea gives up its dead?
Transcriber's Notes:
This book contains a number of misprints.
The following misprints have been corrected:
[Captain Cain were very much mistaken] —>
[Captain Cain was very much mistaken]
[the threatening gale]
[the threatening storm]
[that of a red rag]
[as he had never before experienced,]
[and two submerged torpedo tubes]