Then followed a strange hissing as the lightning played over the electric wires of the ship.
A blinding flash entered the cabin, followed by a crack as of a pistol, and Dave, half stunned, saw his father pitch forward across the table like one dead!
CHAPTER VII
"I CANNOT TALK!"
"Father! Tell me that you are alive! That you are not dead!"
Such was the agonizing cry which issued from Dave's lips as he gazed upon his parent.
Amos Fearless' face was like chalk, his eyes were set, and he certainly looked as if the breath of life had gone from him forever.
The Swallow was rolling and pitching so fearfully that for the time being the young man could do but little.
Yet he raised a cry which quickly brought the cabin boy to his side.
"What's up?" asked the boy, and then, seeing the stilled form, he continued: "Is he dead?"