damage resulted from the collision with the river mud bank, and
that trip and the ones following gave Tom some new ideas in
interior construction which he followed out.

About a month later all was ready for the trip to the West
Indies to look for the ill-fated Pandora. Tom's affairs were put
in shape, the submarine was laden with stores and provisions, the
new diving bell and other wonderful apparatus were put aboard,
and the crew and officers picked. Ned, Mr. Damon, Koku, and Tom
were, of course, together, and though Mr. Hardley was a stranger,
he seemed to become more friendly as the days passed.

"Well, we start in the morning," said Tom to Ned one evening.
"I'm going over to tell Mary goodbye."

"Give her my regards," requested Ned, and Tom said he would.



CHAPTER X

STARTLING REVELATIONS



"OH, Tom! And so you are really ready to start on that perilous
trip!" exclaimed Mary Nestor, a little later that same evening,
when Tom called at Mary's house in his speedy electric runabout,
a car in which he had once made a sensational ride.