his glee showing.

"Of course we did."

"And that reminds me," shouted another. "We've got to send the follow-up
news, at once. I have, anyway."

That roused the newspaper people to a sense of what they were there for,
though one man broke in:

"Just a second, folks! Let's find out what the show was intended for."

"Why, it's intended to show," replied Jack, "that a boat built and
equipped like the 'Pollard' isn't a death-trap for the crew, if it
should happen, through some accident, that the boat refuses to rise to
the surface."

"That's the trick," confirmed Mr. Farnum. "But, Jack, why did you wait
so long before coming up."

"So that you could all realize something of the anxiety of people over
such accidents to submarines, and the great dread over the fate of the
crew," laughed the boy. "I think our delay made you all realize
something of that."

"You _have_ something of the dramatic instinct, truly," murmured the
newspaper woman who had sobbed. "You had us all scared nearly to the
fainting point."

"Now," continued Captain Jack, "just to show you that the boat didn't get