"I believe I'll go down and take a look at the leak," announced Danvers,
slowly.

"Then, while you're gone," said Benson, "I'll keep the searchlight
steadily on what I can see of the top of that mast-stump."

"Why not keep on in toward the shore?"

"Because, sir," and Jack's jaws snapped, "if we've been insulted in this
fashion by an old derelict, I don't believe in letting the old derelict
get off so easily, sir."

Lieutenant Danvers knitted his brow, thoughtfully, as he hurried down
the stairs, then followed Ewald through a steel trapway into the cramped
compartments under the cabin flooring.

In three or four minutes Mr. Danvers came up again.

"It's all right," he said. "I can't see that the leak threatens to
become serious, unless we should happen to hit that mast-stump again."

"I believed it was all right," the young captain replied, quietly,
"after having heard Mr. Somers's report."

"You three boys certainly stick together and admire each other, don't
you?" laughed Danvers.

"We've every reason to, sir. We three have been trained together in
this work. No one of the three knows anything that the others don't,"
came Benson's matter-of-fact reply.