Pluck and Luck #139: Jack Wright and His Deep Sea Monitor — page 14: what you’re looking at

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Ke - She lay in three fathoms of water on a hard bottom of limestone, hcneycombed and perforated with pitas pba with rifles, which they rested on the bulwarks, pointing at the | Sea Serpeut. ig Jack was not alarmed. ee He simply turned a lever and sent the moniter below the . surface, ani “If the gold is sunk here, I will find it first!” he exclaimed. \ es cavities, , Then he rattled out a volley of orders to his friends, just . 15m B is “We could not stop at a better wiace: * said Jack, before - two divers from the schooner went overboard and oe they turned in, “for we are at the northern end of the island scended toward the bottom. es Down shot the monitor beneath the waves, and it then be- vame a contest between her and the divers to see which should © ‘x iocate the treasure first, if it really was submerged at that spot. ce now, and to-worrow seas begin our exper iment here to locate Sera EDO sunken treasure. They took turns watching that night, nothing occurring, | save a fight between Whiskers and Bismarck, to break the mon- ae otony, and when day broke at last the rainstorm had pees ee away and the sun shone out. ce Partaking of a good breakfast, Jack brought the Sea Serpent ai CHAPTER X. eam ATTACKED BY SAVAGES. to the surface, when, to his surprise, the first thing he saw fy was a large schooner lying at anchor half a mile away. His friends were apprised of the fact, and the SIR vESe mh oe or Mn Se Lyw.-wed as suspicions at once began to assail them all. ds, “What can they be doing there, I wonder?” queried Hop- lene where they were duncan dies kins, in alarmed tones, as he observed his companions’ glum| ‘The bottom was only five fathoms down, and they yeached \ _ looks. ; 7 $ it long before the two divers w ta followed them from the ae “The only way to find oat is to go over to them,” answered strange schooner. ae ae : “Don’d yer see vot’s der matter mit ‘em?” roared Fritz, ee as he peered at the boat with a strong binocular. ule “Bless: us!” Tim exclaimed, a frown gathering upon his a brow. “I don't need no glass ter see as thar’s several divers on her deck in costume an’ some men a- -Yriggin’ up air pumps . fer/them.” |S By jove! then they must have heard about the treasure, too!” said Jack, emphatically; “and they are here searching for it as well as ourselves. Professor, who knew about the said the boy to Hopkins. “Let them keep on their search. ‘This existence of the ton of gold among your party at the time you | <“2°'t be the place. I will drive the monitor away, and we ca | were here?” - | 30 ashore with your direction and try the experiment to mark a) “Every one of the geographers, ” ieeiied Hopkins, gloomily, | ‘he treasure’s location.” “hen. either one of your former friends must be here on] “JuUSt my sentiments, my Christian friend,” acquiesced 3 “os same mission as ourselves, or else the secret was given | Hopkins. a to someone else, for that party is evidently here to get the} the Sea Serpent glided away, leaving the two divers fro _ treasure.” the schooner to have the ground, and a mile farther on “a “Tam afraid they are,” said Hopkins. fame tothe, surface, cs sf ak wack drove the Sea Serpent over to the schooner, and they seer crew or ae ae mere Bice es when she Taking the professor's translation, and lowering the. portable | boat, Jack and Hopkins rowed ashore, leaving Tim to menage the monitor. As soon as they stepped ashore Jack pointed the para graph that ich ea to the ‘EeRuOn of the ‘easure,, and ‘Bah where the idol was alleged to be submerged, ; iritz was attired in a diving suit by the time they” reached ce ihe bottom, ready for action, but Jack did not call upon him, “The strangers have miscalculated the right spot, professor,” ‘ ie scan had evidently not been made yet, and the anotens or eed, 40 see anyone upon. the schooner'’s deck whom he The paper ‘gays: ‘At sabes midday a stick thrust in ground of the isle whereupon the white men first came— ore the side where the sun rises—will cast a shadow in the dire tion where sank the lidol of the sun god, and to reach 16) canoes, they must be paddled for as much time as it take | heat water over fire’ Now, at midday the reflection, would ; somewhere in the water northeast of here; we are on t island where the sun rises, and it would take. water | fifteen minutes to heat in the manner the savages did it? “he fellows in yonder schooner are not anywhere: near right place for prospecting then,” said Hopkins, with as ai ‘Jack glanced around, and saw that they were at a deso part of the island, with a sandy beach, upon which the s surt. was roiling with a continuous oar. In back of ther n was a Oates and farther to the Leas a mass a rugged F ‘