Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
The sky, cloudless but a short time before, was now heavily overcast. To the northwest, black, angry-looking clouds were banked in castellated masses. Their ragged edges would have shown a trained eye that, as sailors say, "there was wind behind them."
The sky, cloudless but a short time before, was now heavily overcast. To the northwest, black, angry-looking clouds were banked in castellated masses. Their ragged edges would h...
2. CHAPTER II.Tom fairly shouted the words at Jack, who stood by him on the bridge of the storm-tossed _Sea Ranger_. The younger lad had just come from below, where he had deluged the engines...
3. CHAPTER III.It was the professor who spoke. His words made a deep impression upon Jack. After all, it might only have been his fancy. It seemed like a wild dream to imagine that Dampier and...
4. CHAPTER IV.The lad did not move, and the command was repeated in a louder tone. This time Tom, cleverly imitating the gapings and vacant expression of one just aroused from sleep, opened h...
5. CHAPTER V.Tom had no way of gauging how long it was he lay in the pitchy darkness, before there was a scraping and a sliding sound, and a sort of trap-door in the deck above him was opened.
6. CHAPTER VI.Like the other Tom of the immortal rhyme, our lad went "dashing down the street" as though on the wings of the wind. Behind him came shouts and yells, but he paid no attention t...
7. CHAPTER VII.Through the darkness in the hold of the tug, in which they were confined (and which had recently been the place of Tom's captivity), Jack's voice reached the Scotch lad.
8. CHAPTER VIII.The thought filtered dully through Sandy's benumbed mind. For some minutes, indeed, the speed had been sensibly slackening, but in the lads' deplorable circumstances, they were...
9. CHAPTER IX.He was descending into the hold to get the pistols he had barely finished cleaning and loading, when the preparations for anchoring brought a hurry call for him to go on deck.
10. CHAPTER X."Are you coming back, or do we have to sink that boat and drown you two rats?" bellowed Walstein, deliberately steadying his arm on the stern bulwark of the tug to take better aim.
11. CHAPTER XI."It does look that way," said Tom, with a sigh, gazing after the cloud of smoke on the horizon which, fast as the _Sea Ranger_ was urged, never appeared to get any closer.
12. CHAPTER XII."Who are you, anyhow?" shouted the professor, peering forward into the darkness that lay about them. There was no light ahead or in any other direction to indicate the location...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The newcomers found themselves in a cylindrical-shaped chamber, possibly twenty feet long by twelve feet or so at its widest part. The rivet-studded walls showed that the struct...
14. CHAPTER XIV."Aye, it used to belong to a man named MacTavish, a lumber capitalist from Mackinac. It may belong to him yet for all I know, but no one's lived on it for many years, and it's b...
15. CHAPTER XV.It was one of the most fascinating experiences that had ever befallen Tom Dacre--this of sitting at his ease on the metal back of a submarine monster, rushing through the water...
16. CHAPTER XVI.Once before Tom had faced death in the depths. This was when he had battled with the octopus in the wreck of a sunken treasure ship in the tropic seas. But then he had been figh...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Leaving Jeff at the wheel, with strict orders not to meddle with anything, the inventor preceded Tom into the torpedo room. He produced a bunch of keys and unlocked a metal clos...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.At just about the same moment that the submarine encountered the sunken wreck, Jack Dacre, as well as Sandy MacTavish, was sucked into the black and treacherous slime of the slo...
19. CHAPTER XIX.Inside they found themselves in a circular room. The floor was bare, but fairly clean. Facing the door was a rusty stove, with an iron pot and a kettle smoking and steaming on i...
20. CHAPTER XX.Evidently the peculiar color which the submarine craft _Huron_ had been painted answered its purpose of practical invisibility excellently. For the tug came right on, driving st...
21. CHAPTER XXI.The bitter chagrin felt by the eldest Dacre boy and his companions at this sudden and disastrous turn in their affairs may be better pictured than written. Consternation was upo...
22. CHAPTER XXII."You mean that there is a way of escaping from this craft?" demanded old Sam incredulously. "Well, lad, I know the _Huron_ pretty well, from her keel plates up, but I can't figu...
23. CHAPTER XXIII.Tom's heart beat like a trip-hammer. Discovery and failure of his enterprise seemed almost inevitable. But he retained presence of mind enough to slip behind the big steam windl...
24. CHAPTER XXIV."I'm ashamed to say I didn't. Not that it would have done any good, anyhow. I was too sleepy, I guess. But when I woke up, just now, I went over to the door, and----"
25. CHAPTER XXV.At the same time, as bad luck would have it, a flash of lightning from the nearing storm revealed the lads' figures clearly. But it did more than that, it showed Sandy that the...