CHAPTER XIV
IN STRANGE PERIL
"What is it, Tom? What is it?" cried Mr. Damon, not stopping in
this moment of excitement to bless anything. "What is going to
attack Ned and Koku?"
"I don't know," answered the young inventor. "It's some big
fish evidently. I must get to the diving chamber!"
He gave a quick glance through the observation windows. Ned and
the giant were moving as fast as they could toward the side of
the craft where they could enter. The black, shadowy form was
nearer now, but its nature could not be made out.
Calling to his force of assistants, Tom stood ready to let his
chum and Koku out of the diving chamber as soon as the water
should have been pumped from it.
A little later, as they all stood waiting in tense eagerness,
there came a signal that the two divers had entered the side
chamber. Quickly Tom turned the lever that closed the outer door.
"They're safe!" he exclaimed, as he started the pumps to
working. But even as he spoke they felt a jar, and the submarine
rolled partly over as if she had collided with some object.
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