"But they surely were monsters," said Ned, as he told of how he
and Koku had sighted the animals; for a whale is an animal, and
not a fish, though often mistakenly called one.
"Koku was for attacking them with his axe," went on Ned, "but I
motioned to him to beat it. We wouldn't have stood a show against
such creatures. They were on us before we noticed their coming,
but I presume the big submarine attracted them away from us."
"It might have been the lights you carried that drew them,"
suggested Tom. "I am glad you came out of it so well."
Mr. Hardley seemed to recover some of his former manners, once
the peril was passed, but his conduct had been a revelation to
Mr. Damon.
"Tom," said the eccentric man in private to the young inventor,
"I'm disgusted with that fellow. I don't see how I was ever
bamboozled into taking up his offer."
"I don't, either," replied Tom frankly. "But we're in for it
now. We've agreed to do certain things, and I'll carry out my end
of the bargain. However, I won't put up with any of his nonsense.
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