If he rang for speed ahead, Captain Jack knew it might not come swiftly
enough to carry his boat and its human load ahead to safety.
In any case, it must be a job of seconds. If Hal responded slowly to
the signal--then destruction!
All this seemed to flash like lightning through the young commander's
head as he made that leap for the wheel.
Somers being in the way, young Benson flung him violently aside.
Captain Jack's left hand grasped a spoke of the steering wheel; his
right hand signaled violently for speed astern.
Would Hal respond in time to save them all?
CHAPTER XVIII
THE FINDINGS ON THE "THOR"
It was a breathless moment.
Captain Jack Benson, resting one hand on the wheel, gazed off at port
side with fascinated stare.
Almost instantly a grating could be heard that must have come from the
propeller shafts, though the young skipper, at that moment, was
incapable of thinking of anything save that tiny fin-line out on the
water.
Then the speed ahead of the submarine boat stopped. In another moment
the little steel craft was creeping backward.
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