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after you close the conning tower station yourself at the emergency lever after we have donned the life preservers." The cork jackets were adjusted and Mark clamped the manhole cover on. The professor took one last look at the various levers and handles, and then turned the wheel that admitted water to all four tanks. There was a hissing sound as the sea water rushed in, and the _Porpoise_ gave a sudden lurch. Then they could all feel the submarine sinking. Down and down she went. Would she ever stop? Would the professor be able to raise her again? There were questions that troubled everyone. Down and down the craft sunk, until by the gage it was indicated that she was twenty feet below the surface. Then the professor shut off the inrush of water and the _Porpoise_ floated away below the surface of the waves. There was a clicking sound and all the lights went out. The boys and Washington gave a gasp of terror. What did the sudden blackness mean. "Open the side windows," called the professor's voice, and the two machinists obeyed. Heavy steel doors that covered plate glass windows in either side of the craft were pulled back, and a cry of astonishment broke from the boys. They looked out and saw staring in at them, so close it seemed that they could touch them, scores of fishes that looked in through the glass bull's-eyes. For the first time they realized that they were in the depths of the ocean. CHAPTER III RUNNING DOWN A WARSHIP "How do you like it?" asked the professor. "Great!" exclaimed Jack. "Fine!" cried Mark. "It am simply coslostrousness!" exploded Washington. "'Nebber in all my born days did I eber expansionate on such a sight!" "Wish I had a fishing pole and line," remarked Andy Sudds. "There's some pretty nice specimens out there." "You'll see better ones than those before we finish our trip to the pole," remarked the professor. "Now we will try moving forward. I am going into the conning tower." He turned on the lights once more, but the boys begged him to shut them off, as they could see out into the ocean when the interior of the ship was in darkness. So the professor obliged them. In the tower he switched on the powerful searchlight that illuminated the path in front of him. Then he started the engine, slowly at first, and gradually increasing the speed. The _Porpoise_ forged ahead, riding as evenly as an ordinary ship does on the surface. The professor
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