But they certainly
have got that submarine engine perfected so it will do everything
but talk. Any child could run it as soon as he learned the
different levers. I don't believe we have anything like
it; but we can have now because there's the pattern outside
there. You didn't shell it, did you?"
"Certainly not," said Captain Greene. "It is in charge of a
picked crew of our men right outside."
"Well, don't let 'em take her down until I get a chance to show
them how she works. There is just one lever that controls the
diving gear, and that is hidden, so you can't find it if you
don't know about it. I came near turning the old thing over. I
got beaten up that trip."
"Get to the fight," said Beany.
"The engineer was nutty. He talked all the time and muttered to
himself, and it got on the Captain's nerves or what he had left
of them. He stared at the engineer half the time; and that made
Louie peevish, I suppose. He took it out on me more or less--kept
me sweating over that engine every minute he was awake. He
wanted a drink too. It was sort of raw the way that Captain
would sit there and guzzle and never give the others a bit of it.
Louie would watch and watch and swallow hard; and the Captain
would watch him back again and grin.
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