I guess we came close enough to fire,
and as soon as the machinery was ready, they swung a torpedo into
the chute right behind that dead sailor, pressed the lever, and
the dead man and the torpedo went shooting out together. Then
they sent out another torpedo; and the Captain, at the periscope,
commenced to talk in German, and the gunner looked and, say, his
eyes bulged! But then something hit us a sort of glancing blow
and we submerged right away. And my word! Just as we got down
there, the Captain turned to the man at the steering gear to
order him to the surface again I guess, and there he was all
doubled over. He was out.
"The Captain took a couple of steps toward him, and a silly kind
of look came into his face, and he just went down in a heap, and
in one minute every man was flat on the floor. Well, there we
were, alone you might say, with that submarine to get to the
surface! And what we don't know about those boats would fill a
dictionary.
"Beany said, 'Get her up if you can, Pork,' and he jumped for
some rope, and commenced to tie everybody up. We didn't know how
long that Anesthetique stuff was apt to work, and we didn't feel
like taking any chances.
"So Beany made a good job of it, and I monkeyed with the steering
gear the way they had told me, and the way I had seen, and up she
came.
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