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"They really knohere they're going, father?" the engineer asked at length "It all looks alike to me How can they tell?"

"Verily, I cannot explain that to you," the old man made answer "We know, that is all"

"But--"

"Had I been always blind you could not expound sight to me A deaf man cannot understand sound"

"You e of direction and location that we haven't got?"

"Yea, itthe dark ht, are the same to us as you have told htness of that sun which none of use have ever yet beheld"

"Is that so? Well, hanged if I get it! However, no matter about that just so they locate the place Can they find the exact spot, father?"

"Perhaps not so But they will come near to it, my son Only have patience; you shall see!"

Stern and the girl relapsed into silence again, and for perhaps a quarter-hour the boats h the vapors in a kind of crescent, the tips of which were hidden by thefro the line The paddles ceased to ply; the canoes now drifted idly forward, their wakes trailing out behind in long "slicks" of greasy blackness flecked with sparkles froht of all those many torches

Another word of command; the boat the bottom," said the patriarch

"Good!" answered Stern, thrilled with excitee into the jetty sea It sank silently as he payed out the cable At a depth he estimated--from the amount of cable still left in the boat--as about thirty fathoms, it struck bottoht, father!" he exclaiive way!"

The old man translated the order: "Ghaa vrouaad, ain and Stern's canoe moved silently over the inky surface

Every sense alert, the engineer at the gunwale held the cable For a few seconds he felt nothing as the slack was taken up; then he perceived a tug and knew the grapple was dragging

Now intense silence reigned, broken only by the sputter of the sy sea, seeht quivered and danced eird and tremulous patterns