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Stern played the cable as though it were a fish-line All his senses centered on interpreting theover sand; now caht, held, then jerked free His heart leaped wildly Oh, had it only been the aeroplane!

The tension grew Out, far out fro line of boats the canoe went forward; it turned at a word fro the front of the line It criss-crossed on its path; Stern had to adhness hich the boatmen covered the area where their mysterious sixth sense of location told the, different froain

"Got it!" he shouted, for he knew the truth "Hold fast, there--she's hooked!"

"You've got it, Allan? Really got it?" cried the girl, starting up "Oh--"

"Feel this!" he answered "Grab hold and pull!"

She obeyed, treh one of the ailerons, or so part, I think," he said "Here, help ain!" To the patriarch he added: "Tell 'em to back up, there--easy--easy!"

The canoe backed, while Stern took up the slack again When the pull froet nine other boats close in here," coave the order And presently nine canoes stood in near at hand, while all the rest lay irregularly grouped about them

Now Stern's plan of the tenfold cable developed itself Already he was untwisting the thick rope One by one he passed the separate cords to men in the other boats And in a few minutes he and nine otherbelow, spread upward like the ribs of an inverted u to perfection Well he had realized that no one boat could have sufficed to lift the great weight of the est canoe would have been capsized and sunk long before a single portion of the Pauillac and its engine had been so much as stirred from the sandy bottom

But with the buoyant power of ten canoes and twenty or thirty ured he had a reasonable chance of raising the sunken aeroplane The fact that it was subravitation of the Abyss, also worked in his favor And as he saw the Folk- his command, he thrilled with pride and with the sense of real achievement