There, from behind a tree he had seen with his own eyes seen this submarine advance toward him, and stop at the mouth of Black Rock Creek.

Was it the famous machine for which the whole world was seeking, which thus came directly to his feet?
When the submarine was close to the rocks, two men climbed out upon its deck and stepped ashore.

Was one of them this Master of the World, who had not been seen since he was reported from Lake Superior?
Was this the mysterious "Terror" which had thus risen from the depths of Lake Erie?
"I was alone," said Wells.

"Alone on the edge of the Creek.

If you and your assistants, Mr.Strock had been there, we four against two, we would have been able to reach these men and seize them before they could have regained their boat and fled." "Probably," I answered.