The thing to do now is to outspeed them, to go forward in a straight line." The mate, skillful helmsman that he was, obeyed the captain.

The hull vibrated under the force of the engines taxed to their utmost.

Their prow was cutting the waters with increasing noise.

The submersible upon augmenting its volume by emersion appeared, nevertheless, to be falling behind on the horizon.

Two streaks of foam began to spring up on both sides of its prow.