"Some situation! Two men dead and others injured.

Engines crippled, propellers the same, and two floats so damaged we couldn't stay on the surface if we came down.

Well, by God!" Leclair looked very grim.
"I regret only," said he in broken English, "that the stowaway escaped us.

Ah, _la belle execution_, if we had him now!" The Master, at the starboard window, kept silence.

No one sat at the wheel.