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I was just about, from my innermost heart, to let out a joyous "hurrah, " when, from the bow of the boat, I heard a new sound which approached with a clear, sharp banging. It was the tor- pedo-boat, the beast! Was the rascal going to come back at the crucial moment ? It required only a few seconds for the torpedo-boat to pass over us, but those seemed as hours. At every blink- ing of the eye I imagined I heard some- thing explode, turn against or drag alongside my boat. But fortune was ours. Th...e sharp, grinding sound of the swift torpedo-boat propellers became fainter and fainter and, at last, ceased entirely. Unconsciously I straightened up a little in the tower, whistled a few 65 THE ADVENTURES OF THE U-202 notes from "Dockan, " and tapped, as if nothing had happened, with the knuckle of my forefinger on the glass of the manometer. What did the manometer register? Nothing whatsoever had hap- pened. Everything was in the best con- dition. The depth coincided. The div- ing rudder was lying normal.
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