"I did see Lieutenant Secor looking at
us as we worked the camera, but I didn't pay much attention to him."
"It wasn't him so much as it was the German," went on Blake.
"In what way?"
"Did you see where he was standing when the submarine came out of the
water?"
Neither Joe nor Charlie had done so, or, if they had, they did not
recall the matter when Blake questioned them. So that young man resumed:
"Well, I'll tell you what I saw: Labenstein was leaning over the rail on
the side where the submarine showed, and he was holding a big white
cloth over the side."
"A big white cloth?" cried Joe.
"That's what it was," went on Blake. "It looked to me like a signal."
"Do you mean a signal of surrender?" asked Charlie. "A white flag? He
wouldn't have any right to display that, anyhow. It would have to come
from Captain Merceau."
"Maybe he meant that he'd surrender personally," suggested Joe, "and
didn't want his fellow-murderers to hurt him."
"I don't know what his object was," went on Blake, "but I saw him take
from his pocket a big white cloth and hold it over the side. It could
easily have been seen from the submarine, and must have been, for he
displayed it just before the underwater boat came up.
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