Rousing, Lanyard saw several figures emerge from the conning tower.
He lay upon its after deck, grasping a stanchion that supported the small raised bridge round the conning tower.
'It shall!' Noakes breathed; and as if conning an oft-repeated formula, he said, 'The entire mass should deepen in color, regularly and evenly. Heat!
Looking up, he made out the truncated cone of a conning tower with its antennae-like periscope tubes stencilled black upon the soft purple of the star-strewn sky.