engine room

When the engine-room staff heard that our pursuers had given up the chase they greeted the news with three rousing cheers.

And he gave the engine-room, by voice-pipe, a new “standard” speed, and threw the telegraph over to “Full.”

He slouched across to the speaking-tube and whistled up the engine-room, while Slyne sat watching him with sombre eyes.

So he ascended to the engine-room and passed the cable ends to Denison, who made them securely fast to adjoining trees.