The Diver's Honor

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A diver and his son, also of the same profession, are reading a notice in a paper, which asks for divers to apply at the Admiralty in order to assist in the raising of a sunken submarine. The son applies and is engaged. In the vessel are certain plans of great value, and the young diver accepts a bribe to get these papers from the submarine and hand them over to the spy, but unfortunately while concocting the plot, they are overheard by a man who carries the tale to the father. The young diver is next seen being lowered into the sea, and he is shown disappearing into the sunken submarine. He has been under the water but a short time, when the father rushes up to the quay, rows out to the boat and tells to the officials the tale of his son's treachery. The old diver is lowered down after his son, resolved upon a desperate thing. He finds the son, and after a short, but fierce struggle, cuts the tube which supplies air to the young diver.