"He is gone to his last account," said the captain, "and he is no loss."
"I'd rather have had him live," replied Jack, to whom this remark was addressed, "and somehow, I can't quite make up my mind that the fellow was born to be drowned."
"Hanging is certainly more in his line."
"That is so," said Jack.
The steamer once more proceeded on her way, and Jack amused himself by scanning the expanse of ocean, through an opera-glass.
He fancied he saw a dark object resembling a man struggling with the waves in the vicinity of the abandoned vessel.
It was quickly left behind, and thinking it might have been his imagination, he dismissed Bambino from his mind.
[CHAPTER VI.]
THE ABANDONED SHIP.