"Bambino," muttered Harvey.
"Right, Dick; your eyes were better than mine. I ought to have known that the fellow was never born to be drowned," replied Jack.
"Put them in different cells," continued the captain.
They were conducted below and locked up, feeling very indignant, but unable to help themselves.
The charge looked very grave against them, and Harvey was as much implicated as Jack, because he was regarded as an accomplice.
Mr. Cobb promised to appear in the morning, and went home.
As he left the station he did not perceive a man who was hiding in the shadow of a house.
This was Bambino, who had watched the arrest, and finding that the game was securely bagged, turned away with a chuckle.
"Five years in State's prison for highway robbery," he muttered, "will please his lordship."
Repairing to a telegraph office, he sent the following dispatch by cable to Maltravers: