"He'll be run down if he doesn't look out."
"Some fool that doesn't know how to sail a boat, I guess," said the other deckhand.
Swiftly the steamboat and the sloop drew close to one another. The big boat let out another warning blast, and again the pilot turned her out of her course. But the sloop also turned.
"There is only one young fellow on board," said Jones. "Look, he acts as if he was scared out of his wits."
"I know him!" fairly shouted our hero.
"You do?"
"Yes, it is Bob Bangs, the rich young fellow I told you about."
"The fellow who couldn't manage his hoss?"
"The same."
"Well, he doesn't seem to know no more about his boat than he did about that hoss," was the deckhand's comment.