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 CHAPTER XVIII.

 A MAN OVERBOARD.

 Upon the word,
 Accoutred as I was, I plunged in."
 -Shakespeare.

 FTER the events recorded in our last
 chapter, the first mate took no notice
 whatever of Jack, but even if they hap-
pened to be near each other, treated him as if he
were not in existence.
 Jack thought he might perhaps say a few civil
words as to his accusations of theft, that he regretted
having blamed him unjustly, or so forth, but not one
word on the subject did the mate deign to speak.
 His not doing so did not, however, trouble Jack,
for having been set right with the crew by the cap-
tain, he cared nothing whatever for the good opinion
of the first mate, whom, to say the truth, he dis-
liked as cordially as the other did him.
 One day, however, he had an additional proof of