is plunge into the cold water brought him to his senses in
time to prevent him from drowning, and his first thought was to look
after Roger; but his friend was nowhere to be seen. He shouted his name
in vain for some time, and then started to swim towards his own ship,
which lay quite near, in the faint hope that perhaps his friend might
have been seen and rescued by her.

He made enquiries immediately on reaching the deck of the ship, but
could elicit no information as to Roger's whereabouts, and everybody on
board was much too busy with his own work of fighting the three
remaining Spanish ships to pay any attention to Harry. But he could not
thus easily resign himself to Roger's loss, and he peered over the lee
bulwarks in an endeavour to discover his friend's body, if it were still
afloat.

He could, however, see nothing of it, and was beginning to fear that he
had indeed lost his dear friend and the companion of his boyhood, when
from the _Gloria del Mundo_, the Spanish ship which was nearest to him,
he saw a boat lowered, which pulled away in the direction of a floating
piece of wreckage which he had not until then noticed. He saw the boat
row up close to this wreckage, and take from it a body which appeared to
be hanging limply across it; and, looking more intently, he felt almost
certain that the body was that of Roger. The boat pulled back to the
_Gloria del Mundo_, and was hoisted on board.

If the body was indeed that of Roger, then, thank Heaven! he was safe
for the time being; but the poor lad was nevertheless still in a very
precarious situation, being on board a Spanish ship. Harry could see
also that the vessel was in manifest distress, and had apparently not
much longer to float.

It was some time after this that Cavendish, having at length disposed of
his previous antagonist, ordered his ship to be laid alongside the
_Gloria del Mundo_, with the object of capturing her out of hand, and
making a prize of her before she sank. This was accordingly done, and
the crash which Roger had heard, followed by the cries and musketry, was
indeed, as he believed, the result of the English vessel being laid
alongside and the rush of the English boarders.

It goes without saying that Harry was among the first to board, and he
immediately commenced his search for Roger, but unluckily began it in a
totally different quarter from that in which Roger had been placed.

The _Gloria del Mundo_ was soon in the hand