Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London

CHAPTER XLV

And what has happened to Mr. Pike remains a mystery. For that
matter, what has happened to the second mate? In the past three days
we have by our eyes taken the census of the mutineers. Every man has
been seen by us with the sole exception of Mr. Mellaire, or Sidney
Waltham, as I assume I must correctly name him. He has not appeared-
-does not appear; and we can only speculate and conjecture.