"It IS kind of lonely, isn't it ?" he said.

"But I can't go up till I get the code signals.

I want to run up 'Got Left' or something, just to brighten up this island home.

Captain Trent hasn't been here yet, but he'll drop in before long; and it'll cheer him up to see a signal on the brig." "Isn't there some official expression we could use ?" I asked, vastly taken by the fancy.

"'Sold for the benefit of the underwriters: for further particulars, apply to J.Pinkerton, Montana Block, S.F.'" "Well," returned Nares, "I won't say but what an old navy quartermaster might telegraph all that, if you gave him a day to do it in and a pound of tobacco for himself.