11/25 Better see to them!" "Si, Senor!" said Franci, and disappeared down the hatchway. The Skipper smiled, and shook his head. "I wish to tell him that he go about his business, and not linger,--as you say, loaf about the deck. I take a little way round about, but he understands very well, Franci. And of all these exports, what does the young gentleman think I have brought from the Bahamas ?" "I--I was just wondering!" John confessed; but he did not add his secret hope that it was something more interesting than cotton or tobacco. |