Better see to them!" "Si, Senor!" said Franci, and disappeared down the hatchway.
"Is there ?" asked the boy John, with great eyes of wonder.

The Skipper smiled, and shook his head.
"Franci understands me," he said.

"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.
The Skipper turned and made a quick, graceful gesture with his hand.
"Perhaps the young gentleman like to see my cargo," he said.