"Well, yes, 'twas sign-talk, but a heap older'n your French, Harve.

Them French boats are chockfull o' Freemasons, an' that's why." "Are you a Freemason, then ?" "Looks that way, don't it ?" said the man-o'-war's man, stuffing his pipe; and Harvey had another mystery of the deep sea to brood upon..