nce of French's friends.

But all was quiet along the coast. Ned evidently had some other plan in
mind. In a few moments French proposed breakfast and entered the cabin,
relying on the guard to keep the boys out of mischief. As they had no
weapons, he did not believe they would make any trouble. Besides, he
kept a sharp lookout through the low, open doorway of the little cabin.

Then Frank became possessed of what Ned afterwards declared to be the
one brilliant idea of his life! First he asked the guard if he could
speak English.

"Understan' some; speak little," was the reply.

"Well," Frank went on, "I'm going to take my morning exercises. See if
you have anything like this in your blooming land!"

"Bloomin' lan' Good! She bloom!"

The Filipino pointed away to the mass of tropical blossoms shimmering in
the sunlight and grinned at what he doubtless considered a very sharp
reply. French, hearing the voices, looked out of the cabin and smiled at
the antics the boy was making.

Frank threw his body into a vertical position and bent sharply off to
the right. Then back to vertical and off to the left. Then back and to
the right again.

"That's all right!" cried French from the cabin. "You appear to be a
nimble little chap. What are those exercises for?"

"To bring all the muscles of the body into use!" replied Frank, winking
at Jack, who was just beginning to understand the purpose of the sudden
demand for exercise.

"Blessed if he ain't doing the wigwag with his body!" thought Jack.
"That is the letter 'C'."

From the vertical Frank then dropped his body over to the left, then to
the right and stopped.

"That's wigwag for 'O'," thought Jack. "I wonder what he means to say?"

"Well done!" shouted French, his hands full of tinned goods. "I'll get
you a job in a circus when I get done with you!"

"That will be fine!" Frank replied, facing French with as innocent a
face as a boy ever carried.

One to the right, two to the left, one to the right, and Jack read the
letter "M" and saw what the next one would be. One to the right, one to
the left, and Jack read the letter "E." Then three slow motions straight
in front, then to vertical again.

"That means the end of the word," the boy thought, "and the word is
'COME.' Now, I wonder if he will?"

Frank kept up his odd motions, at which the Filipino seemed greatly
amused, and French turned away to the alcohol stove to prepare a cup of
hot cocoa. But the motion