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"I don't know how much of it'll ever arrive at this rate," confessed the seaman, dropping the handful of flints and scratching his head. "Tis buying speed at a terrible cost of jettison. But Cap'n Pomery's last order to me was to make haste about it, if we're to catch to-morrow's tide." "Captain Pomery sent you for these stones?"
You have been notified by the control deck that it has been necessary to jettison three quarters of your fuel supply. For the last five hundred and seventy-nine seconds you have been blasting at one-quarter space speed. The four main drive rockets were cut out at thirty-second intervals.
"Which is diplomacy?" she suggested. "Which is diplomacy." "Then I think you are both great artists," she said, with a laugh, as the door opened and her father entered the room. "I only come to ask you a question a word," said the prince. "Heavens! your English language! I have a man down-stairs a question of business and he speaks the oddest English. Now what is the meaning of the word jettison?"
It sounded good; but, coming down to hard facts, what was it? You cannot write a story about a wand of death without knowing what a wand of death is; and, conversely, if you have thought of such a splendid title you cannot jettison it offhand. Ashe rumpled his hair and gnawed his pen. There came a knock at the door. Ashe spun round in his chair. This was the last straw! If he had told Mrs.
He called the crew together, admonished them of their sin, the suffering they were bringing on themselves, and the necessity of getting back to their families. He exhorted them to throw the fish overboard, as the only measure to secure their safety. In the goodness of his heart, he even offered to pay the value of the jettison as soon as the vessel reached Drontheim.
And when he had got it, he impressed secrecy and silence on his informants in a fashion which showed them that however easy-going his manner might be, he knew his business as thoroughly as they knew theirs. It was by that time past one o'clock, and Jettison turned into the small hotel at which he had lodged himself.
Bryce accompanied this candid admission with a look which seemed to say: Here we are, three men of the world, who know what things are we understand each other! And while Jettison merely nodded comprehendingly, Mitchington put his thoughts into words. "To be sure, doctor, to be sure!" he said. "And accordingly what's their affair, is yours! Of course!" "Something like that," assented Bryce.
There were spare ropes and blocks, too; German charts of excellent quality; cigars and many weird brands of sausage and tinned meats, besides a miscellany of oddments, some of which only served in the end to slake my companion's craving for jettison.
She looked puzzled, and murmured; "I don't exactly understand what that means." "To jettison," I said, in that learned and dispassionate manner which is sometimes useful in relieving an emotional situation, "is a seafaring phrase. It means throwing overboard a part or the whole of a cargo in order to save the ship.
A mile or so away lay the group of islands they had seen before lunch, and close inshore a mass of floating débris bobbed among the waves. "Baskets, I think jettison of sorts. I'm going to get amongst it and go down with the tide, keeping the periscope hidden: it's an old dodge. You can just see the smoke of Gedge's bus coming over the horizon. We'll give him a little game of Peep-bo!"
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