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"We've had a couple of tales, anyhow! What do you think of things, now?" Jettison threw back his head with a dry laugh. "Never been better puzzled in all my time!" he said. "Never! But if that young doctor's playing a game then, by the Lord Harry, inspector, it's a damned deep 'un! And my advice is watch the lot!"
Ned took the sheet, which Tom had crumpled, spread it out on the desk, and read as follows: "Regret inform you was compelled to jettison your cargo last night in bad storm to save ship. Approximate location four miles due east Port Baracoa, Cuba. Salvage boat take position at apex isosceles triangle 27.6 degrees with lighthouse and summit hill a mile to the south."
Cartoner gave him the word in French. "Ah!" cried the prince, holding up his two powerful hands, "of course. How foolish of me not to guess. In a moment I will return. You will excuse me, will you not? Wanda will give you some tea." And he hurried out of the room, leaving Cartoner to wonder what a person so far removed above commerce could have to do with the word jettison.
Birds sent me to work up a connection in the Mexican Gulf, and I've done it, and they've raised my screw two pound a month after four years' service. I jettison the customers' cargo, and probably sha'n't be able to pay for half of it. Customers will get mad, and give their business to other lines which don't run foul of blazing emigrant packets." "Birds would never dare to fire you out for that."
Here it is," he continued, turning over the pages of the ledger. "There! 50 pounds. You see the date that 'ud be two days before his death." Jettison glanced at the ledger and resumed his seat. "Now, then, Mr. Stebbing, I want you to tell me something very definite," he said. "It's not so long since this happened, so you'll not have to tag your memory to any great extent.
Indeed, elaborate dressing used to be deemed by philosophers an outcome of the sex-instinct. It was supposed that men dressed themselves finely in order to attract the admiration of women, just as peacocks spread their plumage with a similar purpose. Nor do I jettison the old theory.
The two men, watching him narrowly, saw that his fingers were steady as rocks as he struck the match. "Yes," he said as he threw the match away. "I saw you busy." In spite of himself Mitchington could not repress a start nor a glance at Jettison. But Jettison was as imperturbable as Bryce himself, and Mitchington raised a forced laugh. "You did!" he said, incredulously.
"Bryce is a medical man," observed Jettison. "It would be an easy thing for a medical man to get rid of Collishaw as he undoubtedly was got rid of. Do you see my point?" "Aye and I can see that Bryce is a clever hand at throwing dust in anybody's eyes!" muttered Mitchington. "I've had some dealings with him over this affair and I'm beginning to think only now! that he's been having me for the mug!
"I was just coming round to see if you'd overslept yourself," said Mitchington good-humouredly. "We were up pretty late last night, or, rather, this morning." "I've had letters to write," said Jettison. He sat down and picked up a newspaper and cast a casual glance over it. "Got anything fresh?" "Well, this much," answered Mitchington.
"We'll jettison what freight proves an embarrassment," this astute individual advised. "The farmers that own it will soak you a couple o' hundred dollars for the loss, but what's that with thousands in sight waitin' to be picked up?" "Hear that, Gib? Hear that, you swab?" "I heard it. Did you hear that?" "What?"
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