You can make up a lot of despatches like that, just to have the thing look natural; savvy ?" "Out of sight!" muttered Condy, making a note.
"Then Our Mug and Billy Isham start getting a crew.

And Our Mug, he buys the sextant there in Mazatlan--the sextant, that got out of order and spoiled everything.

Or, no; don't have it a sextant; have it a quadrant--an old-fashioned, ebony quadrant.

Have Billy Isham buy it because it was cheap." "How did it get out of order, Captain Jack ?" inquired Blix.

"That would be a good technical detail, wouldn't it, Condy ?" "Well, it's like this.