I sent a cargo of supplies by Captain Carg when he made his last voyage to the island, and there will not be enough pearls found in the fisheries for four or five months to come to warrant my shipping them to market.

Even then, they would keep.

So I'm a free lance at present and I had an idea that if I once managed to get the boat around here you folks might find a use for it." "In what way ?" inquired Patsy, with interest.
"We might all make a trip to Barbadoes, Bermuda and Cuba.

Brazil is said to be an interesting country.

I'd prefer Europe, were it not for the war." "Oh, Ajo, isn't this war terrible ?" "No other word expresses it.