"See any Germans?"
"What's the news?"
"What's doing?"
"Hi, Manuelo"—this to a Filipino mess-boy who stood looking on with impassive curiosity—"serve three more breakfasts."
"Anything go for you?"
"Well, if here isn't our old Bump!"
Captain Ned begins his story.
The crowd gathered round Captain Ned, who had established contact (this is a military term quite out of place in a work on the navy) with the eagerly sought, horribly elusive German.
"Go on, Ned, give us an earful. What time did you say it was?"
An enemy submarine that escaped.