Blood nodded understanding and assent.
Relieved, the doctor continued: "But there should be no questions if you go carefully to work.

You concert matters With Nuttall.

You enlist him as one of your companions and a shipwright should be a very useful member of your crew.

You engage him to discover a likely sloop whose owner is disposed to sell.

Then let your preparations all be made before the purchase is effected, so that your escape may follow instantly upon it before the inevitable questions come to be asked.