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ment, also batches of undesirable aliens like
Chinese, anarchists and Bolsheviks, such riffraff
as Uncle Sam had been holding off under a strict
ban.

So, too, it was understood that besides the fleet
of swift, small power-boats employed night
after night in this profitable game of mocking
the Treasury Department, latterly the smugglers
had been freighting their cargoes by means
of airplanes that would be able to land the contraband
stuff in lonely places far back of the
ocr>   low coast sections,
fix>   low coast sections.

It was therefore a monumental task, covering
a wide field of operation and with constant peril
hovering over the heads of the two adventurous
aviators who had undertaken so joyously to
spread the net and draw its meshes about the
offenders.

Their preparations having been completed,
they were waiting in an isolated little bayou surrounded
by inaccessible swamps and mangrove
islands ready to take off with the coming of the
friendly shades of night.

To those who enjoyed reading the preceding
volume of this series of aviation adventures,
where Jack and "Perk," in order to get their
man--one of the boldest and most successful
ocr>   counterfeiters known in the annals of crime-found
fix>   counterfeiters known in the annals of crime--found
it necessary to fly across the Mexican

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