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to call himself a Yankee; and yet for a period
of several years he had been a valued member
of the Northwestern Mounted Police, doing all
manner of desperate stunts up in the cold regions
of Canada.

He was considerably older than his gifted
chum and had seen pretty hot service flying in
ocr>   France while with Pershing's array in the Argonne.
fix>   France while with Pershing's army in the Argonne.
It was his knowledge of aviation in general
that had caused Jack to pick him as his
assistant when the Government decided to fight
fire with fire, by pitting their own pilots and
aircraft against those employed by the powerful
combine of smuggling aces.

Sometimes it chanced that Jack, for good and
sufficient reasons of his own, did not fully explain
the necessity for making plans along certain
lines.

This was not because he lacked confidence in
his loquacious chum's ability to keep a still
tongue in his head or exercise due caution, but
usually through a desire to make doubly sure of
his own ground before submitting the arrangement
to Perk's sharp criticism, which Jack valued
even more than the other suspected.

Consequently Perk, with the Yankee half of
his blood stirred by an ever present curiosity,
wanted to know and invariably asked numer-

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