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they're a'searchin' for somethin', Jack, which
might be the pair o' us, eh, what?"

ocr>   "Right you are I" snapped Jack, without hesitating
fix>   "Right you are!" snapped Jack, without hesitating
a second.

"Which, I take it, would mean there might
a'been some sort o' little leak up at Headquarters,
hang the luck, when we figured we'd got
the gang buffaloed right smart. Don't think they
c'n lamp us lyin' here, do you, Boss?"

"Small chance of that, boy, if only we lie low,
and make no move apt to attract their attention,"
Perk was told in a confident tone that effectually
calmed his rising alarm.

He hastened to settle down in a position where
he could thrust his glasses between interstices
in the green covering of the fusilage and wings
so as to keep close tabs on the advancing plane
without making any particular movement of
arms or body.

"How?" asked Jack, a few seconds later, when
he fancied his mate must have made up his
mind as to the identity of the flying ship.

ocr>   "Curtiss-Robih crate, that's right, Jack an' the
fix>   "Curtiss-Robin crate, that's right, Jack an' the
same we saw before," replied the observer, excitedly.
"Hey! guess now they got a glass up
ocr>   there too. I sure saw the sun shinin' on some-,
fix>   there too. I sure saw the sun shinin' on somethin'
ocr>   thin' bright, 'cause the old boy's still on deck to
fix>   bright, 'cause the old boy's still on deck to
chaps that high up."

"I've discounted that fact long ago, Perk; men

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