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on."

"That suits me fine, Jack old hoss. I'm right
sick o' keepin' our nose stuck so close to the
ground--me for the high places where I c'n get
my lungs filled with clean air--this swamp stuff
don't make no sort o' hit with me, I'm tellin'
you. Gosh! looky at that bunch o' measly big
pelicans flappin' their wings as they fly close to
the water, headin' to some island where they
have a rookery, like as not. An' Jack, honest to
goodness if I didn't see the head an' knobby eyes
o' a monster scaly 'gator stickin' up out o' the
water in the lagoon jest now. Got me goofy, this
sorter thing, an' I'm asighin' for the air lanes
two miles high."

"I understand just how you feel, Perk, but
hold your horses a bit. Hurry is something
we've got to fight shy of in this game of hide-and-seek
with these dangerous smugglers of the gulf
coast. As smart a group of men as we can ever
claim to be, have bucked up against the gang and
dropped out of the chase--more than a few of
whom have disappeared mysteriously, and up at
Headquarters it's believed they've met with foul
play. This big Mex gulf hides a heap of secrets
and has ever since old Blackbeard and that
crowd of buccaneers used to sink Spanish galleons
after looting them of their gold cargo and

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