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which they were enabled to communicate along
professional lines at least. If it seemed necessary
to Perk to ask questions not down on the
brief list thus worked out, all he had to do was
to adjust Jack's harness and then his own little
outfit, enabling him to chatter away to his
heart's content--and often to the annoyance of
his less talkative chum.

But first of all he proceeded to make good use
of the binoculars upon which so much depended.
From side to side he would swing the glasses and
search for anything that looked like a suspicious
light on land or water then turn to what lay dead
ahead.

In this region of the Ten Thousand Islands--all
fashioned from the queer spreading mangrove
that drops its long seeds so that they stick
upright in the mud, and, quickly developing
roots, spring up to add to the dimension of the
original "island" there were never at any time
many settlers so that the coast has been reckoned
as the "loneliest ever," on which account Perk
realized that if he should happen to glimpse a
ocr>   light, whether _^{r_}'and or gulf, the chances were
fix>   light, whether onland or gulf, the chances were
ocr>   fifty to one it c have some connection with the
fix>   fifty to one it might have some connection with the
operations of the smuggler league.

Perk remembered how that Curtiss-Robin
ship had finally disappeared in the haze lying to
the north and from this he sucked more or less

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