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CHAPTER IV

THE DANCE OF THE FIRE-FLIES

Perk, now fully convinced that he had "struck
oil," as he mentally termed it, laid the binoculars
down on the front seat beside his pal and
gave him certain nudges in his side, thereby telling
him he, Perk, would take over the controls
while the head pilot used the glasses.

When this had been accomplished Perk managed
to point toward the west, so as to draw the
attention of his mate thither without any waste
of precious time.

Of course Jack immediately located the light
and was watching it closely. He could easily
make it out to be a lantern that must be on the
deck of a vessel, since he discovered a mast and
rigging near by, also the moving figures of several
men.

The lantern did not remain stationary more
than a few seconds at a time, but kept up a swinging
movement that was eccentric to say the least,
now passing back and forth like the weighty
pendulum in an old-fashioned "grandfather"
clock; then with an up-and-down action and, as

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