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him wonderfully on more than a few previous
occasions, where the situation looked desperate.

They were sliding down a steep glide with the
engine shut off. The deck of the nearby schooner
was plainly visible due to the lights aboard, and
the successive discharges of firearms, each looked
like a miniature flash of lightning. As they approached
the scene of confusion the racket grew
in volume,--a dozen men seemed to be whooping
things up as though under the impression that
the battle could be won by sheer noise--and
broken heads.

Perk kept his wits, and managed to locate the
small stock of tear bombs that had been given
into their charge, with the idea they might find
them more or less useful should they strike a
superior force of reckless law breakers and get
into what Perk would call a "jam."

Already he had succeeded in clutching a
couple of the round missiles that were charged
with the acrid gas that could play such havoc
with human eyes as to render the strongest men
as weak as babes and settled down in a position
where he could throw them to advantage.

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