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splash than a pelican might have made and almost
instantly Jack started taxiing ahead in the
direction of the nearby anchored sloop.

Perk had set the third tear-bomb down with
the belief that there would be no necessity for
his using it. Silence hung about the sloop, and
ocr>   lie had decided there could be no one around,
fix>   he had decided there could be no one around,
unless, when they clambered over the side, they
should discover some poor chap who had succumbed
to the provoking gas or else been stunned
by a blow in the wild melee that had raged
previously.

Just the same wise old Perk did not mean to
be caught off his guard and so he dragged out a
formidable looking automatic, supplied by the
Secret Service to all its accredited agents as a
means for compelling a surrender on the part of
any "wanted man" when overtaken in his flight.

The head-phones had been disconnected so
there was nothing to hinder a prompt boarding
of the captured boat when Jack gave the word.
With the glorious flush of victory thrilling his
whole frame Perk stood by to fend off as
ocr>   they drew close to the squatty stern. It would,
fix>   they drew close to the squatty stern. It would
be his duty to clamber out on one wing and get
aboard, carrying a rope by means of which the
floating airship could be secured to the water
craft.

This he managed to accomplish without much

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