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CHAPTER VII

A WHITE ELEPHANT ON THEIR HANDS

ocr>   "Come on in, Jack old boss, the water's fine!"
fix>   "Come on in, Jack old hoss, the water's fine!"
was the way Perk greeted his chum after gaining
the deck of the captured rum runner.

"First make that rope fast somehow so we'll
run no risk of losing our floating crate," Jack
advised him.

ocr>   "Yeah, that's just what I'm goin' to do.
fix>   "Yeah, that's just what I'm goin' to do,
buddy," continued the other, as he proceeded to
make fast to the sloop's wheel after which Jack
managed to clamber aboard.

There were lanterns scattered around, and in
the haste with which the afflicted crew had
abandoned their ship no one had bothered about
extinguishing them. By means of the meagre
illumination afforded by them, the two airmen
were able to take a fairly comprehensive survey
of their surroundings.

"Huh! I kinder guessed we'd find a bunch o'
the scrappin' critters stretched out, an' lookin'
all bloody like," ventured Perk, with possibly
a shadow of regret in his voice and manner, "but
shucks! never a one do I set my lamps on. Here's

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