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crew, judging from his rough sea clothes and
his bare feet.

There could be no question but that he had
been in the fight, since his face was bloody and
his general appearance betokened rough treatment.
Undoubtedly he had been senseless at
the time the tear-gas penetrated every part of
the small vessel, and was only now coming to.

Jack lost no time in examining the pitiful
looking object while Perk waited to hear what
his verdict would be. After all the old fighter
bore no malice toward any of these reckless men
who were so assiduously engaged in breaking the
law of the land by running contraband goods
into Uncle Sam's domains and he was just as
willing to bind up the wounds of this luckless
adventurer as if the other had only been an
ordinary sailor in sore trouble.

"Nothing serious, it seems," was Jack's
decision, he has had a pretty hard knock that
started the blood from his nose and as like as not
laid him out here senseless for there's a fine big
lump on his head."

"So we'll have _one_ prisoner to fetch in after
ocr>   all," chorteled Perk, as if pleased by the prospect
fix>   all," chortled Perk, as if pleased by the prospect
of being able to produce a witness to testify to
the work they had just accomplished.

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