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night by the heavenly bodies setting one after
another, which would account for his late confident
assertion that morning could not be so very
far distant.

Once only during all this time did Perk
happen to see a far distant light out at sea. It interested
him more or less and naturally caused
him to speculate as to whether it might have any
connection with the great game in which he and
Jack were now engaged. Everything he had
ever heard or read connected with the Mexican
Gulf seemed to pass in review through his active
mind--there was a halo of romance hovering
about that historical sheet of salt water and while
Perk was not much given to flights of fancy, he
found himself picturing some of the thrilling
scenes he had recently read about, after learning
that the next locality in which he and Jack
would play their adventurous part was along the
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Then he suddenly found himself listening intently,
for above the pounding of the old motor,
with an occasional "miss" to break the monotony,
he fancied he had caught the signal Jack was to
give him when the time arrived for making a
turn toward the coast.

"Bully boy, Jack!" Perk cried out when he
found that he had not been deceived, "I'll be
right pleased to drop this tiresome job an' think

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