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right smart 'bout that cookin' fire racket, come to
think of it--might a'spilled the beans all right,
and made all sort o' trouble for our crowd."

Talking in this fashion to himself, Perk again
set about taking things comfortably nor did he
ever hear of that pair again. Still, he treasured
up in his mind what he had heard the man with
the harsh voice say in connection with the smuggling
of unwelcome Chinese immigrants who
were ready to pay so well for an opportunity to
beat the Government regulations in their eagerness
to join the foreign colony in Mott Street,
New York City, where the vast majority of them
were bound. It would naturally interest Jack
when he heard the news, although it could hardly
be considered startling, since they already knew
ocr>   full well this sort of thing was being carried oa
fix>   full well this sort of thing was being carried on
by daring airplane pilots in the service of the far
flung smuggling combine.

By now it was well past the middle of the
afternoon. Light fleecy, white clouds had been
drifting up from the direction of the Dry Tortugas
and Key West but this far they did not
look at all portentous, as though any kind of a
ocr>   storm might be brewing.-Perk hoped that would
fix>   storm might be brewing. Perk hoped that would
not turn out to be the case since they had work
planned for a part of the coming night, which
would be greatly hampered by unsettled weather.

Then, on making one of his habitual observa-

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