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slant in a clever dive, or glide, so that with the
passage of each second the chances for the pilot
to make a discovery increased.

"Gosh! but ain't this the life, though?" muttered
the watcher, thrilled to the core with what
was hovering over his head yet not so much as
making the slightest movement that would attract
attention. If discovery must come, Perk
was determined that no act of his would hasten
it along and no responsibility for the tragedy--if
such there followed--could be laid at his door.

He had discovered some time back that the
rival crate resembled their own, in that it was in
the amphibian class--could hop-off either from
the land or when on the water.

Really he had taken it for granted that such
would turn out to be the case, since occasions
without number must arise when, for instance,
the smugglers wished to take alien Chinamen
ocr>   'from some schooner or speedboat by means of
fix>   from some schooner or speedboat by means of
which the first part of their journey to the
Promised Land had been carried through, when
it would be necessary for the plane to drop alongside
the boat from Cuba or other foreign ports
and make the transfer.

The prospect was far from displeasing to
Perk--he felt positive that it would be the first
time on record when one of Uncle Sam's Secret

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