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ocr>   'Taint _him_ anyway, that's dead sure, Jack, I
fix>   "'Taint _him>_, anyway, that's dead sure, Jack, I
guess I ought to know a Lockheed-Vega crate,
no matter how far away, or by what tricky
moonlight either, 'cause you see I used to run
one o' that breed for nearly a year when I took a
whirl at the air-mail business up north out o'
ocr>   Chicago till I had % bad crash an' quit cold."
fix>   Chicago till I had a bad crash an' quit cold."

"That settles it then, partner," said the pilot,
still observing the speck swinging past out of the
tail of his eye. "I hadn't any idea it could be the
same chap you had your little picnic with some
hours back, for you told me he'd blown off
toward the east."

"Jest what he did," replied the observer.
"Ginger pop! but what wouldn't I give right
now to know jest whar that galoot was meanin'
to drop down, once he gets over the land. How
ocr>   'bout that, old boss?"
fix>   'bout that, old hoss?"

"It might help out considerable," admitted
Jack although not as much interested as Perk
considered he might be. "We'll sift things out
in good time, and for all we know, run across a
few surprises in the bargain."

Perk studied that last part for a minute, feeling
almost certain Jack had some deep meaning
back of his words, but it proved too much for
his capacity in the line of figuring out mysteries,
and so he dropped it like a hot potato," as he
told himself.

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