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few in a hill," to have such a wizard of an
ocr>   operator as Oswald Kearns pick oui^an ordinary
fix>   operator as Oswald Kearns pick out an ordinary
body of water, say of a mile in diameter, as his
secret headquarters where he could continue to
keep his whereabouts unknown to the Government
revenue men.

Lake Okeechobee--well, that certainly offered
some scope for any display of their own
cleverness in finding the proofs they so yearned
to possess in rounding up the "cantankerous
varmint," as Perk was already calling Kearns in
his Yankee vernacular.

It could not be much longer delayed, Perk
assured his eager self--less than another hour of
this sort of work would take them entirely across
the peninsula, and cause the plane to fetch up
somewhere along the Atlantic coast between Miami
and Palm Beach. Much as Perk would like
to set eyes upon those two opulent Southern
winter resorts in the midst of their splendor, he
felt that such a thing would hardly be proper
under the conditions by which their visit would
have to be governed--small chance for anything
bordering on secrecy to be carried out in such a
region of sport seeking and excitement day after
day.

Ah! it must be coming closer now, he decided
on noting how, far below the plane, he could
make out what looked like a vast sea with little

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