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ocr>   with the sense of mystery that broodedtover this
fix>   with the sense of mystery that brooded over this
most peculiar locality--to him it already
assumed a condition bordering on some of those
miraculous things he could remember once reading
in his boyhood's favorite book "The Arabian
Night's Entertainment," the glamour of which
had never entirely left him.

But already Jack was casting about, as though
eager to find some place of concealment where
they could stow the ship away and so prevent
prying eyes from making a disastrous discovery--disastrous
at least to those plans upon which
Jack was depending for the successful outcome
of his dangerous mission.

"We've got to taxi up the shore a mile or so,"
he was telling Perk in the softest manner possible,
although the noise made by the rolling
waves and the clashing dead palmetto leaves
dangling from the lofty crowns of the numerous
trees would have deadened voices raised even to
their natural pitch.

"So," was all Perk allowed himself to say, but
it testified to his understanding of the policy involved
in Jack's general scheme of things.

This was done as quietly as the conditions allowed,
and how fortunate it was they had held
off from crossing over from the gulf until the
middle of the night--but then it might be ex-

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