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in laying out his movements.

In the end they managed to get the amphibian
between two jutting banks where the vegetation
was so dense that there was no chance of a trail
or road passing that way. In the early morning
Jack planned to once again conceal his ship, even
as the captured sloop had been camouflaged by
Perk's clever use of green stuff.

"That part of the job's done and without any
slip-up," Jack was saying, vastly relieved, "and
now we can take things easy for a spell, during
which time I'll try and post you as far as I can
about this queer fish, Oswald Kearns, and what
they've begun to suspect he's been doing all this
while."

"In the first place he's about as wealthy as any
one would want to be, so the reason for his playing
this game doesn't lie back of a desire to accumulate
money. Some say he must have run
afoul of the customs service in the days when he
hadn't fallen heir to his fortune and all this is
just spite work to get even--a crazy idea, but
there may be a germ of truth in it after all."

"He has a wonderful place not far out of Miami--they
all say it's a regular palace, where he
entertains lavishly and yet not at any time have
they known of a raid staged on his castle, as some
call the rambling stone building that shelters a

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