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curio collection equal to any in the art museums
of New York City.

Every little while Oswald Kearns disappears
ocr>   and no one seems to know his whereabouts---some
fix>   and no one seems to know his whereabouts--some
guess he's fond of tarpon fishing and goes
out with a pal to indulge in the sport, his destination
being kept secret so that the common herd
can't swarm about the fishing grounds and annoy
ocr>   him;.then another lot say he is not the bachelor
fix>   him; then another lot say he is not the bachelor
he makes out, but has a little cozy home somewhere
else with a wife who detests society and
that's where he goes when away from the Miami
paradise."

"Both of these guesses are wide of the truth--what
they told me up at the Treasury Department
set me thinking and I found some papers
aboard that sloop we captured that opened up a
ocr>   startling line of action that might be unbeliev-able
fix>   startling line of action that might be unbelievable
if it were any other man than the eccentric
Oswald Kearns."

"By the way, Perk, after I'd committed the
contents of those papers to memory I sent them
by registered mail to Headquarters because, you
see, something might happen to us before we get
to the end of this journey and I reckoned the
Department would like to be able to take advantage
of our discoveries."

ocr>   "You did jest right there,@partner," Perk told
fix>   "You did jest right there, partner," Perk told
him--he was sitting there drinking it all in with

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