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CHAPTER XXI

THE MYSTERIOUS COQUINA SHACK

"Hot Ziggetty! so _this_ is where he dropped
down, is it?" Perk was muttering in subdued excitement
as his astonished eyes fell upon a plane
bobbing on its pontoons in a sheltered little cove,
"meet that spruce Lockheed-Vega bus, partner,
that clipped past away over our heads, an' the
woozy pilot never dreamin' our crate was within
a hundred miles o' him. Kinder guess the pirate
roost must lie around here somewhere."

"That's a dead sure thing, Perk," whispered
Jack, "and chances are it's hid in the midst of
that live-oak clump yonder, where I take it the
land lies high and dry."

"I swan but this is gettin' real excitin' an'
suits me okay," breathed the duly thrilled Perk,
who felt there was no longer any reason for
calling things tame.

"By changing our base a bit," suggested Jack
almost as equally pleased over their success as his
nervous chum, "we might even be able to get a
squint at the shack, let's try, buddy."

He lost no time in creeping inch by inch along
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