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our friend has his secret hideout at such times
when he so mysteriously disappears from his big
show place near Miami? Mighty interesting,
I'd call it and the chances are he's been keeping
up this double play racket for many months, perhaps
even for years, for he came to Florida not
long after the war, fishing for tarpon down
around the Ten Thousand Islands where we lay
concealed lately."

"But what's the big idea, partner?" Perk
wanted to know--"why under the sun does he
play both ends o' this queer game--what's the
sense o' his havin' this wee shack in the wilderness
when he could carry on his racket just as
well on the eastern shore?"

"Just because he fancies the idea of keeping
his two personalities as far apart as possible,
Perk. Uncle Sam's Coast Guards, revenue officers
and even Secret Service men fairly swarm
around Miami most of the year so they'd be apt
to make it more or less unpleasant for the elegant
Oswald Kearns in his society functions if he had
his pals dodging in and out of his princely
palace. He prefers to drop over here in this
desolate place instead when he has a lot of business
to transact. He's a wonder, all right, in his
double line, Perk, and not to be underrated,
understand."

"Seems that way, partner," grumbled the

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