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CHAPTER XXV

PERK DEMANDS MORE WATER

It was queer what chanced to be passing
through the mind of Jack Ralston while they
were thus creeping toward the little well in the
rear of the lonesome shack on the bank of Okeechobee.
He had been reading a novel that was
supposed to cover the famous and successful attempt
on the part of General Fred Funston to
penetrate the mighty wilderness in the north of
Luzon, the main island of the Philippine group
ocr>   and effect the capture of the native rebel chief-tain,
fix>   and effect the capture of the native rebel chieftain,
Aguinaldo who, with some of his associates,
had taken refuge in a lonely cabin at a most inaccessible
point.

So vividly had the author described the manner
in which the soldier and his companions
crept up when making ready to seize their prey,
that it was still haunting the mind of the airman
and somehow the conditions just then confronting
himself and Perk seemed to be very similar.
He only hoped they would prove to be just as
successful in their mission as Funston was when
he carried Aguinaldo back to Manila, and thus

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