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pushed his head up with the bunch of green
foliage.

This resulted in giving him a quick survey of
the interior--he could see what had come before
his vision on his previous survey but at first he
failed to discover any human presence. The
fact gave him a feeling of chagrin, under the impression
that Kearns might in some mysterious
way have been able to quit the rock house without
ocr>   being discovered and that they had been out-witted.
fix>   being discovered and that they had been outwitted.

In that brief period of time Jack seemed to
glimpse all manner of strange tunnels leading
from the secret retreat of the smuggler to certain
exits back in the pine woods, craftily constructed
for just such an emergency as had now come to
pass.

Then he suddenly changed his mind on realizing
how next to impossible it would have been
to construct such underground exits when the
near presence of great Okeechobee would make
digging quite out of the question, since water
must of necessity seep into any such passage and
fill it full.

Jack, looking further, had just managed to
discover a leg that was thrust into view when
Perk's first rock crashed on the roof, making a
terrific noise. Following this came a burst of

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