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an' findin' out that this time he's in the soup for
keeps."

Already the prisoner had recovered his
customary nerve for on hearing what Perk was
saying he broke out in a laugh.

"Looks a bit serious for me, I own up, boys,"
he said. "I give you credit for being ace high
above all your class, for you've played a clever
game and beat me by a mile. So that was tear-gas
you tossed into the room, was it?--thought I
recognized the smell and I want to tell you, once
that hits a chap's eyes and he doesn't care if a
church steeple topples down on him, he's that
paralyzed."

Jack lost no time in starting back to where the
ship was hidden and having negotiated the
distance along the perilous trail without running
afoul of anything, he managed to toss the
palmetto leaves overboard since there was no
further necessity for camouflage. After coaxing
his charge out of the narrow slip, and once on
the open lake, he taxied down to the cove close to
the coquina rock shack.

They managed to lug their prisoners aboard
and stowed them away as well as circumstances
permitted. Then Jack gave her the gun and they
were off.

Once they found themselves on their way at a
three thousand-foot ceiling and headed almost

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