Part 6 (2/2)
”I made up my mind that hat it stood for,” Jack told his companion
”They listened to all that terrible racket and just made up their minds it was too hot out this way for them to make the riffle Oh, well! two ht have found we'd bitten off more than we could chew, so what does itproudly, ”or ether with the rum-runner, and one o' the crew to turn State's evidence, so what else could ish for--I for one don't feel greedy Plentyseason is long What we got to pay most attention to is liftin' the lid, so's to find out just who the big guns are, backing this racket an' chances are we're on the right road to doin' that this very et a ”
CHAPTER IX
ENGINEER PERK ON DECK
Everything else being in readiness Jack and his et the anchor ”apeak,” as Perk called it, being desirous of showing off with his lis nautical
”She's a considerable straining, anxious to display his ability as a ood pulls an' we'll have the old gink where ant it”
The task being coan to move backward, verybefore his attack on one of the sandy Florida beaches
”Looks like I'd better go aboard our shi+p and get away fro,” Jack hastened to re possible trouble which would be in the nature of a serious calamity just then
”Go to it then, h, ”I'ineer Don't worry a bit about ettin' there with both feet if the bally ether
Don't like its looks any too ivin'
us a heap o' favors, so we're goin' to finish after the Garrison style--heavy on the home stretch”
Before Perk reached the last word his chuained his seat in the cubbyhole of the amphibian, and almost iet away, partner--hurry up before I get another and harder bump!”
Ten seconds afterward the airshi+p was entirely free fro sloop Then caun Instantly there was a forward movement of the a along with great speed presently lifting its nose toward the heavens and leaving the rolling surface of the gulf, soared aloft in repeated circles
Perk, after seeing that his pal ell on his way, turned his attention to his own job He had no particular trouble in coaxing the engine to start, although it did considerable ”grunting” as though its jointsthat the late skipper had allowed his engineer to neglect his duties in a cliun barrels, machinery of all descriptions, and in many ways played havoc with exposed ot aran to work more smoothly so that Perk lost souess,” he assured hi the prow of his vessel headed due south, he found tiht be
The engine was a gas motor and well supplied with an abundance of fuel, since the winds on their recent voyage around the Florida Keys must have been favorable as a whole and with the as
Perk was feeling prime at that particular moment in his checkered career It afforded hie of a captured ruo of contraband aboard Then, too, all doubts concerning his ability to serve as an engineer were already dissipated for the sloop wasfair time and carried a bone in her teeth, as the white lines of foa out on either side attested
Perk was softly singing to himself some marine ditty he had picked up in the course of his adventurous life afloat and ashore and which had for a title ”Rolling Down to Old Mohea”--it thrilled him to the core to feel that he was luckily able to afford Jack just the assistance the other required so as to perfect his plan of cali her nose out from behind a bank of clouds, allowed hi, so as to keep the sloop within range of his vision
”Just like a guardeen angel,”frequent curious as well as proud glances aloft, ”as he told reat stuff we've struck?--never felt so joyous in all my life as when I smashed thehtin' le man but the one lone dickey we found knocked out down below-stairs Ev'rythinglike silk--who cares whether school keeps or not, with us boys on the top wave o' success”