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Jack rather fancied they would be panic stricken at having a grim spectre of the skies descend on them like a plunging eagle and before they could possibly recover sufficient energy to strike back, the monster roc must have winged past, and the pungent gas started to affect their eyes, rendering them frantic with a threatened temporary blindness. Then Perk began his share of the vicious attack.
Without moving, she might, however, have seen him forthwith, for at that precise and particular moment, the Unspeakable Perk was in plain sight of her window, on a bench in the corner of the plaza, engaged in light conversation with a legless and philosophical beggar whom he had just astonished by the presentation of a whole bolivar, of the value of twenty cents gold.
"I knew you'd say that, brother," Jack assured him, seeing Perk act as though hurt by the insinuation that anything would tempt him to let his pal meet the danger alone. "If you feel a bit empty down below, just rub your tummy briskly, then pull in your belt a notch or two and it'll make you imagine you're full-up to the brim. I'll be ready to start off inside another ten minutes."
Somehow this suggestion appealed to Perk as being quite in line with the magnitude of their tremendous task it was only appropriate to have the scene of their coming operations the biggest freshwater lake by long odds in the entire State, barring none it would have been what Perk might term as "small pertatoes, an' few in a hill," to have such a wizard of an operator as Oswald Kearns pick out an ordinary body of water, say of a mile in diameter, as his secret headquarters where he could continue to keep his whereabouts unknown to the Government revenue men.
"As what, partner?" queried Perk, who had already begun to denude the anchored amphibian of its covering, as though it was settled they need no longer fear being spied upon from above.
Little Perk cared if the water chanced to be stale he had no complaint coming on that score as long as his parched throat and tongue came in for a good soaking and the choking sensation was immediately relieved. Perk must have suddenly remembered his lapse of manners, for in the midst of his drinking spree he stopped short and stepped back as though to invite his comrade to take his turn.
The Unspeakable Perk gazed up into the faces above him, but saw only one, a face whose tender concern softened it to a loveliness greater even than when he had last seen it. He tried to rise, but the hands that pressed him back were firm and quick. "Lie still!" bade their owner. A thin film of color mounted to his cheeks. "I I beg your pardon," he stammered. "I I d-didn't know "
Despair was a real and honest and deadly emotion. Folks with appetites sated by having everything they wanted, oughtn't to use despair as a sort of condiment to perk up their jaded zest in life. "Confounded play-actors!" he thought, and wondered what Marise's reaction to them was. He foresaw that it was going to be too much for his patience to listen to them.
"I'll jest sit here an' ruminate while I consume my tobacco," announced the accommodating Perk, making light of his job. "Once in so often I'll take a look skyward with the glasses, so's to know if there's any chance o' Oscar comin' back here to try it all over again. When the moon peeps up in the east yonder I'll put a hand on your arm, so's to let you know it's near time.
By this time the oncoming plane was drawing perilously near and Perk wisely settled himself so that he could see all that occurred. He possessed a pair of marvelously keen eyes and while it would have simplified matters considerably had he been handling those wonderful binoculars, just the same he could get on without them.
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