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TopsтАЩl Hertz was simply taking no chance of the plane pilot getting wary and going away.

Overhead, the plane motor got sick. It gagged and popped and had spasms. The sickness was short, then it
died. The machine gun burst had done something to the motor.

The plane spanked down on the sea somewhere off to port. They could see it until it was almost on the water.
Then the fog swallowed it.

"Start the bloody kicker!" yelled TopsтАЩl. Hertz.

By the kicker, of course, he meant the motor, which was hardly a fitting name for that piece of machinery. It
was a Diesel powerful enough for a destroyer, and less than a year old. It had been painstakingly pitted with
acid, so that it looked, outwardly, rusted and practically worthless.

The schooner Innocent came up on the plane, which was afloat like a crippled duck.

TopsтАЩl Hertz leaned over the rail amidships, a pistol in hand, to finish things. Punning Parker was beside him,
likewise with a pistol. Punning was assisting as a matter of professional courtesy. They took a good look at
the plane.

"WhoтАЩre you?" yelled TopsтАЩl Hertz at the man on the plane.

"Louis Tester!" shouted the latter. "WhatтАЩre you trying to do to me?"

"You might say we have planes for you," said Punning Parker, punning a bit more badly than usual.



Chapter V. THE CROSS THAT IS DOUBLE
Louis TESTER stood on the cabin of the plane. He was lean, fit, red-headed. He looked as if he wanted to
fight, which was not surprising. One hand was behind him.

He braced against the lively pitching of the plane. There was gasoline leaking from the tanks. The craft was
soaked with it. Gasoline was running onto the water.

"тАШEave тАШim a line!" ordered TopsтАЩl.

Punning Parker himself did this. He heaved a line that looked as heavy as he was, and, marvelously, it didnтАЩt
cause him to collapse.

The red-headed Tester caught the line and hitched it over a cleat which was on the seaplane for mooring
purpose. A moment later, the plane was bobbing alongside the Innocent.

Tester took his hand from behind his back. He had hitched the line without showing that hand.
"I hope you get the idea," he said.

A Very pistol was in his hand. One of those things with a barrel having the bore of a shotgun, used to shoot
rockets. He pointed it at the plane, which was leaking gasoline.