But Rawlins was still skeptical. "I've a hunch that old boy with the monocle didn't go down with that sub," he declared as the blue waters changed to a dull muddy brown from the mouth of the Orinoco nearly one hundred miles distant. "I'll bet he and Red Whiskers and some others got away and saved their hides. They may have been picked up or they might even have made land. And I'd like to know what became of that blamed seaplane."

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