Transcriber's Note:
Irregular hyphenation e.g. "bow-bow" vs. "bow wow", "good-luck" vs. "good luck" is as per the original. Punctuation errors corrected without note. The following typographical errors have been corrected:
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[18] the deep, cast up by the churning of the waves [had "deap">[
[61] weeds in it, at certain times ["at" was "as">[
[80] Ruddy circled about in the leaves [had "Rudy">[
[126] known that he could not open the trap ["he" was "the">[
[162] Rick gave a shrill whistle ["Rick" was "Ruddy">[
[189] a man with a straggly black beard [had "straggily">[
[271] a ventriloquist had seemed to make [had "ventroquilist">[
[272] Ruddy uttered a growl and started forward [had "forard">[