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 these two motorboats come from that day Jones was shot? We didn't see them out in the bay. They seemed to come right out from under the cliff."

"Do you mean you think there is a secret harbor in there?"

"There might be. Look at it this way. Snackley was the man who "got" Jones that day, as he said. Snackley was related to Polucca, and may now own the farm. Snackley has been smuggling in Barmet Bay from some base that the government men have been unable to find. Perhaps that base is the Polucca farm."

"But it's on top of the cliff!"

"There may be a secret passage from the house to some hidden harbor at the foot of the cliff."

"Gosh, Frank, it sounds reasonable!"

"And perhaps that explains why the kidnappers got away with Jones so quickly that day. If they left the Kane farmhouse just a little while before we did, we should have been able to get within sight of them, anyway. But we didn't."

"You mean they turned in at the Polucca place?"

"Why not? Probably Jones is hidden there right now. That is—if they haven't killed him," he added hesitatingly.