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 CHAPTER XXI

FTER the discovery of the opium, Captain Hardwick took his sailors back to the Iroquois, along with the confiscated drug, leaving the custom inspectors aboard the Orient, to search the sealed cargo holds at the pier. Off Staten Island the Iroquois dropped behind the freighter and was soon swinging once more at her anchor.

For some time she lay there undisturbed. The seas were calm and no emergency calls came to the little cutter. Henry was delighted at that, for Willie had returned, and the two boys and Roy now were able to see each other frequently. At any of his four-hour periods off duty Henry was free to slip over to Manhattan, and so cordial was the feeling now existing among the wireless men on the Iroquois, that either Jimmy Belford or the chief electrician was willing enough to work overtime on occasion to give Henry a bit more freedom. They knew well enough that he would gladly reciprocate when need arose. Many a night now saw the three boys from Central City happy together in the snug wireless