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was nothing that could be proved against him. 

 I think he was hustled out of Florida, though. ' ' 



''Some day I'm gomg to meet that man, and — " 

 Shan left the sentence unfinished. 



''Time brings its own revenges, as a rule," the 

 Feather Man replied; "you don't need to think 

 of vengeance on Ned Thompson. He is punished 

 enough, it seems to me, a disgraced man and a 

 wanderer on the face of the earth. Forget him 

 and concentrate on your work. If that motor boat 

 comes soon, we'll try and do some work on Lysian- 

 ski Island." 



The very next day the long expected motor-boat 

 arrived, together with messages froto the members 

 of the expedition. The Hawaiians, who had towed 

 a small sailing skiff behind the motor boat returned 

 to Hawaii in it, leaving the Feather Man and Shan 

 alone as before. 



Several of the smaller reefs and rocks had not, 

 as yet, been visited by the plume-hunters. One 

 of these was Lyskianski,^ and, in order that Shan 

 might be able to carry out his idea of making a 

 complete series of bird pictures, the Feather Man 

 had decided that Shan should spend two or three 



1 In strict accuracy, Lysianski Island was ravaged by plume- 

 hunters the same year as Laysan. 



