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THE following day was a Saturday, and no member of the firm of the Malaga Wine & Spirit Company went up to the city. Instead, until late afternoon, they were busy trying to find out what was wrong with the engine of their motor launch.
There did not seem very much amiss, but still it was undoubtedly making unusual noises, which they feared might portend some major trouble later, perhaps when they were far out to sea. And trouble then they certainly did not want, for among their activities in anything that would earn easy money they smuggled in forbidden drugs.