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Volo witnessed a gradual change in the young beachcombing urchin, Curtis.

CHAPTER VII Dangerous Beachcombing FRANK took the mask from Joe and examined it carefully.

I roused her early, and I gave her a full day of swimming, fishing, beachcombing, skindiving and maintenance and housekeeping chores aboard the Flush.

Besides, I had enough bread for months of joyful leisure, for cruising, beachcombing, getting happily plotzed with good friends, disporting with the trim little jolly sandy-rumped beach kittens, slaying gutsy denizens of the deep blue, and slipping the needle into every phony who happened into my path.

About a hundred yards out from the beach, as we started on a strictly sordid beachcombing expedition to the scene of the squashed wreck of a Chinese sampan, a shark betrayed itself by the dorsal fin quartering the glassy surface of the sea.

Apparently Shannet had been sponging and beachcombing here for months before McAndrew arrived.

He’d picked the one on Oahu, mostly because he’d been recalling youthful days—his first youth—sailing a knockabout around among the Islands and beachcombing on them with a delightful young woman.

People had a way of throwing practically anything into the water and he knew quite well, from experience, that it paid to do a little amateur beachcombing.