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Without hat or coat I jumped into a taxi, and in less than ten minutes I was mounting the stairs of Number 17, Banton Street, with the hall porter blinking at me from his office. I scarcely went through the formality of knocking at the door. Mr. Parker and Eve were both standing at the table, their heads close together. At the sound of my footsteps and precipitate entrance Mr. Parker swung round.

"You come right round here!" Mr. Parker interrupted soothingly. "No good getting fussy over the telephone!" "Where to?" I asked. "You forget I don't know your address. I should have been round hours ago if I had known where to find you." "Bless my soul, no more you do! We are at Number 17, Banton Street just off Oxford Street, you know." "I am coming straightaway," I replied.

"That's all very well," I said; "but Reggie will be on your track." Mr. Parker beamed on Eve and me. "We shall see!" he declared didactically. The next morning at twelve o'clock I took a taxi-cab round to Banton Street. The hall porter, who was beginning to know me well, seemed a little surprised at my appearance. "Is the young lady upstairs?" I asked. He was distinctly taken aback. "Mr.

Such are Marinduque, Tablas Island, Mazbate, Burias, Banton, Bantonillo, and others of less importance. The nearest of them to Manila is the island of Mindoro. It is more than eighty leguas long and about two hundred in circumference.

It so happened at that time that Sweden was the only country that had machinery to make such screws, and while we could have easily constructed such machinery, it was cheaper to get them from Sweden and this was done. After making this statement, Mr. Banton got the drawings and explained them, and later on I saw some of them in the Gatun-Locks.

P. B. Banton, the chief office engineer, some time ago I asked him about this and he said the only machinery Belgium furnished was to the French. We tried to repair and use part of this but it had to be discarded entirely.

We purchased two gigantic cranes to use in the work from Germany, but one of them collapsed and both had to be rebuilt by American machinists before they would do the work they were guaranteed to do. The only parts used in the canal that were not made in America, according to Mr. Banton, are some gigantic screws which were made in Sweden.

"I might ask the same question of you," replied Jack. "My name is John North and I come from Banton, Connecticut. "Bet yeou air called Jack every time. My name is Plummer Plucky, but I'm called Plum for short, though that is all they can make short about me. I hail from <i>New</i> England too, and I'll bet my dad is hoeing taters in sight of Plymouth Rock."