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"I have no objections, only I don't exactly see " "We're just about the same size," Jack went on. "Same black hair and black eyes, same ugly smooth face glad you have no whiskers. You're tanned up a little, but I can put some stain on my face. There you are. The cook goes to Gatun and Culebra and Jack Bosworth remains at the cottage. They won't think of molesting the cook."
Indeed, it ought not to be on the Zone. It should have had a place in the Exposition proper, as one of its finest exhibits. The show is a working reproduction of the Panama Canal, on so large a scale that it covers five acres. The landscape of the Canal Zone is faithfully reproduced, with real water in the two oceans, the Gatun Lake, the Chagres River and the Canal.
More than once such a hunt brought me out on the water-tank knoll at the far end of the dam, overlooking miles of impenetrable jungle behind and above chanting with invisible life, to the right the filling lake stretching across to low blue ranges dimly outlined against the horizon and crowned by fantastic trees, and all Gatun and its immense works and workers below and before me.
"He wants you to join him up at the Culebra cut," the youngster continued. "The two who left the cottage last night are there waiting for you." "Glory be!" shouted Jack. "We were just wondering what had become of them." "They wandered out to Gatun and came upon the lieutenant," said the messenger. "In the night?" asked Peter, suspiciously. "A little while before daybreak," was the ready reply.
Finally Peter stopped and faced toward Gatun. "We'd better be working toward home," he said. "This thicket is no place for a civilized human being at night." Although there was a moon, and the sky showed great constellations with which the boys were unfamiliar, the jungle was dark and creepy.
"Yes, I guess I was born lucky," laughed Joe. Preparations for taking several views of the big Gatun Dam from the lower, or spillway side, were made. One afternoon Mr. Alcando asked if he would be needed in making any views, and when Blake told him he would not, the Spaniard went off by himself, taking a small camera with him. "I'm going to try my luck on my own hook," he said.
Leaving Colon, the Canal passed through low ground to the valley of the Chagres River at Gatun, a distance of about 6 miles; thence through this valley, for 21 miles, to Obispo, where, leaving the river, it crossed the continental divide at Culebra by means of a tunnel, and reached the Pacific through the valley of the Rio Grande.
But the most aggrayvaatin' is this new one of twinty-two quarts of good Canadian Club bein' maliciously extracted from St. Martin's saloon last night." From which important beginning I fell quickly back into the old life again, derelicting about Gatun and vicinity by day, wandering the nights away in black, noisy New Gatun and along the winding back road under the cloud-scudding sky.
The Canal will primarily be an instrument against war; but, like much else in this world, it will incidentally bestow multifarious advantages. The importance of fortifying it is manifest. It would appear that the locks at either end are open to naval bombardment; indeed, those at Gatun are clearly visible from the sea.
"After he left this room he mounted the staircase and hid in Frank's closet, evidently waiting for you to return home, or for Frank to come. Perhaps he hoped that one of you might bring home the thing, or the things, he had been unable to find in your rooms." "The papers concerning the Gatun plot, for instance," said the lieutenant.
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