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Updated: June 10, 2025
"Aye," he said, when I questioned him, "it were barely possible that they have left this world for all time. I have calculated the speed which their craft might have attained, had it the right proportions, and, in truth, it might have left the spillway at such a speed that it entirely overcame the draw of the ground. "But I think it were a slim chance.
Then I noticed some berry bushes near the sluice had been lately snapped off, where some heavy animal had pushed through, and a moment later, in the moist soil at a small spillway, I picked up the trail of a large bear. "The tracks led me up the rough path towards the cabin, but midway I came to a fallen tree.
Five minutes later I was hurrying away across locks and dam to the marshland beyond the Spillway to inquire who, and wherefore, had attempted to burn up the I. C. C. launch attached to dredge No. . My Canal Zone days were drawing rapidly to a close. I could have remained longer without regret, but the world is wide and life is short.
The flood that had cut the deep canyons through the heart of the Basin, destroying Kingston on its course, had worked on a smaller scale in the old Dry River wash, cutting a narrow gorge nearly fifty feet deep from its outlet at the new sea past the power plant at Barba and nearly to the spillway of the main canal.
But later, when they followed up the wires which Blake had severed, which had run from the brass-bound box to a point near the spillway of the dam, it was found that only a small charge of dynamite had been buried there a charge so small that it could not possibly have done more than very slight damage to the structure. "I can't understand it," said Captain Wiltsey.
Other men, workmen, were doing that, however, and so these four passed on up to the foot of the spillway without attracting attention. Here they separated, one to the west, one to the east, where the locks are, and one to a position half way between the spillway and the west side of the locks. The fourth man remained near the foot of the spillway.
Texas looked up, mildly surprised. "Sure we got him. That's what I'm a-tellin' you." Then he laughed softly as though mildly amused at some incident suddenly remembered. "Abe, you know that greaser that tumbled into the Dry River Spillway when we-all was puttin' in Number Five Gate?" "Yes." "I 'lowed you'd know him. I heard somethin' funny about him when I was in San Felipe after that buckskin."
I don't rent the shovel by the day, but I'll tell you what: I'll do your work on contract." "All right," said Bob. "How much do you want for digging the ditch?" "$700," said Mr. Brady, consulting a memorandum. "And how much for building the dam?" "$200 without a concrete spillway and sluice gate and $350 more with them." "And how much for the road up the west slope?"
At eleven he did not know that Paula had come up the secret stairway from the library and was standing behind the shelves of books listening. She had intended coming in but had been deterred by the sound of his voice. She could hear him talking over the telephone to Hanley about the spillway of the Buckeye dam.
We descended to the beach of the outer bay and swam in the salt sea, and the policeman, scorning the launch party, squatted a long hour in the shade of a tree above in tropical patience. Then with "sour" oranges for thirst and nothing for hunger for Lorenzo has no restaurant we turned to paddle our way homeward up the Chagres, that bears the salt taste of the sea clear to the Spillway.
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