Part 19 (2/2)
”Why, then I should have repaid, in a s ,” declared Blake quickly ”I reat deal--to me,” returned the Spaniard quietly, but with considerablein his tone ”Perhaps I shall soon be able to--but no ators in this stream?”
he asked of Ramo
”Oh, yes, more or less, just as there are in most of the Panaman rivers But I never knew one to be so bold as to attack any one in daylight Mostly they take dogs, pigs, or sory one”
”You'd have thought so if you were as close to him as I was,”
spoke Blake with a little shudder
No one else felt like going in swi just then, and the two boys dressed Blake had fully recovered fro
For a week longer they lived in the jungle,in different locations and enjoying as much as they could the life in the wild Blake and Joethe hoork the caood as those the boys had obtained when in the African jungle These of the Pana the kind of country through which the Canal ran, and, as such, they were of value in the series of filain,” reht, when they had started back for Gale”
”And so have I,” agreed Joe, for the last two days it had rained, and they et andaiting for theed and, once h the Canal
Soon after leaving Gamboa the vessel entered a part of the ay, on either side of which towered a high hill through which had been dug a great gash
”Culebra Cut!” cried Blake, as he saw, in the distance Gold Hill, the highest point ”We ht, so we ht!” he went on ”No wonder they said it was harder work here than at the Gatun Da slides have been?”
”Yes, and there ain,” said Blake
”I hope not!” exclaierous, but they do terrible dae to the Canal and the machinery We want no more slides”
”But some are predicted,” Blake remarked
”Yes, I know they say they co one to do e We have nearly ta slide here it would block the Canal,”
observed Mr Alcando, speculatively
”Yes, but ould cause a slide?” asked the captain
”Dynamite could do it,” was the low-voiced answer
”Dynaainst,” the co no chances Now, boys, you get a good view of Culebra,” and he pointed ahead Blake and Joe were soon busy with their ca different sets of views
”Hand me that other roll of film; will you, please?” asked Blake of the Spaniard, as helping them ”Mine is used up”
As Mr Alcando passed over the box he h possibly he was unaware of it: