Part 22 (2/2)
”What's that?” cried Joe
”I don't know,” Blake answered, ”but it sounds as though sos for nothing!”
Then caate is open! The water is coency dam in place! Quick!”
Joe and Blake looked ahead to see the upper gates, which were supposed to re open, and an immense quantity of foamy water rush out It seemed about to overwhelm them
CHAPTER XVIII
THE BIG SLIDE
For a short space there was a cal than the wildest confusion It took a few seconds for the rush of water to reach the _Bohio_, and when it did the tug began to sway and tug at thecables, for they had not yet been cast off to enable it to be towed
Blake rushed toward the lower cabin
”Where are you going?” cried Joe
”To get the ca ”This is a chance we mustn't miss”
”But we must escape! We must look to ourselves!” shouted Mr
Alcando ”This is not tiot toin with Blake
”You'll find you've got topictures when you _can_, not when you _want_ to!”
To do justice to Mr Alcando he was not a coward, but this was very unusual for hier--to stand cal view after view on the strip of celluloid fil he never dreah objectionable as slang, isSpaniard cried, as he followed Blake and Joe down to where the cameras and films were kept
On ca of the upper lock gates before the lower ones were closed The waters of Gatun Lake were rushi+ng to regain the freedo of the locks
But they were not to have their oay for long Even this ereat as it was, unlikely as it was to happen, had been foreseen by those who built the Canal
”The daency da and pulling at her cables
Fortunately they were long enough to enable her to rise on the flood of the rushi+ng water, or she ht have been held down, and so overwheled and swayed under the influence of the terrible current, which was like a mill race
”Use both ca one, while Mr Alcando folloith spare reels of film
”We'll both take pictures,” Blake went on ”One setup their ca flood, at the swung-back gates and at theinto place the e to do, but then Blake and Joe were used to doing risky things, and this was no le, or in earthquake land