Part 23 (2/2)
Mr Alcando had by this ti pictures al of nature was not all there was to the business It was quite another matter to make views of theatrical scenes, or to film the scene of an indoor and outdoor drama
”But I do not need any of that for my purpose,” explained Mr
Alcando ”I just want to kno to get pictures that will help develope our railroad business”
”You know that pretty well now,” said Blake ”I suppose you will soon be leaving the Canal--and us”
”Not until I see you fil slide,” he replied ”I wish you all success”
”To say nothing of the Canal,” put in Joe
”To say nothing of the Canal,” repeated the Spaniard, and he looked at the boys in what Blake said afterward he thought was a strange otten over your suspicions of him?”
asked Joe
”No, and yet I don't knohy either of us should hold any against hiood friend and companion to us, and he has learned quickly”
”Oh, yes, he's sh Well, we haven't et one, and soo back North”
”Yes,” agreed Blake
”Seen anything of Alcando's alarm clock , and I haven't heard it tick Either he has given up working on it, or he's so interested in the pictures that he has forgotten it”
Several loomy, unpleasant days, for it rained nearly all the ti anchored near Gold Hill, there ca slide in Culebra Cut! Eing to his feet, and getting out a camera ”It's our chance, Joe”
”Yes! Too bad, but it had to be, I suppose,” agreed his chu hard
CHAPTER XIX
JOE'S PLIGHT
Fro came a confused series of sounds First there was the swish and pelt of the rain, varied as the wind blew the sheets of water across the deck But, above it all, was a deep, oiant rocks piling one on top of the other, shter stones
”What will happen?” asked Mr Alcando, as he watched Joe and Blakeinto rubber boots and rain coats, and, all the while, seeing that the caht some waterproof boxes to be used in case of rain--so the flood on the Mississippi
”No one knoill happen,” said Blake griet some pictures before too much happens”
”Out there?” asked the Spaniard, with a h which the Canal had been cut
”Out there--of course!” cried Joe ”We can't getpictures of the slide in here”