Sam Steele's Adventures in Panama
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Baum Lyman Frank. Sam Steele's Adventures in Panama
CHAPTER I. I UNDERTAKE A HAZARDOUS VOYAGE
CHAPTER II. I SHIP A QUEER PASSENGER
CHAPTER III. THE MOIT CONVERTIBLE AUTOMOBILE
CHAPTER IV. WE COME TO GRIEF
CHAPTER V. MAKING THE BEST OF IT
CHAPTER VI. THE DEAD MAN’S STORY
CHAPTER VII. THE FOLLY OF THE WISE
CHAPTER VIII. THE SAN BLAS COUNTRY
CHAPTER IX. FACING THE ENEMY
CHAPTER X. NALIG-NAD
CHAPTER XI. PRINCESS ILALAH
CHAPTER XII. WAR IS DECLARED
CHAPTER XIII. WE LOOK INTO DANGER’S EYES
CHAPTER XIV. WE ASTONISH OUR FOES
CHAPTER XV. WE SEARCH FOR THE VALLEY
CHAPTER XVI. THE ARROW-MAKER
CHAPTER XVII. A WOODLAND WONDERLAND
CHAPTER XVIII. THE PRINCESS DISAPPEARS
CHAPTER XIX. WE ATTEMPT A RESCUE
CHAPTER XX. OUTWITTED
CHAPTER XXI. THE SACRIFICE
CHAPTER XXII. THE THRUST OF A SPEAR
CHAPTER XXIII. THE DESERTER
CHAPTER XXIV. WE LEAVE PANAMA
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The ship-yards were on this side of the harbor, and presented a busy scene; for besides our own beautiful Seagull, whose hull was now nearly complete and so graceful in its lines that it attracted the wondering admiration of every beholder, several other ships were then in the yards in course of construction.
It was in one of the builders’ offices that I met my father and Mr. Harlan, and while we were talking a man came in and touched his cap to us, saying:
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“The bare fact that he was so anxious to go,” I replied. “He may be a crank on the automobile question, and certainly it is laughable to think of shipping a machine to Los Angeles on a freighter, around the Horn; but the poor fellow seemed to be a gentleman, and he’s hard up. It appeared to me no more than a Christian act to help him out of his trouble.”
“You may be helping him into trouble, if that confounded cargo of yours takes a notion to shift,” observed my father, with a shake of his grizzled head.
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