P. authorities on the subject, from Naos Island to Paraiso, the
name and price of every known beverage. Then when I had fitted
together a picture puzzle of these that summed up to the amount I
had actually spent, I was called upon to sign a statement
thereunder that "this is a true and exact account of expenditures
during the month of May. So help me God."
But then, as I have said before, these things are not Z. P.
faults, they are the faults of government since government began.
It had become evident soon after the Inspector's return that
unless crime began to pick up down at the Pacific end of the Zone,
I should find myself again banished to the foreign land of Gatun.
For there had been a distinct rise in the criminal commodity at
that end during the past weeks. The premonition soon fell true.
"Take the 10:55 to Gatun," said the Inspector one morning, without
looking up from his filing case, "Corporal Macey will tell you
about it when you get there,"
CHAPTER X
"Why, the fact is," said Corporal Macey, lighting his meerschaum
pipe until the match burned down to his fingers," several little
burglary stunts have been pulling themselves off since the
sergeant went on vacation. But the most aggrayvaatin' is this new
one of twinty-two quarts of good Canadian Club bein' maliciously
extracted from St.
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