Zone Policeman 88: A Close Range Study of the Panama Canal and Its Workers (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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STRIP by stdp there opened out before me, as I
climbed the "Thousand Stairs" to the redroofed
.AdminiRtration Building, the broad panorama.
of l")llnarna and her bay; below, the city of closely
packed roofs and tree-topped plazas compressed in
a scallop of the sun-gleaming Pacific, wit.h its
peaked and wooded islands to far Taboga bIting
motionless away to the curve of the earth; behind,
the low, irregular jUl1gJed hjJIs stretching ho.zily oft'
into South America. On the third-story landing I
paused to wipe the light sweat from forehead and
ho.tband, then pushed open the screen door of the
passageway that leads to police headquarters.
" Emm -What military service have you had? "
asked" the Captain," looking up from the letter I
had presented and swinging half round in hi.s swivelchair
to fix: his clear eyes upon me.
" None."
" No? " 1l50 long grew the sih~ncc, and 80 plainly did there
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