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Title: Bert Wilson at Panama

Author: J. W. Duffield

Release Date: July 22, 2010 [EBook #33232]

Language: English

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Produced by Jim Ludwig

Bert Wilson at Panama

BY J.W. Duffield

Copyright, 1914, By

SULLY AND KLEINTEICH

Published and Printed, 1924 by
Western Printing & Lithographing Company
Racine, Wisconsin
Printed in U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERS
I. The Hold-Up
II. The Pursuit
III. A Gallant Comrade
IV. The Captured Sentry
V. A Fiendish Torture
VI. The Execution of El Tigre
VII. Off for Panama
VIII. The Great Canal
IX. The Treacherous Bog
X. A Perilous Adventure
XI. The Deserted City
XII. Wah Lee's Boss
XIII. Marked for Destruction
XIV. Snatched from the Sea
XV. Cutting the Wires
XVI. The Foiling of the Plot

CHAPTER I

THE HOLD-UP

"Hands up! Quick!"

Now, in wild countries, such a command is never disobeyed, except by a
fool or a would-be suicide. As Dick Trent was neither, his hands went up
at once. And as he looked into the wicked muzzles of two bulldog
revolvers, he inwardly cursed the carelessness that had led him so far
afield, unarmed.

For that he had been careless there was not the shadow of a doubt. All
that morning, as his train wound its way through Central Mexico, there
had been unmistakable evidence on every side of the disturbed state of
the nation. From the car windows he had seen a fertile country turned
into a desert. The railroad line itself had been fairly well guarded by
strong detachments of Federal forces; but outside the direct zone of
travel there were abundant witnesses of strife and desolation. Smoke was
rising from the remains of burned villages, the fields were bare of
cattle driven off by marauding bands, harvests remained ungathered
because the tillers of the soil had either fled for safety to the larger
towns or been forced to take up arms with one of the contending factions.
There were at least four important leaders, backed by considerable