Show THE 1 E sai abase nea E 4 U v a a o 0 J a 1 aa A romance of the panama canal BY IS REX BEACH BE A 4 RIG IT 1910 1911 BY 1310 BROTHERS PROLOGUE panama as the home of the greaf eat canal we all know aboaf about and now here hero s the sone zone as ahe scene of ofa ara ra tl ng n 0 good romance it s by R x beach who jurics from alaska io to the tropics to tell fell about a young amei lean and his friends and foes in the zone the hero of this tale ts he lie sor arl coffell of fellow ow you it like ke to read c about one who has the hard lick I 1 to a gt g t into alt all kinds of scrapes and the nerve and courage and wit to get got himself out of them and th heroine there are two of her one ones s an american and the other others s a member of a proud haughty family of the upper na e five tive classes of the canal sone zone both are worth reading rading r ading about of course the other characters harac help along the yarn if you have paid any sort of attention to the story of the 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