Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders; Or, The Underground Search for the Idol of Gold

be deeply interested, turned the final folio, ruffled the sheets back again to look at a certain map and drawi

certainly one w

Something about inside baseball, or a new submarine t

swered Tom, with a laugh at Ned. "Though that i

n its trail," returned Ned, and the

d base, it's so long since I went to a game," proceeded Tom. "I've been too busy on that new airship stabilizer dad

had so hastily slapped down. Something

dest dream of a professional sleep-walker; and yet, when I stop to think,

down to brass tacks and strike a trial balance?

jok

hat magazine which seems to c

r seems very much in earnest about it," repli

e it, or else put in a new reel and on with the show. I'd l

r Swyingt

Ned's voice showed that

ls, dropped a bomb where it might have done us some injury, but Professor Bumper, who was a fellow passenger, on his way to South America to look for the lost city of Pel

has he got to do with a wonderful story? Has he written more about the los

at," and Tom picked up the magazine and leafe

ht be vitally interested in it. Maybe you're thinking of joining for

the next year. I have no notion of going anywhere with Professor Bumper. Yet I can't help being impresse

umper himself!"

ks. It's the story itself that's so wonderful. To save you the trouble of wading through a lot of scientific detail, which I know you don'

you say?" ask

rd 'sum,' which is very appropriate for a bank-the professor has got on the track of another lost or

"It sounds like the name o

e Department of Copan, near the boundary between Honduras and Guatemala. A

h a smile, "that you were coming it ra

was looking. "As you'll see, if you take the trouble to go through it, as I did, Copan is,

imbibe my information by the deductive rather tha

people of Yucatan. The Mayas had a peculiar civilization of their ow

cks. I'm willing to take your word for it that there's a Copan valley

article he has written for the magazine, that somewhere in the valley is a wonderful city, traces of which have been found twenty to fo

s the idol of

if Professor Bumper has his way, the idol

t it and take it away fr

e professor is more interested in that aspect of it. But he's written a wonderful story, telling how he happened to co

how to solve the key to the translation code; but

ho lived in the Copan valley thousands of years ago. The people held this idol of gold to be

some yarn. But what is Professo

a of interesting scientists and research societies, so tha

iterature. Take it home and read it! Ned. That is if you're through telling me about my affairs," for Ned, who had formerly worked in the Shopton bank, had recently be

said Ned. "I have just been going over the bo

t from the desk. As he answered in the usual way and th

eading the article about the idol. "It certainly is a strange coincidence," he added, speaking in an