Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel; Or, The Hidden City of the Andes

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oo many voyages over the sea, under the sea and even in the air above

ad done considerable traveling about the world in his time, and had visited

e Tom Swift had been made captive, had gone about but little,

r, in the passengers, in the crew and in the sigh

Koku took it all good-naturedly, however, and even consented to show his great strength by lifting heavy weights. Once when several sailors were shifting one of the smal

you wan

the astonished officer

to go, and from then on he was looked up

Bellaconda was a coasting steamer, and would make several stops on her trip, it would be more than a week before our friends would land at Callao, then

ere some interesting men and women aboard the Bellaconda, and Tom Swift, Mr. Damon and Mr. Titus soon made friends with them. This usually came about through the medi

on was not so simple in describing Tom's feats, so that before many days had passed our hero fou

Damon, when Tom objected to so much n

t these people w

he odd man. "I'll take good

, you tell me!" broke Kok

ter keep still," sai

proceeded south, tropical clothing became the order of the day, while al

e of that fellow, Waddington?"

seems to have dro

, Blakeson & Grinder

in Peru I don't know. I fancy everything isn't going just right or m

cipate any r

ed a moment be

he said, fi

ort?" a

You know I told you at the time that we were in for diff

friend. "I've had more or less of it in my life, and I'm wil

about not getting the contract, I hear. And they would be only too glad to have us fail in the work. That would mean that they, as the next lowest bidders

't want that

we get there in time with this new explosive

now I think I'll go and write a few letters. We are

r pocket of his coat. He drew out a bundle of letters and papers, a

matter?" ask

Mr. Nestor," he went on, as he scanned the familiar handw

n when he had sent Mary the gift, and he recalled that the l

But this is the first time I've worn this coat since that day. A letter from Mr. Nestor! Probably Mary wr

read the note, but he had not glanced over more

ea of a joke! No person with your idea of responsibility will ever be my

murmurs of astonishment were so loud tha

atter, Tom? G

ee her again. Says I tried to dynamite them all-or at least sc

Damon, coming into Tom's stateroom. "Bl

ary, and of having, at the last minute, told Eradicat

it got there Mary's present was in a box labeled

r's letter which had lain so

d," said the old man. "Eradic

he preten

mpty boxes marked dynam

sed dynamite as one of the ing

unable to read, took one of the empty dynamite boxes i

moment. Then he

lanation. No wonder Mr. Nestor was roiled. He thought

r," said

the composition of a message that cost him considerable in

er. "Whew! And to think, all this while, Mary and her folks have believed that I tried to play a

's going to do up love packages

cided the yo

ere tropical storm, and for a time there was some excitement among the passengers. The more timid o

en warned by one of the mates, were on their way to their state

door of a stateroom farther up the pas

" a man requested. "I am feelin

nd at that moment he heard M

the man who had appealed for

e contractor. "That was Waddi

door. "Why, the bearded man has that stateroom-the bearded

e contractor. "I only saw the upper part of his face, bu