Tom Swift In The City Of Gold
or
Marvelous Adventures Underground
by Victor Appleton
Contents
[I Wonderful News]
[II An Unsuspected Listener]
[III Andy Is Whitewashed]
[IV A Perilous Flight]
[V News From Africa]
[VI "Beware The Head-Hunters!"]
[VII Tom Makes A Promise]
[VIII Eradicate Will Go]
[IX "That Looked Like Andy!"]
[X Mysterious Passengers]
[XI The Midnight Alarm]
[XII Into The Unknown]
[XIII Followed]
[XIV A Weary Search]
[XV The Golden Image]
[XVI The Map On The Gold]
[XVII The Ruined Temple]
[XVIII Finding The Tunnel]
[XIX The Underground River]
[XX The City Of Gold]
[XXI The Big Image]
[XXII Trapped]
[XXIII "Is It A Rescue?"]
[XXIV The Fight]
[XXV The Escape--Conclusion]
Chapter I Wonderful News
"Letter for you, Tom Swift."
"Ah, thanks, Mr. Wilson. This is the first mail I've had this week. You've been neglecting me," and the young inventor took the missive which the Shopton postman handed to him over the gate, against which Tom was leaning one fine, warm Spring day.
"Well, I get around as often as I can, Tom. You're not home a great deal, you know. When you're not off in your sky racer seeing how much you can beat the birds, you're either hunting elephants in Africa, or diving down under the ocean, or out in a diamond mine, or some such out-of-the-way place as that. No wonder you don't get many letters. But that one looks as if it had come quite a distance."
"So it does," agreed Tom, looking closely at the stamp and postmark. "What do you make out of it, Mr. Wilson?" and then, just as many other persons do when getting a strange letter, instead of opening it to see from whom it has come, Tom tried to guess by looking at the handwriting, and trying to decipher the faint postmark. "What does that say?" and the young inventor pointed to the black stamp.
"Hum, looks like Jube--no, that first letter's a 'K' I guess," and Mr. Wilson turned it upside down, thinking that would help.