J. E. Badger - The Lost City

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The Lost City

Badger, Joseph E., Jr.

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The Lost City

Badger, Joseph E., Jr.

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The Lost City

Joseph E. Badger, Jr. 326 pages

Dana Estes & Company

Boston

1898

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Published: 1898

English fiction; prose Young Readers LCSH L. J. Bridgman Illustrations 24-bit color, 400 dpi

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The Lost City

THE LOST CITY

JOSEPH E. BADGER, JR.

AUTHOR OF "SPUR AND SADDLE," "AROUND

THE CAMPFIRE," ETC.

Illustrated by

L. J. BRIDGMAN

BOSTON

DANA ESTES & COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

1898

BY DANA ESTES & COMPANY Colonial Press:

Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.

Boston, U. S. A.

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CONTENTS.

● I. NATURE IN TRAVAIL. . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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● II. PROFESSOR FEATHERWIT TAKING NOTES . . . 23

● III. RIDING THE TORNADO . . . . . . . . . . 35

● IV. THE PROFESSOR'S LITTLE EXPERIMENT . . . 47

● V. THE PROFESSOR'S UNKNOWN LAND . . . . . . 58

● VI. A BRACE OF UNWELCOME VISITORS . . . . . 68

● VII. THE PROFESSOR'S GREAT ANTICIPATIONS. . 79

● VIII. A DUEL TO THE DEATH . . . . . . . . . 91

● IX. GRAPPLING A QUEER FISH. . . . . . . . 104

● X. RESCUED AND RESCUERS. . . . . . . . . . 114

● XI. ANOTHER SURPRISE FOR THE PROFESSOR . . 125

● XII. THE STORY OF A BROKEN LIFE. . . . . . 136

● XIII. THE LOST CITY OF THE AZTECS. . . . . 145

● XIV. A MARVELLOUS VISION . . . . . . . . . 154

● XV. ASTOUNDING, YET TRUE . . . . . . . . . 165

● XVI. CAN IT BE TRUE? . . . . . . . . . . . 174

● XVII. AN ENIGMA FOR THE BROTHERS . . . . . 183

● XVIII. SOMETHING LIKE A WHITE ELEPHANT . . 192

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● XIX. THE CHILDREN OF THE SUN GOD . . . . . 203

● XX. THE PROFESSOR AND THE AZTEC. . . . . . 212

● XXI. DISCUSSING WAYS AND MEANS . . . . . . 221

● XXII. A DARING UNDERTAKING . . . . . . . . 230

● XXIII. A FLIGHT UNDERGROUND. . . . . . . . 241

● XXIV. THE SUN CHILDREN'S PERIL . . . . . . 250

● XXV. WALDO GOES FISHING. . . . . . . . . . 259

● XXVI. DOWN AMONG THE DEAD . . . . . . . . 268

● XXVII. PENETRATING GRIM SECRETS. . . . . . 277

● XXVIII. BROUGHT BEFORE THE GODS. . . . . . 286

● XXIX. BENEATH THE SACRIFICIAL STONE. . . . 294

● XXX. AGAINST OVERWHELMING ODDS . . . . . . 304

● XXXI. DEFENDING THE SUN CHILDREN . . . . . 312

● XXXII. ADIEU TO THE LOST CITY. . . . . . . 320

ILLUSTRATIONS.

● THE RESCUE . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece

● IN THE HEART OF THE TORNADO . . . . . . . . . . 43

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● THE DUKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

● "`I TOOK THESE ALL FROM AN INDIAN'". . . . . . .133

● FINDING THE LOST CITY. . . . . . . . . . . . . .161

● "`MUCH OBLIGED -- ME, YOU, BROTHER'" . . . . . . .197

● PRINCE HUA AND THE SUN CHILDREN. . . . . . . . .237

● "TLACOPA SHRANK AWAY FROM THE SPEAKING STATUE" .301

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Chapter 1

THE LOST CITY.

CHAPTER I.

NATURE IN TRAVAIL.

"I SAY, professor?"

"Very well, Waldo; proceed."

"Wonder if this isn't a portion of the glorious climate, broken loose from its native California, and

drifting up this way on a lark?"

"If so, said lark must be roasted to a turn," declared the third (and last) member of that little party,

drawing a curved forefinger across his forehead, then flirting aside sundry drops of moisture. "I can't

recall such another muggy afternoon, and if we were only back in what the scientists term the cyclone belt

-- "

"We would be all at sea," quickly interposed the professor, the fingers of one hand vigorously stirring

his gray pompadour, while the other was lifted in a

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deprecatory manner. "At sea, literally as well as metaphorically, my dear Bruno; for, correctly speaking,

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