help the Titus Brothers dig the big tunnel. That
plotter Waddington, or some of his tools,
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 Pelone, calmly picked
up the bomb, plucked out the fuse, and saved
us from bad injuries, if not death. And he was
as cool about it as an ice-cream cone. Surely
you remember!"

"Swyington Bumper! Oh, yes, now I remember
him," said Ned Newton. "But what has
he got to do with a wonderful story? Has he
written more about the lost city of Pelone? If
he has I don't see anything so very wonderful
in that."

"There isn't," agreed Tom. "But this isn't
that," and Tom picked up the magazine and
leafed it to find the article he had been reading.

"Let's have a look at it," suggested Ned. "You
act as though you might be vitally interested
in it. Maybe you're thinking of joining forces
with the professor again, as you did when you
dug the big tunnel."

"Oh, no. I haven't any such idea," Tom said.
"I've got enough work laid out now to keep me