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Title: The Lost City

Author: Joseph E. Badger, Jr.

Posting Date: July 27, 2008 [EBook #783]
Release Date: January 1997

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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THE LOST CITY

By Joseph E. Badger, Jr.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER
I. NATURE IN TRAVAIL
II. PROFESSOR FEATHERWIT TAKING NOTES
III. RIDING THE TORNADO
IV. THE PROFESSOR'S LITTLE EXPERIMENT
V. THE PROFESSOR'S UNKNOWN LAND
VI. A BRACE OF UNWELCOME VISITORS
VII. THE PROFESSOR'S GREAT ANTICIPATIONS
VIII. A DUEL TO THE DEATH
IX. GRAPPLING A QUEER FISH
X. RESCUED AND RESCUERS
XI. ANOTHER SURPRISE FOR THE PROFESSOR
XII. THE STORY OF A BROKEN LIFE
XIII. THE LOST CITY OF THE AZTECS
XIV. A MARVELLOUS VISION
XV. ASTOUNDING, YET TRUE
XVI. CAN IT BE TRUE?
XVII. AN ENIGMA FOR THE BROTHERS
XVIII. SOMETHING LIKE A WHITE ELEPHANT
XIX. THE CHILDREN OF THE SUN GOD
XX. THE PROFESSOR AND THE AZTEC
XXI. DISCUSSING WAYS AND MEANS
XXII. A DARING UNDERTAKING
XXIII. A FLIGHT UNDERGROUND
XXIV. THE SUN CHILDREN'S PERIL
XXV. WALDO GOES FISHING
XXVI. DOWN AMONG THE DEAD
XXVII. PENETRATING GRIM SECRETS
XXVIII. BROUGHT BEFORE THE GODS
XXIX. BENEATH THE SACRIFICIAL STONE
XXX. AGAINST OVERWHELMING ODDS
XXXI. DEFENDING THE SUN CHILDREN
XXXII. ADIEU TO THE LOST CITY

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