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Updated: June 3, 2025
An underground station was built on the main street of the old city, and visitors often wandered through the ancient houses, wherein was the bone-dust of the dead and gone people. But to go back to the story of Tom Swift. Tom's surmise was right. He and the contractors were able to use the main street of Pelone as part of their tunnel, and a good half mile of blasting through solid rock was saved.
Tom exclaimed, "I thought you had gone off to the mountains again, looking for the lost city." "I am going, Tom, very soon. I thought I would stop and see the effect of your big blast. This is my last trip. If I do not find the hidden city of Pelone this time, I am going to give up." "Give up!" cried Mr. Damon. "Bless my fountain pen!" "Oh, not altogether," went on the bald-headed scientist.
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!"
I'm sure they must be those of Pelone." But in a week or so he would come back, worn out and discouraged again. "The ruins were only those of a native village," he would say. "No trace of an ancient civilization there." The professor took little or no interest in the tunnel, though he expressed the hope that Tom and his friends would be successful.
Professor Bumper gazed up at the great mountains and murmured: "I wonder if the lost city of Pelone lies among them?" Suddenly the silence of the evening was broken by a dull, rumbling sound. "Bless my court plaster!" cried Mr. Damon. "What's that?" "A blast," answered Mr. Titus. "But I never knew them to set off one so late before. I hope nothing is wrong!"
Why, you've run smack into an old city, and you'll have either to curve the tunnel to one side, or start a new one." "Nothing of the sort!" laughed Tom. "Don't you see? The tunnel comes right up to the main street of Pelone. And the street is as straight as a die, and just the width and height of the tunnel.
And once when an unusually big load had been put in a car, and the mule attached found it impossible to pull it out to the tunnel mouth, Koku unhitched the creature and, slipping the harness around his waist, walked out, dragging the load as easily as if pulling a child on a sled. Professor Bumper kept on with his search for the lost city of Pelone.
"But if it had not been for Tom's big blast, and the discovery of the hidden city of Pelone just in the right place, we might be digging at that tunnel yet," said Job Titus. The day before the steamer was to sail, Tom Swift received a cable message. Its receipt seemed to fill him with delight, so that Mr. Damon asked: "Is it from your father, Tom?" "No it's from Mary Nestor.
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