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Title: Tom Swift and his Big Tunnel
or, The Hidden City of the Andes

Author: Victor Appleton

Posting Date: July 13, 2008 [EBook #953]
Release Date: June, 1997

Language: English

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TOM SWIFT AND HIS BIG TUNNEL

or

The Hidden City of the Andes

by

Victor Appleton

CONTENTS

I An Appeal for Aid
II Explanations
III A Face at the Window
IV Tom's Experiments
V Mary's Present
VI Mr. Nestor's Letter
VII Off for Peru
VIII The Bearded Man
IX The Bomb
X Professor Bumper
XI In the Andes
XII The Tunnel
XIII Tom's Explosive
XIV Mysterious Disappearances
XV Frightened Indians
XVI On the Watch
XVII The Condor
XVIII The Indian Strike
XIX A Woman Tells
XX Despair
XXI A New Explosive
XXII The Fight
XXIII A Great Blast
XXIV The Hidden City
XXV Success

TOM SWIFT AND HIS BIG TUNNEL

Chapter I

An Appeal for Aid

Tom Swift, seated in his laboratory engaged in trying to solve a
puzzling question that had arisen over one of his inventions, was
startled by a loud knock on the door. So emphatic, in fact, was the
summons that the door trembled, and Tom started to his feet in some
alarm.

"Hello there!" he cried. "Don't break the door, Koku!" and then he
laughed. "No one but my giant would knock like that," he said to
himself. "He never does seem able to do things gently. But I wonder why
he is knocking. I told him to get the engine out of the airship, and
Eradicate said he'd be around to answer the telephone and bell. I
wonder if anything has happened?"

Tom shoved back his chair, pushed aside the mass of papers over which
he had been puzzling, and strode to the door. Flinging it open he
confronted a veritable giant of a man, nearly eight feet tall, and big
in proportion. The giant, Koku, for that was his name, smiled in a
good-natured way, reminding one of an overgrown boy.

"Master hear my kn