"
"That's right. It's just as well to let the
natives think we are only after ordinary relics."
"Bless my insurance policy!" gasped Mr. Damon.
"It does not seem possible that we are on
the right track."
"Well, I think we are, from what little information
Goosal gave us," remarked Tom. "This buried city
of his must be a wonderful place."
"It is, if it is what I take it to be," agreed the
professor. "I told you I would bring you to a
land of wonders, Tom Swift, and they have hardly
begun yet. Come, I am anxious to talk to Goosal."
In order that the Indians in the Bumper camp
might not hear rumors of the new plan to locate
the hidden city, and, at the same time, to keep
rumors from spreading to the camp of the rivals,
the scientist and his friends started a new shaft,
and put a shift of men at work on it.
"We'll pretend we are on the right track, and
very busy," said Tom. "That will fool Beecher."
"Are you glad to know he did not take your
map Professor Bumper?" asked Mr. Damon.
"Well, yes. It is hard to believe such things of
a fellow scientist."
"If he didn't take it he wanted to," said Tom.
"And he has done, or will do, things as unsportsmanlike."
"Oh, you are hardly fair, perhaps, Tom,"
commented Ned.
"Um!" was all the answer he received.
With the Indians in camp busy on the excavation
work, and having ascertained that similar
work was going on in the Beecher outfit,
Professor Bumper, with Mr. Damon and the young
men, set off to visit the Indian village and listen
to Goosal's story.
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