the chief god, and when the image of a rival was
set up in the temple near him, he toppled over
in anger, and part of the temple went with him,
the whole place being buried in ruins. All the
inhabitants were killed, and trace of the ancient
city was lost forever. No, I hope not forever,
for I expect to find it."

"If all the people were killed, and the city
buried, how did the story of Quitzel become
known?" asked Mr. Damon.

"One only of the priests in the temple of
Quitzel escaped and set down part of the tale," said
the professor. "It is his narrative, or one based
on it, that I have given you."

"And now, what I want to do, is to go and
make a search for this buried city. I have fairly
good directions as to how it may be reached.
We will have little difficulty in getting to
Honduras, as there are fruit steamers frequently
sailing. Of course going into the interior--to the
Copan valley--is going to be harder. But an
expedition from a large college was recently
there and succeeded, after much labor, in ex-
cavating part of a buried city. Whether or not
it was Kurzon I am unable to say.

"But if there was one ancient city there must