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F RANK MERRIWELL IN MEXICO... | ward in clouds, and out of which came being alive with eagerness and impa- tience, as he repeatedly declared they! would behold the wonderful Silver Palace before another sunset. Eating a hasty breakfast, they pushed|cano!”’ . Ei “Vah!? gasped Hans; “und det vols pusiness at der oldt stande. forward, with the Westerner in the lead. Once more the tower of smoke, which they had noted the day before, was before them, but now it seemed blacker and more ominous than on the previous dav. It was not far from midday when, away to the westward, they heard rumbling sounds, like distant thunder. — “Vot id vas, ain’d id?’’ asked Hans, in alarm. ‘‘I don’d seen no dunder shower coming up soinevere, do I?”’ “Tt did not seem like thunder,’’ said Frank, soberly. ‘‘It was more like a rumbling beneath the ground, and I fan- cied the earth quivered a bit.”’ -‘*Perhaps it is an earthquake,’’? put in| the professor, apprehensively. they have such convulsions of nature in | goin! ter keep me from it, this part of the world.”’ Bushnell said nothing, but there was a troubled look on his face, and he urged them all forward at a still swifter pace. and sway, grow thin, and roll up in a dense, black mass. It cast a gloom over their spirits, and made them all feel as if _ some frightful disaster was impending. | Again Yand again, at irregular intervals, they. heard the sullen- rumbling, and once _- all were positive the earth shook. It was noticed that directly after a rumbling the smoke rolled up in thick black mass that shut out the light| of the sun and overcast the heavens. The professor was for turning back, but Bushnell was determined to go for- ward, and Frank was equally - resolute. Hans had very little to say, but his nerves were badly shaken. ‘In less than an hour we shall be able to see the Silver Palace,’’ “assured Bush- nell. ‘‘We would be fools to turn back now.”’ | So they went on, and, at last, they climbed to the top of arise, from which point the Westerner assured them that the - palace could be seen. An awe-inspiring spectacle met their gaze. They looked across a great gulf, from which the smoke was rolling up- cano vos doin’ alretty yet.’ | - The volcano may have been. dormant : |for cénturies,’” said the professor, ‘‘hut is is coming to ‘life now!) 7 manded Frank. : Bushnell clutched the boy’s arm with as gtip of iron, pointing straight through’ retty to gone righd avay queek.”” | The professor turned to Frank with his the sullen mutterings they had heard.’ ‘Merciful goodness! [> Scotch. ‘““Where is the Silver Pilace?” the smoke clouds that rose before them. “Took!” he shouted, hoarsely ; thar! See—the smoke grows thinner, ah’ thar she am! See her olitter | In thet ‘thar | Palace i is stored enough treasure ter make - us richer then ther richest men in ther. ““T believe | world, an’ ten thousand volcanoes ain't. you bet yer - | boots!”? True enough, through the RONEN, ERAS ita CHAPTER XII. THE DOOM OF THE SILVER PALACE. Bushnell leaped from his horse and he- | ‘gan tearing the packs from the backs of » nad. haste, and there was an awesome, insane e} jglare in his eyes. | al the led animals. He worked with. ‘The man is crazy! yp Scotel. of breaking forth now. we are doomed! fo? ‘COxcuse me!’ fluttered ans.’ appeal : ‘“Come, boy, let’s get away before dex We must not. struction comes upon us. remain here.”? Frank sprang down from his snorting” horse, ‘flung the rein-to Hans, and leaped - to Bushmeli’s side. ‘“You are mad to think of remaining. cried Professor ‘Tt must be the crater of a vol-. d e- ' ot is 2 ee ; smoke clouds. gleamed the towers - and. turrets of the wonderful palace that had The smoke tower was now. looming remnained hidden in the lieart of the moun-.. - near at hand, and they could see it shift|tains hundreds of years, jealously guarded by the fierce natives, who believed it sacred, and who had kept thie secret wel a from the outside world. - roared Professor _ ‘The volcano is certain to break forth before long—it must be on the verge» If we remain here . cy v os 7 eonicbool (CO) iin