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Title: The Scarlet Lake Mystery

Author: Harold Leland Goodwin

Release Date: March 10, 2010 [EBook #31581]

Language: English

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THE SCARLET LAKE MYSTERY

A RICK BRANT SCIENCE-ADVENTURE STORY

BY JOHN BLAINE

GROSSET & DUNLAP, INC., 1958
NEW YORK, N. Y.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Printed in the United States of America_

[Transcriber Note: Extensive research did not discover a U.S.
copyright renewal.]

[Illustration: _Grim-faced men came running to help still the
holocaust_]

Contents

I SPINDRIFT

II ASSIGNMENT: ROCKET BASE

III LAS VEGAS, NEVADA

IV SCARLET LAKE

V PROJECT PEGASUS

VI SIGN OF THE EARTHMAN

VII CARELESS MESA

VIII PROJECT ORION

IX GHOST TOWN CLUE

X STRANDED IN STEAMBOAT

XI DEADROCK OGG, MAYOR

XII SERVOMOTORS MISSING

XIII FLY THE WINGED HORSE!

XIV CHECK PILOT

XV THE OPEN HATCHWAY

XVI THE BOARD SHOWS GREEN

XVII WEIGHT, ONE TON

XVIII OUT OF CONTROL!

XIX THE UNYIELDING GROUND

XX THE EARTHMAN

List of Illustrations

_Grim-faced men came running to help still the holocaust_

_Etched on the bar was a puzzling inscription_

_A bullet whined off the top of the rock pile, and then there was
silence_

_"What are you doing here?" the man demanded_

_Rick hung in the air, as though suspended by some weird magic_

CHAPTER I

Spindrift

Rick Brant released the sling pouch with his left hand and let it drop
smoothly to the end of its double string. The sling swung through a
complicated arc, out to its full length, down again behind his back,
then, with rapidly increasing speed, over his right shoulder. With a
final whip he swung the pouch forward and released the free end of the
string at