The Scarlet Lake Mystery: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
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Goodwin Harold Leland. The Scarlet Lake Mystery: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
CHAPTER I. Spindrift
CHAPTER II. Assignment: Rocket Base
CHAPTER III. Las Vegas, Nevada
CHAPTER IV. Scarlet Lake
CHAPTER V. Project Pegasus
CHAPTER VI. Sign of the Earthman
CHAPTER VII. Careless Mesa
CHAPTER VIII. Project Orion
CHAPTER IX. Ghost Town Clue
CHAPTER X. Stranded in Steamboat
CHAPTER XI. Deadrock Ogg, Mayor
CHAPTER XII. Servomotors Missing
CHAPTER XIII. Fly the Winged Horse!
CHAPTER XIV. Check Pilot
CHAPTER XV. The Open Hatchway
CHAPTER XVI. The Board Shows Green
CHAPTER XVII. Weight, One Ton
CHAPTER XVIII. Out of Control!
CHAPTER XIX. The Unyielding Ground
CHAPTER XX. The Earthman
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Rick turned the phrase over and over in his head, trying to make sense out of it. Earthman? Who wasn't an earthman? The whole human race was composed of them. Of course ordinary people didn't refer to themselves as homo terrestrialis, but that's what they were just the same.
Scotty was just as puzzled. "Do you make anything out of it?" he inquired.
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Rick voiced aloud the angles that puzzled him the most. "If not an enemy agent, then why the sabotage at all? Who would have anything to gain but an enemy?"
"If we had the answers, we could find the saboteur," Gordon pointed out. "If we knew why he calls himself 'The Earthman' we might also have a lead. But as it is, we're stumped. It could be anyone on the base, including me."
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