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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