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THE CAVES OF FEAR
A RICK BRANT SCIENCE-ADVENTURE STORY
BY JOHN BLAINE
GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK, N.Y.
COPYRIGHT, 1951, BY
GROSSET & DUNLAP, INC.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Printed in the United States of America
At the base of the Black Buddha, a section of the floor had swung upward.
Contents
CHAPTER I. Changes at Spindrift
CHAPTER II. The Cipher Message
CHAPTER III. Heavy Water
CHAPTER IV. Project X
CHAPTER V. Hong Kong
CHAPTER VI. The Golden Mouse
CHAPTER VII. The Junk with Purple Sails
CHAPTER VIII. Long Shadow
CHAPTER IX. The Trail to Korse Lenken
CHAPTER X. The Ambush at Llhan Huang
CHAPTER XI. The Goatskin Water Bag
CHAPTER XII. The Buddhist Monk
CHAPTER XIII. The Black Buddha
CHAPTER XIV. The Caves of Fear
CHAPTER XV. The Labyrinth
CHAPTER XVI. The Lake of Darkness
CHAPTER XVII. Through a Pair of Dark Glasses
CHAPTER XVIII. The Hostages
CHAPTER XIX. Canton Charlie's
CHAPTER XX. Home Flight
The Rick Brant Science-Adventure Stories
THE CAVES OF FEAR
CHAPTER I
Changes at Spindrift
The sounds of hammer and saw had disturbed Spindrift Island for severaldays, and Rick Brant was having a hard time getting used to it. Thenoise didn't bother him. It was the idea behind the noise—the idea thatthe close fellowship of the famous island was about to be intruded uponby stran