SANDY STEELE ADVENTURES
Black Treasure
Danger at Mormon Crossing
Stormy Voyage
Fire at Red Lake
Secret Mission to Alaska
Troubled Waters
Sandy Steele Adventures
FIRE AT RED LAKE
BY ROGER BARLOW
SIMON AND SCHUSTER
New York, 1959
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CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- 1 The Lodge on the Lake 7
- 2 Into the Woods 17
- 3 A Midnight Visitor 26
- 4 The Missing A-Bomb 34
- 5 Lightning Strikes 43
- 6 A Futile Search 51
- 7 A Birling Match 64
- 8 Fire! 76
- 9 Battling the Flames 88
- 10 A Temporary Victory 104
- 11 Last-Ditch Stand 115
- 12 Trapped on the Hill 128
- 13 An Unexpected Find 141
- 14 The Rains Came 152
- 15 End of the Trail 157
CHAPTER ONE
The Lodge on the Lake
The battered station wagon bumped andgroaned over the rutted dirt road at about tenmiles per hour, churning up great clouds of dust.Sandy Steele wiped the grime and grit from hisface with his handkerchief and bent forward toyell in the driver’s ear.
“How much further, Mr. McClintock?”
The wizened little old man tugged his dirtystraw hat down tighter as the front wheels lurchedin and out of a hole with a jolt that sent all fouroccupants of the car bouncing several inches offthe seats.
“’Bout ’nother quarter of a mile is all,” theman finally replied.
Sandy grinned at his high-school friend JerryJames, seated beside him. “Well,