Red Dynamite

A Mystery Story for Boys

RED DYNAMITE

By
ROY J. SNELL

The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago

COPYRIGHT, 1936
BY
THE REILLY & LEE CO.
PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I Gold from the Sky 11
II The Bridge Falls 27
III With the Aid of Nicodemus 40
IV The Haunted Pool 52
V The Crimson Flood 62
VI Old Kentucky 76
VII Panther Eye’s Return 85
VIII Ha! Ha! Big Joke! 94
IX The “Ghost” Walks Again 106
X Kentucky’s Downfall 119
XI A Ride in the Night 133
XII Strange Wealth 141
XIII A Strange Bear Hunt 152
XIV Wild Men, Baboons, and Something Strange 162
XV Victory 175
XVI One Minute to Play 181
XVII Gliding Toward Fresh Adventure 193
XVIII Ten Gallons of Air 199
XIX With the Speed of a Whirlwind 210
XX In the Grip of a Giant 219
XXI Dynamite Takes It on the Chin 234
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RED DYNAMITE

CHAPTER I
GOLD FROM THE SKY

“You mean to say he takes those big, jug-likethings down there empty andbrings them up full?” Johnny Thompson, theboy from Illinois who had travelled far andseen many strange things, stared at BallardBall, the red-headed boy of the CumberlandMountains of Kentucky, with surprise. If thetruth were told, he found himself doubting theother boy’s story.

Here he was standing in the grinding roomof an old fashioned mill watching massivestone wheels grind the corn he had carted fromhis cousin’s store and at the same time discoveringwhat promised to be a first classmystery right down here in the slow old Cumberlandmountains where, he had supposed,nothing unusual ever happened.

“But what’s down there?” He was lookingat the floor of the mill. At the same time hewas hearing a curious sound, a sucking andhissing that might, he thought, have been theworking of a small steam engine. But of coursethere was no steam engine, for there was nosmoke stack and no smoke.

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“Nothing down there but water. Som

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