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RED SNOW
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter 1. MYSTERY IN SCARLET
? Chapter 2. THE TRUNK SNATCHERS
? Chapter 3. RED IN THE RING
? Chapter 4. THE FOUR PEDESTALS
? Chapter 5. THE SURPRISE IN SKIRTS
? Chapter 6. RED FLAKES AND DEATH
? Chapter 7. THE CORPSE OF DUST
? Chapter 8. THE PATH TO MYSTERY
? Chapter 9. MYSTERIOUS ISLE
? Chapter 10. IN AND OUT
? Chapter 11. THE MEN OF DUST
? Chapter 12. THE TALKING BENEFIT
? Chapter 13. RED ISLAND
? Chapter 14. DUCK-WITH-NO-WINGS
? Chapter 15. THE CONQUEST PLAN
? Chapter 16. DEATH IN RED

Chapter 1. MYSTERY IN SCARLET
As far as was ever learned, a Seminole Indian alligator hunter named Duck-With-No-Wings was the first
to see the Red Snow. The first to see it, that is, and live to discuss it later.

The Red Snow had appeared before, and had been seen, it developed in the course of time, but the
witnesses had been victims of the scarlet horror and had not been heard from again. Nor had their bodies
been found. It was very fantastic and quite inexplicable.

In the case witnessed by Duck-With-No-Wings, the victims were riding in a canvas boat, one of the
collapsible kind which hunters carry in their automobiles. Duck-With-No-Wings saw the boat pull across
an open patch of water in the Everglades and into a black gullet of a creek which ran under the interlacing
mass of swamp vegetation.

The Seminole alligator hunter admired the boat. Then he noted that the occupants-they numbered
two-seemed to be in a great hurry. They were stripped to underwear shorts-except that one had a small
package slung about his neck by a string. They were drenched with perspiration. They looked back
often.

Duck-With-No-Wings knew the signs. He had seen before fugitives from the law flee into the swamp,
and they had acted thus. The Seminole drew back out of sight and watched the boat vanish into the
swamp.

Some five minutes later, Duck-With-No-Wings was looking at the muddy trail of a bull 'gator when he
gave a start which was very violent, considering that he was a member of a people noted for their
command of facial expression. He ensconced himself behind a cypress.

The two half-naked men had appeared again. They were running now, sloughing madly through the