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THE EXPLODING LAKE
A Doc Savage Adventure by Kenneth Robeson
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? Chapter I
? Chapter II
? Chapter III
? Chapter IV
? Chapter V
? Chapter VI
? Chapter VII
? Chapter VIII
? Chapter IX
? Chapter X
? Chapter XI
? Chapter XII
? Chapter XIII
? Chapter XIV
? Chapter XV
Originally published in Doc Savage Magazine September 1946

This months Doc Savage novel takes you to the mystery land of Patagonia, where nature plays curious
tricks and the schemes of evil men conspire to make it a country of dread. Read it and see if it isn't a real
thriller.

Chapter I
FROM the Negros River southward to Beagle Channel, distance measures somewhere near a thousand
miles, and the cross-span measured from Carmen de Patagones to Point de Corral is somewhat less,
about six hundred miles. Transplanted on to the United States, the dismal area would cover a triangle
roughly with its three corners at New York City, Chicago and Key West, Florida.

Of a part of this godforsaken region the Encyclopedia Britannica has this to say: тАЬFrom Lake Buenos
Aires southward, the Andes are known in detail only on their eastern border. Two great fields of inland
ice fill all the central part of the cordillera from about 46┬░ south latitude to 51┬░ south latitude. From these
ice-fields great glaciers flow down to the lake region on the eastern border of the cordillera and to the
fjords of the western border. At the time of writing this article these ice-fields have never been crossed,
although the southernmost field has recently been penetrated to some distance by expeditions working in
from Lake Argentino and Lake Viedma. . . .тАЭ

Juan Russel, while he was no expeditionтАФhe was one man, two mulesтАФcould perhaps have added to
the description, and certainly his words would have made it less forbidding. Juan had a romantic heart, an
inheritance from his Spanish mother; he also had a practical streak, drawn from his father, a man from
Kansas who had been a particularly good mining engineer. From his Castilian mother, Juan Russel drew
a love of beauty and the arts. His father had sent him to Rolla School of Mines, which was in Missouri,
not too far from Kansas, so Juan was a good metallurgist.

Juan Russel looked a little like a bum, it should be said here; but he had quite a wide name in his
profession in South America.