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Title: Troubled Waters

Sandy Steele Adventures #6

Author: Robert Leckie

Release Date: October 31, 2015 [eBook #50353]

Language: English

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SANDY STEELE ADVENTURES

Black Treasure
Danger at Mormon Crossing
Stormy Voyage
Fire at Red Lake
Secret Mission to Alaska
Troubled Waters

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COPYRIGHT © 1959 BY SIMON AND SCHUSTER, INC.
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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

1 An Unusual Gift 9

2 Make Ready to Sail! 20

3 Shakedown Cruise 33

4 The Man with the Gun 51

5 Storm Fears 67

6 Something Lost—Something Found! 75

7 A Million Dollars’ Worth of Trouble 82

8 Double Blackout 87

9 To the Freighter 97

10 Aboard the Floating Prison 108

11 Escape to Danger 120

12 The Race Begins 136

13 A Race of Mistaken Identity 146

14 Slow-Motion Chase 153

15 Turn and Turn Again 160

16 The End of the Race 169

17 Another Discovery 177

18 Homeward Bound 183

CLIFFPORT CALIFORNIA

SLOOP

(1) Mainsail

(2) Jib

(3) Mast

(4) Boom

(5) Shrouds (standing rigging)

(6) Headstay ( ” ” )

(7) Backstay ( ” ” )

(8) Rudder

(9) Tiller

(10) Mainsheet

(11) Hawk

(12) Halyards

CHAPTER ONE
An Unusual Gift

Sandy Steele slowly put down the phone and pushed his blond cowlick back from his brow. Excitement and confusion were mixed in equal parts in his expression as he turned to his father, John Steele, who stood leaning against his workbench, idly tossing a piece of quartz crystal in the air.

“Wow!” Sandy said. “Leave it to Uncle Russ to come up with a real surprise!”

“It certainly seems to be a habit of his,” John Steele smiled. “What do you think of this particular surprise?”

“I hardly know what to think,” Sandy answered. “The question is, what do you and Mother think? I mean, is it all right if I go—if I can find somebody to go with me?”

“Your mother and I discussed this with your Uncle Russ before he called you,” Sandy’s father said, “so I guess that’s one worry you don’t have to consider. The only problem you have is finding somebody who