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The Motor Pirate, by George Sidney Paternoster
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Title: The Motor Pirate
Author: George Sidney Paternoster
Release Date: September 19, 2008 [EBook #26657]
Language: English
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[Illustration: HE HAD INSISTED UPON THE TWO WOMEN DANCING FOR HIS AMUSEMENT]
THE
MOTOR PIRATE
By
G. Sidney Paternoster
With a Frontispiece by Charles R. Sykes
New York * * * * * A. Wessels Company * * * * * * MCMVI
Copyright, 1904 BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED)
* * * * *
All rights reserved
CONTENTS
I. MAINLY ABOUT MYSELF
II. THE COMPTON CHAMBERLAIN OUTRAGE
III. WHEREIN I MEET THE PIRATE
IV. CONCERNING MY RIVAL
V. THE COLONEL DREAMS AND I AWAKEN
VI. I AM ARRESTED
VII. I MAKE FRIENDS WITH INSPECTOR FORREST, C.I.D
VIII. MURDER
IX. EXPLAINS A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
X. DESCRIBING A RIDE WITH THE PIRATE
XI. IN WHICH THE PIRATE HOLDS UP THE