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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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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

CHAPTER PAGE
I. MAINLY ABOUT MYSELF 1
II. THE COMPTON CHAMBERLAIN OUTRAGE 9
III. WHEREIN I MEET THE PIRATE 21
IV. CONCERNING MY RIVAL 36
V. THE COLONEL DREAMS AND I AWAKEN 48
VI. I AM ARRESTED 59
VII. I MAKE FRIENDS WITH INSPECTOR FORREST, C.I.D 71
VIII. MURDER 81
IX. EXPLAINS A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE 92
X. DESCRIBING A RIDE WITH THE PIRATE 104
XI. IN WHICH THE PIRATE HOLDS UP THE BRIGHTON MAIL 113
XII. HOW WE EXCHANGE SHOTS WITH THE PIRATE 123
XIII. OF THE ADVANTAGES OF BEING WOUNDED 135
XIV. A CLOUD APPEARS ON LOVE'S HORIZON 145
XV. A CLUE AT LAST 155
XVI. I COMMIT A BURGLARY 165
XVII. STORM