Chapter I: Front Matter

THE PICAROONS

By the Same Author

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_The Reign of Queen Isyl_

THE
PICAROONS

BY GELETT BURGESS
AND WILL IRWIN

NEW YORK
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & COMPANY
MCMIV

_Copyright, 1904, by_
MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

Published, April, 1904

_Copyright, 1903, 1904, by Pearson Publishing Co._

To THE RED CYCLONE

G. B—— W. I.

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THE PICAROONS

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
Page

A MIRACLE AT COFFEE JOHN’S 3
The Story of the Great Bauer Syndicate 15

CHAPTER II

JAMES WISWELL COFFIN 3d. 26
The Story of the Harvard Freshman 27

CHAPTER III

PROFESSOR VANGO 45
The Story of the Ex-Medium 46

CHAPTER IV

ADMEH DRAKE 60
The Story of the Hero of Pago Bridge 61

CHAPTER V

THE DIMES OF COFFEE JOHN 81
The Story of Big Becky 83

CHAPTER VI

THE HARVARD FRESHMAN’S ADVENTURE: THE FORTY PANATELAS 102
The Story of the Returned Klondyker 108
The Story of the Retired Car-Conductor 143

CHAPTER VII

THE EX-MEDIUM’S ADVENTURE: THE INVOLUNTARY SUICIDE 156
The Story of the Quadroon Woman 175

CHAPTER VIII

THE HERO’S ADVENTURE: THE MYSTERY OF THE HAMMAM 192
The Story of the Minor Celebrity 199
The Mystery of the Hammam 209
The Story of the Dermograph Artist 217
The Story of the Deserter of the Philippines 236

CHAPTER IX

THE WARDS OF FORTUNE 258

NOTE

_Picaroon—a petty rascal; one who lives by his wits; an adventurer. The Picaresque Tales, in Spanish literature of the beginning of the Seventeenth Century, dealt with the fortunes of beggars, impostors, thieves, etc., and chronicled the Romance of Roguery. Such stories were the precursors of the modern novel. The San Francisco Night’s Entertainment is an attempt to render similar subjects with an essentially modern setting._