Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ALADDIN & CO. A ROMANCE OF YANKEE MAGIC BY HERBERT QUICK Author of "Virginia of the Air Lanes," "Double Trouble," etc. GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers--New York ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 1904 Henry Holt and Company Copyright 1907 The Bobbs-Merrill Company ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents. PAGE CHAPTER I. Which is of an Introductory Character 1 CHAPTER II. Still Introductory 13 CHAPTER III. Reminiscentially Autobiographical 20 CHAPTER IV. Jim Discovers his Coral Island 39 CHAPTER V. We Reach the Atoll 46 CHAPTER VI. I am Inducted into the Cave, and Enlist 55 CHAPTER VII. We Make our Landing 67 CHAPTER VIII. A Welcome to Wall Street and Us 77 CHAPTER IX. I Go Abroad and We Unfurl the Jolly Roger 86 CHAPTER X. We Dedicate Lynhurst Park 96 CHAPTER XI. The Empress and Sir John Meet Again 112 CHAPTER XII. In which the Burdens of Wealth Begin to Fall upon Us 120 CHAPTER XIII. A Sitting or Two in the Game with the World and Destiny 137 CHAPTER XIV. In which we Learn Something of Railroads, and Attend Some Remarkable Christenings 152 CHAPTER XV. Some Affairs of the Heart Considered in their Relation to Dollars and Cents 169 CHAPTER XVI. Some Things which Happened in our Halcyon Days 185 CHAPTER XVII. Relating to the Disposition of the Captives 201 CHAPTER XVIII. The Going Away of Laura and Clifford, and the Departure of Mr. Trescott 214 CHAPTER XIX. In which Events Resume their Usual Course--at a Somewhat Accelerated Pace 231 CHAPTER XX. I Twice Explain the Condition of the Trescott Estate 248 CHAPTER XXI. Of Conflicts, Within and Without 260 CHAPTER XXII. In which I Win my Great Victory 270 CHAPTER XXIII. The "Dutchman's Mill" and What it Ground 281 CHAPTER XXIV. The Beginning of the End 291