I’m going to assume this novel is several short stories mashed together. I can’t otherwise account for the weird narrative jumps. Here we go:
*Deep breath* Billy Byrne is a Chicago hoodlum who’s framed for murder and flees to San Francisco where he’s shanghaied aboard a pirate ship where one of the officers is a French count who wants to abduct Barbara, a millionaire’s daughter, for his bride but they shipwreck on an uncharted island populated by samurai headhunters who kill the count but Billy rescues Barbara and the two fall in love but Billy isn’t high class so he becomes a prize fighter and returns to Chicago to clear his name but he’s sentenced to life in prison but then escapes and goes on the lam with Bridge, a philosophizing hobo, and they hop the border into Mexico where Billy becomes a captain in Pesita’s rag-tag revolutionary army and Barbara is on her millionaire father’s rancho when the Mexicans come to kill all the gringos and Billy saves her and spirits her back to America where the detective searching for Billy finds him and tells him, oh, no, it’s all right, the real bad guy confessed, you’re free to marry Barbara now *Pass out*
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