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Title: The Girl and The Bill
An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure

Author: Bannister Merwin

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THE GIRL AND THE BILL

An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure

by

BANNISTER MERWIN

Illustrated

[Illustration: "'Perhaps you can imagine how those letters puzzled
me,' he volunteered"]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers :: New York

Copyright, 1909, by
Dodd, Mead and Company

Published, March, 1909

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I The Threshold of Adventure 1
II Senhor Poritol 21
III The Shadows 41
IV The Girl of the Car 58
V "Evans, S. R." 77
VI A Chance Lead 93
VII A Japanese at Large 115
VIII The Trail of Maku 136
IX Number Three Forty-One 162
X "Find the American" 178
XI The Way Out 192
XII Power of Darkness 209
XIII An Old Man of the Sea 223
XIV Prisoners in the Dark 253
XV From the Devil to the Deep Sea 279
XVI The Struggle 295
XVII A Chance of the Game 322
XVIII The Goal 347
XIX A Saved Situation 359

THE GIRL AND THE BILL
CHAPTER I

THE THRESHOLD OF ADVENTURE

The roar of State Street