The Girl and the Bill / An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure
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“‘Perhaps you can imagine how those letters puzzled me,’ he volunteered”
THE GIRL AND
THE BILL
An American Story of Mystery, Romance
and Adventure
By BANNISTER MERWIN
ILLUSTRATED
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
Bannister Merwin
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CHAPTER I
THE THRESHOLD OF ADVENTURE
CHAPTER II
SENHOR PORITOL
CHAPTER III
THE SHADOWS
CHAPTER IV
THE GIRL OF THE CAR
CHAPTER V
“EVANS, S. R.”
CHAPTER VI
A CHANCE LEAD
CHAPTER VII
A JAPANESE AT LARGE
CHAPTER VIII
THE TRAIL OF MAKU
CHAPTER IX
NUMBER THREE FORTY-ONE
CHAPTER X
“FIND THE AMERICAN”
CHAPTER XI
THE WAY OUT
CHAPTER XII
POWER OF DARKNESS
CHAPTER XIII
AN OLD MAN OF THE SEA
CHAPTER XIV
PRISONERS IN THE DARK
CHAPTER XV
FROM THE DEVIL TO THE DEEP SEA
CHAPTER XVI
THE STRUGGLE
CHAPTER XVII
A CHANCE OF THE GAME
CHAPTER XVIII
THE GOAL
CHAPTER XIX
A SAVED SITUATION