E-text prepared by Roger Frank
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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

Published, March, 1909

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
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