Front matter
Reading edition
“‘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
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