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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