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

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Girl and The Bill, by Bannister Merwin This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure Author: Bannister Merwin Release Date: June 15, 2008 [eBook #25799] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GIRL AND THE BILL*** E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) “‘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.