&ldquo;The Girl from Farris&#39;s&ldquo; is a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, an American fiction writer, who created such great characters as Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.<br />&bdquo;JUST what Mr. Doarty was doing in the alley back of Farris&rsquo;s at two of a chill spring morning would have puzzled those citizens of Chicago who knew Mr. Doarty best.<br />To a casual observer it might have appeared that Mr. Doarty was doing nothing more remarkable than leaning against a telephone pole, which in itself might have been easily explained had Mr. Doarty not been so palpably sober; but there are no casual observers in the South Side levee at two in the morning&mdash;those who are in any condition to observe at all have the eyes of ferrets.<br />This was not the first of Mr. Doarty&rsquo;s nocturnal visits to the vicinage of Farris&rsquo;s. For almost a week he had haunted the neighborhood between midnight and dawn, for Mr. Doarty had determined to &ldquo;get&rdquo; Mr. Farris.&rdquo;