TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. footstep/foot-step, hair’s breadth/hairs-breadth, inadmissable/inadmissible, runaway/run-away, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Punctuation: fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings, some missing periods and commas, etc.
Change five instances of “the Samway’s house” to “the Samways’ house.”
[Chapter I]
(“Which way were you going when you came on the body.”) change the period to a question mark.
[Chapter III]
Change “Quite the orthodox get up.” to get-up.
[Chapter IV]
(“No facial signs? Nothing unusual in his color or expression?”) to colour.
(“By jove!” exclaimed Batson, “this business has upset) to Jove.
[Chapter V]
“Camden Town is not a very attractive neighborhood” to neighbourhood.
“her appearance suggested was strength—sheer, muscular, strength” delete the last comma.
[Chapter VI]
(“I suppose I can do the surgery work?” said I.) change the question mark to a comma.
“and a man named O’Conner confirmed his certificate after examining” to O’Connor.
“and bring in a crowd of beastly reports humming about the place” to reporters.
[Chapter VII]
(“The worthy Gill,” said Jarvis, “seems to have been) to Jervis.
[Chapter VIII]
“letting one’s fancy furnish them with one’s own household gods” to goods.
“shut in by these high fences. I heard quick footsteps behind me” change the period to a comma.
“I can tell you much about this man excepting the he was” to that.
[Chapter IX]
“The next question is, how was the body taken away.” change the period to a question mark.
[Chapter X]
“scope of the acquaintance; on which, Miss Vyne remarked that” delete the comma.
[Chapter XIII]
“as if to inspect the end of the shop window, and Sylvia exclaimed.” change the period to a colon.
[Chapter XIV]
“I want to know how you came to be in Folkstone and in that” to Folkestone.
(“I didn’t think you had noticed my negligé get up.”) to get-up.
“front of the window while a discreet, reticence is maintained” delete the comma.
(“By the way, where did you see us? I didn’t see you?”) change the second question mark to a period.
[Chapter XV]
“but don’t you think it would be simpler… and shadow him!” change the exclamation mark to a question mark.
“But wouldn’t it be simpler to run the Johnnie in, in any case.” change the period to a question mark.
“and highly corrugated smile, he opened his mouth and spake” to spoke.
“the Doctor tells me, to take Sanctuary for a time with us” to sanctuary.
“saw my watch hanging from a nail, with a rating tabled pinned above it” to table.
(And,” he continued, as Polton retired with a gratified smile “I am) add comma after smile.
[Chapter XVI]
“But our career in the field, was not a long one.” delete the comma.
“The habit began when he had some affection of the skin” to affliction.
“bestowed on Jervis and me a ceremoniout bow and moved towards” to ceremonious.
[Chapter XVII]
“And what answers do you sugest to the questions that Marchmont” to suggest.
“what took place in the sacred precints of my principal’s chambers” to precincts.
[Chapter XVIII]
(“Reasoning, you know; Mr. O’Donnell,” he continued, “is somewhat) change the semicolon to a comma.
[Chapter XX]
“and, after a few moment’s cogitation, turned once more to” to moments’.
[Chapter XXI]
(“zis villian has a double grime gommitted; he has murdered a goot”) to villain.
[Chapter XXII]
“evidently, anticipating the inevitable discussion, on the results of” delete the second comma.
“The case, seven feet by two and a-Half—so convenient for” to a-half.
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