Transcriber’s Notes
Reading edition
Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication.
Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged.
Left unsolved the identity of the enigmatic “Stafford” who speaks two lines but otherwise comes and goes unnoticed.
In the text versions, delimited italics text in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.)