TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
The edition serialized in The Graphic of Australia (Nov 1917 to Apr 1918) was consulted for most of the changes listed below.
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. banknotes/bank-notes, post office/post-office, taxicab/taxi-cab, etc.) have been preserved.
This story was adapted into a silent film in 1916.
Alterations to the text:
Punctuation: fix a few quotation mark pairings/nestings and a missing period.
Merge two disjointed contractions.
[Chapter II]
“I was writing it when—when he—— Burn it. Promise ” replace the trailing space with a question mark.
[Chapter III]
Change (“The assassin must have entered with a key,” said Madland.) to Medland.
[Chapter XIV]
“showed her a photograph of the late Sir George Ravenscroft” to Ravenscourt.
[Chapter XVIII]
“two figures entered from Parliament Square a man in a dark overcoat” replace the space after Square with an em-dash.
“while her companion was Detective Inspector Medland!” to Detective-Inspector.
[Chapter XXIV]
Replace:
“application it was lying upon its back, its body writh-”
with:
“applications, accompanied always by remittances.”
[Chapter XXVII]
“fair-haired young woman in her pale blue dressing-grown” to gown.
[End of text]