Transcriber’s Note
Reading edition
This transcription follows the text of 1929 edition published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. However, the following are believed to be unambiguous errors in the text, and have been corrected:
“Four hundred” was changed to “Five hundred” to match the context (Chapter I).
“Galvestion” was changed to “Galveston” (Chapter IX).
“with out little” was changed to “with our little” (Chapter XVIII).
“by hear-” was changed to “by hearing” (Chapter XVIII).
“realties” was changed to “realities” (Chapter XIX).
Four occurrences of mismatched quotation marks have been repaired.