TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. childlike/child-like, dinner-party/dinner party, Ritz-Carlton/Ritz Carlton, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Add ToC.
Punctuation fixes: some missing periods and commas, and adjust some quotation mark pairings/nestings.
[Chapter I]
Change “She left the room as noislessly as she had entered” to noiselessly.
[Chapter II]
“applause for the genius and presience of the little man” to prescience.
[Chapter III]
“Mr. Tressler took his loss very calmly until the newspapers” to Tresser.
[Chapter V]
“she sticks to it; and maybe its something else” to it’s.
“But I’m afraid its no use. This poor fellow has been shot” to it’s.
[Chapter VII]
(“Is that so?” he said increduously.) to incredulously.
[Chapter VIII]
“he unbolted the door, unbottoned the coat, and took out” to unbuttoned.
[Chapter IX]
“Its full of secret drawers, and I remember Miss Joyce saying” to It’s.
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