TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
These short stories were originally serialized in the The Strand Magazine volumes 42-44 (1911-12). The _Strand_ series was consulted for many of the changes listed below.
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g., notebook/note-book, passage way/passage-way, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Abandon the use of drop-caps.
Fix some quotation mark pairings.
[Chapter III]
Change “The comedy—it it were a comedy—was repeated” to if.
“the envelope, which I addressed in large bald letters to” to bold. Also add a comma after large.
“engaged on the company’s business” to in.
[Chapter IV]
“that episiode at Charing Cross Station was the result” to episode.
[Chapter V]
“then he looked after the door—the expression on his face” to donor.
[Chapter VI]
“Moving stealthily towards the man with the shallow cheeks” to sallow.
[Chapter VII]
“conflower blue is her favourite colour” to cornflower.
[Chapter IX]
“That cabman carried out my instructions to the letter we certainly did not exceed the limit I had imposed” add a semicolon after letter.
“ran his fingers through his victim’s pockets with a swftness” to swiftness.
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