TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. lounge-chair/lounge chair, shore-signal/shore signal, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Abandon the use of drop-caps.
Punctuation: fix a few quotation mark pairings/nestings.
[Chapter IV]
Change (“Please, mumsy,” she pleaded—“until I have) to Mumsy.
[Chapter XXIV]
“He is a member of a very dangerout organization” to dangerous.
[Chapter XXVIII]
“There was no one on the stairs, and no one. in the long, glazed” delete the period.
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