TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
This story was also published as Spiderweb.
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. fire-engines/fire engines, moonlit/moon-lit, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Formatting: abandon the use of drop-caps.
Punctuation: fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings.
Add ToC.
[Chapter One]
Change “resolutely directed her attenton to the flying landscape” to attention.
[Chapter Two]
“Macadam stired uncomfortably and took out his cigarette case” to stirred.
“surging exodus of pasengers on to the grimy platform” to passengers.
[Chapter Eight]
“you know what servants can be like when they ve had the” to they’ve.
“after several fruitless attemps to open the door” to attempts.
[Chapter Twelve]
“dark form creeping stealthly up the white fringe” to stealthily.
“tears streaming down her checks, hands clasped” to cheeks.
[Chapter Thirteen]
“All at once her thoughts veered to the little notaire” italicize notaire.
[Chapter Fourteen]
“Not a soul, except that horried little man I told you about” to horrid.
[Chapter Nineteen]
“On the table in the entrance hall several letter were awaiting” to letters.
[Chapter Twenty-Seven]
“the entire scene was singularly. charming in its total absence” delete the period.
[Chapter Thirty-Four]
“furnished with a delicate magnificance, had a general look” to magnificence.
[Chapter Thirty-Eight]
“Whereever she turned it was there, watching her” to Wherever.
[Chapter Forty]
“to the Rolls’ description only a few minutues before” to minutes.
[End of text]