TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.
Reading edition
Sydney C. Grier was the pseudonym of Hilda Caroline Gregg.
This book is part of the author’s “Modern East” series. The full series, in order, being:
The Flag of the Adventurer Two Strong Men The Advanced-Guard His Excellency’s English Governess Peace With Honour The Warden of the Marches
Alterations to the text:
A few minor punctuation corrections—mostly involving the pairing of quotation marks.
Note: minor spelling and hyphenization inconsistencies have been left as is.
[Title Page]
Add brief note indicating this novel’s position in the series. See above.
[Footnotes]
Relabel the footnote marker, relocate to end of text, and add entry to TOC. Note: the author has placed the shorter footnotes in square brackets inline with the text.
[Chapter XXI]
“to be sweeping over it, Underfoot were the...” change comma to period.
[Chapter XXII]
Change “I bid the Mensahibs welcome in her name.” to Memsahibs.
[Chapter XXIII]
“it was necessary to rid in single file” to ride.
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