TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
The 1919 edition by the same publisher was consulted for the changes listed below.
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. air-raid/air raid, Chili/Chile, taxicab/taxi-cab, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Convert footnotes to endnotes.
Abandon the use of drop-caps.
Punctuation: fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings, missing periods, etc.
[Chapter II]
Change “I looked at our good Von Kahn, with his big red face” to von.
“informing the Kreigsministerium that he was evidently well” to Kriegsministerium.
“I should not set on foot independent inquries as to their” to inquiries.
“been seen leaving the Central Station at Glagow” to Glasgow.
[Chapter III]
“Almost as he spoke we hard a quick rustle and swish” to heard.
[Chapter IV]
“the place of your birth and the state of your banking acccount” to account.
[Chapter V]
(“Your Excellency will discover that I have spoken noting but the truth,”) to nothing.
[Chapter VI]
“I myself am working night and day to obatin results” to obtain.
[Chapter VII]
“Miss O’Mara and I met in the halycon days at a ball.” to halcyon.
“outside the principal entrace to an exhibition ground?” to entrance.
“on the ground floor and had the advanage of having no porter” to advantage.
“attention to men with have fought and bled for one’s country” to who.
“by any who have the entreé to the archives in Wilhelmstrasse” to entrée.
[Chapter VIII]
(There is a saying in my country; “Trust an Englishman,) change the semicolon to a colon.
(“That is an enoromous amount. Who asks for it?”) to enormous.
“sheet of note-paper, which bore at the top the inscription.” change the period to a colon.
“The letter was brief and peremptory?” change the question mark to a colon.
[Chapter IX]
“in tones of gentle but amused tolerence I hinted at my client’s vanity.” to tolerance.
“two or three days later he produced two maunscripts dealing with” to manuscripts.
[Chapter X]
“meet that I should perface the story with a short introduction” to preface.
“that moment that my quick German brain grapsed the situation.” to grasped.
“Two or three gentleman with whom you have had dealings” to gentlemen.
[Chapter XI]
“If there were any burntofferings required, it were better for” to burnt offerings.
(“Do you know them,” asked Wilhelm Peters.) change the comma to a question mark.
(“I have met them?” I said, and somehow at that) change the question mark to a comma.
[Chapter XII]
“been opened and my razors and shaving apparatus was neatly laid out.” to were.
[Chapter XIV]
“If you will insert an adertisement in the Daily Megaphone” to advertisement.
[Chapter XV]
“I pondered this letter for some considerable time ann before I went out” to and.
[Chapter XVII]
“We Germans are wideawake.” to wide-awake.
[Chapter XVIII]
“dresssed in his shirt and trousers” to dressed.
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