TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. frock-coat/frock coat, paving-stone/paving stone, shirt-sleeves/shirt sleeves, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Abandon the use of drop-caps.
Adjust the chapter numbering (the source text had two chapter XLIs).
Add ToC.
Punctuation: fix some missing periods and quotation mark pairings.
[Chapter I]
Change “such aws the gloom in the library” to was.
[Chapter XIII]
“he said, and his voice was kusky with emotion” to husky.
[Chapter XX]
“then went downstars to his own room” to downstairs.
[Chapter XXI]
“moved stealthily toward the bed, feeeling for the brass rail” to feeling.
[Chapter XXIV]
(“Do you know that Robison Crusoe was a German?”) to Robinson.
[Chapter LVI]
“and occasionlly as prospective buyers of our property” to occasionally.
[Chapter LXIV]
“Her mouth went dray nd she felt for the knife she” to dry and.
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