TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. cats-paw/catspaw/cat’s paw, Jove/jove, motor-bandit/motor bandit, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
[Chapter One]
Change “of Hipwell Hall, near Bulwick, Northamtonshire” to Northamptonshire.
[Chapter Two]
“Oh! I suppose it was a crime of jealously” to jealousy.
“They were discussing it in the office today” to to-day.
[Chapter Four]
“upon the table was a quantity of old-fashioned jewelery” to jewelry.
[Chapter Five]
“held my shackled hands in front of my face to word off her attack” to ward.
[Chapter Seventeen]
“with dispatches for Brusssels, Berne, and Vienna” to Brussels.
[Chapter Eighteen]
“my signature, which I scribbed off, hurriedly” to scribbled.
[Chapter Twenty]
“the thief would not atempt to go by train to London” to attempt.
[Chapter Twenty-One]
“And, peer and politican, magnate and mechanic, lawyer and laborer” to politician.
“I’ll be really angry wtih you in a minute” to with.
[Chapter Twenty-Four]
“we reached the little landing-stage of Evian-les-Baines to Bains.
[Chapter Twenty-Five]
“I quite inadvertantly stumbled into your private affairs” to inadvertently.
[Chapter Twenty-Seven]
“My orders are to arrest him on supsicion of being implicated” to suspicion.
[End of text]