TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. butterfly-net/butterfly net, landmarks/land-marks, etc.) have been preserved.
Note: some of the fixes list below are due to an apparent publishing error wherein some of the leftmost characters of a few lines didn’t get printed.
Alterations to the text:
Punctuation: fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings and a few missing periods.
[Chapter V]
Change “there was a gap bewteen her frock and her neck” to between.
[Chapter VI]
“into the pocket of the pyjama acket she wore” to jacket.
[Chapter XV]
“He looked back over his sholulder” to shoulder.
[Chapter XVI]
“peering fearfully nto the darkness” to into.
[Chapter XX]
“take special recautions to protect themselves against” to precautions.
[Chapter XXI]
“After Dick and the others. it was simply wonderful to think” change the period to a comma.
“bring me one of those ters … from which he rites … your troubles ll be at an end” to letters, writes, and will, respectively.
[Chapter XXIII]
“show what state of min she was in” to mind.
[Chapter XXVI]
“from a box and fastened it round her neek” to neck.
[Chapter XXVII]
“with three or four pople making tracks” to people.
“Amourer shook his head” to Armourer.
[Chapter XXIX]
“for here on the stool was irrefutable evidence” to there.
[Chapter XXX]
“He insed it and threw the drops to the floor” to rinsed.
[Chapter XXXII]
“Standon looked at the planter” to Standen.
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