Transcriber’s Note
Reading edition
This transcription follows the text of the edition published by A. L. Burt Company in March, 1925, by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf. However, the following errors have been corrected from the original text:
“concide” was changed to “coincide” (Chapter IX).
“apolgised” was changed to “apologised” (Chapter IX).
“Negreso” was changed to “Negresco” (Chapter X).
Twelve occurrences of unpaired quotation marks have been fixed.