TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. debris/débris, finger nails/finger-nails, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Add chapter numbering.
Punctuation: fix a few quotation mark pairings.
[Chapter IV]
Change (“If this strang thing is to be brought to bay) to strange.
[Chapter VIII]
(letter signature) change Neils to Niels.
[Chapter IX]
“If I could help you I would, but I am pledegd to secrecy” to pledged.
[Chapter XI]
“She would have offered you a rose if I hadn’t been persent” to present.
“never failed to tingle whenever Bertha loomd in sight” to loomed.
[Chapter XII]
“I’d have no difficulty in convicting Hienrich and Niels” to Heinrich.
“the people at Arveys have been busy in that direction” to Arveyes.
[Chapter XIII]
(“But Mademoisele Fallières!” ejaculated Bertha) to Mademoiselle.
[Chapter XXI]
“was not the type of man to take any unnecassary risk” to unnecessary.
[Chapter XXIII]
(“Do you know a village callet Basset?”) to called.
“The reached the kitchen and heard Walther dealing” to They.
[Chapter XXV]
(“Why was Fallière’s body found here—and Severin’s?” to Fallières’s.
[Chapter XXIX]
“The warning cry came from Hienrich, and Niels” to Heinrich.
[Chapter XXX]
“All the while he was appoaching closer” to approaching.
[End of text]