BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR

DRACULA

THE WATTER’S MOU

THE SNAKES’ PASS

UNDER THE SUNSET

THE SHOULDER OF SHASTA

MISS BETTY

Transcriber’s note

Some punctuation errors were silently corrected, but a lot of seemingly missing commas were not added. (In sentences like: “There is so much to tell” I said “that I hardly know where to begin.”)

Oddities like the repeating of parts of a sentence (“at all at all” on page 314), and possibly misspelled foreign words (“clientele” without accent) were not corrected.

Errors in the chapter numbers were corrected.

Inconsistently spelled or hyphenated words were usually not corrected, the few exceptions are mentioned in the following list.

These corrections are made, on page ix “510” was changed to “310” (The Duty of a Wife 310) 29 “fulfilment” changed to “fulfillment” (realisation or fulfillment of the old prophecy) 36 “felt” changed to “fell” (I fell in a sort of spiritual trance.) 49 “jugment” changed to “judgment” (that you should sit in judgment on me.) 54 “MacNeil” changed to “MacNiel” (the greedy eyes of Gormala MacNiel.) 86 “as” changed to “is” (This is why I thanked God then) 165 paragraph break added between “if you don’t dislike telling me.” and “So she went on:” 247 “Marjorie” changed to “Marjory” (Deftly Marjory stretched sections of her gossamer thread) 310 “night” changed to “nights” (If she knew of the last two nights) 332 “embarassment” changed to “embarrassment” (With manifest embarrassment he went on) 350 “subleties” changed to “subtleties” (better than the subtleties which) 473 “33” changed to “23” (—23—b a b b a) 477 “Ambasador” changed to “Ambassador” (his office as Ambassador) 485 “galleons leons” changed to “galleons” (Captain of the galleons and ships).

Otherwise the original was preserved.