TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. armchair/arm-chair, tea-rooms/tea rooms, unbiased/unbiassed, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Add ToC.
Adjust the chapter numbering—the source text skipped XVI.
Change two instances of “Reverend Duncan Kilroy, M.A., B.D.” to D.D.
Change five instances of Aimeé, and one of Aimee, to Aimée.
Punctuation: fix some quotation mark pairings/nestings and some missing periods and commas.
[Chapter I]
Change “came to my office—aud did business with me” to and.
[Chapter III]
“repulsed with some scorn aud a good deal of quite unnecessary” to and.
[Chapter IV]
(discreetly announce “Tragedy at Scarborongh,”) to Scarborough.
“I have given a gool deal of thought to this same subject” to good.
[Chapter V]
“end of his knowledge of the millionaire’s villanies” to villainies.
“Tbe man snarled for a few seconds longer, but” to The.
[Chapter VI]
“depression that was stealing over him. he broke into a low” change the period to a comma.
“smashed the whole contrivanee to atoms” to contrivance.
“eyes were fixed upon him, with that huugry, strained” to hungry.
“let him see Arthur safely ensconsed in his cell” to ensconced.
“and had no donbt had long consultations” to doubt.
[Chapter VII]
“For a second an indiscribable sense of nausea seized” to indescribable.
“provincial town in which she had taken np her quarters” to up.
(“you will hononr us with your presence in the Vicarage”) to honour.
they were horrified to see the young women, clad from head to foot” to woman.
“and on a conspicious board had been written the warning-notice” to conspicuous.
[Chapter VIII]
“the Scarborough paper did he think any more of the occurence” to occurrence.
(“As yon know, Ventris Blake has set his mind) to you.
(“By jove,” he said quickly, “I had forgotten one) to Jove.
[Chapter IX]
“before Arthur could confide to Paul any fnrther particulars” to further.
“scrambled on one of the red busses that run from Liverpool Street” to buses.
“is a neice of that eminent barrister, Mr. Russell Langford” to niece.
“another reason in requesting you to let me see Miss Pohtifex” to Pontifex.
(“and she tells me she ain’t agoin to stay here) to agoin’.
“taking her to some tea rooms in Bond Steeet” to Street.
(“the prospect of being rich dosen’t appeal to me) to doesn’t.
[Chapter X]
“to save Arther Hudson from all that intolerable burden” to Arthur.
(“You know we, Kaufmanns, as a family, don’t trust you) delete the comma after we.
“in the widest sense, may be easy enongh” to enough.
“grieved at his sister’s child heing turned adrift” to being.
(“Vera is out at present,” hs said, “but left a note to say) to he.
[Chapter XI]
“a member of the misercordia who goes about in a habit” to misericordia.
“the cloud of douht and suspicion seemed to lift from his face” to doubt.
“aroused a new source of interest n him, no other than” to in.
“seclusion and remoteness of the office of of a responsible newspaper” delete one of.
(“Why, Silas Q. Pinkerton, the great New York dectective,”) to detective.
[Chapter XII]
(“First and foremost. it will stop his espionage on you) change the period to a comma.
“certainly more dangerous, Thirdly—and this is the most important” change the comma to a period.
“against a trotting horse and had heen picked up dead” to been.
“but finally he seemcd to throw prudence to the winds” to seemed.
“unless he yielded the information he sougbt” to sought.
“and exactly of the amount of Five hundred pounds” to five.
“about how telegraph wires conld be tapped” to could.
[Chapter XIII]
“but all the good impression he he had made was obliterated” delete one he.
[Chapter XIV]
“I feel as though I should never be able to breath anything” to breathe.
(“Quite so,” replied the psuedo-detective. “What else) to pseudo.
(“What of that?” said Sawdry cooly. “Remember Rebecca) to coolly.
“her sisters in the early days were well known amateur actressess” to actresses.
[Chapter XV]
“soft splash of the waves as they rolled against she cliffs” to the.
“Clear your mind for a second of all prejndice, and consider” to prejudice.
(“Unfortunately, to-morrow morning may be to late,”) to too.
“Paul promptly produced a Five pound Bank of England note” to five.
[Chapter XVI]
“his feelings of honour, of family pride, of loyality” to loyalty.
“althongh you seldom did oblige anyone except yourself” to although.
“who I understand he will marry to-morrow at St. Georges, Hanover Square” to George’s.
“I was mad with jealously and rage because Jules Prendergast” to jealousy.
[Chapter XVII]
“that meant ease and a certain Five pound a week” to five.
“his thoery that Ventris Blake had really killed his wife” to theory.
“put that wretched rodent you are hugging, down for a moment” delete the comma after hugging.
[Chapter XVIII]
“unbiassed auditors, No longer did they seek to persuade” change the comma to a period.
“bundle of notes, similiar to those they had on the table” to similar.
“the officers expressed neither surprise. dissent, nor pleasure” change the period to a comma.
“The poor woman, Rebeccca Charlton, was carried out” to Rebecca.
[Chapter XIX]
“quickly forgot all the terrible hours of auguish” to anguish.
[Conclusion]
“she took advantage of of one dark night and her” delete one of.
“tell you something new and startling and strange of Paul him-himself” to himself.
[End of text]