He meant it, but I very much doubt whether a ruling passion is so easily controlled. We shall see. THE END Transcriber's Note: The following typographical errors present in the original edition have been corrected. In Chapter I, "It is obvivious that a man who possessed such stones" was changed to "It is obvious that a man who possessed such stones", and a period was changed to a comma after "several boarding-houses in Ossery Road". In Chapter VI, quotation marks were deleted after "far more of a lover than a detective" and "I could swear to it". In Chapter VII, a quotation mark was removed after "so much the better". In Chapter XII, "a disposition to suspect Couldson" was changed to "a disposition to suspect Coulsdon". In Chapter XIII, a quotation mark was added after "whether he was in Boston, Wigan", and "I had seen Oglethorp move his" was changed to "I had seen Oglethorpe move his". In Chapter XIV, a period was added after "little significance in that". In Chapter XVI, a single quote (') was changed to a double quote (") before "Well, one cannot close one's eyes", and "I haven't got as for as thinking anything definite yet" was changed to "I haven't got as far as thinking anything definite yet". End of Project Gutenberg's Christopher Quarles, by Percy James Brebner