Detective and mystery stories; England -- Fiction; Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
* “she overlook him” has been changed to “she overtook him”
(Chapter VIII).
* “beside the lire” has been changed to “beside the fire”
(Chapter X).
* “If was about” has been changed to “It was about” (Chapter XVIII).
* “anything hut slow” has been changed to “anything but slow”
(Chapter XIX).
* Two occurrences of suprious commas (e.g. “the writing, table”) have
been removed.
* Three occurrences of spurious hyphenation (e.g. “him-self”) have
been removed.
* Six occurrences of deleted hyphens in the words “to-day”,
“to-morrow”, and “to-night” have been restored.
Additionally, two other errors, both in Chapter XI, appear to be
unambiguous enough to be safely corrected:
* The ungrammatical phrase “to him dismount” has been changed to
“to make him dismount”.
* A reference to the nonexistent personage “Sybil Fayre” has been
changed to “Sybil Kean”.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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