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Transcriber's Note

This ebook retains the spelling variations of the original text.

Advertisements from the front of the original text have been moved to the back of this ebook. Ellipses have been standardized.

The following typographical corrections have been made to this text:

Table of Contents: Changed CONRADE to CONRAD (CONRAD VEREKER'S)

Page 98: Changed heathrug to hearthrug (side of the hearthrug)

Page 110: Changed things to thing (this sort of thing)

Page 119: Changed Sallikin to Sallykin (My Sallykin has been)

Page 132: Removed duplicate word 'to' (one word to save us)

Page 169: Changed Rosy to Rosey (Rosey had found a guardian)

Page 188: Changed use to us (both of us drowned)

Page 242: Changed Simly to Simply (Simply this: to show you)

Page 270: Added missing single-quote (to come hisself.')

Page 281: Added missing word 'on' (Sally was on a stairflight)

Page 304: Removed duplicate word 'together' (talk together earnestly)

Page 342: Changed you to your (promise your mother)

Page 382: Added missing period (recollection of B.C.)

Page 383: Changed tan-laden to tar-laden (blowing the tar-laden)

Page 399: Changed explantory to explanatory (self-explanatory colloquy)

Page 413: Added missing close-quotes ("Not?—not at all?")

Page 426: Changed Rosanlind to Rosalind (breathing-space for Rosalind)

Page 433: Changed bendictions to benedictions (bed, with benedictions)

Page 437: Added missing close-quotes ("But it's awful!")

Page 449: Changed same to some (Had some flavour)

Page 459: Changed suprise to surprise (surprise-tactics)

Page 471: Changed lighting-flash to lightning-flash (decisive lightning-flash)

Page 476: Changed he to be (be determined by either landlord)

Page 491: Changed elasped to elapsed (his time had elapsed)

Page 494: Removed extraneous close-quotes (trust to anything.)

Page 500: Changed skirits to skirts (muslin skirts)

Page 505: Changed Kruetzkammer to Kreutzkammer (Kreutzkammer—he's Diedrich)

Page 520: Changed new to knew (she well knew)

Page 559: Changed recue to rescue (plunged in to his rescue)

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