Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found within each story in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Pages [279] and [286] both used “Chapter IV”; in this eBook, the second one has been changed to “Chapter V”.