TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Gertrude Warden was the pseudonym of Gertrude Isobel Price.
She was the younger sister of author/actress Florence Warden.
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. evening-gown/evening gown, stepmother/step-mother, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
Punctuation: fix a few quotation mark pairings.
[Prologue.—Part II]
“William’s wife she said she felt she’d rather have died at once” delete first she.
Change “a neighboring farmer had been commisioned to bring” to commissioned.
[Chapter VII]
“as well as other points which had puzzed her” to puzzled.
[Chapter XII]
“saw the unimstakable relief in her face, and hastened” to unmistakable.
[Chapter XV]
“into the presence of his lovely fianceé” to fiancée.
“the shrill, eldritch laughter of the hag Sarah Carew” to Carewe.
[Chapter XVI]
“Stephen’s hawk-eyes to distinguish anything Stopping still” add period after anything.
[Chapter XVII]
“He did not even see Dakin in attendancce as his pale face” to attendance.
“could hardly refrain from a little cry of admiraton” to admiration.
“to whisper and mumble the necessary reponses in the service” to responses.
[Chapter XVIII]
(“Handsome is as handsome does,” persisted the old old gentleman) delete one old.
(“Tis some trick of old Sarah’s,” he kept on repeating) to ’Tis.
[Chapter XIX]
“you don’t bear me any gruge, do you?” to grudge.
[Chapter XX]
“he gathered little but that an eldely woman named Tait” to elderly.
[End of text]