TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.

Alterations to the text:

Note: minor spelling and hyphenization inconsistencies (e.g. foresworn/forsworn, surefooted/sure-footed, tomb-dwellers/tomb dwellers, etc.) have been preserved.

A few punctuation corrections: quotation mark pairing, missing periods, etc.

[Chapter III]

Change “a bite of food will looes your tongue” to loose.

[Chapter VII]

“certain bribed Thebian nobles” to Theban.

[Chapter X]

“Ru stared ... then answered stupidly;” change semicolon to colon.

[Chapter X]

“you will find youself growing” to yourself.

[Chapter XVII]

“unless take they us with them” to they take.

[Chapter XXII]

“the blow fell upon his thick headress” to headdress.

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