TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
The edition published by Arrowsmith (Bristol, 1897) was referenced for most of the fixes listed below.
Alterations to the text:
[CHAPTER I]
Change “fine,—occcasionally classic,—but intelligent” to occasionally.
“And that reminds me, there is at fellow arrived” to a.
“I hate, pale-blue eyes. I prefer soft...” delete comma.
“But this large, soft and silvery, was like” to laugh.
[CHAPTER II]
“a trifle, I assure you?” change question mark to exclamation mark.
“met in one flash of mutual comprehension! then, as the...” change exclamation mark to a semicolon.
[CHAPTER III]
“come and find me in the upper-room” to supper-room.
[CHAPTER V]
“My dear Ross you know how dull they are!” add comma after Ross.
“Courtney look at him puzzled and baffled.” to looked.
[CHAPTER VI]
“and has resided there every since” to ever.
“It is an enigma as profound as that of the sphinx” to Sphinx.
“poignard clasped in in her right hand” delete one in.
“addressing his unfascinating object with apparent indifference” to this.
[CHAPTER VII]
“You are an uprincipled man, Armand” to unprincipled.
(“You believe in Death?” ask the Princess) to asked.
[CHAPTER VIII]
“Beside, there’s something rather strange” to Besides.
[CHAPTER X]
“A la campagne—le desert—les pyramides!” to À.
“has gone to secures rooms at the Mena House Hotel” to secure.
“as though it were an after thought” to afterthought.
[CHAPTER XI]
“she semed to float lazily like a creature” to seemed.
“to pretend to be shocked at the proceeding” to proceedings.
[CHAPTER XII]
“reviewed the emotions of the past night and tired to analyze them” to tried.
[CHAPTER XIII]
“Gervase move aside with him” to moved.
[CHAPTER XIV]
“Your ‘passion,’ you see, my friend awakens” add comma after friend.
(“Ah, there is the difficulty!” she said.) Merge with the paragraph that follows.
“like a Cleopatra, on any other old-world enchantress” to or.
[CHAPTER XV]
“his arms was suddenly seized and pinioned” to were.
[CHAPTER XVI]
“Vainly Denzil Marray waited next morning” to Murray.