Transcriber’s Notes
This transcription follows the text of the first edition published by A. L. Burt Company and Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1926. However, the following alterations have been made to correct what are believed to be unambiguous errors in the text:
- Two occurrences of missing quotation marks have been corrected.
- The occurrence of “deliberatly” in Chapter XI has been corrected to “deliberately”.
- The phrase “find and dandy” in Chapter XII has been corrected to “fine and dandy”.
- The dateline of “Tuesday, September 16” on Chapter XXIX has been corrected to “Tuesday, September 18”.