Transcriber's Notes:
Punctuation has been standardized.
Some alternate spellings have been retained.
A Table of Contents has been added.
Character "Roderic" name had variant spelling "Roderick" on 10 pages. Corrected to "Roderic" for consistency with other 450 occurrences.
Character "Beven" name had variant spelling "Bevens" on 8 pages. Corrected to "Beven" for consistency with other 53 occurrences.
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p. 15: "debonnair" changed to "debonair" (his debonair manner)
p. 33: "wont" changed to "won't" (You won't join me then?)
p. 68: "chapparal" changed to "chaparral" (than from a chaparral)
p. 92: "openations" changed to "operations" (start operations upon)
p. 93: "glimse" changed to "glimpse" (a glimpse of a flaring candle)
p. 122: "predeliction" changed to "predilection" (predilection for having)
p. 145: "bete noir" changed to "bete noire" (greatest bete noire was)
p. 155: "tempation" changed to "temptation" (resist the temptation)
p. 171: "lesat" changed to "least" (to say the least)
p. 175: "byegone" changed to "bygone" (relics of bygone days)
p. 184: "byeways" changed to "byways" (the streets and byways)
p. 185: "in" changed to "to" (induced to enter the trap)
p. 189: "diableric" changed to "diablerie" (diablerie of his appearance)
p. 195: "succumed" changed to "succumbed" (succumbed to the charm)
p. 217: "semed" changed to "seemed" (at the moment seemed deeply engrossed)
p. 235: "posibility" changed to "possibility" (bounds of human possibility)
p. 245: "ecstacy" changed to "ecstasy" (ecstasy and keen pain)
p. 246: "apperture" changed to "aperture" (a gaping aperture)
p. 251: Finished incomplete word "dungeon" (reach the closed dungeon)
p. 261: "resuced" changed to "rescued" (than be rescued by you)
p. 280: "irrisistibly" changed to "irresistibly" (sweeps irresistibly)
p. 280: "fusilade" changed to "fusillade" (when the fusillade ceased)
p. 287: "Her's" changed to "Hers" (Hers was the blessed hand)
p. 287: "her's" changed to "hers" (hers the cheery face)