TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.
Sydney C. Grier was the pseudonym of Hilda Caroline Gregg.
This book is part of the author’s “Balkan Series.” The full series, in order, being:
An Uncrowned King
A Crowned Queen
The Kings of the East
The Prince of the Captivity
Alterations to the text:
Punctuation corrections—mostly quotation mark pairing.
Note: minor spelling and hyphenization inconsistencies (e.g. warships/war-ships, Grand-Duke/Grand Duke, etc.) have been left as is.
[Title Page]
Add brief note indicating this novel’s position in the series. See above.
[Chapter XII]
“Congrats. and all that sort of thing, old man” change period to a comma.
[Chapter XVIII]
Change “which passed though the station this morning” to through.
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