Period spelling and hyphenation were retained. Missing punctuation added; extraneous punctuation (quotation marks) removed. However, the following apparent printing errors were detected and corrected (where possible).

“accurary” changed to “accuracy” on page 5. (with surprising accuracy)

“no” changed to “not” on page 24. (and a not very encouraging feature)

“crted” on page 58 is probably a printing error, but the original word could not be determined (the chill of horror that crted over his brain)

“thoughs” changed to “thoughts” on page 68. (struggle with her thoughts unaided)

“familar” changed to “familiar” on page 79. (familiar to me as Master Clifford’s)

“exhilirate” changed to “exhilarate” on page 177, to match other occurrences of the word. (to exhilarate her father)

“molestatation” changed to “molestation” on page 251. (she encountered no molestation)