TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.
The edition published by Collins’ Clear-Type Press (London, 1921) was referenced for most of the corrections listed below.
Alterations to the text:
Assorted punctuation corrections (missing periods, quotation marks, etc.).
Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. preoccupied/pre-occupied, witness-box/witness box, etc.) have been preserved.
[Chapter II]
Change “all the possible moves to come or to be counted” to countered.
[Chapter III]
“he once opened the sluice he’d drain the damned river” to dammed.
[Chapter IV]