STREET & SMITH CORPORATION,

79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York City.


TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.
[Pg 5]: ‘Bruce Bowning, lazily’ replaced by ‘Bruce Browning, lazily’.
[Pg 5]: ‘to get saurkraut’ replaced by ‘to get sauerkraut’.
[Pg 15]: ‘frunish the best’ replaced by ‘furnish the best’.
[Pg 16]: ‘without higgling’ replaced by ‘without haggling’.
[Pg 63]: ‘The offiecr hesitated’ replaced by ‘The officer hesitated’.
[Pg 73]: ‘still skurrying’ replaced by ‘still scurrying’.
[Pg 118]: ‘her one determiantion’ replaced by ‘her one determination’.
[Pg 120]: ‘to her attractivenes’ replaced by ‘to her attractiveness’.
[Pg 181]: ‘hands on his lips’ replaced by ‘hands on his hips’.
[Pg 183]: ‘I shall exepct’ replaced by ‘I shall expect’.
[Pg 201]: ‘tune as pssible’ replaced by ‘tune as possible’.
[Pg 220]: ‘asked the forman’ replaced by ‘asked the foreman’.