Retained some inconsistent hyphenation (e.g. scrubwoman vs. scrub-woman).
Replaced some obvious missing punctuation (periods and commas) that may have been omitted from the original edition or may have simply been obscured in scans of this particular copy.
The misplaced text "Mrs. White was prompt in responding to the summons," was relocated from the end of page 9 to the beginning of page 8.
Page 9, corrected typographical error "indeeed" in "indeed glad."
Page 17, corrected typographical error "imagin" in "I can't imagine."
Page 19, corrected typographical error "keeing" in "keeping him away."
Page 21, changed '?' to ?" after "what we have done?"
Page 22, corrected typographical error "to-morow" in "to-morrow morning."
Page 25, removed superfluous quote after "some degree of composure."
Page 31, corrected typographical error "disppearance" in "disappearance of Ivan Strobel."