"So much the better! So much the better!" said the police officer enchanted. And hastening along even faster, he said to himself:
"I am going to read all that to the children; yes, all that—it will amuse them—life is a romance like any other! More incredible than any other! And these questions; the unknown, the invisible, all these problems—how interesting they are! And the mystery—so amusing!"
JULES CLARETIE of the French Academy; Mrs. Carlton A. Kingsbury, Translator.
Transcriber's Notes
For reasons unknown, the chapter headings show no Chapter XII and no Chapter XV. The chapter headings were left unchanged. I am told that both a copy of the physical book and the copy at The Interne Archive have the same Chapter numbering sequence.
On page 15, a quotation mark was placed before "But since you".
On page 15, a quotation mark was placed before "But I am nothing".
On page 35, "in so unforseen" was replaced with "in so unforeseen".