Alterations to the text:
A few minor punctuation corrections—mostly involving the pairing of quotation marks.
Change three instances of “Mrs.” to “Mrs” and one of “Dr.” to “Dr”. Otherwise, minor spelling and hyphenization inconsistencies have been left as is.
[Title Page]
Add illustrator’s credit and brief note indicating this novel’s position in the series. See above.
[Footnotes]
Place the book’s sole footnote (Chapter XIX) in square brackets inline with the text.
[Chapter XI]
Change “said Bahram Kham approvingly” to Khan.
[Chapter XVII]