Transcriber’s Notes:

Table of Contents has been added for reader convenience. Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained. Punctuation has been corrected without note. Other errors have been corrected as noted below. For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals available for preparation of the eBook.

page 93, after Kate, stupified ==> after Kate, [stupefied]

page 93, be so forciby depicted ==> be so [forcibly] depicted

page 94, a strange forboding feeling, ==> a strange [foreboding] feeling,

page 96, suffering. His commisseration was ==> suffering. His [commiseration] was

page 97, that was irresistable. ==> that was [irresistible].

page 97, been put hors du combat, ==> been put hors [de] combat,

page 101, abandoned villany are, ==> abandoned [villainy] are,