a letter at the house this morning. I meant to tell you of it. I have
got the appointment that I told you of and in three days I start for
South America. I will take the coat just as it is, weight it beyond the
possibility of recovery and sink it out of the world in the deepest part
of the Atlantic; beyond controversy, and safe from falling to any
ignoble use. You can supply me with a box and lead. You approve of
that?”
“I will help you,” said Carrados, rising.
THE END
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Transcriber’s Notes
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The following changes and corrections have been made:
• p. 37: Removed period after “Mr” in phrase “Mr Marrable started
rather violently.”
• p. 39: Changed “fusilade” to “fusillade” in phrase “the fusillade
shrivelled away.”
• p. 40: Removed period after “Mr” in phrase “Mr Marrable.... Lot 192,
_History and Antiquities of the County, etc._”
• p. 47: Changed “Dr Dillworthy” to “Mr Dillworthy” in phrase “What was
the next lot that Mr Dillworthy bought?”
• p. 60: Removed period after “Mr” in phrase “Mr Carlyle did not pull
his man up in a few weeks.”
• p. 62: Changed “shread” to “shred” in phrase “did not leave behind
him one solitary shred of evidence.”
• p. 78: Added period after phrase “admitted Beedel modestly.”
• p. 108: Moved question mark inside closing single quotation mark in
phrase “‘What was?’ I asked.”
• p. 110: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “It isn’t
since Tuesday, sir.”
• p. 123: Added em-dash after “monument” in phrase “the most important
monument--the Judge.”
• p. 148: Added closing double quotation mark after phrase “I have only
seen something in the _Indicator_.”
• p. 149: Removed period after “Mrs” in phrase “Mrs Dupreen was by no
means in easy circumstances.”
• p. 153: Changed “be” to “he” in phrase “Where had he bought it?”
• p. 158: Changed “Steet” to “Street” in phrase “the point nearest
Trenion Street.”
• p. 160: Removed period after “Mr” in phrase “Mr Lightcraft will know
how to administer it.”
• p. 176: Changed “canont” to “cannot” in phrase “that this confident,
suspicious man cannot see her now.”
• p. 198: Added period after phrase “interposed his employer with
decision.”
• p. 205: Removed period after “Mr” in phrase “I’ll tell you what it
is, Mr Belting.”
• p. 213: Changed “uprasied” to “upraised” in phrase “he said with
upraised hand.”
• p. 217: Changed single to double closing double quotation mark after
phrase “You haven’t given me the chance of playing host for a month
or more.”
• p. 223: Removed duplicate “a” in phrase “a piece of superfluous
honesty.”
• p. 229: Changed triple to double closing double quotation mark after
phrase “We’ve had no one from there anyway.”
• p. 234: Changed “the the” to “on the” in phrase “and then focussed on
the column.”
• p. 235: Added “of” in phrase “the mere act of sipping.”
• p. 247: Removed period after “Mr” in phrase “declared Mr Carlyle with
warm approval as the door closed.”
• p. 250: Added opening double quotation mark before phrase “You seem
troubled, Parkinson.”
• p. 255: Changed “profund” to “profound” in phrase “the general
atmosphere of profound somnolence that enveloped the Metaphysical.”
• p. 262: Changed “Strathbane” to “Strathblane” in phrase “Carrados’s
car drew up at Strathblane Lodge.”
• p. 263: Removed period after “Mr” in phrase “Mr Carrados happens to
be blind, Mr Spinola.”
• p. 268: Removed period after “Mr” in phrase “If you had no conscience
you would be a dangerous opponent, Mr Carrados.”
• p. 276: Removed period after “Mr” in phrase “you have been too clever
for an old man, Mr Carrados?”
• p. 263: Removed period after “Mr” in phrase “you have surpassed the
dreams of Babbage, Mr Spinola.”
• p. 284: Added opening double quotation mark before phrase “Not
guilty, my lord!”
• p. 295: Added period after “Rev.” in phrase “The Rev. Byam Hosier,
the senior curate.”
• p. 318: Added period after phrase “One never knows what may happen
next.”
• p. 329: Changed “its” to “it” in phrase “and it protects from harm.”
• p. 330: Changed “that I do” to “than I do” in phrase “I expect that
you run more risks than I do.”
• p. 351: Changed “selfconfident” to “self-confident” in phrase “What
had those priests of Goa that made them so self-confident?”