Minor spelling inconsistencies (e.g. cats-paw/catspaw/cat’s paw,
Jove/jove, motor-bandit/motor bandit, etc.) have been preserved.
Alterations to the text:
[Chapter One]
Change “of Hipwell Hall, near Bulwick, _Northamtonshire_” to
_Northamptonshire_.
[Chapter Two]
“Oh! I suppose it was a crime of _jealously_” to _jealousy_.
“They were discussing it in the office _today_” to _to-day_.
[Chapter Four]
“upon the table was a quantity of old-fashioned _jewelery_” to
_jewelry_.
[Chapter Five]
“held my shackled hands in front of my face to _word_ off her attack”
to _ward_.
[Chapter Seventeen]
“with dispatches for _Brusssels_, Berne, and Vienna” to _Brussels_.
[Chapter Eighteen]
“my signature, which I _scribbed_ off, hurriedly” to _scribbled_.
[Chapter Twenty]
“the thief would not _atempt_ to go by train to London” to _attempt_.
[Chapter Twenty-One]
“And, peer and _politican_, magnate and mechanic, lawyer and laborer”
to _politician_.
“I’ll be really angry _wtih_ you in a minute” to _with_.
[Chapter Twenty-Four]
“we reached the little landing-stage of Evian-les-_Baines_ to _Bains_.
[Chapter Twenty-Five]
“I quite _inadvertantly_ stumbled into your private affairs” to
_inadvertently_.
[Chapter Twenty-Seven]
“My orders are to arrest him on _supsicion_of being implicated” to
_suspicion_.
[End of text]