The original orthography of the book has been preserved, even though
some variants or systematic misspellings may be accidental. Among them,
_circumsance/circumstance_, _mein/mien_ (both rhyming with _scene_),
_bussines/business_, _the'_. Contemporary texts have been consulted for
parallel occurrences of dubious spellings like _womens' room_,
_anavoidable_, which have been retained.
Genitive _'s_ affixed to italicized words have been left inconsistently
italicized, as they were.
The following errors have been corrected:
p. 30, l. 11: nor selfih guile → nor selfish guile
p. 37, l. 10: sits ghastly Death → sits ghastly Death.
p. 55, l. 24–25: eat-ten up by Tuesday → eaten up by Tuesday
morning morning
p. 61, l. 14: that the method of, → that the method of
p. 62, l. -2: the practice was, To → the practice was, to
p. 70, l. 8: would have required too → would have required two
men men
p. 70, l. 18: his corps was discovered → his corpse was discovered
p. 71, l. 18: no person to assist him— → no person to assist him.—
p. 72, l. -2: capricious and iracible → capricious and irascible
p. 73, l. 18: as throw down → as to throw down