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@@ -1200,7 +1200,7 @@ questions, and I hope you will answer them. I feel that I am entitled to some knowledge, because I and my family are just now in a most ambiguous position.” -I don’t know whether he understood me or not: he took of his glasses +I don’t know whether he understood me or not: he took off his glasses and wiped them. “I shall be very happy,” he said with old-fashioned courtesy. @@ -1899,7 +1899,7 @@ anxious about it: thank Heaven, it wouldn’t chip—and then she stared at me. “I appreciate your desire to have everything nice for him,” I went on, -“but the next time, you might take the Limoges china It’s more easily +“but the next time, you might take the Limoges china. It’s more easily duplicated and less expensive.” “I haven’t a young man—not here.” She had got her breath now, as I had @@ -1971,7 +1971,7 @@ something gleaming, which proved to be the handle of a cup, and a step or two farther on I found a V-shaped bit of a plate. But the most surprising thing of all was to find the basket sitting comfortably beside the road, with the rest of the broken crockery piled neatly -within, and a handful of small silver, spoon, forks, and the like, on +within, and a handful of small silver, spoons, forks, and the like, on top! I could only stand and stare. Then Rosie’s story was true. But where had Rosie carried her basket? And why had the thief, if he were a thief, picked up the broken china out of the road and left it, with his @@ -2259,7 +2259,7 @@ ruffian came back, and she—and she—” I couldn’t finish. Halsey stood looking at me with shut lips. -“She might have heard him fumbling at the door he had no key, the +“She might have heard him fumbling at the door—he had no key, the police say—and thinking it was you, or Jack, she admitted him. When she saw her mistake she ran up the stairs, a step or two, and turning, like an animal at bay, she fired.” @@ -2671,7 +2671,7 @@ speak. “Somebody—had it?” she asked. “Yes. Halsey tried to stop whoever it was and fell. Gertrude, that -blanket is not mine. I have never seen before.” +blanket is not mine. I have never seen it before.” She held it up and looked at it: then she went to the door on to the veranda and threw it open. Perhaps a hundred feet from the house were @@ -3250,7 +3250,7 @@ the midst of luxury? “Did you ever long, and long, for money—money to use without question, money that no one would take you to task about? My mother and I have -been surrounded for years with every indulgence everything that would +been surrounded for years with every indulgence—everything that would make a display. But we have never had any money, Miss Innes; that must have been why mother rented this house. My stepfather pays our bills. It’s the most maddening, humiliating existence in the world. I would @@ -3537,7 +3537,7 @@ Walker. Moreover, this decision was not new; marriage had been contemplated for some time. There must certainly be some explanation—but what was it? -That day I repeated to Louise the telegram Mr. Warton had opened. +That day I repeated to Louise the telegram Mr. Harton had opened. She seemed to understand, but an unhappier face I have never seen. She looked like a criminal whose reprieve is over, and the day of execution @@ -4439,7 +4439,7 @@ the Thursday night before, about eight-thirty, Bailey went back to the bank. Jonas admitted him, and he says the cashier was in a state almost of collapse. Bailey worked until midnight, then he closed the vault and went away. The occurrence was so unusual that the watchman pondered -over it an the rest of the night. What did Bailey do when he went back +over it all the rest of the night. What did Bailey do when he went back to the Knickerbocker apartments that night? He packed a suit-case ready for instant departure. But he held off too long; he waited for something. My personal opinion is that he waited to see Miss Gertrude @@ -5429,7 +5429,7 @@ we were embarked on the darkness of another night. Apparently only a few minutes elapsed, during which my eyes were becoming accustomed to the darkness. Then I noticed that the windows -were reflecting a faint pinkish light, Liddy noticed it at the same +were reflecting a faint pinkish light; Liddy noticed it at the same time, and I heard her jump up. At that moment Sam’s deep voice boomed from somewhere just below. @@ -5449,9 +5449,8 @@ volunteer department got to work, which shook their nerves as well as the burning building. The stable, being on a hill, was a torch to attract the population from every direction. Rumor had it that Sunnyside was burning, and it was amazing how many people threw -something over their night-clothes and flew to the conflagration. - -I take it Casanova has few fires, and Sunnyside was furnishing the +something over their night-clothes and flew to the conflagration. I +take it Casanova has few fires, and Sunnyside was furnishing the people, in one way and another, the greatest excitement they had had for years. @@ -5535,7 +5534,7 @@ china crashed to the ground. Then I ran up the stairs and along the corridor to the main staircase. Gertrude was standing there, trying to locate the shots, and I must have been a peculiar figure, with my hair in crimps, my dressing-gown flying, no slippers, and a revolver -clutched in my hands I had no time to talk. There was the sound of +clutched in my hands. I had no time to talk. There was the sound of footsteps in the lower hall, and some one bounded up the stairs. I had gone Berserk, I think. I leaned over the stair-rail and fired @@ -6400,7 +6399,7 @@ grayish-haired man, trimming borders near the house. The day detective was watching him, sitting on the carriage block. When he saw me, he got up. -“Miss Innes,” he said, taking of his hat, “do you know where Alex, the +“Miss Innes,” he said, taking off his hat, “do you know where Alex, the gardener, is?” “Why, no. Isn’t he here?” I asked. @@ -8039,14 +8038,14 @@ interval since the securities had been taken. Where was it? And from some chance remark let fall some months earlier by Arnold Armstrong at a dinner, Bailey felt sure there was a hidden room at Sunnyside. He tried to see the architect of the building, but, like the contractor, -if he knew of the such a room he refused any information. It was -Halsey’s idea that John Bailey come to the house as a gardener, and -pursue his investigations as he could. His smooth upper lip had been -sufficient disguise, with his change of clothes, and a hair-cut by a -country barber. +if he knew of the room, he refused any information. It was Halsey’s +idea that John Bailey come to the house as a gardener, and pursue his +investigations as he could. His smooth upper lip had been sufficient +disguise, with his change of clothes, and a hair-cut by a country +barber. So it was Alex, Jack Bailey, who had been our ghost. Not only had he -alarmed—Louise and himself, he admitted—on the circular staircase, but +alarmed Louise—and himself, he admitted—on the circular staircase, but he had dug the hole in the trunk-room wall, and later sent Eliza into hysteria. The note Liddy had found in Gertrude’s scrap-basket was from him, and it was he who had startled me into unconsciousness by the |