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diff --git a/72235-h/72235-h.htm b/72235-h/72235-h.htm index ebf5237..6d4ec24 100644 --- a/72235-h/72235-h.htm +++ b/72235-h/72235-h.htm @@ -2,12 +2,11 @@ <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> -<title>The Ponson Case</title> +<title>The Ponson Case | Project Gutenberg</title> <link rel="icon" href="images/cover.jpg" type="image/x-cover"> <style> body { - margin: 1em auto; - max-width: 40em; + margin: 10%; } p { margin: 0; @@ -88,7 +87,7 @@ div.section { page-break-before: always; } </style> </head> <body> -<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PONSON CASE ***</div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 72235 ***</div> <figure> <img id="coverpage" src="images/cover.jpg" alt="Book cover"> @@ -2256,7 +2255,7 @@ one he sort of scowled, and he tore it open and read it. I don’t know what was in it, but it fairly gave him the pip and he didn’t get over it. He was kind of worried right up to the end.’</p> -<p>‘You didn’t notice the handwriting or the postmark?</p> +<p>‘You didn’t notice the handwriting or the postmark?’</p> <p>‘No.’</p> @@ -2423,7 +2422,7 @@ train. The Inspector met him on his arrival, and explained what he wanted done, showing him the casts of the fifth man’s footsteps.</p> -<p>‘I want you,’ he said ‘to find the man who made those +<p>‘I want you,’ he said, ‘to find the man who made those tracks. You need not mind about the Manor people, I shall attend to them. Get round the country, and make inquiries in the neighbouring towns and villages. Particularly work the @@ -2986,7 +2985,7 @@ and rowed back to Halford, arriving at the pavilion about quarter before eleven. There he had waked the caretaker to get the boat in. He had walked to the Drews’, stayed with them some ten minutes, going on to his own house, which -he reached about twenty minute past eleven. Now, first, as +he reached about twenty minutes past eleven. Now, first, as to the checking of these hours.</p> <p>Tanner took a sheet of paper, and looking up his note of @@ -4527,7 +4526,7 @@ had made of his character was correct.</p> <p>‘I don’t know nothing about it,’ he growled sulkily.</p> <p>‘Oh yes, you do. Mr Ponson told me he spent that -Wednesday night here, or a part of it anyway. Is that true?</p> +Wednesday night here, or a part of it anyway. Is that true?’</p> <p>Tanner had set his little trap to learn whether the butler had been primed with a story by Cosgrove. His victim did @@ -6550,7 +6549,7 @@ portrait.</p> <p>‘That’s ’im, mister,’ he also said decisively.</p> -<p>‘Where exactly did you pick him up?</p> +<p>‘Where exactly did you pick him up?’</p> <p>‘In Knightsbridge, not far from Piccadilly.’</p> @@ -6724,7 +6723,7 @@ on her success.</p> <p>‘But we’re not finished yet, Jimmy,’ she answered him. ‘We have to find the woman—the false servant.’</p> -<p>‘You think it couldn’t have been Cosgrove?</p> +<p>‘You think it couldn’t have been Cosgrove?’</p> <p>Lois shook her head.</p> @@ -7560,7 +7559,7 @@ before those trains left?’</p> <p>The Superintendent shook his head.</p> <p>‘It’s just possible,’ he answered, ‘but I hardly think so. Your -phone was received at ’—he referred to a paper—‘4.42. Orders +phone was received at’—he referred to a paper—‘4.42. Orders were issued immediately, but considering telegraphic delays, they were probably not received at Tavistock till five or slightly after. The men would then have to be collected and instructed. @@ -9375,7 +9374,7 @@ and worse. When they cleared out they weren’t much loss.’</p> was in debt heavily, I know, and he slipped off quietly one night to the States, and was never heard of again.’</p> -<p>‘And the other?</p> +<p>‘And the other?’</p> <p>‘The elder brother, Tom, was a bad lot too. He had a tragic end. He was drowned. But I don’t think anyone mourned for @@ -9639,7 +9638,7 @@ is most interesting. Go on, Mr Tanner.’</p> <p>‘Well, sir, that leads me up to a very obvious question. You must have guessed it. You have known Dale intimately in the -past; could you identify him now?</p> +past; could you identify him now?’</p> <p>Tanner sat back in his chair and drew at his cigar. The other did not answer for a moment. Then as he slowly refilled his @@ -11029,6 +11028,6 @@ in the text:</p> </div> -<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PONSON CASE ***</div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 72235 ***</div> </body> </html> |