PART III.--STORIES OF CRIME AND MISADVENTURE.

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Transcriber's Notes

Variations in spelling, accents, punctuation and hyphenation are as in the original, except in cases of obvious typographical error.

The use of upper or lower case at the beginning of abbreviated proper names (e.g. a'Beckett and A'Beckett) is inconsistent. This inconsistency has been retained.

Page 9 "whether they have borrowed from or author, I leave the reader to determine." the or has been changed to our.

Italics are represnted thus _italic_ and bold thus =bold=.

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