"Yes, sir; I signed it last night at your request, and so did my wife."
Jack put his hand up to his forehead. "My God!" he muttered, "I must be going mad." Suddenly everything began to whirl about him, and he sank exhausted into his chair.
"John," he said, "send for a cab; I am feeling very ill, and must go home."
Four days later he was dead. The family doctor pronounced the case one of malignant diphtheria.
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Irregularities in hyphenation (e.g. wide-spread and widespread) and spelling (e.g. toward and towards) between stories have not been changed.
The following errors have been corrected:
-Pg. vi: semi-colon to comma (so familiar to us that,) -Pg. 72: proposes to proposed (Mr. George proposed) -Pg. 101: street to sheet (damp and dirty sheet, was almost ... ) -Pg. 104: Missing period added (VI.) -Pg. 111: repentence to repentance -Pg. 112: Coloned to Colonel -Pg. 125: effiulgent to effulgent -Pg. 145: so to to (been to see them lately) -Pg. 153: neckless to necklace -Pg. 186: was to with (an open fireplace with a low wooden mantel) -Pg. 187: he to she (if by so doing she could) -Pg. 207: collegate-mate to college-mate -Pg. 209: open quote added ("When Félice was a little more ...") -Pg. 239: lanquor to langour -Pg. 271: Nuthin.' to Nuthin'. -Pg. 272: Religon to Religion -Pg. 278: semed to seemed -Pg. 281: decidedely to decidedly -Pg. 289: loeked to looked -Pg. 300: janior to janitor
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