| The following corrections have been made in the text: |
| Minor punctuation errors corrected: added several periods, removed extraneous quotes. |
| Occasional inconsistency in hyphenation has been retained. |
| A few instances of exclamation points at the end of questions have been retained. |
| ?– | "immiment" corrected to "imminent"
(peril was imminent.) |
| ?– | "loyality" corrected to "loyalty"
(faith in your loyalty,) |
| ?– | added "you"
(I hope you are well, Carrie) |
| ?– | duplicated word removed 'was'
(hope of escape was presented) |
| ?– | "gnardian" replaced with "guardian"
(with his new guardian) |
| ?– | "power?" corrected to "power!"
(get him into my power!) |
| ?– | "it?" corrected to "it!"
(Gave a thousand dollars for it!") |
| ?– | Speech marks removed from "And two thousand..." and "He doesn't know....", retained around "How long have you had it?" |
