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The Duke of York's steps

Chapter 28: Transcriber’s Note
By Henry Wade
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The story follows an investigation into a sudden death that draws in a prominent banking family and their circle of business associates. An inspector pieces together inquests, alibis, eyewitness testimony and a reconstructed sequence of events while financial entanglements, speculative mining promotions and corporate rivalries reveal competing motives. Family loyalties and social pressures complicate witness accounts, and a woman's intervention alters the course of the inquiry. The legal proceedings and final judgment force characters to confront questions of responsibility, truth, and the moral costs of ambition.

Transcriber’s Note

This transcription follows the text of the edition published by Payson & Clarke Ltd in 1929. The following changes have been made to correct what are believed to be unambiguous printer’s errors.

  • “Inpector” was changed to “Inspector” (Chapter VI).
  • “ect.” was changed to “etc.” (Chapter VI).
  • “Phys,” was changed to “Phys.” (Chapter VI).
  • “Brittanica” was changed to “Britannica” (Chapter VII).
  • “occcasionally” was changed to “occasionally” (Chapter IX).
  • “impossible for use” was changed to “impossible for us” (Chapter XI).
  • “Duhamel Freres” was changed to “Duhamel Frères” (Chapter XV).
  • “testting” was changed to “testing” (Chapter XVII).
  • “a complicate” was changed to “a complicated” (Chapter XIX).
  • “realiable” was changed to “reliable” (Chapter XXI).
  • “fiften” was changed to “fifteen” (Chapter XXV).
  • “faint preliminary whim” was changed to “faint preliminary whirr” (Chapter XXV).
  • “startingly” was changed to “startlingly” (Chapter XXV).
  • “necesity” was changed to “necessity” (Chapter XXVI).
  • Seven occurrences of mismatched quotation marks have been repaired.

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