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1. Listing, moved the first four pages book listings to the end of the novel and before the listings at the end. 2. 70, supplied “fight” as unknown 5 letter word in “By this time the girl’s _____ had been answered.” 3. Table of Contents added by transcriber. 4. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 5. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 6. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
End of Project Gutenberg's Dick Merriwell's Backers, by Burt L. Standish