It is clear that Kidd--if Kidd indeed secreted this treasure,
which I doubt not--it is clear that he must have had assistance in the
labor. But this labor concluded, he may have thought it expedient to
remove all participants in his secret. Perhaps a couple of blows with
a mattock were sufficient, while his coadjutors were busy in the pit;
perhaps it required a dozen--who shall tell?"
NOTES
[1] _The Gold-Bug_ was first published in _The Dollar Magazine_ in
1843. The story won a prize of one hundred dollars.
[2] 100:3 All in the Wrong. The title of an amusing comedy by Arthur
Murphy (1730-1805).
[3] 100:4 Huguenot. French Protestants, many of whom settled in South
Carolina.
[4] 100: 18 Fort Moultrie. Erected in. 1776. Defended against the
British by Colonel William Moultrie.
[5] 101:23 Swammerdam. A famous Dutch naturalist (1637-1680).
[6] 101:25 manumitted. Freed from slavery.
[7] 102:27 scarabaeus. The Latin for beetle.
[8] 103:15 antennae. The feelers.
[9] 105:8 scarabaeus caput hominis. Man's-head beetle.
[10] 107:20 noovers. Manoeuvres.
[11] 109:10 brusquerie. Lack of cordiality.
[12] 110:26 empressement. Demonstrativeness.
[13] 123:20 curvets and caracoles. Leaping and prancing of a horse.
[14] 128:9 counters. Various coins.
[15] 128:28 Bacchanalian. Revelling like the worshippers of Bacchus,
the god of wine.
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