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THE GQH?D-BUGv
BY" EDGAR A. POE.
(CONCLUDED IN OUR NEXT.)
The chest had been full to the brim,
and we spent the wholo day, and the
greater part of the next night, in a
scrutiny of its contents. There had been
nothing like order or nrrangeuient. Every
thing had been heaped in promiscuously.
Having assorted all with care, we found
ourselves possessed of even vaster wealth
than we had at first supposed. In coin there
was rather more than four hundred and
fifty thousand dollars?estimating the
value of tho pieces, as accurately ns we
could, by the tables of the period. There
was not a particle of silver. All was
gold of antique date and of great variety
?French, Spanish ?ud German money,
with a few English guineas, and some
cuunt,crs, of which wo had never seen
specimens before. There wero soveral
very large and heavy coins, so worn that
vrs could make nothing of their inscrip
tions. There was no American moucy.
The vuluc of the jewels we found more
difficulty in estimating. There were
diamonds, some of them exceedingly
large and fine?a hundred aud ten in all.
and not one of them small ; eighteen
rubies of remarkable brilliancy; three
hundred and ten etnerulds,all very beau
tiful; and twenty-one sapphires- with an
opal. These stones had all beeu brokeu
from their settings nud thrown loose in
the ekest. The settings themselves,
which wc picked out from umoug the
other gold, appeared to have beeu beuten
up, with hammers, as if to prevent identi
fication. Besides nil this, there was a
vast quantity of solid gold ornaments;
nearly two hundred massive finger and
ear rings; rich chains?thirty of these,
if I remember; cighty-tjtree very hir^o,
and-heavy crucifixes; five gold censers
of groat value; a prodigious golden ;
punch 'howl, ornamented with ^richly
chased vine-leaves nud Bacchanalian
figures; with two sword-handles equisite
ly embossed, and many other smaller ar
ticles which 1 cannot recollect. The
weight of these valuables exceeded three
hundred and fifty pounds avoirdupois ;
and in this estimate I have not included
one hundred and nine-seven superb gold
watches; three of the number being
worth each five hundred dollars, if one.
Many of them were very old, und as
time keepers valueless ; the works hav
ing Buffered, more or less, from corrosion
?but all were richly jewelled und in
cases of great worth. We estimated the
entire contents of the chest, that night,
at a million aud a half of dollars; and
upon the subsequent disposal of the
trinkets and jewels (a few beiug retained
for our own use.) it was found that wc
had greatly undervalued the treasure.
When, ut length, we had concluded
our examination, and the intense excite
ment of tho time had, in some measure,
subsided, Legraiid who saw that I was
dyiug with impatience for u solution of
this most extraordinary riddle, entered
into u full detail of all the circumstances
connected with it.
"You remember," said he, "the night
when 1 handed you the rough sketch I
had made of tho $carab<XU$. You re
collect also, that 1 became quite vexed at
you for insisting that my drawing re
sembled a death's-head. When you first
made this assertion I thought you were
jostiug ; but afterwards I called to mind
the peculiur spots on the baek of the in
sect, and admitted to myself that your
remark had some little foundation in fact.
Still, the sneer at my graphic powers ir
ritated me?for I am considered a good
i artist?laid., therefore! whoa you hauded
me the scrap of parchments I was about
to crumble it up and throw it angrily
iuto the fire."
"The scrap of paper, you mean," said
I.
"No; it had much of tho appearance
of paper, and ut first I supposed it to he
such, but when I eamc to draw upon it,
I discovered it, at once, to he a piece of
very thin parchment. Jt was quite dirty,
you remember. Well, as I was in the
very not of crumpling it up, my glance
fell upon the sketch ut which you bad
been looking, and you may imagine my
astonishment when I perceived, in fact,
the figuic of r< death's-head just where,
it seemed to mo, I had made the drawing
of the beetle-. For a moment I was too
mtu-h amaf.ed to think with accuracy,
I knew that my design was very different
in detail from this?although there was
a certain similarity in gencal outline
Presently I took a candle, a*d?s%3ting
myself-at the other end of ihe room,
proceeded to scrutinize the parchment
more' closely' Upon turning'H over," I
bsw my own* sketch upon tKrTcverse,;
just as T had made it. My-'fiVja^en, how,
was mere surprise at the renuy'Tehitark
able similarity of outline?at tue* singular
coincidence Involved in tho'fc(?ct,' tliat
utiknown to mc, there shouldJjnve been
a skull upon the other side ofjho parch
ment, immediately behcnth ^j^i*figure of
the tcarabans, and that thi* skull, not
only in outline, but in sir^-shoold so
closely resemble my drawing. Vl'jtay the
singularity of this coincldcrictftbsolutely
stupified mc for a time. This 'ft the treunl
effect of Such coincidences. The mitrd
struggles to establish a- connexion?n
sequence of cause and effect?*aud; being
unable to do so, suffers n ppefties of tem
porary paralysis. But, when I recovered
from this stupor, there dawnlld'upnn nie
gradually a cdiivlcTloTi wlffBTTflaTrted me
even far more than the coincidence. 1
begnu distinctly, positively, tq remember
that there had'been no drawiWjJj lipon the
parchment when I made my sketch of
the ncarab<niH. I became perfectly cer
tain of this; lor 1 recollected turning up
first one side and then tltjf sofhcr, in
search of the cleanest spot.' 'Had the
skull been then there, of coiirsc I could
not hnvc failed to notice it. .-/Here was
indeed a mystery which I fchit imposs
ible to explain ; but, even oi that early
moment, there seethed to glimaierpfaintly,
within the most remote and secret cham
bers of my intellect, a glow'-Wnruidike
conception of that truth Svhich last
night's adventure brought, to sb magnifi
cent a demonstration. I orbse at once,
and putting the parchment securely ttw'ay.
dismissed all farther reflection until 1
should be alone. j
'?When you gone, ana when Jupi
ter Was fust asleep. 1 betook, myself to a
more nielhndi?'aIijn^cstigatnn of the
affain.ia \i\ the* nr.-d placu 1 considered
the manner, in which the p.tr> h iii'nt had
come into mi_r^'in?s^ssiiilf?ft> %Hu . pi.*
where we discovered the tcftravtrtii was
on the coast of" the main land, about a
mile eastward of the island, and hut n
short distance above high water mark
Upon my taking hold of it, it gave mc a
sharp bite, which caused me tu let it
drop. Jupiter, with his accustomed
caution, before seizing the insect, which
had fluwh towards him, looked about
him fur a leaf, or something of that na
ture, by which to take* hold of it. It
was at this moment that his eyes, and
mine also, fell upon the scrap of parch
ment, which I then supposed to he paper.
It was lying half buried in the sand, a
corner sticking up."" Ne;tr the spot where
we fond it, I observed the remnants of
the hull of what appeared to have been
a sh p's long boat. The wreck seemed to
have been there for a great while ; for
the resemblance to boat timbers could
scarcely be traced.
?Well, Jupiter picked up the parch
ment, wrapped the beetle in it, and gave
it to mc. Soon afterwards we turn ;d to
go home, ami on the way met Lieutenant
(I?. I showed him the insect, and he
begged me to let him take it to the fort.
Upon my consenting, he Inrusi ii forth
with into his waistcoat pocket, without
the parchment in which it had been
wrapped, and which 1 had continued to
hold iu my hand during his inspection.
Perhaps he dreaded my changing m\
mind, and thought it best to make sure
of the prize at once?you know how
enthusiastic he is on all subjects con
nected with Natural History. At the
same time, without being conscious of it,
I must have deposited the parchment in
my own pocket.
" You remember that when I wenj to
the table, for the purpo?e oi' making a
sketch of the beetle, I found no piper
where it was usually kept. I looked in
the drawer, and UOOO there. I searched
my pockets, hoping to find an old letter,
when my bund feil upon the parchment.
1 thus detail the precise mode in which
it came into my pbssesion ; for the cir
cumstances impressed me with peculiar
force.
11 No doubt you think me fanciful?
but I had already established a kind of
connexion. 1 had put together two links
of a great chain. There was a boat ly
ing UpOU a sea coa.-l. ami not far from
the boat was a parchment?nota paper?
with a skull depicted upon it. You Will,
of course, ask ' where is the connection '('
I reply thnt the skull, or death's-head,
is the well.known emblem id'the pirate.
Tho flag of the death's hor.d is hoisted
in all en^njnvnenfs.
?? ! have said ihstl lib scran was parch
me ut, ?ttid uot paper. Parchment is
durable?-almost imperishable. Matters
of little moment are rarely consigned to
parchment; since, for the mere ordinary
purposes of drawing or writing, it is not
nearly bo well adaptod as paper. I his
reflection suggested some meaning?
some relevancy ? in the death's-head. I
did not fail to observe, also, the form of
?the parchment; Although one of ite
eoruers had been, by some accident, de
stroyed, it could be seen that the origi
nal form was oblong. It was just such
a slip, indeed, as might have been chosen
for a memorandum?for a record of some
thing to be long remembered and care
fully preserved."
"But, I interposed, "you say that
the skull wub not upon the parchment
when you made the drawing of the bee
tle. How then do you traco any
connexion between the boat and the skull
?since this latter, according to your
owu admission, must have been designed
(God only knows how or by whom) at
some period subsequent to your sketch
ing the scarabaus. 7"
" Ah. hereupon turns the whole mys
tery ; although the secret, at this point,
I had . comparatively little difficulty in
1 solving. My steps were sure, and could
afford but a single result. I reasoned,
for example, thus: When I drew the
MOaraboeUM. there was no skull apparent
upon the parchment. When I had
completed the drawing I gave it to you,
and obre: ved you narrrowly until you
returned it. Iben it was uot done by
human agency. And neverlcss it wns
dotte.
l< At this stage of my reflections I en
deavored to remember, and diil remem
ber, with entire distinctness, every inci
dent which occurcd about the period in
I question. The weather was chilly (oh
rare and happy accident'.) and a fire
was blazing upon the hearth. I was
heated with exercise and sat near .the
table. You, however, hud drawu a cbuir
close to the chimney.*.Just as I placed
-the parch.nont in yout^hnud, and. as you
were in the act of inspecting it. Wolf,
the Newfoundland, entered, and leaped
upon your sbolders. With your left
hand you caressed him and kept him off.
while your right, holding the parchment.
whs permitted to fall listlessly between
your knees,- and in close proximity to
the fire. .At one moment 1 thought the
blase had caught it, and was about to
caution you, but, before I could speak,
you bad withdruwn it, and were engaged
'in its examination. Whcu 1 considered
all these particulars, I doubted not for
a tnonieufe that heat bad been the agent
in bringing to light, upon the parchment,
the skull which I saw designed upon it.
You are well aware that chemical prepa
rations exist, and have existed time out
mind, by means of which it is impossible
to write upon either paper or vellum, so
that the characters shall become visible
only when subjected to the uction of fire.
ZsfTre, digested in u<in<t rri/in, and di
luted with tour times ite weight of water,
is sometimes employed ; a green tint re
sults. The regulus of cobalt, dissolved
in spirit, of uitre, gives a red. These
colors disappear at lunger or shorter in
tervals alter the material written upon
cools, but aguiu become appsrent upon
the ro-apblicatiou of beut.
" I now scrutinized the death's-head
with eare. Its outer edges?the edges
of the drawing neurest the edge of the
vellum?were fur more distinct than the
others. It was clear that the action of
caloric bad been imperfect or unequal.
L immediately kindled a fire, and sub
jected evory portiou of the parchment to
glowing heut. At first, the only effect
was the strengthening of the faint lines
in the skull , but. ttpou persever
ing in the experiment, there became vis
ible, at the corner of the slip, diagonally
opposite to tho spot in which the death's
head was delineated, the figure of what
1 ut first supposed to be a goat. A
closer scrutiny, however, satisfied me
that it was intended for a kid."
" Ha ! ha !" said I, " to be sure I
huve no right to laugh ut you?a million
aud a hall of money is too serious a mut
ter for mirth ?'but you are not about to
establish a third link in your chain??
you will uot find any especial connexion
between your pirates and a goat?pirates,
you know, have nothing to do with goal* ;
they appe.utain to the farming interest."
"But. I have just said that the figure
was not that of a goat."
'?Well, a kid thou?pretty much tho
wime thing."
"Pretty much, but not altogether,"
!<aid Legrnnd, "You may have beard of
one i 'itjduin tvnzw i .ii oner looked
upon the figure of the animal as a kind |
of punning or hieroglyphical signature.
I say signature; because its position up
on the vellum suggested this idea. The
death's head at the corner diagonally
opposite, had, in the uame manner, the
air of a stamp, or seal. But I was sorely
put out by the absence of all else?of the
body to my imagined instrument-?of the
text for my context."
"I presume you. expected to find a
letter between the Btamp and the signa
ture."
"Something of that kind: The fact is,
I felt irresistibly impressed with a pro
sentiment of some vast good fortune im
pending. I can scarcely say why. Per
haps, after all, it was rather a desire
than an actual beliefbut do you know
that Jupiter's uUly words, about tho bug
being of solid gold, had a remarkable
effect upon my fancy ? And then the
series of accidents and coincidences?
these were so very extraordinary. Do
you observe how mere an accidont it was
that these events should have occurred
upon the sole day of all tho year in
which it has bceo, or may be, sufficiently
cool for fire, and that without the fire, or
without tho intervention of the dog at
the precise moment in which he appeared,
I should never have become aware ol the
death's-head, and so never the possessor
of tho treasure ?"
"But proceed?I am all impatience."
"Well; you have heard, of course, the
many stories current?the thousand
vague rumors afloat about moucy buriud,
somewhere upon the Atluntic coast, by
Kidd aud his associates. These rumors
must have had some foundation in fuc .
And that tho rumors have existed so
long and so continuous, could have
resulted, it uppeared to me, ouly lrom
the circumstance of the buried treasure
still remaining entombed. Had K.idd
concealed his plunder for -A time, nud
afterwards reclaimed it, the rumors would
scarcely have reached us in their present
unvarying form. You will observe that
the stories told are all about money
seekers, not about money-?nder%. Had"
the pirate recovered his money, there the
affair would have dropped. It seemed
to me that some accideut?say the loss
of a memorandum indicating its locality
?had deprived him of the means of
recovering it, and that this accident had
become know to his followers, who other
wise might never have heard that trea
sure bad been concealed at all, and who,
i busying themselves in vain because un
guided attempts, to regain it, had given
first birth, and then universal currency,
to the reports which arc now so common.
Have you ever heard of any important
treasure being unearthed along the
coast V
"Never."
"But that Kidd's accumulations were
immense, is well known. I took it for
granted, therefore, that tho earth still
held them ; and you will scarcely be sur
prised when 1 tell you that I felt a hope,
nearly amounting to certainty, that the
parchment so straugcly fottud. involved a
lost record of the place of deposit."
"But how did you proceed ?"
"I held the vollum again to the fire,
after increasing tho heut ; but nothing
appeared. I now thought it possible
that the coating of dirt might have some
thing to do with the failure ; so I care
fully rinsed the pa>chmeut by pouting
warm water over it, and, having done
this, I placed it in a tin pan, with the
' skull downwards, and put the pan upou
a furnace of lighted charcoal. In a few
minutes, the pan having become thor
oughly heated I removed the slip, aud. to
my inexpressible joy, found it spotted, in
several places, with what appeared to be
j figures arranged in lines. Again 1
' placed it in the p^o, nod sun^rcd it to
remain another minute. Upon taking it
off, the whole was just as you see it
now."
Here Lcgrand, having re-heatod the
parchment, submitted it to my inspec
tion. The following character* were
. rudely traced, in a red tint, between the
death's head aud the goat;
53ttta05>>)e*;482fi)4t);80U*;48tfi^
fi0))?5;lt(;:l''8t^v8?)?*f;4H);88*?drt*.'
;8)n(;485);5*t^:n(;49{S6*^Cr>*?4)?1?
?;4069285); )6f8 )4l J;l ( JU,4H081 ;8:8{ 1;
48f85;4 )485t52880b*81 (i(.>;48;(*8;4( ft
34;48)4t;161;:188;r.;
"But," said I, returning him tho slip,
"I am as much in the dark as ever.
Were all tho jowcls of Uolconda await
ing me upon my solution of this enigma,
I am quite sure that I should bo unable
to earn them."
" And yet," said Leg rand, " (.ho so
lution is by no means so diflR.jt-n ^
you might be iend to imagine from the
first .hasty inspection of the charac
ters.?These characters, as any one might
readily guess, form a cipher? that ta to
say, they convoy a meaning; but then,
from what is known of Kidd,I could not
suppose him capable of constructing any
of the more abstrus? crytograptiB. I
made tip my mind, at once, that this
was of a simple species?such, howevot,
as would appear, to tho crude intellect of
the sailor, absolutely insoluble without
the key."
" And you really solved it?.,
" Readily ; I havo solved others of aw
abtruseness ten thousand times greater.
Circumstances, and a certain bias of
mind, have led me to take interest in
such riddles, and it may well be doubted
whether human ingenuity can construct
an euigma of the kind which human
ingenuity may not,- by proper applica
tion, re-solve. In fact, having once es
tablished connected and legible charac
ters, I scarcely gave a thought to the
mere difficulty of developing their im
port. Jfi
"In the presedt case?indeed in nil
cases of secret Writing?the first question
regards the language of the cipher; for
tho principles of solution, no far,
especially, as the more simple ciphers are
concerned, depend upon, and are varied
by, the genius of the particular idiom.
In general, there is no alternative but
experiment (directed by probabilities) of
every tongue known tu to htm who at
, tempts the solution, until the true ono
i be attained. Hut. with the cipher now
before us, all difficulty was removed by
the signature. The pun upon the word
'Kid' is appreciable iti no other language
than the English. But for this considera
tion I should have begun my attempt-*
with the Spanish "and Kreuch, as the
tongues in which a secret of this hind
would most naturally have been written
by a pirate of the Spanish main. Ah it
was, I assumed the cryptograph to be
v. |
! Km.dish.
Dr. Abernathy rarely met his tout, h,
.but on ODijftBCSna?OU ihirly owned that he
was beaten. He Was sent for by an inn
keeper, who had a quarrel with bis wife,
who had scarred hia face with her nails,
so that the poor man was bleed in-, and
much disfigured. Abernathy considered
this opportunity m>t to be lust for ad
mouishing the offender, and said :
''Madame, are y??u not ashamed of
yourself to treat your husband thus?tho
husband who is the head of jour house
hold?your head, madam, in tact?"
"Well, Doctot," fiercely returned the
virago, "and may I not scratch my own
head?"
The Girls.?Ca? we not bring up
our girls more usefully, less showily,
less dependent on luxury add wealth t
Can wc not teach them from babyhood
that to labor is a higher thing than mere
ly to enjoy ; that even enjoyment itself
is never so sweet as wheu it is earned Y
Cau we not put into their minds, what
ever be their stations, principles of truth,
simplicity of taste, hopefulness, hatred
of waste, and these being firmly tooted,
trust to their blossoming up in whatever
destiny the young maiden may be call
ed.?[Miss Muloch.
The other afternoon, in Buffalo an ex
cited individual, with a well-worn carpet
bag in one hand, an umbrella in the oth
er, and a shawl hanging ever his arm,
accosted one of the street gamin at tho
corner of Maine and Ks change with the
questiou :
"Say, bub ! which is the quickest way
for mc to get to the Erie railroad de
pot ?"
"Run !" was tho laconic response.
A gentleman Rent a lad with a letter
to the nost-office, and money to pay (ho
postage- Having returned with tho
nmney, he said, " Guess I've dono tho
thing slick- Tfn seen a good many
folks puttin' leiten in tho put-office
through a bale, and an I watched my
chance, and got mine in for nothing."
Professor Golti, K?nigsberg, he* burn
experimenting upon the nervous centre
of frogs, lie finds that if you take out
the brain, and then rub a wet finger
down the frog's back, the oroature will
croak as if pleased, Frogs must ho en si-,
ly pie.ise.I.
Colored citizens arc being registered
in Connecticut in anticipation of tho
proclamation of tho ratification of the
fifteenth amendment, which wi|| mike
Ihosn land voter?,