"
"I presume you expected to find a letter between the stamp and the
signature."
"Something of that kind. The fact is, I felt irresistibly
impressed with a presentiment of some vast good fortune impending. I
can scarcely say why. Perhaps, after all, it was rather a desire
than an actual belief; --but do you know that Jupiter's silly words,
about the bug being of solid gold, had a remarkable effect on my
fancy? And then the series of accidents and coincidences --these
were so very extraordinary. Do you observe how mere an accident it was
that these events should have occurred on the sole day of all the year
in which it has been, or may be, sufficiently cool for fire, and
that without the fire, or without the intervention of the dog at the
precise moment in which he appeared, I should never have become
aware of the death's-head, and so never the possessor of the
treasure?"
"But proceed --I am all impatience."
"Well; you have heard, of course, the many stories current --the
thousand vague rumors afloat about money buried, somewhere on the
Atlantic coast, by Kidd and his associates.
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