Notes

Written in 1884. This story is used by permission of and special arrangement with the Charles Scribner's Sons Company, Publishers.

237:1 windfalls. Unexpected gains.

237:3 dividend. His knowledge a business asset that draws interest.

241:22 skewer-like. Like a wooden pin now used to fasten meat.

242:11 leaguer. Place besieged with shadows.

242:27 Time was that when the brains were out. See Macbeth, Act III, sc. 4, line 78.

243:16 iteration. Repetition.

246:25 railleries. Merry jesting or ridicule.

247:7 garishly. A blinding, gaudy effect.

247:7 Brownrigg. A notorious murderess living in England in the middle of the eighteenth century. She was hanged and her skeleton is still preserved.

247:8 Mannings. Marie Manning and her husband murdered a former suitor. They were given, a death sentence.

247:9 Thurtell. A gambler who quarrelled with Weare and killed him after he had professed peace. He designed his own gallows.

247:25 horologist. One who makes timepieces.

249:27 scission. A cleaving or a dividing.

250:25 Sheraton. Next to Chippendale the greatest furniture designer and cabinet-maker.

250:25 marquetry. An inlay of some thin material in the surface of a piece of furniture or other object.

251:23 Jacobean. Pertaining to the time of James I of England.

253:12 travesty. A grotesque imitation.

254:3 sophistry. Methods of the Greek sophists.

254:29 efficacy. Effective energy.

255:5 sow tares, etc. See Matthew XII, 24-30.

255:29 category. A class, condition, or predicament.

256:14 hurtling. Rushing headlong or confusedly.

280:10 dislimned. Erased or effaced.