NOTES
[1] Written in 1884. This story is used by permission of and special arrangement with the Charles Scribner's Sons Company, Publishers.
[2] 237:1 windfalls. Unexpected gains.
[3] 237:3 dividend. His knowledge a business asset that draws interest.
[4] 241:22 skewer-like. Like a wooden pin now used to fasten meat.
[5] 242:11 leaguer. Place besieged with shadows.
[6] 242:27 Time was that when the brains were out. See Macbeth, Act III, sc. 4, line 78.
[7] 243:16 iteration. Repetition.
[8] 246:25 railleries. Merry jesting or ridicule.
[9] 247:7 garishly. A blinding, gaudy effect.