The Gold-Bug: Simplified For Modern Readers (Accelerated ...

as part of the word starting with the first . t; because by checking the entire alphabet for a letter fitting the blank, we find no word in where . th . appears. So we can narrow it to . t ee, and, going through the alphabet as before we come to the word 'tree,' as the only possible reading. We thus gain another letter, r, represented by (, ................
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