Le Scarabée d'or

On Sullivan's Island, in South Carolina, William Legrand finds a strange golden beetle and a scrap of parchment. His friend, the narrator, fears he has lost his mind when Legrand leads him and his servant Jupiter into the hills, with the beetle on the end of a string. In fact, a hidden message has revealed itself on the parchment, and Legrand has deciphered it step by step: it leads to the treasure of Captain Kidd. Poe's tale of a coded message, in Baudelaire's translation.