<em>This question is regarding the interesting short stories written by H.G Wells. The name of this short story is </em><em>"The treasure in the forest".</em>
The author utilizes snakes as a means to make his two main characters less suspicion.
<u>He wants to make them feel at ease about killing a Chinese man and stealing his treasure map.</u>
Both of them are <u>professional treasure hunters</u>.
<em>These lines exclaim that a snake has killed the man. Even though they killed him and there was no real snake in the story.</em>
If you read a lot of books they typically have a main character that has a struggle and finds a way to deal with it, this includes Harry Potter, Goosebumps, and even Shakespeare, so my answer is d
