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[Emma May Smith]

I don't recall publishing any of my thoughts about the connection between the vertical line of q and those of the gallows k and t. However, you're quite right that's what I think.

The best piece of evidence is the fact that sometimes the vertical line of q starts far too high, at about the level of a gallows glyph. Sometimes a gallows glyph starts at the level of a q, though this seems to be less common.

I doubt that the glyphs are connected in meaning (though it is a possibility), but rather that the stroke is the same in the writer's mind. I'm really not sure however.