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The
Gardners
took
to
watching
at
night
--
watching
in
all
directions
at
random
for
something
...
they
could
not
tell
what
.
It
was
then
that
they
all
owned
that
Thaddeus
had
been
right
about
the
trees
.
Mrs.
Gardner
was
the
next
to
see
it
from
the
window
as
she
watched
the
swollen
boughs
of
a
maple
against
a
moonlit
sky
.
The
boughs
surely
moved
,
and
there
was
no
wind
.
It
must
be
the
sap
.
Strangeness
had
come
into
everything
growing
now
.
Yet
it
was
none
of
Nahum
's
family
at
all
who
made
the
next
discovery
.
Familiarity
had
dulled
them
,
and
what
they
could
not
see
was
glimpsed
by
a
timid
windmill
salesman
from
Bolton
who
drove
by
one
night
in
ignorance
of
the
country
legends
.
What
he
told
in
Arkham
was
given
a
short
paragraph
in
the
Gazette
;
and
it
was
there
that
all
the
farmers
,
Nahum
included
,
saw
it
first
.
The
night
had
been
dark
and
the
buggy-lamps
faint
,
but
around
a
farm
in
the
valley
which
everyone
knew
from
the
account
must
be
Nahum
's
the
darkness
had
been
less
thick
.
A
dim
though
distinct
luminosity
seemed
to
inhere
in
all
the
vegetation
,
grass
,
leaves
,
and
blossoms
alike
,
while
at
one
moment
a
detached
piece
of
the
phosphorescence
appeared
to
stir
furtively
in
the
yard
near
the
barn
.
The
grass
had
so
far
seemed
untouched
,
and
the
cows
were
freely
pastured
in
the
lot
near
the
house
,
but
toward
the
end
of
May
the
milk
began
to
be
bad
.
Then
Nahum
had
the
cows
driven
to
the
uplands
,
after
which
the
trouble
ceased
.
Not
long
after
this
the
change
in
grass
and
leaves
became
apparent
to
the
eye
.
All
the
verdure
was
going
grey
,
and
was
developing
a
highly
singular
quality
of
brittleness
.
Ammi
was
now
the
only
person
who
ever
visited
the
place
,
and
his
visits
were
becoming
fewer
and
fewer
.
When
school
closed
the
Gardners
were
virtually
cut
off
from
the
world
,
and
sometimes
let
Ammi
do
their
errands
in
town
.
They
were
failing
curiously
both
physically
and
mentally
,
and
no
one
was
surprised
when
the
news
of
Mrs.
Gardner
's
madness
stole
around
.
It
happened
in
June
,
about
the
anniversary
of
the
meteor
's
fall
,
and
the
poor
woman
screamed
about
things
in
the
air
which
she
could
not
describe
.
In
her
raving
there
was
not
a
single
specific
noun
,
but
only
verbs
and
pronouns
.
Things
moved
and
changed
and
fluttered
,
and
ears
tingled
to
impulses
which
were
not
wholly
sounds
.
Something
was
taken
away
--
she
was
being
drained
of
something
--
something
was
fastening
itself
on
her
that
ought
not
to
be
--
someone
must
make
it
keep
off
--
nothing
was
ever
still
in
the
night
--
the
walls
and
windows
shifted
.
Nahum
did
not
send
her
to
the
county
asylum
,
but
let
her
wander
about
the
house
as
long
as
she
was
harmless
to
herself
and
others
.
Even
when
her
expression
changed
he
did
nothing
.
But
when
the
boys
grew
afraid
of
her
,
and
Thaddeus
nearly
fainted
at
the
way
she
made
faces
at
him
,
he
decided
to
keep
her
locked
in
the
attic
.
By
July
she
had
ceased
to
speak
and
crawled
on
all
fours
,
and
before
that
month
was
over
Nahum
got
the
mad
notion
that
she
was
slightly
luminous
in
the
dark
,
as
he
now
clearly
saw
was
the
case
with
the
nearby
vegetation
.
It
was
a
little
before
this
that
the
horses
had
stampeded
.
Something
had
aroused
them
in
the
night
,
and
their
neighing
and
kicking
in
their
stalls
had
been
terrible
.
There
seemed
virtually
nothing
to
do
to
calm
them
,
and
when
Nahum
opened
the
stable
door
they
all
bolted
out
like
frightened
woodland
deer
.
It
took
a
week
to
track
all
four
,
and
when
found
they
were
seen
to
be
quite
useless
and
unmanageable
.
Something
had
snapped
in
their
brains
,
and
each
one
had
to
be
shot
for
its
own
good
.
Nahum
borrowed
a
horse
from
Ammi
for
his
haying
,
but
found
it
would
not
approach
the
barn
.
It
shied
,
balked
,
and
whinnied
,
and
in
the
end
he
could
do
nothing
but
drive
it
into
the
yard
while
the
men
used
their
own
strength
to
get
the
heavy
wagon
near
enough
the
hayloft
for
convenient
pitching
.
And
all
the
while
the
vegetation
was
turning
grey
and
brittle
.
Even
the
flowers
whose
hues
had
been
so
strange
were
greying
now
,
and
the
fruit
was
coming
out
grey
and
dwarfed
and
tasteless
.
The
asters
and
goldenrod
bloomed
grey
and
distorted
,
and
the
roses
and
zinneas
and
hollyhocks
in
the
front
yard
were
such
blasphemous-looking
things
that
Nahum
's
oldest
boy
Zenas
cut
them
down
.
The
strangely
puffed
insects
died
about
that
time
,
even
the
bees
that
had
left
their
hives
and
taken
to
the
woods
.
By
September
all
the
vegetation
was
fast
crumbling
to
a
greyish
powder
,
and
Nahum
feared
that
the
trees
would
die
before
the
poison
was
out
of
the
soil
.
His
wife
now
had
spells
of
terrific
screaming
,
and
he
and
the
boys
were
in
a
constant
state
of
nervous
tension
.
They
shunned
people
now
,
and
when
school
opened
the
boys
did
not
go
.
But
it
was
Ammi
,
on
one
of
his
rare
visits
,
who
first
realised
that
the
well
water
was
no
longer
good
.
It
had
an
evil
taste
that
was
not
exactly
foetid
nor
exactly
salty
,
and
Ammi
advised
his
friend
to
dig
another
well
on
higher
ground
to
use
till
the
soil
was
good
again
.
Nahum
,
however
,
ignored
the
warning
,
for
he
had
by
that
time
become
calloused
to
strange
and
unpleasant
things
.
He
and
the
boys
continued
to
use
the
tainted
supply
,
drinking
it
as
listlessly
and
mechanically
as
they
ate
their
meagre
and
ill-cooked
meals
and
did
their
thankless
and
monotonous
chores
through
the
aimless
days
.
There
was
something
of
stolid
resignation
about
them
all
,
as
if
they
walked
half
in
another
world
between
lines
of
nameless
guards
to
a
certain
and
familiar
doom
.
Thaddeus
went
mad
in
September
after
a
visit
to
the
well
.
He
had
gone
with
a
pail
and
had
come
back
empty-handed
,
shrieking
and
waving
his
arms
,
and
sometimes
lapsing
into
an
inane
titter
or
a
whisper
about
"
the
moving
colours
down
there
"
.
Two
in
one
family
was
pretty
bad
,
but
Nahum
was
very
brave
about
it
.
He
let
the
boy
run
about
for
a
week
until
he
began
stumbling
and
hurting
himself
,
and
then
he
shut
him
in
an
attic
room
across
the
hall
from
his
mother
's
.
The
way
they
screamed
at
each
other
from
behind
their
locked
doors
was
very
terrible
,
especially
to
little
Merwin
,
who
fancied
they
talked
in
some
terrible
language
that
was
not
of
earth
.
Merwin
was
getting
frightfully
imaginative
,
and
his
restlessness
was
worse
after
the
shutting
away
of
the
brother
who
had
been
his
greatest
playmate
.
Almost
at
the
same
time
the
mortality
among
the
livestock
commenced
.
Poultry
turned
greyish
and
died
very
quickly
,
their
meat
being
found
dry
and
noisome
upon
cutting
.
