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By
this
time
two
policemen
had
arrived
;
and
Dr
Morgan
,
meeting
them
in
the
vestibule
,
was
urging
them
for
their
own
sakes
to
postpone
entrance
to
the
stench-filled
reading-room
till
the
examiner
came
and
the
prostrate
thing
could
be
covered
up
.
Meanwhile
frightful
changes
were
taking
place
on
the
floor
.
One
need
not
describe
the
kind
and
rate
of
shrinkage
and
disintegration
that
occurred
before
the
eyes
of
Dr
Armitage
and
Professor
Rice
;
but
it
is
permissible
to
say
that
,
aside
from
the
external
appearance
of
face
and
hands
,
the
really
human
element
in
Wilbur
Whateley
must
have
been
very
small
.
When
the
medical
examiner
came
,
there
was
only
a
sticky
whitish
mass
on
the
painted
boards
,
and
the
monstrous
odour
had
nearly
disappeared
.
Apparently
Whateley
had
had
no
skull
or
bony
skeleton
;
at
least
,
in
any
true
or
stable
sense
.
He
had
taken
somewhat
after
his
unknown
father
.
Yet
all
this
was
only
the
prologue
of
the
actual
Dunwich
horror
.
Formalities
were
gone
through
by
bewildered
officials
,
abnormal
details
were
duly
kept
from
press
and
public
,
and
men
were
sent
to
Dunwich
and
Aylesbury
to
look
up
property
and
notify
any
who
might
be
heirs
of
the
late
Wilbur
Whateley
.
They
found
the
countryside
in
great
agitation
,
both
because
of
the
growing
rumblings
beneath
the
domed
hills
,
and
because
of
the
unwonted
stench
and
the
surging
,
lapping
sounds
which
came
increasingly
from
the
great
empty
shell
formed
by
Whateley
's
boarded-up
farmhouse
.
Earl
Sawyer
,
who
tended
the
horse
and
cattle
during
Wilbur
's
absence
,
had
developed
a
woefully
acute
case
of
nerves
.
The
officials
devised
excuses
not
to
enter
the
noisome
boarded
place
;
and
were
glad
to
confine
their
survey
of
the
deceased
's
living
quarters
,
the
newly
mended
sheds
,
to
a
single
visit
.
They
filed
a
ponderous
report
at
the
courthouse
in
Aylesbury
,
and
litigations
concerning
heirship
are
said
to
be
still
in
progress
amongst
the
innumerable
Whateleys
,
decayed
and
undecayed
,
of
the
upper
Miskatonic
valley
.
An
almost
interminable
manuscript
in
strange
characters
,
written
in
a
huge
ledger
and
adjudged
a
sort
of
diary
because
of
the
spacing
and
the
variations
in
ink
and
penmanship
,
presented
a
baffling
puzzle
to
those
who
found
it
on
the
old
bureau
which
served
as
its
owner
's
desk
.
After
a
week
of
debate
it
was
sent
to
Miskatonic
University
,
together
with
the
deceased
's
collection
of
strange
books
,
for
study
and
possible
translation
;
but
even
the
best
linguists
soon
saw
that
it
was
not
likely
to
be
unriddled
with
ease
.
No
trace
of
the
ancient
gold
with
which
Wilbur
and
Old
Whateley
had
always
paid
their
debts
has
yet
been
discovered
.
It
was
in
the
dark
of
September
ninth
that
the
horror
broke
loose
.
The
hill
noises
had
been
very
pronounced
during
the
evening
,
and
dogs
barked
frantically
all
night
.
Early
risers
on
the
tenth
noticed
a
peculiar
stench
in
the
air
.
About
seven
o'clock
Luther
Brown
,
the
hired
boy
at
George
Corey
's
,
between
Cold
Spring
Glen
and
the
village
,
rushed
frenziedly
back
from
his
morning
trip
to
Ten
--
Acre
Meadow
with
the
cows
.
He
was
almost
convulsed
with
fright
as
he
stumbled
into
the
kitchen
;
and
in
the
yard
outside
the
no
less
frightened
herd
were
pawing
and
lowing
pitifully
,
having
followed
the
boy
back
in
the
panic
they
shared
with
him
.
Between
gasps
Luther
tried
to
stammer
out
his
tale
to
Mrs
Corey
.
'
Up
thar
in
the
rud
beyont
the
glen
,
Mis
'
Corey
--
they
's
suthin
'
ben
thar
!
It
smells
like
thunder
,
an
'
all
the
bushes
an
'
little
trees
is
pushed
back
from
the
rud
like
they
'd
a
haouse
ben
moved
along
of
it
.
An
'
that
ai
n't
the
wust
,
nuther
.
They
's
prints
in
the
rud
,
Mis
'
Corey
--
great
raound
prints
as
big
as
barrel-heads
,
all
sunk
dawon
deep
like
a
elephant
had
ben
along
,
only
they
's
a
sight
more
nor
four
feet
could
make
!
I
looked
at
one
or
two
afore
I
run
,
an
'
I
see
every
one
was
covered
with
lines
spreadin
'
aout
from
one
place
,
like
as
if
big
palm-leaf
fans
--
twict
or
three
times
as
big
as
any
they
is
--
hed
of
ben
paounded
dawon
into
the
rud
.
An
'
the
smell
was
awful
,
like
what
it
is
around
Wizard
Whateley
's
ol'
haouse
...
'
Here
he
faltered
,
and
seemed
to
shiver
afresh
with
the
fright
that
had
sent
him
flying
home
.
Mrs
Corey
,
unable
to
extract
more
information
,
began
telephoning
the
neighbours
;
thus
starting
on
its
rounds
the
overture
of
panic
that
heralded
the
major
terrors
.
When
she
got
Sally
Sawyer
,
housekeeper
at
Seth
Bishop
's
,
the
nearest
place
to
Whateley
's
,
it
became
her
turn
to
listen
instead
of
transmit
;
for
Sally
's
boy
Chauncey
,
who
slept
poorly
,
had
been
up
on
the
hill
towards
Whateley
's
,
and
had
dashed
back
in
terror
after
one
look
at
the
place
,
and
at
the
pasturage
where
Mr
Bishop
's
cows
had
been
left
out
all
night
.
'
Yes
,
Mis
'
Corey
,
'
came
Sally
's
tremulous
voice
over
the
party
wire
,
'
Cha
'n
cey
he
just
come
back
a-postin
'
,
and
could
n't
half
talk
fer
bein
'
scairt
!
He
says
Ol'
Whateley
's
house
is
all
bowed
up
,
with
timbers
scattered
raound
like
they
'd
ben
dynamite
inside
;
only
the
bottom
floor
ai
n't
through
,
but
is
all
covered
with
a
kind
o
'
tar-like
stuff
that
smells
awful
an
'
drips
daown
offen
the
aidges
onto
the
graoun
'
whar
the
side
timbers
is
blowed
away
.
An
'
they
's
awful
kinder
marks
in
the
yard
,
tew
--
great
raound
marks
bigger
raound
than
a
hogshead
,
an
'
all
sticky
with
stuff
like
is
on
the
browed-up
haouse
.
Cha
'n
cey
he
says
they
leads
off
into
the
medders
,
whar
a
great
swath
wider
'n
a
barn
is
matted
daown
,
an
'
all
the
stun
walls
tumbled
every
whichway
wherever
it
goes
.
