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Charles
Ward
,
as
we
have
seen
,
first
learned
in
1918
of
his
descent
from
Joseph
Curwen
.
That
he
at
once
took
an
intense
interest
in
everything
pertaining
to
the
bygone
mystery
is
not
to
be
wondered
at
;
for
every
vague
rumor
that
he
had
heard
of
Curwen
now
became
something
vital
to
himself
,
in
whom
flowed
Curwen
's
blood
.
No
spirited
and
imaginative
genealogist
could
have
done
otherwise
than
begin
forthwith
an
avid
and
systematic
collection
of
Curwen
data
.
In
his
first
delvings
there
was
not
the
slightest
attempt
at
secrecy
;
so
that
even
Dr.
Lyman
hesitates
to
date
the
youth
's
madness
from
any
period
before
the
close
of
1919
.
He
talked
freely
with
his
family
--
though
his
mother
was
not
particularly
pleased
to
own
an
ancestor
like
Curwen
--
and
with
the
officials
of
the
various
museums
and
libraries
he
visited
.
In
applying
to
private
families
for
records
thought
to
be
in
their
possession
he
made
no
concealment
of
his
object
,
and
shared
the
somewhat
amused
skepticism
with
which
the
accounts
of
the
old
diarists
and
letter-writers
were
regarded
.
He
often
expressed
a
keen
wonder
as
to
what
really
had
taken
place
a
century
and
a
half
before
at
the
Pawtuxet
farmhouse
whose
site
he
vainly
tried
to
find
,
and
what
Joseph
Curwen
really
had
been
.
When
he
came
across
the
Smith
diary
and
archives
and
encountered
the
letter
from
Jedediah
Orne
he
decided
to
visit
Salem
and
look
up
Curwen
's
early
activities
and
connections
there
,
which
he
did
during
the
Easter
vacation
of
1919
.
At
the
Essex
Institute
,
which
was
well
known
to
him
from
former
sojourns
in
the
glamorous
old
town
of
crumbling
Puritan
gables
and
clustered
gambrel
roofs
,
he
was
very
kindly
received
,
and
unearthed
there
a
considerable
amount
of
Curwen
data
.
He
found
that
his
ancestor
was
born
in
Salem-Village
,
now
Danvers
,
seven
miles
from
town
,
on
the
eighteenth
of
February
(
O.S.
)
1662-3
;
and
that
he
had
run
away
to
sea
at
the
age
of
fifteen
,
not
appearing
again
for
nine
years
,
when
he
returned
with
the
speech
,
dress
,
and
manners
of
a
native
Englishman
and
settled
in
Salem
proper
.
At
that
time
he
had
little
to
do
with
his
family
,
but
spent
most
of
his
hours
with
the
curious
books
he
had
brought
from
Europe
,
and
the
strange
chemicals
which
came
for
him
on
ships
from
England
,
France
,
and
Holland
.
Certain
trips
of
his
into
the
country
were
the
objects
of
much
local
inquisitiveness
,
and
were
whisperingly
associated
with
vague
rumors
of
fires
on
the
hills
at
night
.
Curwen
's
only
close
friends
had
been
one
Edward
Hutchinson
of
Salem
-
Village
and
one
Simon
Orne
of
Salem
.
With
these
men
he
was
often
seen
in
conference
about
the
Common
,
and
visits
among
them
were
by
no
means
infrequent
.
Hutchinson
had
a
house
well
out
toward
the
woods
,
and
it
was
not
altogether
liked
by
sensitive
people
because
of
the
sounds
heard
there
at
night
.
He
was
said
to
entertain
strange
visitors
,
and
the
lights
seen
from
his
windows
were
not
always
of
the
same
color
.
The
knowledge
he
displayed
concerning
long-dead
persons
and
long-forgotten
events
was
considered
distinctly
unwholesome
,
and
he
disappeared
about
the
time
the
witchcraft
panic
began
,
never
to
be
heard
from
again
.
At
that
time
Joseph
Curwen
also
departed
,
but
his
settlement
in
Providence
was
soon
learned
of
.
Simon
Orne
lived
in
Salem
until
1720
,
when
his
failure
to
grow
visibly
old
began
to
excite
attention
.
He
thereafter
disappeared
,
though
thirty
years
later
his
precise
counterpart
and
self-styled
son
turned
up
to
claim
his
property
.
The
claim
was
allowed
on
the
strength
of
documents
in
Simon
Orne
's
known
hand
,
and
Jedediah
Orne
continued
to
dwell
in
Salem
till
1771
,
when
certain
letters
from
Providence
citizens
to
the
Rev.
Thomas
Barnard
and
others
brought
about
his
quiet
removal
to
parts
unknown
.
Certain
documents
by
and
about
all
of
the
strange
characters
were
available
at
the
Essex
Institute
,
the
Court
House
,
and
the
Registry
of
Deeds
,
and
included
both
harmless
commonplaces
such
as
land
titles
and
bills
of
sale
,
and
furtive
fragments
of
a
more
provocative
nature
.
There
were
four
or
five
unmistakable
allusions
to
them
on
the
witchcraft
trial
records
;
as
when
one
Hepzibah
Lawson
swore
on
July
10
,
1692
,
at
the
Court
of
Oyer
and
Terminer
under
Judge
Hathorne
,
that
:
'
fortie
Witches
and
the
Blacke
Man
were
wont
to
meete
in
the
Woodes
behind
Mr.
Hutchinson
's
house
'
,
and
one
Amity
How
declared
at
a
session
of
August
8th
before
Judge
Gedney
that
:
'M
r.
G.
B.
(
Rev.
George
Burroughs
)
on
that
Nighte
putt
ye
Divell
his
Marke
upon
Bridget
S.
,
Jonathan
A.
,
Simon
O.
,
Deliverance
W.
,
Joseph
C.
,
Susan
P.
,
Mehitable
C.
,
and
Deborah
B.
'
Then
there
was
a
catalogue
of
Hutchinson
's
uncanny
library
as
found
after
his
disappearance
,
and
an
unfinished
manuscript
in
his
handwriting
,
couched
in
a
cipher
none
could
read
.
Ward
had
a
photostatic
copy
of
this
manuscript
made
,
and
began
to
work
casually
on
the
cipher
as
soon
as
it
was
delivered
to
him
.
After
the
following
August
his
labors
on
the
cipher
became
intense
and
feverish
,
and
there
is
reason
to
believe
from
his
speech
and
conduct
that
he
hit
upon
the
key
before
October
or
November
.
He
never
stated
,
though
,
whether
or
not
he
had
succeeded
.
But
of
greatest
immediate
interest
was
the
Orne
material
.
It
took
Ward
only
a
short
time
to
prove
from
identity
of
penmanship
a
thing
he
had
already
considered
established
from
the
text
of
the
letter
to
Curwen
;
namely
,
that
Simon
Orne
and
his
supposed
son
were
one
and
the
same
person
.
As
Orne
had
said
to
his
correspondent
,
it
was
hardly
safe
to
live
too
long
in
Salem
,
hence
he
resorted
to
a
thirty-year
sojourn
abroad
,
and
did
not
return
to
claim
his
lands
except
as
a
representative
of
a
new
generation
.
Orne
had
apparently
been
careful
to
destroy
most
of
his
correspondence
,
but
the
citizens
who
took
action
in
1771
found
and
preserved
a
few
letters
and
papers
which
excited
their
wonder
.
