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Early
in
August
that
search
took
place
,
and
Ward
went
carefully
over
the
walls
of
every
room
sizeable
enough
to
have
been
by
any
possibility
the
library
of
the
evil
builder
.
He
paid
especial
attention
to
the
large
panels
of
such
overmantels
as
still
remained
;
and
was
keenly
excited
after
about
an
hour
,
when
on
a
broad
area
above
the
fireplace
in
a
spacious
ground-floor
room
he
became
certain
that
the
surface
brought
out
by
the
peeling
of
several
coats
of
paint
was
sensibly
darker
than
any
ordinary
interior
paint
or
the
wood
beneath
it
was
likely
to
have
been
.
A
few
more
careful
tests
with
a
thin
knife
,
and
he
knew
that
he
had
come
upon
an
oil
portrait
of
great
extent
.
With
truly
scholarly
restraint
the
youth
did
not
risk
the
damage
which
an
immediate
attempt
to
uncover
the
hidden
picture
with
the
knife
might
have
been
,
but
just
retired
from
the
scene
of
his
discovery
to
enlist
expert
help
.
In
three
days
he
returned
with
an
artist
of
long
experience
,
Mr.
Walter
C.
Dwight
,
whose
studio
is
near
the
foot
of
College
Hill
;
and
that
accomplished
restorer
of
paintings
set
to
work
at
once
with
proper
methods
and
chemical
substances
.
Old
Asa
and
his
wife
were
duly
excited
over
their
strange
visitors
,
and
were
properly
reimbursed
for
this
invasion
of
their
domestic
hearth
.
As
day
by
the
day
the
work
of
restoration
progressed
,
Charles
Ward
looked
on
with
growing
interest
at
the
lines
and
shades
gradually
unveiled
after
their
long
oblivion
.
Dwight
had
begun
at
the
bottom
;
hence
since
the
picture
was
a
three-quarter-length
one
,
the
face
did
not
come
out
for
some
time
.
It
was
meanwhile
seen
that
the
subject
was
a
spare
,
well-shaped
man
with
dark-blue
coat
,
embroidered
waistcoat
,
black
satin
small-clothes
,
and
white
silk
stockings
,
seated
in
a
carved
chair
against
the
background
of
a
window
with
wharves
and
ships
beyond
.
When
the
head
came
out
it
was
observed
to
bear
a
neat
Albemarle
wig
,
and
to
possess
a
thin
,
calm
,
undistinguished
face
which
seemed
somehow
familiar
to
both
Ward
and
the
artist
.
Only
at
the
very
last
,
though
,
did
the
restorer
and
his
client
begin
to
grasp
with
astonishment
at
the
details
of
that
lean
,
pallid
visage
,
and
to
recognize
with
a
touch
of
awe
the
dramatic
trick
which
heredity
had
played
.
For
it
took
the
final
bath
of
oil
and
the
final
stroke
of
the
delicate
scraper
to
bring
out
fully
the
expression
which
centuries
had
hidden
;
and
to
confront
the
bewildered
Charles
Dexter
Ward
,
dweller
in
the
past
,
with
his
own
living
features
in
the
countenance
of
his
horrible
great-great-great-grandfather
.
Ward
brought
his
parents
to
see
the
marvel
he
had
uncovered
,
and
his
father
at
once
determined
to
purchase
the
picture
despite
its
execution
on
stationary
paneling
.
The
resemblance
to
the
boy
,
despite
an
appearance
of
rather
great
age
,
was
marvelous
;
and
it
could
be
seen
that
through
some
trick
of
atavism
the
physical
contours
of
Joseph
Curwen
had
found
precise
duplication
after
a
century
and
a
half
.
Mrs.
Ward
's
resemblance
to
her
ancestor
was
not
at
all
marked
,
though
she
could
recall
relatives
who
had
some
of
the
facial
characteristics
shared
by
her
son
and
by
the
bygone
Curwen
.
She
did
not
relish
the
discovery
,
and
told
her
husband
that
he
had
better
burn
the
picture
instead
of
bringing
it
home
.
There
was
,
she
averred
,
something
unwholesome
about
it
;
not
only
intrinsically
,
but
in
its
very
resemblance
to
Charles
.
Mr.
Ward
,
however
,
was
a
practical
man
of
power
and
affairs
--
a
cotton
manufacturer
with
extensive
mills
at
Riverpoint
in
the
Pawtuxet
Valley
--
and
not
one
to
listen
to
feminine
scruples
.
The
picture
impressed
him
mightily
with
its
likeness
to
his
son
,
and
he
believed
the
boy
deserved
it
as
a
present
.
In
this
opinion
,
it
is
needless
to
say
,
Charles
most
heartily
concurred
;
and
a
few
days
later
Mr.
Ward
located
the
owner
of
the
house
--
a
small
rodent-featured
person
with
a
guttural
accent
--
and
obtained
the
whole
mantel
and
overmantel
bearing
the
picture
at
a
curtly
fixed
price
which
cut
short
the
impending
torrent
of
unctuous
haggling
.
It
now
remained
to
take
off
the
paneling
and
remove
it
to
the
Ward
home
,
where
provisions
were
made
for
its
thorough
restoration
and
installation
with
an
electric
mock-fireplace
in
Charles
's
third-floor
study
or
library
.
To
Charles
was
left
the
task
of
superintending
this
removal
,
and
on
the
twenty
-
eighth
of
August
he
accompanied
two
expert
workmen
from
the
Crooker
decorating
firm
to
the
house
in
Olney
Court
,
where
the
mantel
and
portrait-bearing
overmantel
were
detached
with
great
care
and
precision
for
transportation
in
the
company
's
motor
truck
.
There
was
left
a
space
of
exposed
brickwork
marking
the
chimney
's
course
,
and
in
this
young
Ward
observed
a
cubical
recess
about
a
foot
square
,
which
must
have
lain
directly
behind
the
head
of
the
portrait
.
Curious
as
to
what
such
a
space
might
mean
or
contain
,
the
youth
approached
and
looked
within
;
finding
beneath
the
deep
coatings
of
dust
and
soot
some
loose
yellowed
papers
,
a
crude
,
thick
copybook
,
and
a
few
mouldering
textile
shreds
which
may
have
formed
the
ribbon
binding
the
rest
together
.
Blowing
away
the
bulk
of
the
dirt
and
cinders
,
he
took
up
the
book
and
looked
at
the
bold
inscription
on
its
cover
.
It
was
in
a
hand
which
he
had
learned
to
recognize
at
the
Essex
Institute
,
and
proclaimed
the
volume
as
the
'
Journall
and
Notes
of
Jos
:
Curwen
,
Gent
of
Prouidence-Plantations
,
Late
of
Salem
.
'
Excited
beyond
measure
by
his
discovery
,
Ward
showed
the
book
to
the
two
curious
workmen
beside
him
.
Their
testimony
is
absolute
as
to
the
nature
and
genuineness
of
the
finding
,
and
Dr.
Willett
relies
on
them
to
help
establish
his
theory
that
the
youth
was
not
mad
when
he
began
his
major
eccentricities
.
All
the
other
papers
were
likewise
in
Curwen
's
handwriting
,
and
one
of
them
seemed
especially
portentous
because
of
its
inscription
:
'
To
Him
Who
Shal
Come
After
,
&
How
He
May
Gett
Beyonde
Time
&
Ye
Spheres
.
'
Another
was
in
a
cipher
;
the
same
,
Ward
hoped
,
as
the
Hutchinson
cipher
which
had
hitherto
baffled
him
.
A
third
,
and
here
the
searcher
rejoiced
,
seemed
to
be
a
key
to
the
cipher
;
whilst
the
fourth
and
fifth
were
addressed
respectively
to
:
'
Edw
:
Hutchinson
,
Armiger
'
and
Jedediah
Orne
,
esq.
'
,
'
or
Their
Heir
or
Heirs
,
or
Those
Represent
'
g
Them
.
'
The
sixth
and
last
was
inscribed
:
'
Joseph
Curwen
his
Life
and
Travells
Bet
'n
ye
yeares
1678
and
1687
:
Of
Whither
He
Voyag
'd
,
Where
He
Stay
'd
,
Whom
He
Sawe
,
and
What
He
Learnt
.
'
