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We
have
now
reached
the
point
from
which
the
more
academic
school
of
alienists
date
Charles
Ward
's
madness
.
Upon
his
discovery
the
youth
had
looked
immediately
at
a
few
of
the
inner
pages
of
the
book
and
manuscripts
,
and
had
evidently
seen
something
which
impressed
him
tremendously
.
Indeed
,
in
showing
the
titles
to
the
workmen
,
he
appeared
to
guard
the
text
itself
with
peculiar
care
,
and
to
labour
under
a
perturbation
for
which
even
the
antiquarian
and
genealogical
significance
of
the
find
could
hardly
account
.
Upon
returning
home
he
broke
the
news
with
an
almost
embarrassed
air
,
as
if
he
wished
to
convey
an
idea
of
its
supreme
importance
without
having
to
exhibit
the
evidence
itself
.
He
did
not
even
show
the
titles
to
his
parents
,
but
simply
told
them
that
he
had
found
some
documents
in
Joseph
Curwen
's
handwriting
,
'm
ostly
in
cipher
'
,
which
would
have
to
be
studied
very
carefully
before
yielding
up
their
true
meaning
.
It
is
unlikely
that
he
would
have
shown
what
he
did
to
the
workmen
,
had
it
not
been
for
their
unconcealed
curiosity
.
As
it
was
he
doubtless
wished
to
avoid
any
display
of
peculiar
reticence
which
would
increase
their
discussion
of
the
matter
.
That
night
Charles
Ward
sat
up
in
his
room
reading
the
new-found
book
and
papers
,
and
when
day
came
he
did
not
desist
.
His
meals
,
on
his
urgent
request
when
his
mother
called
to
see
what
was
amiss
,
were
sent
up
to
him
;
and
in
the
afternoon
he
appeared
only
briefly
when
the
men
came
to
install
the
Curwen
picture
and
mantelpiece
in
his
study
.
The
next
night
he
slept
in
snatches
in
his
clothes
,
meanwhile
wrestling
feverishly
with
the
unraveling
of
the
cipher
manuscript
.
In
the
morning
his
mother
saw
that
he
was
at
work
on
the
photostatic
copy
of
the
Hutchinson
cipher
,
which
he
had
frequently
shown
her
before
;
but
in
response
to
her
query
he
said
that
the
Curwen
key
could
not
be
applied
to
it
.
That
afternoon
he
abandoned
his
work
and
watched
the
men
fascinatedly
as
they
finished
their
installation
of
the
picture
with
its
woodwork
above
a
cleverly
realistic
electric
log
,
setting
the
mock-fireplace
and
overmantel
a
little
out
from
the
north
wall
as
if
a
chimney
existed
,
and
boxing
in
the
sides
with
paneling
to
match
the
room
's
.
The
front
panel
holding
the
picture
was
sawn
and
hinged
to
allow
cupboard
space
behind
it
.
After
the
workmen
went
he
moved
his
work
into
the
study
and
sat
down
before
it
with
his
eyes
half
on
the
cipher
and
half
on
the
portrait
which
stared
back
at
him
like
a
year-adding
and
century-recalling
mirror
.
His
parents
,
subsequently
recalling
his
conduct
at
this
period
,
give
interesting
details
anent
the
policy
of
concealment
which
he
practiced
.
Before
servants
he
seldom
hid
any
paper
which
he
might
by
studying
,
since
he
rightly
assumed
that
Curwen
's
intricate
and
archaic
chirography
would
be
too
much
for
them
.
With
his
parents
,
however
,
he
was
more
circumspect
;
and
unless
the
manuscript
in
question
were
a
cipher
,
or
a
mere
mass
of
cryptic
symbols
and
unknown
ideographs
(
as
that
entitled
'
To
Him
Who
Shal
Come
After
,
etc.
.
'
seemed
to
be
)
,
he
would
cover
it
with
some
convenient
paper
until
his
caller
had
departed
.
At
night
he
kept
the
papers
under
lock
and
key
in
an
antique
cabinet
of
his
,
where
he
also
placed
them
whenever
he
left
the
room
.
He
soon
resumed
fairly
regular
hours
and
habits
,
except
that
his
long
walks
and
other
outside
interests
seemed
to
cease
.
The
opening
of
school
,
where
he
now
began
his
senior
year
,
seemed
a
great
bore
to
him
;
and
he
frequently
asserted
his
determination
never
to
bother
with
college
.
He
had
,
he
said
,
important
special
investigations
to
make
,
which
would
provide
him
with
more
avenues
toward
knowledge
and
the
humanities
than
any
university
which
the
world
could
boast
.
Naturally
,
only
one
who
had
always
been
more
or
less
studious
,
eccentric
,
and
solitary
could
have
pursued
this
course
for
many
days
without
attracting
notice
.
Ward
,
however
,
was
constitutionally
a
scholar
and
a
hermit
;
hence
his
parents
were
less
surprised
than
regretful
at
the
close
confinement
and
secrecy
he
adopted
.
At
the
same
time
,
both
his
father
and
mother
thought
it
odd
that
he
would
show
them
no
scrap
of
his
treasure-trove
,
nor
give
any
connected
account
of
such
data
as
he
had
deciphered
.
This
reticence
he
explained
away
as
due
to
a
wish
to
wait
until
he
might
announce
some
connected
revelation
,
but
as
the
weeks
passed
without
further
disclosures
there
began
to
grow
up
between
the
youth
and
his
family
a
kind
of
constraint
;
intensified
in
his
mother
's
case
by
her
manifest
disapproval
of
all
Curwen
delvings
.
During
October
Ward
began
visiting
the
libraries
again
,
but
no
longer
for
the
antiquarian
matter
of
his
former
days
.
Witchcraft
and
magic
,
occultism
and
demonology
,
were
what
he
sought
now
;
and
when
Providence
sources
proved
unfruitful
he
would
take
the
train
for
Boston
and
tap
the
wealth
of
the
great
library
in
Copley
Square
,
the
Widener
Library
at
Harvard
,
or
the
Zion
Research
Library
in
Brookline
,
where
certain
rare
works
on
Biblical
subjects
are
available
.
He
bought
extensively
,
and
fitted
up
a
whole
additional
set
of
shelves
in
his
study
for
newly
acquired
works
on
uncanny
subjects
;
while
during
the
Christmas
holidays
he
made
a
round
of
out-of-town
trips
including
one
to
Salem
to
consult
certain
records
at
the
Essex
Institute
.
About
the
middle
of
January
,
1920
,
there
entered
Ward
's
bearing
an
element
of
triumph
which
he
did
not
explain
,
and
he
was
no
more
found
at
work
upon
the
Hutchinson
cipher
.
Instead
,
he
inaugurated
a
dual
policy
of
chemical
research
and
record-scanning
;
fitting
up
for
the
one
a
laboratory
in
the
unused
attic
of
the
house
,
and
for
the
latter
haunting
all
the
sources
of
vital
statistics
in
Providence
.
Local
dealers
in
drugs
and
scientific
supplies
,
later
questioned
,
gave
astonishingly
queer
and
meaningless
catalogues
of
the
substances
and
instruments
he
purchased
;
but
clerks
at
the
State
House
,
the
City
Hall
,
and
the
various
libraries
agree
as
to
the
definite
object
of
his
second
interest
.
He
was
searching
intensely
and
feverishly
for
the
grave
of
Joseph
Curwen
,
from
whose
slate
slab
an
older
generation
had
so
wisely
blotted
the
name
.
Little
by
little
there
grew
upon
the
Ward
family
the
conviction
that
something
was
wrong
.
Charles
had
had
freaks
and
changes
of
minor
interests
before
,
but
this
growing
secrecy
and
absorption
in
strange
pursuits
was
unlike
even
him
.
His
school
work
was
the
merest
pretence
;
and
although
he
failed
in
no
test
,
it
could
be
seen
that
the
older
application
had
all
vanished
.
He
had
other
concernments
now
;
and
when
not
in
his
new
laboratory
with
a
score
of
obsolete
alchemical
books
,
could
be
found
either
poring
over
old
burial
records
down
town
or
glued
to
his
volumes
of
occult
lore
in
his
study
,
where
the
startlingly
--
one
almost
fancied
increasingly
--
similar
features
of
Joseph
Curwen
stared
blandly
at
him
from
the
great
overmantel
on
the
North
wall
.
Late
in
March
Ward
added
to
his
archive-searching
a
ghoulish
series
of
rambles
about
the
various
ancient
cemeteries
of
the
city
.
The
cause
appeared
later
,
when
it
was
learned
from
City
Hall
clerks
that
he
had
probably
found
an
important
clue
.
His
quest
had
suddenly
shifted
from
the
grave
of
Joseph
Curwen
to
that
of
one
Naphthali
Field
;
and
this
shift
was
explained
when
,
upon
going
over
the
files
that
he
had
been
over
,
the
investigators
actually
found
a
fragmentary
record
of
Curwen
's
burial
which
had
escaped
the
general
obliteration
,
and
which
stated
that
the
curious
leaden
coffin
had
been
interred
'10
ft.
S.
and
5
ft.
W.
of
Naphthali
Field
's
grave
in
y
--
