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This
is
certainly
borne
out
by
Ward
's
altered
habits
at
the
time
,
especially
by
his
continual
search
through
town
records
and
among
old
burying-grounds
for
a
certain
grave
dug
in
1771
;
the
grave
of
an
ancestor
named
Joseph
Curwen
,
some
of
whose
papers
he
professed
to
have
found
behind
the
paneling
of
a
very
old
house
in
Olney
Court
,
on
Stampers
'
Hill
,
which
Curwen
was
known
to
have
built
and
occupied
.
It
is
,
broadly
speaking
,
undeniable
that
the
winter
of
1919-20
saw
a
great
change
in
Ward
;
whereby
he
abruptly
stopped
his
general
antiquarian
pursuits
and
embarked
on
a
desperate
delving
into
occult
subjects
both
at
home
and
abroad
,
varied
only
by
this
strangely
persistent
search
for
his
forefather
's
grave
.
From
this
opinion
,
however
,
Dr.
Willett
substantially
dissents
;
basing
his
verdict
on
his
close
and
continuous
knowledge
of
the
patient
,
and
on
certain
frightful
investigations
and
discoveries
which
he
made
toward
the
last
.
Those
investigations
and
discoveries
have
left
their
mark
upon
him
;
so
that
his
voice
trembles
when
he
tells
them
,
and
his
hand
trembles
when
he
tries
to
write
of
them
.
Willett
admits
that
the
change
of
1919-20
would
ordinarily
appear
to
mark
the
beginning
of
a
progressive
decadence
which
culminated
in
the
horrible
and
uncanny
alienation
of
1928
;
but
believes
from
personal
observation
that
a
finer
distinction
must
be
made
.
Granting
freely
that
the
boy
was
always
ill-balanced
temperamentally
,
and
prone
to
be
unduly
susceptible
and
enthusiastic
in
his
responses
to
phenomena
around
him
,
he
refuses
to
concede
that
the
early
alteration
marked
the
actual
passage
from
sanity
to
madness
;
crediting
instead
Ward
's
own
statement
that
he
had
discovered
or
rediscovered
something
whose
effect
on
human
though
was
likely
to
be
marvelous
and
profound
.
The
true
madness
,
he
is
certain
,
came
with
a
later
change
;
after
the
Curwen
portrait
and
the
ancient
papers
had
been
unearthed
;
after
a
trip
to
strange
foreign
places
had
been
made
,
and
some
terrible
invocations
chanted
under
strange
and
secret
circumstances
;
after
certain
answers
to
these
invocations
had
been
plainly
indicated
,
and
a
frantic
letter
penned
under
agonizing
and
inexplicable
conditions
;
after
the
wave
of
vampirism
and
the
ominous
Pawtuxet
gossip
;
and
after
the
patient
's
memory
commenced
to
exclude
contemporary
images
whilst
his
physical
aspect
underwent
the
subtle
modification
so
many
subsequently
noticed
.
It
was
only
about
this
time
,
Willett
points
out
with
much
acuteness
,
that
the
nightmare
qualities
became
indubitably
linked
with
Ward
;
and
the
doctor
feels
shudderingly
sure
that
enough
solid
evidence
exists
to
sustain
the
youth
's
claim
regarding
his
crucial
discovery
.
In
the
first
place
,
two
workmen
of
high
intelligence
saw
Joseph
Curwen
's
ancient
papers
found
.
Secondly
,
the
boy
once
showed
Dr.
Willett
those
papers
and
a
page
of
the
Curwen
diary
,
and
each
of
the
documents
had
every
appearance
of
genuineness
The
hole
where
Ward
claimed
to
have
found
them
was
long
a
visible
reality
,
and
Willett
had
a
very
convincing
final
glimpse
of
them
in
surroundings
which
can
scarcely
be
believed
and
can
never
perhaps
be
proved
.
Then
there
were
the
mysteries
and
coincidences
of
the
Orne
and
Hutchinson
letters
,
and
the
problem
of
the
Curwen
penmanship
and
of
what
the
detectives
brought
to
light
about
Dr.
Allen
;
these
things
,
and
the
terrible
message
in
medieval
minuscules
found
in
Willett
's
pocket
when
he
gained
consciousness
after
his
shocking
experience
.
And
most
conclusive
of
all
,
there
are
the
two
hideous
results
which
the
doctor
obtained
from
a
certain
pair
of
formulae
during
his
final
investigations
;
results
which
virtually
proved
the
authenticity
of
the
papers
and
of
their
monstrous
implications
at
the
same
time
that
those
papers
were
borne
forever
from
human
knowledge
.
One
must
look
back
at
Charles
Ward
's
earlier
life
as
at
something
belonging
as
much
to
the
past
as
the
antiquities
he
loved
so
keenly
.
In
the
autumn
of
1918
,
and
with
a
considerable
show
of
zest
in
the
military
training
of
the
period
,
he
had
begun
his
junior
year
at
the
Moses
Brown
School
,
which
lies
very
near
his
home
.
The
old
main
building
,
erected
in
1819
,
had
always
charmed
his
youthful
antiquarian
sense
;
and
the
spacious
park
in
which
the
academy
is
set
appealed
to
his
sharp
eye
for
landscape
.
His
social
activities
were
few
;
and
his
hours
were
spent
mainly
at
home
,
in
rambling
walks
,
in
his
classes
and
drills
,
and
in
pursuit
of
antiquarian
and
genealogical
data
at
the
City
Hall
,
the
State
House
,
the
Public
Library
,
the
Athenaeum
,
the
Historical
Society
,
the
John
Carter
Brown
and
John
Hay
Libraries
of
Brown
University
,
and
the
newly
opened
Shepley
Library
in
Benefit
Street
.
One
may
picture
him
yet
as
he
was
in
those
days
;
tall
,
slim
,
and
blond
,
with
studious
eyes
and
a
slight
droop
,
dressed
somewhat
carelessly
,
and
giving
a
dominant
impression
of
harmless
awkwardness
rather
than
attractiveness
.
His
walks
were
always
adventures
in
antiquity
,
during
which
he
managed
to
recapture
from
the
myriad
relics
of
a
glamorous
old
city
a
vivid
and
connected
picture
of
the
centuries
before
.
His
home
was
a
great
Georgian
mansion
atop
the
well-nigh
precipitous
hill
that
rises
just
east
of
the
river
;
and
from
the
rear
windows
of
its
rambling
wings
he
could
look
dizzily
out
over
all
the
clustered
spires
,
domes
,
roofs
,
and
skyscraper
summits
of
the
lower
town
to
the
purple
hills
of
the
countryside
beyond
.
Here
he
was
born
,
and
from
the
lovely
classic
porch
of
the
double-bayed
brick
facade
his
nurse
had
first
wheeled
him
in
his
carriage
;
past
the
little
white
farmhouse
of
two
hundred
years
before
that
the
town
had
long
ago
overtaken
,
and
on
toward
the
stately
colleges
along
the
shady
,
sumptuous
street
,
whose
old
square
brick
mansions
and
smaller
wooden
houses
with
narrow
,
heavy-columned
Doric
porches
dreamed
solid
and
exclusive
amidst
their
generous
yards
and
gardens
.
He
had
been
wheeled
,
too
,
along
sleepy
Congdon
Street
,
one
tier
lower
down
on
the
steep
hill
,
and
with
all
its
eastern
homes
on
high
terraces
.
The
small
wooden
houses
averaged
a
greater
age
here
,
for
it
was
up
this
hill
that
the
growing
town
had
climbed
;
and
in
these
rides
he
had
imbibed
something
of
the
color
of
a
quaint
colonial
village
.
The
nurse
used
to
stop
and
sit
on
the
benches
of
Prospect
Terrace
to
chat
with
policemen
;
and
one
of
the
child
's
first
memories
was
of
the
great
westward
sea
of
hazy
roofs
and
domes
and
steeples
and
far
hills
which
he
saw
one
winter
afternoon
from
that
great
railed
embankment
,
and
violet
and
mystic
against
a
fevered
,
apocalyptic
sunset
of
reds
and
golds
and
purples
and
curious
greens
.
