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'
The
lack
of
a
specified
burying-ground
in
the
surviving
entry
greatly
complicated
the
search
,
and
Naphthali
Field
's
grave
seemed
as
elusive
as
that
of
Curwen
;
but
here
no
systematic
effacement
had
existed
,
and
one
might
reasonably
be
expected
to
stumble
on
the
stone
itself
even
if
its
record
had
perished
.
Hence
the
rambles
--
from
which
St.
John
's
(
the
former
King
's
)
Churchyard
and
the
ancient
Congregational
burying-ground
in
the
midst
of
Swan
Point
Cemetery
were
excluded
,
since
other
statistics
had
shown
that
the
only
Naphthali
Field
(
obiit
1729
)
whose
grave
could
have
been
meant
had
been
a
Baptist
.
It
was
toward
May
when
Dr.
Willett
,
at
the
request
of
the
senior
Ward
,
and
fortified
with
all
the
Curwen
data
which
the
family
had
gleaned
from
Charles
in
his
non-secretive
days
,
talked
with
the
young
man
.
The
interview
was
of
little
value
or
conclusiveness
,
for
Willett
felt
at
every
moment
that
Charles
was
thorough
master
of
himself
and
in
touch
with
matters
of
real
importance
;
but
it
at
least
force
the
secretive
youth
to
offer
some
rational
explanation
of
his
recent
demeanor
.
Of
a
pallid
,
impassive
type
not
easily
showing
embarrassment
,
Ward
seemed
quite
ready
to
discuss
his
pursuits
,
though
not
to
reveal
their
object
.
He
stated
that
the
papers
of
his
ancestor
had
contained
some
remarkable
secrets
of
early
scientific
knowledge
,
for
the
most
part
in
cipher
,
of
an
apparent
scope
comparable
only
to
the
discoveries
of
Friar
Bacon
and
perhaps
surpassing
even
those
.
They
were
,
however
,
meaningless
except
when
correlated
with
a
body
of
learning
now
wholly
obsolete
;
so
that
their
immediate
presentation
to
a
world
equipped
only
with
modern
science
would
rob
them
of
all
impressiveness
and
dramatic
significance
.
To
take
their
vivid
place
in
the
history
of
human
thought
they
must
first
be
correlated
by
one
familiar
with
the
background
out
of
which
they
evolved
,
and
to
this
task
of
correlation
Ward
was
now
devoting
himself
.
He
was
seeking
to
acquire
as
fast
as
possible
those
neglected
arts
of
old
which
a
true
interpreter
of
the
Curwen
data
must
possess
,
and
hoped
in
time
to
made
a
full
announcement
and
presentation
of
the
utmost
interest
to
mankind
and
to
the
world
of
thought
.
Not
even
Einstein
,
he
declared
,
could
more
profoundly
revolutionize
the
current
conception
of
things
.
As
to
his
graveyard
search
,
whose
object
he
freely
admitted
,
but
the
details
of
whose
progress
he
did
not
relate
,
he
said
he
had
reason
to
think
that
Joseph
Curwen
's
mutilated
headstone
bore
certain
mystic
symbols
--
carved
from
directions
in
his
will
and
ignorantly
spared
by
those
who
had
effaced
the
name
--
which
were
absolutely
essential
to
the
final
solution
of
his
cryptic
system
.
Curwen
,
he
believed
,
had
wish
to
guard
his
secret
with
care
;
and
had
consequently
distributed
the
data
in
an
exceedingly
curious
fashion
.
When
Dr.
Willett
asked
to
see
the
mystic
documents
,
Ward
displayed
much
reluctance
and
tried
to
put
him
off
with
such
things
as
photostatic
copies
of
the
Hutchinson
cipher
and
Orne
formulae
and
diagrams
;
but
finally
showed
him
the
exteriors
of
some
of
the
real
Curwen
finds
--
the
'
Journall
and
Notes
'
,
the
cipher
(
title
in
cipher
also
)
,
and
the
formula-filled
message
'
To
Him
Who
Shal
Come
After
'
--
and
let
him
glance
inside
such
as
were
in
obscure
characters
.
He
also
opened
the
diary
at
a
page
carefully
selected
for
its
innocuousness
and
gave
Willett
a
glimpse
of
Curwen
's
connected
handwriting
in
English
.
The
doctor
noted
very
closely
the
crabbed
and
complicated
letters
,
and
the
general
aura
of
the
seventeenth
century
which
clung
round
both
penmanship
and
style
despite
the
writer
's
survival
into
the
eighteenth
century
,
and
became
quickly
certain
that
the
document
was
genuine
.
The
text
itself
was
relatively
trivial
,
and
Willett
recalled
only
a
fragment
:
'
Wedn
.
16
Octr
.
1754
.
My
Sloope
the
Wakeful
this
Day
putt
in
from
London
with
XX
newe
Men
pick
'd
up
in
ye
Indies
,
Spaniards
from
Martineco
and
2
Dutch
Men
from
Surinam
.
Ye
Dutch
Men
are
like
to
Desert
from
have
'
g
hearde
Somewhat
ill
of
these
Ventures
,
but
I
will
see
to
ye
Inducing
of
them
to
Staye
.
For
Mr.
Knight
Dexter
of
ye
Bay
and
Book
120
Pieces
Camblets
,
100
Pieces
Assrtd
.
Cambleteens
,
20
Pieces
blue
Duffles
,
100
Pieces
Shalloons
,
50
Pieces
Calamancoes
,
300
Pieces
each
,
Shendsoy
and
Humhums
.
For
Mr.
Green
at
ye
Elephant
50
Gallon
Cyttles
,
20
Warm
'
g
Pannes
,
15
Bake
Cyttles
,
10
pr
.
Smoke
'
g
Tonges
.
For
Mr.
Perrigo
1
Sett
of
Awles
.
For
Mr.
Nightingale
50
Reames
prime
Foolscap
.
Say
'd
ye
SABAOTH
thrice
last
Nighte
but
None
appear
'd
.
I
must
heare
more
from
Mr.
H.
in
Transylvania
,
tho
'
it
is
Harde
reach
'
g
him
and
exceeding
strange
he
can
not
give
me
the
Use
of
What
he
hath
so
well
us
'd
these
hundred
Yeares
.
Simon
hath
not
writ
these
V.
Weekes
,
but
I
expecte
soon
hear
'
g
from
Him
.
'
When
upon
reaching
this
point
Dr.
Willett
turned
the
leaf
he
was
quickly
checked
by
Ward
,
who
almost
snatched
the
book
from
his
grasp
.
All
that
the
doctor
had
a
chance
to
see
on
the
newly
opened
page
was
a
brief
pair
of
sentences
;
but
these
,
strangely
enough
,
lingered
tenacious
in
his
memory
.
They
ran
:
'
Ye
Verse
from
Liber-Damnatus
be
'
g
spoke
V
Roodmasses
and
IV
Hallows-Eves
,
I
am
Hopeful
ye
Thing
is
breed
'
g
Outside
ye
Spheres
.
It
will
drawe
One
who
is
to
Come
,
if
I
can
make
sure
he
shal
Bee
,
and
he
shal
think
on
Past
Thinges
and
look
back
thro
'
all
ye
Yeares
,
against
ye
Which
I
must
have
ready
ye
Saltes
or
That
to
make
'em
with
.
'
Willett
saw
no
more
,
but
somehow
this
small
glimpse
gave
a
new
and
vague
terror
to
the
painted
features
of
Joseph
Curwen
which
stared
blandly
down
from
the
overmantel
.
Even
after
that
he
entertained
the
odd
fancy
--
which
his
medical
skill
of
course
assured
him
was
only
a
fancy
--
that
the
eyes
of
the
portrait
had
a
sort
of
wish
,
if
not
an
actual
tendency
,
to
follow
young
Charles
Ward
as
he
move
about
the
room
.
He
stopped
before
leaving
to
study
the
picture
closely
,
marvelling
at
its
resemblance
to
Charles
and
memorizing
every
minute
detail
of
the
cryptical
,
colorless
face
,
even
down
to
a
slight
scar
or
pit
in
the
smooth
brow
above
the
right
eye
.
Cosmo
Alexander
,
he
decided
,
was
a
painter
worthy
of
the
Scotland
that
produced
Raeburn
,
and
a
teacher
worthy
of
his
illustrious
pupil
Gilbert
Stuart
.
