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NOCTURNAL
DIGGERS
SURPRISED
IN
NORTH
BURIAL
GROUND
Robert
Hart
,
night
watchman
at
the
North
Burial
Ground
,
this
morning
discovered
a
party
of
several
men
with
a
motor
truck
in
the
oldest
part
of
the
cemetery
,
but
apparently
frightened
them
off
before
they
had
accomplished
whatever
their
object
may
have
been
.
The
discovery
took
place
at
about
four
o'clock
,
when
Hart
's
attention
was
attracted
by
the
sound
of
a
motor
outside
his
shelter
.
Investigating
,
he
saw
a
large
truck
on
the
main
drive
several
rods
away
;
but
could
not
reach
it
before
the
noise
of
his
feet
on
the
gravel
had
revealed
his
approach
.
The
men
hastily
placed
a
large
box
in
the
truck
and
drove
away
toward
the
street
before
they
could
be
overtaken
;
and
since
no
known
grave
was
disturbed
,
Hart
believes
that
this
box
was
an
object
which
they
wished
to
bury
.
The
diggers
must
have
been
at
work
for
a
long
while
before
detection
,
for
Hart
found
an
enormous
hold
dug
at
a
considerable
distance
back
from
the
roadway
in
the
lot
of
Amasa
Field
,
where
most
of
the
old
stones
have
long
ago
disappeared
.
The
hole
,
a
place
as
large
and
deep
as
a
grave
,
was
empty
;
and
did
not
coincide
with
any
interment
mentioned
in
the
cemetery
records
.
Sergt
.
Riley
of
the
Second
Station
viewed
the
spot
and
gave
the
opinion
that
the
hole
was
dug
by
bootleggers
rather
gruesomely
and
ingeniously
seeking
a
safe
cache
for
liquor
in
a
place
not
likely
to
be
disturbed
.
In
reply
to
questions
Hart
said
he
though
the
escaping
truck
had
headed
up
Rochambeau
Avenue
,
though
he
could
not
be
sure
.
During
the
next
few
days
Charles
Ward
was
seldom
seen
by
his
family
.
Having
added
sleeping
quarters
to
his
attic
realm
,
he
kept
closely
to
himself
there
,
ordering
food
brought
to
the
door
and
not
taking
it
in
until
after
the
servant
had
gone
away
.
The
droning
of
monotonous
formulae
and
the
chanting
of
bizarre
rhythms
recurred
at
intervals
,
while
at
other
times
occasional
listeners
could
detect
the
sound
of
tinkling
glass
,
hissing
chemicals
,
running
water
,
or
roaring
gas
flames
Odors
of
the
most
unplaceable
quality
,
wholly
unlike
any
before
noted
,
hung
at
times
around
the
door
;
and
the
air
of
tension
observable
in
the
young
recluse
whenever
he
did
venture
briefly
forth
was
such
as
to
excite
the
keenest
speculation
.
Once
he
made
a
hasty
trip
to
the
Athenaeum
for
a
book
he
required
,
and
again
he
hired
a
messenger
to
fetch
him
a
highly
obscure
volume
from
Boston
.
Suspense
was
written
portentously
over
the
whole
situation
,
and
both
the
family
and
Dr.
Willett
confessed
themselves
wholly
at
a
loss
what
to
do
or
think
about
it
.
Then
on
the
fifteenth
of
April
a
strange
development
occurred
.
While
nothing
appeared
to
grow
different
in
kind
,
there
was
certainly
a
very
terrible
difference
in
degree
;
and
Dr.
Willett
somehow
attaches
great
significance
to
the
change
.
The
day
was
Good
Friday
,
a
circumstance
of
which
the
servants
made
much
,
but
which
others
quite
naturally
dismiss
as
an
irrelevant
coincidence
.
Late
in
the
afternoon
young
Ward
began
repeating
a
certain
formula
in
a
singularly
loud
voice
,
at
the
same
time
burning
some
substance
so
pungent
that
its
fumes
escaped
over
the
entire
house
.
The
formula
was
so
plainly
audible
in
the
hall
outside
the
locked
door
that
Mrs.
Ward
could
not
help
memorizing
it
as
she
waited
and
listened
anxiously
,
and
later
on
she
was
able
to
write
it
down
at
Dr.
Willett
's
request
.
It
ran
as
follows
,
and
experts
have
told
Dr.
Willett
that
its
very
close
analogue
can
be
found
in
the
mystic
writings
of
"
Eliphas
Levi
"
,
that
cryptic
soul
who
crept
through
a
crack
in
the
forbidden
door
and
glimpsed
the
frightful
vistas
of
the
void
beyond
:
'
Per
Adonai
Eloim
,
Adonai
Jehova
,
