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Whatever
the
contents
may
have
been
after
more
than
a
century
of
burial
,
all
was
gone
except
a
few
slivers
of
decayed
wood
.
There
were
no
wheel
tracks
,
but
the
police
have
measured
a
single
set
of
footprints
which
they
found
in
the
vicinity
,
and
which
indicate
the
boots
of
a
man
of
refinement
.
Hart
is
inclined
to
link
this
incident
with
the
digging
discovered
last
March
,
when
a
party
in
a
motor
truck
were
frightened
away
after
making
a
deep
excavation
;
but
Sergt
.
Riley
of
the
Second
Station
discounts
this
theory
and
points
to
vital
differences
in
the
two
cases
.
In
March
the
digging
had
been
in
a
spot
where
no
grave
was
known
;
but
this
time
a
well-marked
and
cared-for
grave
had
been
rifled
with
every
evidence
of
deliberate
purpose
,
and
with
a
conscious
malignity
expressed
in
the
splintering
of
the
slab
which
had
been
intact
up
to
the
day
before
.
Members
of
the
Weeden
family
,
notified
of
the
happening
,
expressed
their
astonishment
and
regret
;
and
were
wholly
unable
to
think
of
any
enemy
who
would
care
to
violate
the
grave
of
their
ancestor
.
Hazard
Weeden
of
598
Angell
Street
recalls
a
family
legend
according
to
which
Ezra
Weeden
was
involved
in
some
very
peculiar
circumstances
,
not
dishonorable
to
himself
,
shortly
before
the
Revolution
;
but
of
any
modern
feud
or
mystery
he
is
frankly
ignorant
.
Inspector
Cunningham
has
been
assigned
to
the
case
,
and
hopes
to
uncover
some
valuable
clues
in
the
near
future
.
DOGS
NOISY
IN
PAWTUXET
Residents
of
Pawtuxet
were
aroused
about
3
a.m.
today
by
a
phenomenal
baying
of
dogs
which
seemed
to
center
near
the
river
just
north
of
Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet
.
The
volume
and
quality
of
the
howling
were
unusually
odd
,
according
to
most
who
heart
it
;
and
Fred
Lemdin
,
night-watchman
at
Rhodes
,
declares
it
was
mixed
with
something
very
like
the
shrieks
of
a
man
in
mortal
terror
and
agony
.
A
sharp
and
very
brief
thunderstorm
,
which
seemed
to
strike
somewhere
near
the
bank
of
the
river
,
put
an
end
to
the
disturbance
.
Strange
and
unpleasant
odors
,
probably
from
the
oil
tanks
along
the
bay
,
are
popularly
linked
with
this
incident
;
and
may
have
had
their
share
in
exciting
the
dogs
.
The
aspect
of
Charles
now
became
very
haggard
and
hunted
,
and
all
agreed
in
retrospect
that
he
may
have
wished
at
this
period
to
make
some
statement
or
confession
from
which
sheer
terror
withheld
him
.
The
morbid
listening
of
his
mother
in
the
night
brought
out
the
fact
that
he
made
frequent
sallies
abroad
under
cover
of
darkness
,
and
most
of
the
more
academic
alienists
unite
at
present
in
charging
him
with
the
revolting
cases
of
vampirism
which
the
press
so
sensationally
reported
about
this
time
,
but
which
have
not
yet
been
definitely
traced
to
any
known
perpetrator
.
These
cases
,
too
recent
and
celebrated
to
need
detailed
mention
,
involved
victims
of
every
age
and
type
and
seemed
to
cluster
around
two
distinct
localities
;
the
residential
hill
and
the
North
End
,
near
the
Ward
home
,
and
the
suburban
districts
across
the
Cranston
line
near
Pawtuxet
.
Both
late
wayfarers
and
sleepers
with
open
windows
were
attacked
,
and
those
who
lived
to
tell
the
tale
spoke
unanimously
of
a
lean
,
lithe
,
leaping
monster
with
burning
eyes
which
fastened
its
teeth
in
the
throat
or
upper
arm
and
feasted
ravenously
.
Dr.
Willett
,
who
refuses
to
date
the
madness
of
Charles
Ward
as
far
back
as
even
this
,
is
cautious
in
attempting
to
explain
these
horrors
.
He
has
,
he
declares
,
certain
theories
of
his
own
;
and
limits
his
positive
statements
to
a
peculiar
kind
of
negation
:
'
I
will
not
,
'
he
says
,
's
tate
who
or
what
I
believe
perpetrated
these
attacks
and
murders
,
but
I
will
declare
that
Charles
Ward
was
innocent
of
them
.
I
have
reason
to
be
sure
he
was
ignorant
of
the
taste
of
blood
,
as
indeed
his
continued
anemic
decline
and
increasing
pallor
prove
better
than
any
verbal
argument
.
Ward
meddled
with
terrible
things
,
but
he
has
paid
for
it
,
and
he
was
never
a
monster
or
a
villain
As
for
now
--
I
do
n't
like
to
think
.
A
change
came
,
and
I
'm
content
to
believe
that
the
old
Charles
Ward
died
with
it
.
His
soul
did
,
anyhow
,
for
that
mad
flesh
that
vanished
from
Waite
's
hospital
had
another
.
'
