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Willett
speaks
with
authority
,
for
he
was
often
at
the
Ward
home
attending
Mrs.
Ward
,
whose
nerves
had
begun
to
snap
under
the
strain
.
Her
nocturnal
listening
had
bred
some
morbid
hallucinations
which
she
confided
to
the
doctor
with
hesitancy
,
and
which
he
ridiculed
in
talking
to
her
,
although
they
made
him
ponder
deeply
when
alone
.
These
delusions
always
concerning
the
faint
sounds
which
she
fancied
she
heard
in
the
attic
laboratory
and
bedroom
,
and
emphasized
the
occurrence
of
muffled
sighs
and
sobbings
at
the
most
impossible
times
.
Early
in
July
Willett
ordered
Mrs.
Ward
to
Atlantic
City
for
an
indefinite
recuperative
sojourn
,
and
cautioned
both
Mr.
Ward
and
the
haggard
and
elusive
Charles
to
write
her
only
cheering
letters
.
It
is
probably
to
this
enforced
and
reluctant
escape
that
she
owes
her
life
and
continued
sanity
.
Not
long
after
his
mother
's
departure
,
Charles
Ward
began
negotiating
for
the
Pawtuxet
bungalow
.
It
was
a
squalid
little
wooden
edifice
with
a
concrete
garage
,
perched
high
on
the
sparsely
settled
bank
of
the
river
slightly
above
Rhodes
,
but
for
some
odd
reason
the
youth
would
have
nothing
else
.
He
gave
the
real-estate
agencies
no
peace
till
one
of
them
secured
it
for
him
at
an
exorbitant
price
from
a
somewhat
reluctant
owner
,
and
as
soon
as
it
was
vacant
he
took
possession
under
cover
of
darkness
,
,
transporting
in
a
great
closed
van
the
entire
contents
of
his
attic
laboratory
,
including
the
books
both
weird
and
modern
which
he
had
borrowed
from
his
study
.
He
had
this
van
loaded
in
the
black
small
hours
,
and
his
father
recalls
only
a
drowsy
realization
of
stifled
oaths
and
stamping
feet
on
the
night
the
goods
were
taken
away
.
After
that
Charles
moved
back
to
his
own
old
quarters
on
the
third
floor
,
and
never
haunted
the
attic
again
.
To
the
Pawtuxet
bungalow
Charles
transferred
all
the
secrecy
with
which
he
had
surrounded
his
attic
realm
,
save
that
he
now
appeared
to
have
two
sharers
of
his
mysteries
;
a
villainous-looking
Portuguese
half-caste
from
the
South
Main
St.
waterfront
who
acted
as
a
servant
,
and
a
thin
,
scholarly
stranger
with
dark
glasses
and
a
stubbly
full
beard
of
dyed
aspect
whose
status
was
evidently
that
of
a
colleague
.
Neighbors
vainly
tried
to
engage
these
odd
persons
in
conversation
.
The
mulatto
Gomes
spoke
very
little
English
,
and
the
bearded
man
,
who
gave
his
name
as
Dr.
Allen
,
voluntarily
followed
his
example
.
Ward
himself
tried
to
be
more
affable
,
but
succeeded
only
in
provoking
curiosity
with
his
rambling
accounts
of
chemical
research
.
Before
long
queer
tales
began
to
circulate
regarding
the
all-night
burning
of
lights
;
and
somewhat
later
,
after
this
burning
had
suddenly
ceased
,
there
rose
still
queerer
tales
of
disproportionate
orders
of
meat
from
the
butcher
's
and
of
the
muffled
shouting
,
declamation
,
rhythmic
chanting
,
and
screaming
supposed
to
come
from
some
very
cellar
below
the
place
.
Most
distinctly
the
new
and
strange
household
was
bitterly
disliked
by
the
honest
bourgeoisie
of
the
vicinity
,
and
it
is
not
remarkable
that
dark
hints
were
advanced
connecting
the
hated
establishment
with
the
current
epidemic
of
vampiristic
attacks
and
murders
;
especially
since
the
radius
of
that
plague
seemed
now
confined
wholly
to
Pawtuxet
and
the
adjacent
streets
of
Edgewood
.
Ward
spent
most
of
his
time
at
the
bungalow
,
but
slept
occasionally
at
home
and
was
still
reckoned
a
dweller
beneath
his
father
's
roof
.
Twice
he
was
absent
from
the
city
on
week-long
trips
,
whose
destinations
have
not
yet
been
discovered
.
He
grew
steadily
paler
and
more
emaciated
even
than
before
,
and
lacked
some
of
his
former
assurance
when
repeating
to
Dr.
Willett
his
old
,
old
story
of
vital
research
and
future
revelations
.
Willett
often
waylaid
him
at
his
father
's
house
,
for
the
elder
Ward
was
deeply
worried
and
perplexed
,
and
wished
his
son
to
get
as
much
sound
oversight
as
could
be
managed
in
the
case
of
so
secretive
and
independent
an
adult
.
The
doctor
still
insists
that
the
youth
was
sane
even
as
late
as
this
,
and
adduces
many
a
conversation
to
prove
his
point
.
About
September
the
vampirism
declined
,
but
in
the
following
January
almost
became
involved
in
serious
trouble
.
For
some
time
the
nocturnal
arrival
and
departure
of
motor
trucks
at
the
Pawtuxet
bungalow
had
been
commented
upon
,
and
at
this
juncture
an
unforeseen
hitch
exposed
the
nature
of
at
least
one
item
of
their
contents
.
In
a
lonely
spot
near
Hope
Valley
had
occurred
one
of
the
frequent
sordid
waylaying
of
trucks
by
"
hi-jackers
"
in
quest
of
liquor
shipments
,
but
this
time
the
robbers
had
been
destined
to
receive
the
greater
shock
.
For
the
long
cases
they
seized
proved
upon
opening
to
contain
some
exceedingly
gruesome
things
;
so
gruesome
,
in
fact
,
that
the
matter
could
not
be
kept
quiet
amongst
the
denizens
of
the
underworld
.
The
thieves
had
hastily
buried
what
they
discovered
,
but
when
the
State
Police
got
wind
of
the
matter
a
careful
search
was
made
.
A
recently
arrived
vagrant
,
under
promise
of
immunity
from
prosecution
on
any
additional
charge
,
at
last
consented
to
guide
a
party
of
troopers
to
the
spot
;
and
there
was
found
in
that
hasty
cache
a
very
hideous
and
shameful
thing
.
It
would
not
be
well
for
the
national
--
or
even
the
international
--
sense
of
decorum
if
the
public
were
ever
to
know
what
was
uncovered
by
that
awestruck
party
.
There
was
no
mistaking
it
,
even
by
those
far
from
studious
officers
;
and
telegrams
to
Washington
ensued
with
feverish
rapidity
.
The
cases
were
addressed
to
Charles
Ward
at
his
Pawtuxet
bungalow
,
and
State
and
Federal
officials
at
once
paid
him
a
very
forceful
and
serious
call
.
They
found
him
pallid
and
worried
with
his
two
odd
companions
,
and
received
from
him
what
seemed
to
be
a
valid
explanation
and
evidence
of
innocence
.
He
had
needed
certain
anatomical
specimens
as
part
of
a
program
of
research
whose
depth
and
genuineness
anyone
who
had
known
him
in
the
last
decade
could
prove
,
and
had
ordered
the
required
kind
and
number
from
agencies
which
he
had
thought
as
reasonably
legitimate
as
such
things
can
be
.
Of
the
identity
of
the
specimens
he
had
known
absolutely
nothing
,
and
was
properly
shocked
when
the
inspectors
hinted
at
the
monstrous
effect
on
public
sentiment
and
national
dignity
which
a
knowledge
of
the
matter
would
produce
.
In
this
statement
he
was
firmly
sustained
by
his
bearded
colleague
Dr.
Allen
,
whose
oddly
hollow
voice
carried
even
more
conviction
than
his
own
nervous
tones
;
so
that
in
the
end
the
officials
took
no
action
,
but
carefully
set
down
the
New
York
name
and
address
which
Ward
gave
them
a
basis
for
a
search
which
came
to
nothing
.
It
is
only
fair
to
add
that
the
specimens
were
quickly
and
quietly
restored
to
their
proper
places
,
and
that
the
general
public
will
never
know
of
their
blasphemous
disturbance
.
On
February
9
,
1928
,
Dr.
Willett
received
a
letter
from
Charles
Ward
which
he
considers
of
extraordinary
importance
,
and
about
which
he
has
frequently
quarreled
with
Dr.
Lyman
.
Lyman
believes
that
this
note
contains
positive
proof
of
a
well-developed
case
of
dementia
praecox
,
but
Willett
on
the
other
hand
regards
it
as
the
last
perfectly
sane
utterance
of
the
hapless
youth
.
He
calls
especial
attention
to
the
normal
character
of
the
penmanship
;
which
though
showing
traces
of
shattered
nerves
,
is
nevertheless
distinctly
Ward
's
own
.
The
text
in
full
is
as
follows
:
