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Dr.
Willett
received
this
note
about
10:30
a.m.
,
and
immediately
arranged
to
spare
the
whole
late
afternoon
and
evening
for
the
momentous
talk
,
letting
it
extend
on
into
the
night
as
long
as
might
be
necessary
.
He
planned
to
arrive
about
four
o'clock
,
and
through
all
the
intervening
hours
was
so
engulfed
in
every
sort
of
wild
speculation
that
most
of
his
tasks
were
very
mechanically
performed
.
Maniacal
as
the
letter
would
have
sounded
to
a
stranger
,
Willett
had
seen
too
much
of
Charles
Ward
's
oddities
to
dismiss
it
as
sheer
raving
.
That
something
very
subtle
,
ancient
,
and
horrible
was
hovering
about
he
felt
quite
sure
,
and
the
reference
to
Dr.
Allen
could
almost
be
comprehended
in
view
of
what
Pawtuxet
gossip
said
of
Ward
's
enigmatical
colleague
.
Willett
had
never
seen
the
man
,
but
had
heard
much
of
his
aspect
and
bearing
,
and
could
not
but
wonder
what
sort
of
eyes
those
much-discussed
dark
glasses
might
conceal
.
Promptly
at
four
Dr.
Willett
presented
himself
at
the
Ward
residence
,
but
found
to
his
annoyance
that
Charles
had
not
adhered
to
his
determination
to
remain
indoors
.
The
guards
were
there
,
but
said
that
the
young
man
seemed
to
have
lost
part
of
his
timidity
.
He
had
that
morning
done
much
apparently
frightened
arguing
and
protesting
over
the
telephone
,
one
of
the
detectives
said
,
replying
to
some
unknown
voice
with
phrases
such
as
'
I
am
very
tired
and
must
rest
a
while
'
,
'
I
ca
n't
receive
anyone
for
some
time
'
,
'
you
'll
have
to
excuse
me
'
,
'
Please
postpone
decisive
action
till
we
can
arrange
some
sort
of
compromise
'
,
or
'
I
am
very
sorry
,
but
I
must
take
a
complete
vacation
from
everything
;
I
'll
talk
with
you
later
.
'
Then
,
apparently
gaining
boldness
through
meditation
,
he
had
slipped
out
so
quietly
that
no
one
had
seen
him
depart
or
knew
that
he
had
gone
until
he
returned
about
one
o'clock
and
entered
the
house
without
a
word
.
He
had
gone
upstairs
,
where
a
bit
of
his
fear
must
have
surged
back
;
for
he
was
heard
to
cry
out
in
a
highly
terrified
fashion
upon
entering
his
library
,
afterward
trailing
off
into
a
kind
of
choking
gasp
.
When
,
however
,
the
butler
had
gone
to
inquire
what
the
trouble
was
,
he
had
appeared
at
the
door
with
a
great
show
of
boldness
,
and
had
silently
gestured
the
man
away
in
a
manner
that
terrified
him
unaccountably
.
Then
he
had
evidently
done
some
rearranging
of
his
shelves
,
for
a
great
clattering
and
thumping
and
creaking
ensued
;
after
which
he
had
reappeared
and
left
at
once
.
Willett
inquired
whether
or
not
any
message
had
been
left
,
but
was
told
that
there
was
no
none
.
The
butler
seemed
queerly
disturbed
about
something
in
Charles
's
appearance
and
manner
,
and
asked
solicitously
if
there
was
much
hope
for
a
cure
of
his
disordered
nerves
.
For
almost
two
hours
Dr.
Willett
waited
vainly
in
Charles
Ward
's
library
,
watching
the
dusty
shelves
with
their
wide
gaps
where
books
had
been
removed
,
and
smiling
grimly
at
the
paneled
overmantel
on
the
north
wall
,
whence
a
year
before
the
suave
features
of
old
Joseph
Curwen
had
looked
mildly
down
.
After
a
time
the
shadows
began
to
gather
,
and
the
sunset
cheer
gave
place
to
a
vague
growing
terror
which
flew
shadow-like
before
the
night
.
Mr
Ward
finally
arrived
,
and
showed
much
surprise
and
anger
at
his
son
's
absence
after
all
the
pains
which
had
been
taken
to
guard
him
.
He
had
not
known
of
Charles
's
appointment
,
and
promised
to
notify
Willett
when
the
youth
returned
.
In
bidding
the
doctor
good-night
he
expressed
his
utter
perplexity
at
his
son
's
condition
,
and
urged
his
caller
to
do
all
he
could
to
restore
the
boy
to
normal
poise
.
Willett
was
glad
to
escape
from
that
library
,
for
something
frightful
and
unholy
seemed
to
haunt
it
;
as
if
the
vanished
picture
had
left
behind
a
legacy
of
evil
.
He
had
never
liked
that
picture
;
and
even
now
,
strong-nerved
though
he
was
,
there
lurked
a
quality
in
its
vacant
panel
which
made
him
feel
an
urgent
need
to
get
out
into
the
pure
air
as
soon
as
possible
.
The
next
morning
Willett
received
a
message
from
the
senior
Ward
,
saying
that
Charles
was
still
absent
.
Mr.
Ward
mentioned
that
Dr.
Allen
had
telephoned
him
to
say
that
Charles
would
remain
at
Pawtuxet
for
some
time
,
and
that
he
must
not
be
disturbed
.
This
was
necessary
because
Allen
himself
was
suddenly
called
away
for
an
indefinite
period
,
leaving
the
researches
in
need
of
Charles
's
constant
oversight
.
Charles
sent
his
best
wishes
,
and
regretted
any
bother
his
abrupt
change
of
plans
might
have
caused
.
It
listening
to
this
message
Mr.
Ward
heard
Dr.
Allen
's
voice
for
the
first
time
,
and
it
seemed
to
excite
some
vague
and
elusive
memory
which
could
not
be
actually
placed
,
but
which
was
disturbing
to
the
point
of
fearfulness
.
Faced
by
these
baffling
and
contradictory
reports
,
Dr.
Willett
was
frankly
at
a
loss
what
to
do
.
The
frantic
earnestness
of
Charles
's
note
was
not
to
be
denied
,
yet
what
could
one
think
of
its
writer
's
immediate
violation
of
his
own
expressed
policy
?
Young
Ward
had
written
that
his
delvings
had
become
blasphemous
and
menacing
,
that
they
and
his
bearded
colleague
must
be
extirpated
at
any
cost
,
and
that
he
himself
would
never
return
to
their
final
scene
;
yet
according
to
latest
advices
he
had
forgotten
all
this
and
was
back
in
the
thick
of
the
mystery
.
Common
sense
bade
one
leave
the
youth
alone
with
his
freakishness
,
yet
some
deeper
instinct
would
not
permit
the
impression
of
that
frenzied
letter
to
subside
.
Willett
read
it
over
again
,
and
could
not
make
its
essence
sound
as
empty
and
insane
as
both
its
bombastic
verbiage
and
its
lack
of
fulfillment
would
seem
to
imply
.
Its
terror
was
too
profound
and
real
,
and
in
conjunction
with
what
the
doctor
already
knew
evoked
too
vivid
hints
of
monstrosities
from
beyond
time
and
space
to
permit
of
any
cynical
explanation
.
There
were
nameless
horrors
abroad
;
and
no
matter
how
little
one
might
be
able
to
get
at
them
,
one
ought
to
stand
prepared
for
any
sort
of
action
at
any
time
.
For
over
a
week
Dr.
Willett
pondered
on
the
dilemma
which
seemed
thrust
upon
him
,
and
became
more
and
more
inclined
to
pay
Charles
a
call
at
the
Pawtuxet
bungalow
.
No
friend
of
the
youth
had
ever
ventured
to
storm
this
forbidden
retreat
,
and
even
his
father
knew
of
its
interior
only
from
such
descriptions
as
he
chose
to
give
;
but
Willett
felt
that
some
direct
conversation
with
his
patient
was
necessary
.
Mr.
Ward
had
been
receiving
brief
and
non-committal
typed
notes
from
his
son
,
and
said
that
Mrs.
Ward
in
her
Atlantic
City
retirement
had
had
no
better
word
.
So
at
length
the
doctor
resolved
to
act
;
and
despite
a
curious
sensation
inspired
by
old
legends
of
Joseph
Curwen
,
and
by
more
recent
revelations
and
warnings
from
Charles
Ward
,
set
boldly
out
for
the
bungalow
on
the
bluff
above
the
river
.
