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Now
definitely
leagued
together
to
do
all
they
could
toward
the
youth
's
mental
salvation
,
Mr.
Ward
and
Dr.
Willett
set
about
collecting
every
scrap
of
data
which
the
case
might
afford
.
Pawtuxet
gossip
was
the
first
item
they
studied
,
and
this
was
relatively
easy
to
glean
since
both
had
friends
in
that
region
.
Dr.
Willett
obtained
the
most
rumors
because
people
talked
more
frankly
to
him
than
to
a
parent
of
the
central
figure
,
and
from
all
he
heard
he
could
tell
that
young
Ward
's
life
had
become
indeed
a
strange
one
.
Common
tongues
would
not
dissociate
his
household
from
the
vampirism
of
the
previous
summer
,
while
the
nocturnal
comings
and
goings
of
the
motor
trucks
provided
their
share
of
dark
speculations
.
Local
tradesmen
spoke
of
the
queerness
of
the
orders
brought
them
by
the
evil-looking
mulatto
,
and
in
particular
of
the
inordinate
amounts
of
mean
and
fresh
blood
secured
from
the
two
butcher
shops
in
the
immediate
neighborhood
.
For
a
household
of
only
three
,
these
quantities
were
quite
absurd
.
Then
there
was
the
matter
of
the
sounds
beneath
the
earth
.
Reports
of
these
things
were
harder
to
point
down
,
but
all
the
vague
hints
tallied
in
certain
basic
essentials
.
Noises
of
a
ritual
nature
positively
existed
,
and
at
times
when
the
bungalow
was
dark
.
They
might
,
of
course
,
have
come
from
the
known
cellar
;
but
rumor
insisted
that
there
were
deeper
and
more
spreading
crypts
Recalling
the
ancient
tales
of
Joseph
Curwen
's
catacombs
,
and
assuming
for
granted
that
the
present
bungalow
had
been
selected
because
of
its
situation
on
the
old
Curwen
site
as
revealed
in
one
of
another
of
the
documents
found
behind
the
picture
,
Willett
and
Mr.
Ward
gave
this
phase
of
the
gossip
much
attention
;
and
searched
many
times
without
success
for
the
door
in
the
river-bank
which
old
manuscripts
mentioned
.
As
to
popular
opinions
of
the
bungalow
's
various
inhabitants
,
it
was
soon
plain
that
the
Brava
Portuguese
was
loathed
,
the
bearded
and
spectacled
Dr.
Allen
feared
,
and
the
pallid
young
scholar
disliked
to
a
profound
degree
.
During
the
last
week
or
two
Ward
had
obviously
changed
much
,
abandoning
his
attempts
at
affability
and
speaking
only
in
hoarse
but
oddly
repellent
whispers
on
the
few
occasions
that
he
ventured
forth
.
Such
were
the
shreds
and
fragments
gathered
here
and
there
;
and
over
these
Mr.
Ward
and
Dr.
Willett
held
many
long
and
serious
conferences
.
They
strove
to
exercise
deduction
,
induction
,
and
constructive
imagination
to
their
utmost
extent
;
and
to
correlate
every
known
fact
of
Charles
's
later
life
,
including
the
frantic
letter
which
the
doctor
now
showed
the
father
,
with
the
meager
documentary
evidence
available
concerning
old
Joseph
Curwen
.
They
would
have
given
much
for
a
glimpse
of
the
papers
Charles
had
found
,
for
very
clearly
the
key
to
the
youth
's
madness
lay
in
what
he
had
learned
of
the
ancient
wizard
and
his
doings
.
And
yet
,
after
all
,
it
was
from
no
step
of
Mr.
Ward
's
or
Dr.
Willett
's
that
the
next
move
in
this
singular
case
proceeded
.
The
father
and
the
physician
,
rebuffed
and
confused
by
a
shadow
too
shapeless
and
intangible
to
combat
,
had
rested
uneasily
on
their
oars
while
the
typed
notes
of
young
Ward
to
his
parents
grew
fewer
and
fewer
.
Then
came
the
first
of
the
month
with
its
customary
financial
adjustments
,
and
the
clerks
at
certain
banks
began
a
peculiar
shaking
of
heads
and
telephoning
from
one
to
the
other
.
Officials
who
knew
Charles
Ward
by
sight
went
down
to
the
bungalow
to
ask
why
every
cheque
of
his
appearing
at
this
juncture
was
a
clumsy
forgery
,
and
were
reassured
less
than
they
ought
to
have
been
when
the
youth
hoarsely
explained
that
he
hand
had
lately
been
so
much
affected
by
a
nervous
shock
as
to
make
normal
writing
impossible
.
He
could
,
he
said
,
from
no
written
characters
at
all
except
with
great
difficulty
;
and
could
prove
it
by
the
fact
that
he
had
been
forced
to
type
all
his
recent
letters
,
even
those
to
his
father
and
mother
,
who
would
bear
out
the
assertion
.
What
made
the
investigators
pause
in
confusion
was
not
this
circumstance
alone
,
for
that
was
nothing
unprecedented
or
fundamentally
suspicious
,
nor
even
the
Pawtuxet
gossip
,
of
which
one
or
two
of
them
had
caught
echoes
.
It
was
the
muddled
discourse
of
the
young
man
which
nonplussed
them
,
implying
as
it
did
a
virtually
total
loss
of
memory
concerning
important
monetary
matters
which
he
had
had
at
his
fingertips
only
a
month
or
two
before
.
Something
was
wrong
;
for
despite
the
apparent
coherence
and
rationality
of
his
speech
,
there
could
be
no
normal
reason
for
this
ill-concealed
blankness
on
vital
points
.
Moreover
,
although
none
of
these
men
knew
Ward
well
,
they
could
not
help
observing
the
change
in
his
language
and
manner
.
They
had
heard
he
was
an
antiquarian
,
but
even
the
most
hopeless
antiquarians
do
not
make
daily
use
of
obsolete
phraseology
and
gestures
.
Altogether
,
this
combination
of
hoarseness
,
palsied
hands
,
bad
memory
,
and
altered
speech
and
bearing
must
represent
some
disturbance
or
malady
of
genuine
gravity
,
which
no
doubt
formed
the
basis
of
the
prevailing
odd
rumors
;
and
after
their
departure
the
party
of
officials
decided
that
a
talk
with
the
senior
Ward
was
imperative
.
So
on
the
sixth
of
March
,
1928
,
there
was
a
long
and
serious
conference
in
Mr.
Ward
's
office
,
after
which
the
utterly
bewildered
father
summoned
Dr.
Willett
in
a
kind
of
helpless
resignation
.
Willett
looked
over
the
strained
and
awkward
signatures
of
the
cheque
,
and
compared
them
in
his
mind
with
the
penmanship
of
that
last
frantic
note
.
Certainly
,
the
change
was
radical
and
profound
,
and
yet
there
was
something
damnably
familiar
about
the
new
writing
.
It
had
crabbed
and
archaic
tendencies
of
a
very
curious
sort
,
and
seemed
to
result
from
a
type
of
stroke
utterly
different
from
that
which
the
youth
had
always
used
.
It
was
strange
--
but
where
had
he
seen
it
before
?
On
the
whole
,
it
was
obvious
that
Charles
was
insane
.
Of
that
there
could
be
no
doubt
.
And
since
it
appeared
unlikely
that
he
could
handle
his
property
or
continue
to
deal
with
the
outside
world
much
longer
,
something
must
quickly
be
done
toward
his
oversight
and
possible
cure
.
It
was
then
that
the
alienists
were
called
in
,
Drs.
Peck
and
Waite
of
Providence
and
Dr.
Lyman
of
Boston
,
to
whom
Mr.
Ward
and
Dr.
Willett
gave
the
most
exhaustive
possible
history
of
the
case
,
and
who
conferred
at
length
in
the
now
unused
library
of
their
young
patient
,
examining
what
books
and
papers
of
his
were
left
in
order
to
gain
some
further
notion
of
his
habitual
mental
cast
.
After
scanning
this
material
and
examining
the
ominous
note
to
Willett
they
all
agreed
that
Charles
Ward
's
studies
had
been
enough
to
unseat
or
at
least
to
warp
any
ordinary
intellect
,
and
wished
most
heartily
that
they
could
see
his
more
intimate
volumes
and
documents
;
but
this
latter
they
knew
they
could
do
,
if
at
all
,
only
after
a
scene
at
the
bungalow
itself
.
Willett
now
reviewed
the
whole
case
with
febrile
energy
;
it
being
at
this
time
that
he
obtained
the
statements
of
the
workmen
who
had
seen
Charles
find
the
Curwen
documents
,
and
that
he
collated
the
incidents
of
the
destroyed
newspaper
items
,
looking
up
the
latter
at
the
Journal
office
.
On
Thursday
,
the
eighth
of
March
,
Drs.
Willett
,
Peck
,
Lyman
,
and
Waite
,
accompanied
by
Mr.
Ward
,
paid
the
youth
their
momentous
call
;
making
no
concealment
of
their
object
and
questioning
the
now
acknowledged
patient
with
extreme
minuteness
.
