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To
Mr.
J.
C.
in
Providence
.
Mr.
Ward
and
Dr.
Willett
paused
in
utter
chaos
before
this
apparent
bit
of
unrelieved
insanity
.
Only
by
degrees
did
they
absorb
what
it
seemed
to
imply
.
So
the
absent
Dr.
Allen
,
and
not
Charles
Ward
,
had
come
to
be
the
leading
spirit
at
Pawtuxet
?
That
must
explain
the
wild
reference
and
denunciation
in
the
youth
's
last
frantic
letter
.
And
what
of
this
addressing
of
the
bearded
and
spectacled
stranger
as
"
Mr.
J.
C.
"
?
There
was
no
escaping
the
inference
,
but
there
are
limits
to
possible
monstrosity
.
Who
was
"
Simon
O.
"
;
the
old
man
Ward
had
visited
in
Prague
four
years
previously
?
Perhaps
,
but
in
the
centuries
behind
there
had
been
another
Simon
O.
--
Simon
Orne
,
alias
Jedediah
,
of
Salem
,
who
vanished
in
1771
,
and
whose
peculiar
handwriting
Dr.
Willett
now
unmistakably
recognized
from
the
photostatic
copies
of
the
Orne
formulae
which
Charles
had
once
shown
him
.
What
horrors
and
mysteries
,
what
contradictions
and
contraventions
of
Nature
,
had
come
back
after
a
century
and
a
half
to
harass
Old
Providence
with
her
clustered
spires
and
domes
?
The
father
and
the
old
physician
,
virtually
at
a
loss
what
to
do
or
think
,
went
to
see
Charles
at
the
hospital
and
questioned
him
as
delicately
as
they
could
about
Dr.
Allen
,
about
the
Prague
visit
,
and
about
what
he
had
learned
of
Simon
or
Jedediah
Orne
of
Salem
.
To
all
these
enquiries
the
youth
was
politely
non-committal
,
merely
barking
in
his
hoarse
whisper
that
he
had
found
Dr.
Allen
to
have
a
remarkable
spiritual
rapport
with
certain
souls
from
the
past
,
and
that
any
correspondent
the
bearded
man
might
have
in
Prague
would
probably
be
similarly
gifted
.
When
they
left
,
Mr.
Ward
and
Dr.
Willett
realized
to
their
chagrin
that
they
had
really
been
the
ones
under
catechism
;
and
that
without
imparting
anything
vital
himself
,
the
confined
youth
had
adroitly
pumped
them
of
everything
the
Prague
letter
had
contained
.
Drs.
Peck
,
Waite
,
and
Lyman
were
not
inclined
to
attach
much
importance
to
the
strange
correspondence
of
young
Ward
's
companion
;
for
they
knew
the
tendency
of
kindred
eccentrics
and
monomaniacs
to
band
together
,
and
believed
that
Charles
or
Allen
had
merely
unearthed
an
expatriated
counterpart
--
perhaps
one
who
had
seen
Orne
's
handwriting
and
copied
it
in
an
attempt
to
pose
as
the
bygone
character
's
reincarnation
.
Allen
himself
was
perhaps
a
similar
case
,
and
may
have
persuaded
the
youth
into
accepting
him
as
an
avatar
of
the
long-dead
Curwen
.
Such
things
had
been
known
before
,
and
on
the
same
basis
the
hard-headed
doctors
disposed
of
Willett
's
growing
disquiet
about
Charles
Ward
's
present
handwriting
,
as
studied
from
unpremeditated
specimens
obtained
by
various
ruses
.
Willett
thought
he
had
placed
its
odd
familiarity
at
last
,
and
that
what
it
vaguely
resembled
was
the
bygone
penmanship
of
old
Joseph
Curwen
himself
;
but
this
the
other
physicians
regarded
as
a
phase
of
imitativeness
only
to
be
expected
in
a
mania
of
this
sort
,
and
refused
to
grant
it
any
importance
either
favorable
or
unfavorable
.
Recognizing
this
prosaic
attitude
in
his
colleagues
,
Willett
advised
Mr.
Ward
to
keep
to
himself
the
letter
which
arrived
for
Dr.
Allen
on
the
second
of
April
from
Rakus
,
Transylvania
,
in
a
handwriting
so
intensely
and
fundamentally
like
that
of
the
Hutchinson
cipher
that
both
father
and
physician
paused
in
awe
before
breaking
the
seal
.
This
read
as
follows
:
Castle
Ferenczy
7
March
1928
.
Dear
C.
:
--
Hadd
a
Squad
of
20
Militia
up
to
talk
about
what
the
Country
Folk
say
.
Must
digg
deeper
and
have
less
Hearde
.
These
Roumanians
plague
me
damnably
,
being
officious
and
particular
where
you
cou
'd
buy
a
Magyar
off
with
a
Drinke
and
Food
.
Last
monthe
M.
got
me
ye
Sarcophagus
of
ye
Five
Sphinxes
from
ye
Acropolis
where
He
whome
I
call
'd
up
say
'd
it
wou
'd
be
,
and
I
have
hadde
3
Talkes
with
What
was
therein
inhum
'd
.
It
will
go
to
S.
O.
in
Prague
directly
,
and
thence
to
you
.
It
is
stubborn
but
you
know
ye
Way
with
Such
.
