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Then
,
horribly
supplementing
rather
than
displacing
this
image
,
there
came
a
recollection
of
those
ancient
lingering
rumors
anent
the
burned
,
twisted
thing
found
in
the
fields
a
week
after
the
Curwen
raid
.
Charles
Ward
had
once
told
the
doctor
what
old
Slocum
said
of
that
object
;
that
it
was
neither
thoroughly
human
,
nor
wholly
allied
to
any
animal
which
Pawtuxet
folk
had
ever
seen
or
read
about
.
These
words
hummed
in
the
doctor
's
mind
as
he
rocked
to
and
fro
,
squatting
on
the
nitrous
stone
floor
.
He
tried
to
drive
them
out
,
and
repeated
the
Lord
's
Prayer
to
himself
;
eventually
trailing
off
into
a
mnemonic
hodge
-
podge
like
the
modernistic
Waste
Land
of
Mr.
T.
S.
Eliot
,
and
finally
reverting
to
the
oft-repeated
dual
formula
he
had
lately
found
in
Ward
's
underground
library
:
'
Y'
ai
'n
g
'n
gah
,
Yog-Sothoth
'
and
so
on
till
the
final
underlined
Zhro
.
It
seemed
to
soothe
him
,
and
he
staggered
to
his
feet
after
a
time
;
lamenting
bitterly
his
fright-lost
torch
and
looking
wildly
about
for
any
gleam
of
light
in
the
clutching
inkiness
of
the
chilly
air
.
Think
he
would
not
;
but
he
strained
his
eyes
in
every
direction
for
some
faint
glint
or
reflection
of
the
bright
illumination
he
had
left
in
the
library
.
After
a
while
he
thought
he
detected
a
suspicion
of
a
glow
infinitely
far
away
,
and
toward
this
he
crawled
in
agonized
caution
on
hands
and
knees
amidst
the
stench
and
howling
,
always
feeling
ahead
lest
he
collide
with
the
numerous
great
pillars
or
stumble
into
the
abominable
pit
he
had
uncovered
.
Once
his
shaking
fingers
touched
something
which
he
knew
must
be
the
steps
leading
to
the
hellish
altar
,
and
from
this
spot
he
recoiled
in
loathing
.
At
another
time
he
encountered
the
pierced
slab
he
had
removed
,
and
here
his
caution
became
almost
pitiful
.
But
he
did
not
come
upon
the
dread
aperture
after
all
,
nor
did
anything
issue
from
that
aperture
to
detain
him
.
What
had
been
down
there
made
no
sound
nor
stir
.
Evidently
its
crunching
of
the
fallen
electric
torch
had
not
been
good
for
it
.
Each
time
Willett
's
fingers
felt
a
perforated
slab
he
trembled
.
His
passage
over
it
would
sometimes
increase
the
groaning
below
,
but
generally
it
would
produce
no
effect
at
all
,
since
he
moved
very
noiselessly
.
Several
times
during
his
progress
the
glow
ahead
diminished
perceptibly
,
and
he
realized
that
the
various
candles
and
lamps
he
had
left
must
be
expiring
one
by
one
The
thought
of
being
lost
in
utter
darkness
without
matches
amidst
this
underground
world
of
nightmare
labyrinths
impelled
him
to
rise
to
his
feet
and
run
,
which
he
could
safely
do
now
that
he
had
passed
the
open
pit
;
for
he
knew
that
once
the
light
failed
,
his
only
hope
of
rescue
and
survival
would
lie
in
whatever
relief
party
Mr.
Ward
might
send
after
missing
him
for
a
sufficient
period
.
Presently
,
however
,
he
emerged
from
the
open
space
into
the
narrower
corridor
and
definitely
located
the
glow
as
coming
from
a
door
on
his
right
.
In
a
moment
he
had
reached
it
and
was
standing
once
more
in
young
Ward
's
secret
library
,
trembling
with
relief
,
and
watching
the
sputterings
of
that
last
lamp
which
had
brought
him
to
safety
.
In
another
moment
he
was
hastily
filling
the
burned-out
lamps
from
an
oil
supply
he
had
previously
noticed
,
and
when
the
room
was
bright
again
he
looked
about
to
see
if
he
might
find
a
lantern
for
further
exploration
.
For
racked
though
he
was
with
horror
,
his
sense
of
grim
purpose
was
still
uppermost
;
and
he
was
firmly
determined
to
leave
no
stone
unturned
in
his
search
for
the
hideous
facts
behind
Charles
Ward
's
bizarre
madness
.
Failing
to
find
a
lantern
,
he
chose
the
smallest
of
the
lamps
to
carry
;
also
filling
his
pockets
with
candles
and
matches
,
and
taking
with
him
a
gallon
can
of
oil
,
which
he
proposed
to
keep
for
reserve
use
in
whatever
hidden
laboratory
he
might
uncover
beyond
the
terrible
open
space
with
its
unclean
altar
and
nameless
covered
wells
.
To
traverse
that
space
again
would
require
his
utmost
fortitude
,
but
he
knew
it
must
be
done
.
Fortunately
neither
the
frightful
altar
nor
the
opened
shaft
was
near
the
vast
cell-indented
wall
which
bounded
the
cavern
area
,
and
whose
black
mysterious
archways
would
form
the
next
goals
of
a
logical
search
.
So
Willett
went
back
to
that
great
pillared
hall
of
stench
and
anguished
howling
;
turning
down
his
lamp
to
avoid
any
distant
glimpse
of
the
hellish
altar
,
or
of
the
uncovered
pit
with
the
pierced
stone
slab
beside
it
.
Most
of
the
black
doorways
led
merely
to
small
chambers
,
some
vacant
and
some
evidently
used
as
storerooms
;
and
in
several
of
the
latter
he
saw
some
very
curious
accumulations
of
various
objects
.
One
was
packed
with
rotting
and
dust-draped
bales
of
spare
clothing
,
and
the
explorer
thrilled
when
he
saw
that
it
was
unmistakably
the
clothing
of
a
century
and
a
half
before
.
In
another
room
he
found
numerous
odds
and
ends
of
modern
clothing
,
as
if
gradual
provisions
were
being
made
to
equip
a
large
body
of
men
.
But
what
he
disliked
most
of
all
were
the
huge
copper
vats
which
occasionally
appeared
;
these
,
and
the
sinister
incrustations
upon
them
.
He
liked
them
even
less
than
the
weirdly
figured
leaden
bowls
whose
rims
retained
such
obnoxious
deposits
and
around
which
clung
repellent
odors
perceptible
above
even
the
general
noisomeness
of
the
crypt
.
When
he
had
completed
about
half
the
entire
circuit
of
the
wall
he
found
another
corridor
like
that
from
which
he
had
come
,
and
out
of
which
many
doors
opened
.
This
he
proceeded
to
investigate
;
and
after
entering
three
rooms
of
medium
size
and
of
no
significant
contents
,
he
came
at
last
to
a
large
oblong
apartment
whose
business-like
tanks
and
tables
,
furnaces
and
modern
instruments
,
occasional
books
and
endless
shelves
of
jars
and
bottles
proclaimed
it
indeed
the
long-sought
laboratory
of
Charles
Ward
--
and
no
doubt
of
old
Joseph
Curwen
before
him
.
After
lighting
the
three
lamps
which
he
found
filled
and
ready
,
Dr.
Willett
examined
the
place
and
all
the
appurtenances
with
the
keenest
interest
;
noting
from
the
relative
quantities
of
various
reagents
on
the
shelves
that
young
Ward
's
dominant
concern
must
have
been
with
some
branch
of
organic
chemistry
.
