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Willett
and
Mr.
Ward
were
mute
and
baffled
.
They
had
met
the
unknown
,
and
found
that
they
lacked
emotions
to
respond
to
it
as
they
vaguely
believed
they
ought
.
With
Willett
,
especially
,
the
capacity
for
receiving
fresh
impressions
of
awe
was
well-nigh
exhausted
;
and
both
men
sat
still
and
helpless
till
the
closing
of
the
library
forced
them
to
leave
.
Then
they
drove
listlessly
to
the
Ward
mansion
in
Prospect
Street
,
and
talked
to
no
purpose
into
the
night
.
The
doctor
rested
toward
morning
,
but
did
not
go
home
.
And
he
was
still
there
Sunday
noon
when
a
telephone
message
came
from
the
detectives
who
had
been
assigned
to
look
up
Dr.
Allen
.
Mr.
Ward
,
who
was
pacing
nervously
about
in
a
dressing-gown
,
answered
the
call
in
person
;
and
told
the
men
to
come
up
early
the
next
day
when
he
heard
their
report
was
almost
ready
.
Both
Willett
and
he
were
glad
that
this
phase
of
the
matter
was
taking
form
,
for
whatever
the
origin
of
the
strange
minuscule
message
,
it
seemed
certain
the
"
Curwen
"
who
must
be
destroyed
could
be
no
other
than
the
bearded
and
spectacled
stranger
.
Charles
had
feared
this
man
,
and
had
said
in
the
frantic
note
that
he
must
be
killed
and
dissolved
in
acid
.
Allen
,
moreover
,
had
been
receiving
letters
from
the
strange
wizards
in
Europe
under
the
name
of
Curwen
,
and
palpably
regarded
himself
as
an
avatar
of
the
bygone
necromancer
.
And
now
from
a
fresh
and
unknown
source
had
come
a
message
saying
that
"
Curwen
"
must
be
killed
and
dissolved
in
acid
.
The
linkage
was
too
unmistakable
to
be
factitious
;
and
besides
,
was
not
Allen
planning
to
murder
young
Ward
upon
the
advice
of
the
creature
called
Hutchinson
?
Of
course
,
the
letter
they
had
seen
had
never
reached
the
bearded
stranger
;
but
from
its
text
they
could
see
that
Allen
had
already
formed
plans
for
dealing
with
the
youth
if
he
grew
too
"
squeamish
"
.
Without
doubt
,
Allen
must
be
apprehended
;
and
even
if
the
most
drastic
directions
were
not
carried
out
,
he
must
be
placed
where
he
could
inflict
no
harm
upon
Charles
Ward
.
That
afternoon
,
hoping
against
hope
to
extract
some
gleam
of
information
anent
the
inmost
mysteries
from
the
only
available
one
capable
of
giving
it
,
the
father
and
the
doctor
went
down
the
bay
and
called
on
young
Charles
at
the
hospital
.
Simply
and
gravely
Willett
told
him
all
he
had
found
,
and
noticed
how
pale
he
turned
as
each
description
made
certain
the
truth
of
the
discovery
.
The
physician
employed
as
much
dramatic
effect
as
he
could
,
and
watched
for
a
wincing
on
Charles
's
part
when
he
approached
the
matter
of
the
covered
pits
and
the
nameless
hybrids
within
.
But
Ward
did
not
wince
.
Willett
paused
,
and
his
voice
grew
indignant
as
he
spoke
of
how
the
things
were
starving
.
He
taxed
the
youth
with
shocking
inhumanity
,
and
shivered
when
only
a
sardonic
laugh
came
in
reply
.
For
Charles
,
having
dropped
as
useless
his
pretense
that
the
crypt
did
not
exist
,
seemed
to
see
some
ghastly
jest
in
this
affair
;
and
chucked
hoarsely
at
something
which
amused
him
.
Then
he
whispered
,
in
accents
doubly
terrible
because
of
the
cracked
voice
he
used
,
'D
amn
'em
,
they
do
eat
,
but
they
do
n't
need
to
!
That
's
the
rare
part
!
A
month
,
you
say
,
without
food
?
Lud
,
Sir
,
you
be
modest
!
D'ye
know
,
that
was
the
joke
on
poor
old
Whipple
with
his
virtuous
bluster
!
Kill
everything
off
,
would
he
?
Why
,
damme
,
he
was
half-deaf
with
noise
from
Outside
and
never
saw
or
heard
aught
from
the
wells
!
He
never
dreamed
they
were
there
at
all
!
Devil
take
ye
,
those
cursed
things
have
been
howling
down
there
ever
since
Curwen
was
done
for
a
hundred
and
fifty-seven
years
gone
!
'
But
no
more
than
this
could
Willett
get
from
the
youth
.
Horrified
,
yet
almost
convinced
against
his
will
,
he
went
on
with
his
tale
in
the
hope
that
some
incident
might
startle
his
auditor
out
of
the
mad
composure
he
maintained
.
Looking
at
the
youth
's
face
,
the
doctor
could
not
but
feel
a
kind
of
terror
at
the
changes
which
recent
months
had
wrought
.
Truly
,
the
boy
had
drawn
down
nameless
horrors
from
the
skies
.
When
the
room
with
the
formulae
and
the
greenish
dust
was
mentioned
,
Charles
showed
his
first
sign
of
animation
.
A
quizzical
look
overspread
his
face
as
he
heard
what
Willett
had
read
on
the
pad
,
and
he
ventured
the
mild
statement
that
those
notes
were
old
ones
,
of
no
possible
significance
to
anyone
not
deeply
initiated
in
the
history
of
magic
.
But
,
he
added
,
'
had
you
but
known
the
words
to
bring
up
that
which
I
had
out
in
the
cup
,
you
had
not
been
here
to
tell
me
this
.
'
Twas
Number
118
,
and
I
conceive
you
would
have
shook
had
you
looked
it
up
in
my
list
in
t
'
other
room
.
'
Twas
never
raised
by
me
,
but
I
meant
to
have
it
up
that
day
you
came
to
invite
me
hither
.
'
Then
Willett
told
of
the
formula
he
had
spoken
and
of
the
greenish-black
smoke
which
had
arisen
;
and
as
he
did
so
he
saw
true
fear
dawn
for
the
first
time
on
Charles
Ward
's
face
.
'
It
came
,
and
you
be
here
alive
?
'
As
Ward
croaked
the
words
his
voice
seemed
almost
to
burst
free
of
its
trammels
and
sink
to
cavernous
abysses
of
uncanny
resonance
.
Willett
,
gifted
with
a
flash
of
inspiration
,
believed
he
saw
the
situation
,
and
wove
into
his
reply
a
caution
from
a
letter
he
remembered
.
'N
o.
118
,
you
say
?
But
do
n't
forget
that
stones
are
all
changed
now
in
nine
grounds
out
of
ten
.
You
are
never
sure
till
you
question
!
'
And
then
,
without
warning
,
he
drew
forth
the
minuscule
message
and
flashed
it
before
the
patient
's
eyes
.
He
could
have
wished
no
stronger
result
,
for
Charles
Ward
fainted
forthwith
.
All
this
conversation
,
of
course
,
had
been
conducted
with
the
greatest
secrecy
lest
the
resident
alienists
accuse
the
father
and
the
physician
of
encouraging
a
madman
in
his
delusions
.
Unaided
,
too
,
Dr.
Willett
and
Mr.
Ward
picked
up
the
stricken
youth
and
placed
him
on
the
couch
.
In
reviving
,
the
patient
mumbled
many
times
of
some
word
which
he
must
get
to
Orne
and
Hutchinson
at
once
;
so
when
his
consciousness
seemed
fully
back
the
doctor
told
him
that
of
those
strange
creatures
at
least
one
was
his
bitter
enemy
,
and
had
given
Dr.
Allen
advice
for
his
assassination
.
