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This
revelation
produced
no
visible
effect
,
and
before
it
was
made
the
visitors
could
see
that
their
host
had
already
the
look
of
a
hunted
man
.
After
that
he
would
converse
no
more
,
so
Willett
and
the
father
departed
presently
;
leaving
behind
a
caution
against
the
bearded
Allen
,
to
which
the
youth
only
replied
that
this
individual
was
very
safely
taken
care
of
,
and
could
do
no
one
any
harm
even
if
he
wished
.
This
was
said
with
an
almost
evil
chuckle
very
painful
to
hear
.
They
did
not
worry
about
any
communications
Charles
might
indite
to
that
monstrous
pair
in
Europe
,
since
they
knew
that
the
hospital
authorities
seized
all
outgoing
mail
for
censorship
and
would
pass
no
wild
or
outré-looking
missive
.
There
is
,
however
,
a
curious
sequel
to
the
matter
of
Orne
and
Hutchinson
,
if
such
indeed
the
exiled
wizards
were
.
Moved
by
some
vague
presentiment
amidst
the
horrors
of
that
period
,
Willett
arranged
with
an
international
press-cutting
bureau
for
accounts
of
notable
current
crimes
and
accidents
in
Prague
and
in
eastern
Transylvania
;
and
after
six
months
believed
that
he
had
found
two
very
significant
things
amongst
the
multifarious
items
he
received
and
had
translated
.
One
was
the
total
wrecking
of
a
house
by
night
in
the
oldest
quarter
of
Prague
,
and
the
disappearance
of
the
evil
old
man
called
Josef
Nadek
,
who
had
dwelt
in
it
alone
ever
since
anyone
could
remember
The
other
was
a
titan
explosion
in
the
Transylvanian
mountains
east
of
Rakus
,
and
the
utter
extirpation
with
all
its
inmates
of
the
ill-regarded
Castle
Ferenczy
,
whose
master
was
so
badly
spoken
of
by
peasants
and
soldiery
alike
that
he
would
shortly
have
been
summoned
to
Bucharest
for
serious
questioning
had
not
this
incident
cut
off
a
career
already
so
long
as
to
antedate
all
common
memory
.
Willett
maintains
that
the
hand
which
wrote
those
minuscules
was
able
to
wield
stronger
weapons
as
well
;
and
that
while
Curwen
was
left
to
him
to
dispose
of
,
the
writer
felt
able
to
find
and
deal
with
Orne
and
Hutchinson
itself
.
If
what
their
fate
may
have
been
the
doctor
strives
sedulously
not
to
think
.
The
following
morning
Dr.
Willett
hastened
to
the
Ward
home
to
be
present
when
the
detectives
arrived
.
Allen
's
destruction
or
imprisonment
--
or
Curwen
's
if
one
might
regard
the
tacit
claim
to
reincarnation
as
valid
--
he
felt
must
be
accomplished
at
any
cost
,
and
he
communicated
this
conviction
to
Mr.
Ward
as
they
sat
waiting
for
the
men
to
come
.
They
were
downstairs
this
time
,
for
the
upper
parts
of
the
house
were
beginning
to
be
shunned
because
of
a
particular
nauseousness
which
hung
indefinitely
about
;
a
nauseousness
which
the
older
servants
connected
with
some
curse
left
by
the
vanished
Curwen
portrait
.
At
nine
o'clock
the
three
detectives
presented
themselves
and
immediately
delivered
all
that
they
had
to
say
.
They
had
not
,
regrettably
enough
,
located
the
Brava
Tony
Gomes
as
they
had
wished
,
nor
had
they
found
the
least
trace
of
Dr.
Allen
's
source
or
present
whereabouts
;
but
they
had
managed
to
unearth
a
considerable
number
of
local
impressions
and
facts
concerning
the
reticent
stranger
.
Allen
had
struck
Pawtuxet
people
as
a
vaguely
unnatural
being
,
and
there
was
a
universal
belief
that
his
thick
sandy
beard
was
either
dyed
or
false
--
a
belief
conclusively
upheld
by
the
finding
of
such
a
false
beard
,
together
with
a
pair
of
dark
glasses
,
in
his
room
at
the
fateful
bungalow
.
His
voice
,
Mr.
Ward
could
well
testify
from
his
one
telephone
conversation
,
had
a
depth
and
hollowness
that
could
not
be
forgotten
;
and
his
glanced
seemed
malign
even
through
his
smoked
and
horn-rimmed
glasses
.
One
shopkeeper
,
in
the
course
of
negotiations
,
had
seen
a
specimen
of
his
handwriting
and
declared
it
was
very
queer
and
crabbed
;
this
being
confirmed
by
penciled
notes
of
no
clear
meaning
found
in
his
room
and
identified
by
the
merchant
.
In
connection
with
the
vampirism
rumors
of
the
preceding
summer
,
a
majority
of
the
gossips
believed
that
Allen
rather
than
Ward
was
the
actual
vampire
.
Statements
were
also
obtained
from
the
officials
who
had
visited
the
bungalow
after
the
unpleasant
incident
of
the
motor
truck
robbery
.
They
had
felt
less
of
the
sinister
in
Dr.
Allen
,
but
had
recognized
him
as
the
dominant
figure
in
the
queer
shadowy
cottage
.
The
place
had
been
too
dark
for
them
to
observe
him
clearly
,
but
they
would
know
him
again
if
they
saw
him
.
His
beard
had
looked
odd
,
and
they
thought
he
had
some
slight
scar
above
his
dark
spectacled
right
eye
.
As
for
the
detectives
'
search
of
Allen
's
room
,
it
yielded
nothing
definite
save
the
beard
and
glasses
,
and
several
penciled
notes
in
a
crabbed
writing
which
Willett
at
once
saw
was
identical
with
that
shared
by
the
old
Curwen
manuscripts
and
by
the
voluminous
recent
notes
of
young
Ward
found
in
the
vanished
catacombs
of
horror
.
Dr.
Willett
and
Mr.
Ward
caught
something
of
a
profound
,
subtle
,
and
insidious
cosmic
fear
from
this
data
as
it
was
gradually
unfolded
,
and
almost
trembled
in
following
up
the
vague
,
mad
thought
which
had
simultaneously
reached
their
minds
.
The
false
beard
and
glasses
--
the
crabbed
Curwen
penmanship
--
the
old
portrait
and
its
tiny
scar
--
and
the
altered
youth
in
the
hospital
with
such
a
scar
--
that
deep
,
hollow
voice
on
the
telephone
--
was
it
not
of
this
that
Mr.
Ward
was
reminded
when
his
son
barked
forth
those
pitiable
tones
to
which
he
now
claimed
to
be
reduced
?
Who
had
ever
seen
Charles
and
Allen
together
?
Yes
,
the
officials
had
once
,
but
who
later
on
?
Was
it
not
when
Allen
left
that
Charles
suddenly
lost
his
growing
fright
and
began
to
live
wholly
at
the
bungalow
?
Curwen
--
Allen
--
Ward
--
in
what
blasphemous
and
abominable
fusion
had
two
ages
and
two
persons
become
involved
?
That
damnable
resemblance
of
the
picture
to
Charles
--
had
it
not
used
to
stare
and
stare
,
and
follow
the
boy
around
the
room
with
its
eyes
?
Why
,
too
,
did
both
Allen
and
Charles
copy
Joseph
Curwen
's
handwriting
,
even
when
alone
and
off
guard
?
And
then
the
frightful
work
of
those
people
--
the
lost
crypt
of
horrors
that
had
aged
the
doctor
overnight
;
the
starving
monsters
in
the
noisome
pits
;
the
awful
formula
which
had
yielded
such
nameless
results
;
the
message
in
minuscules
found
in
Willett
's
pocket
;
the
papers
and
the
letters
and
all
the
talk
of
graves
and
"
salts
"
and
discoveries
--
whither
did
everything
lead
?
In
the
end
Mr.
Ward
did
the
most
sensible
thing
.
Steeling
himself
against
any
realization
of
why
he
did
it
,
he
gave
the
detectives
an
article
to
be
shown
to
such
Pawtuxet
shopkeepers
as
had
seen
the
portentous
Dr.
Allen
.
That
article
was
a
photograph
of
his
luckless
son
,
on
which
he
now
carefully
drew
in
ink
the
pair
of
heavy
glasses
and
the
black
pointed
beard
which
the
men
had
brought
from
Allen
's
room
.
For
two
hours
he
waited
with
the
doctor
in
the
oppressive
house
where
fear
and
miasma
were
slowly
gathering
as
the
empty
panel
in
the
upstairs
library
leered
and
leered
and
leered
.
Then
the
men
returned
.
Yes
.
The
altered
photograph
was
a
very
passable
likeness
of
Dr.
Allen
.
Mr.
Ward
turned
pale
,
and
Willett
wiped
a
suddenly
dampened
brow
with
his
handkerchief
.
Allen
--
Ward
--
Curwen
--
it
was
becoming
too
hideous
for
coherent
thought
.
What
had
the
boy
called
out
of
the
void
,
and
what
had
it
done
to
him
?
What
,
really
,
had
happened
from
first
to
last
?
Who
was
this
Allen
who
sought
to
kill
Charles
as
too
"
squeamish
"
,
and
why
had
his
destined
victim
said
in
the
postscript
to
that
frantic
letter
that
he
must
be
so
completely
obliterated
in
acid
?
Why
,
too
,
had
the
minuscule
message
,
of
whose
origin
no
one
dared
think
,
said
that
"
Curwen
"
must
be
likewise
obliterated
?
What
was
the
change
,
and
when
had
the
final
stage
occurred
?
That
day
when
his
frantic
note
was
received
--
he
had
been
nervous
all
the
morning
,
then
there
was
an
alteration
.
He
had
slipped
out
unseen
and
swaggered
boldly
in
past
the
men
hired
to
guard
him
.
That
was
the
time
,
when
he
was
out
.
