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Weeden
had
many
verbatim
reports
of
overheard
scraps
in
his
notebook
,
for
English
,
French
,
and
Spanish
,
which
he
knew
,
were
frequently
used
;
but
of
these
nothing
has
survived
.
He
did
,
however
,
say
that
besides
a
few
ghoulish
dialogues
in
which
the
past
affairs
of
Providence
families
were
concerned
,
most
of
the
questions
and
answers
he
could
understand
were
historical
or
scientific
;
occasionally
pertaining
to
very
remote
places
and
ages
.
Once
,
for
example
,
an
alternately
raging
and
sullen
figure
was
questioned
in
French
about
the
Black
Prince
's
massacre
at
Limoges
in
1370
,
as
if
there
were
some
hidden
reason
which
he
ought
to
know
.
Curwen
asked
the
prisoner
--
if
prisoner
he
were
--
whether
the
order
to
slay
was
given
because
of
the
Sign
of
the
Goat
found
on
the
altar
in
the
ancient
Roman
crypt
beneath
the
Cathedral
,
or
whether
the
Dark
Man
of
the
Haute
Vienne
had
spoken
the
Three
Words
.
Failing
to
obtain
replies
,
the
inquisitor
had
seemingly
resorted
to
extreme
means
;
for
there
was
a
terrific
shriek
followed
by
silence
and
muttering
and
a
bumping
sound
.
None
of
these
colloquies
was
ever
ocularly
witnessed
,
since
the
windows
were
always
heavily
draped
.
Once
,
though
,
during
a
discourse
in
an
unknown
tongue
,
a
shadow
was
seen
on
the
curtain
which
startled
Weeden
exceedingly
;
reminding
him
of
one
of
the
puppets
in
a
show
he
had
seen
in
the
autumn
of
1764
in
Hacher
's
Hall
,
when
a
man
from
Germantown
,
Pennsylvania
,
had
given
a
clever
mechanical
spectacle
advertised
as
'
A
View
of
the
Famous
City
of
Jerusalem
,
in
which
are
represented
Jerusalem
,
the
Temple
of
Solomon
,
his
Royal
Throne
,
the
noted
Towers
,
and
Hills
,
likewise
the
Suffering
of
Our
Saviour
from
the
Garden
of
Gethsemane
to
the
Cross
on
the
Hill
of
Golgotha
;
an
artful
piece
of
Statuary
,
Worthy
to
be
seen
by
the
Curious
.
'
It
was
on
this
occasion
that
the
listener
,
who
had
crept
close
to
the
window
of
the
front
room
whence
the
speaking
proceeded
,
gave
a
start
which
roused
the
old
Indian
pair
and
caused
them
to
loose
the
dogs
on
him
.
After
that
no
more
conversations
were
ever
heard
in
the
house
,
and
Weeden
and
Smith
concluded
that
Curwen
had
transferred
his
field
of
action
to
regions
below
.
That
such
regions
in
truth
existed
,
seemed
amply
clear
from
many
things
.
Faint
cries
and
groans
unmistakably
came
up
now
and
then
from
what
appeared
to
be
the
solid
earth
in
places
far
from
any
structure
;
whilst
hidden
in
the
bushes
along
the
river-bank
in
the
rear
,
where
the
high
ground
sloped
steeply
down
to
the
valley
of
the
Pawtuxet
,
there
was
found
an
arched
oaken
door
in
a
frame
of
heavy
masonry
,
which
was
obviously
an
entrance
to
caverns
within
the
hill
.
When
or
how
these
catacombs
could
have
been
constructed
,
Weeden
was
unable
to
say
;
but
he
frequently
pointed
out
how
easily
the
place
might
have
been
reached
by
bands
of
unseen
workmen
from
the
river
.
Joseph
Curwen
put
his
mongrel
seamen
to
diverse
uses
indeed
!
During
the
heavy
spring
rains
of
1769
the
two
watchers
kept
a
sharp
eye
on
the
steep
river-bank
to
see
if
any
subterrene
secrets
might
be
washed
to
light
,
and
were
rewarded
by
the
sight
of
a
profusion
of
both
human
and
animal
bones
in
places
where
deep
gullies
had
been
worn
in
the
banks
.
Naturally
there
might
be
many
explanations
of
such
things
in
the
rear
of
a
stock
farm
,
and
a
locality
where
old
Indian
burying-grounds
were
common
,
but
Weeden
and
Smith
drew
their
own
inferences
.
It
was
in
January
1770
,
whilst
Weeden
and
Smith
were
still
debating
vainly
on
what
,
if
anything
,
to
think
or
do
about
the
whole
bewildering
business
,
that
the
incident
of
the
Fortaleza
occurred
.
Exasperated
by
the
burning
of
the
revenue
sloop
Liberty
at
Newport
during
the
previous
summer
,
the
customs
fleet
under
Admiral
Wallace
had
adopted
an
increased
vigilance
concerning
strange
vessels
;
and
on
this
occasion
His
Majesty
's
armed
schooner
Cygnet
,
under
Capt.
Charles
Leslie
,
captured
after
a
short
pursuit
one
early
morning
the
scow
Fortaleza
of
Barcelona
,
Spain
,
under
Capt.
Manuel
Arruda
,
bound
according
to
its
log
from
Grand
Cairo
,
Egypt
,
to
Providence
.
When
searched
for
contraband
material
,
this
ship
revealed
the
astonishing
fact
that
its
cargo
consisted
exclusively
of
Egyptian
mummies
,
consigned
to
"
Sailor
A.
B.
C.
"
,
who
would
come
to
remove
his
goods
in
a
lighter
just
off
Namquit
Point
and
whose
identity
Capt.
Arruda
felt
himself
in
honor
bound
not
to
reveal
.
The
Vice-Admiralty
at
Newport
,
at
a
loss
what
to
do
in
view
of
the
non-contraband
nature
of
the
cargo
on
the
one
hand
and
of
the
unlawful
secrecy
of
the
entry
on
the
other
hand
,
compromised
on
Collector
Robinson
's
recommendation
by
freeing
the
ship
but
forbidding
it
a
port
in
Rhode
Island
waters
.
There
were
later
rumors
of
its
having
been
seen
in
Boston
Harbor
,
though
it
never
openly
entered
the
Port
of
Boston
.
This
extraordinary
incident
did
not
fail
of
wide
remark
in
Providence
,
and
there
were
not
many
who
doubted
the
existence
of
some
connection
between
the
cargo
of
mummies
and
the
sinister
Joseph
Curwen
.
His
exotic
studies
and
his
curious
chemical
importations
being
common
knowledge
,
and
his
fondness
for
graveyards
being
common
suspicion
;
it
did
not
take
much
imagination
to
link
him
with
a
freakish
importation
which
could
not
conceivably
have
been
destined
for
anyone
else
in
the
town
.
As
if
conscious
of
this
natural
belief
,
Curwen
took
care
to
speak
casually
on
several
occasions
of
the
chemical
value
of
the
balsams
found
in
mummies
;
thinking
perhaps
that
he
might
make
the
affair
seem
less
unnatural
,
yet
stopping
just
short
of
admitting
his
participation
.
Weeden
and
Smith
,
of
course
,
felt
no
doubt
whatsoever
of
the
significance
of
the
thing
;
and
indulged
in
the
wildest
theories
concerning
Curwen
and
his
monstrous
labors
.
The
following
spring
,
like
that
of
the
year
before
,
had
heavy
rains
;
and
the
watchers
kept
careful
track
of
the
river-bank
behind
the
Curwen
farm
.
Large
sections
were
washed
away
,
and
a
certain
number
of
bones
discovered
;
but
no
glimpse
was
afforded
of
any
actual
subterranean
chambers
or
burrows
.
Something
was
rumored
,
however
,
at
the
village
of
Pawtuxet
about
a
mile
below
,
where
the
river
flows
in
falls
over
a
rocky
terrace
to
join
the
placed
landlocked
cove
.
There
,
where
quaint
old
cottages
climbed
the
hill
from
the
rustic
bridge
,
and
fishing-smacks
lay
anchored
at
their
sleepy
docks
,
a
vague
report
went
round
of
things
that
were
floating
down
the
river
and
flashing
into
sight
for
a
minute
as
they
went
over
the
falls
.
Of
course
the
Pawtuxet
in
a
long
river
which
winds
through
many
settled
regions
abounding
in
graveyards
,
and
of
course
the
spring
rains
had
been
very
heavy
;
but
the
fisherfolk
about
the
bridge
did
not
like
the
wild
way
that
one
of
the
things
stared
as
it
shot
down
to
the
still
waters
below
,
or
the
way
that
another
half
cried
out
although
its
condition
had
greatly
departed
from
that
of
objects
which
normally
cried
out
.
That
rumor
sent
Smith
--
for
Weeden
was
just
then
at
sea
--
in
haste
to
the
river-bank
behind
the
farm
;
where
surely
enough
there
remained
the
evidence
of
an
extensive
cave-in
.
There
was
,
however
,
no
trace
of
a
passage
into
the
steep
bank
;
for
the
miniature
avalanche
had
left
behind
a
solid
wall
of
mixed
earth
and
shrubbery
from
aloft
