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Williamson
records
and
traditions
were
supplied
in
abundance
by
my
grandfather
;
though
for
Orne
material
I
had
to
depend
on
my
uncle
Walter
,
who
put
at
my
disposal
the
contents
of
all
his
files
,
including
notes
,
letters
,
cuttings
,
heirlooms
,
photographs
,
and
miniatures
.
It
was
in
going
over
the
letters
and
pictures
on
the
Orne
side
that
I
began
to
acquire
a
kind
of
terror
of
my
own
ancestry
.
As
I
have
said
,
my
grandmother
and
Uncle
Douglas
had
always
disturbed
me
.
Now
,
years
after
their
passing
,
I
gazed
at
their
pictured
faces
with
a
measurably
heightened
feeling
of
repulsion
and
alienation
.
I
could
not
at
first
understand
the
change
,
but
gradually
a
horrible
sort
of
comparison
began
to
obtrude
itself
on
my
unconscious
mind
despite
the
steady
refusal
of
my
consciousness
to
admit
even
the
least
suspicion
of
it
.
It
was
clear
that
the
typical
expression
of
these
faces
now
suggested
something
it
had
not
suggested
before
--
something
which
would
bring
stark
panic
if
too
openly
thought
of
.
But
the
worst
shock
came
when
my
uncle
shewed
me
the
Orne
jewellery
in
a
downtown
safe
deposit
vault
.
Some
of
the
items
were
delicate
and
inspiring
enough
,
but
there
was
one
box
of
strange
old
pieces
descended
from
my
mysterious
great-grandmother
which
my
uncle
was
almost
reluctant
to
produce
.
They
were
,
he
said
,
of
very
grotesque
and
almost
repulsive
design
,
and
had
never
to
his
knowledge
been
publicly
worn
;
though
my
grandmother
used
to
enjoy
looking
at
them
.
Vague
legends
of
bad
luck
clustered
around
them
,
and
my
great-grandmother
's
French
governess
had
said
they
ought
not
to
be
worn
in
New
England
,
though
it
would
be
quite
safe
to
wear
them
in
Europe
.
As
my
uncle
began
slowly
and
grudgingly
to
unwrap
the
things
he
urged
me
not
to
be
shocked
by
the
strangeness
and
frequent
hideousness
of
the
designs
.
Artists
and
archaeologists
who
had
seen
them
pronounced
their
workmanship
superlatively
and
exotically
exquisite
,
though
no
one
seemed
able
to
define
their
exact
material
or
assign
them
to
any
specific
art
tradition
.
There
were
two
armlets
,
a
tiara
,
and
a
kind
of
pectoral
;
the
latter
having
in
high
relief
certain
figures
of
almost
unbearable
extravagance
.
During
this
description
I
had
kept
a
tight
rein
on
my
emotions
,
but
my
face
must
have
betrayed
my
mounting
fears
.
My
uncle
looked
concerned
,
and
paused
in
his
unwrapping
to
study
my
countenance
.
I
motioned
to
him
to
continue
,
which
he
did
with
renewed
signs
of
reluctance
.
He
seemed
to
expect
some
demonstration
when
the
first
piece
--
the
tiara
--
became
visible
,
but
I
doubt
if
he
expected
quite
what
actually
happened
.
I
did
not
expect
it
,
either
,
for
I
thought
I
was
thoroughly
forewarned
regarding
what
the
jewellery
would
turn
out
to
be
.
What
I
did
was
to
faint
silently
away
,
just
as
I
had
done
in
that
brier-choked
railway
cut
a
year
before
.
From
that
day
on
my
life
has
been
a
nightmare
of
brooding
and
apprehension
nor
do
I
know
how
much
is
hideous
truth
and
how
much
madness
.
My
great-grandmother
had
been
a
Marsh
of
unknown
source
whose
husband
lived
in
Arkham
--
and
did
not
old
Zadok
say
that
the
daughter
of
Obed
Marsh
by
a
monstrous
mother
was
married
to
an
Arkham
man
through
trick
?
What
was
it
the
ancient
toper
had
muttered
about
the
line
of
my
eyes
to
Captain
Obed
's
?
In
Arkham
,
too
,
the
curator
had
told
me
I
had
the
true
Marsh
eyes
.
Was
Obed
Marsh
my
own
great-great-grandfather
?
Who
--
or
what
--
then
,
was
my
great-great-grandmother
?
But
perhaps
this
was
all
madness
.
Those
whitish-gold
ornaments
might
easily
have
been
bought
from
some
Innsmouth
sailor
by
the
father
of
my
great-grandmother
,
whoever
he
was
.
And
that
look
in
the
staring-eyed
faces
of
my
grandmother
and
self-slain
uncle
might
be
sheer
fancy
on
my
part
--
sheer
fancy
,
bolstered
up
by
the
Innsmouth
shadow
which
had
so
darkly
coloured
my
imagination
.
But
why
had
my
uncle
killed
himself
after
an
ancestral
quest
in
New
England
?
For
more
than
two
years
I
fought
off
these
reflections
with
partial
success
.
My
father
secured
me
a
place
in
an
insurance
office
,
and
I
buried
myself
in
routine
as
deeply
as
possible
.
In
the
winter
of
1930
--
31
,
however
,
the
dreams
began
.
They
were
very
sparse
and
insidious
at
first
,
but
increased
in
frequency
and
vividness
as
the
weeks
went
by
.
Great
watery
spaces
opened
out
before
me
,
and
I
seemed
to
wander
through
titanic
sunken
porticos
and
labyrinths
of
weedy
cyclopean
walls
with
grotesque
fishes
as
my
companions
.
Then
the
other
shapes
began
to
appear
,
filling
me
with
nameless
horror
the
moment
I
awoke
.
But
during
the
dreams
they
did
not
horrify
me
at
all
--
I
was
one
with
them
;
wearing
their
unhuman
trappings
,
treading
their
aqueous
ways
,
and
praying
monstrously
at
their
evil
sea-bottom
temples
.
