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The
youth
was
certain
that
many
specimens
even
worse
than
the
worst
visible
ones
were
kept
locked
indoors
in
some
places
.
People
sometimes
heard
the
queerest
kind
of
sounds
.
The
tottering
waterfront
hovels
north
of
the
river
were
reputedly
connected
by
hidden
tunnels
,
being
thus
a
veritable
warren
of
unseen
abnormalities
.
What
kind
of
foreign
blood
--
if
any
--
these
beings
had
,
it
was
impossible
to
tell
.
They
sometimes
kept
certain
especially
repulsive
characters
out
of
sight
when
government
and
others
from
the
outside
world
came
to
town
.
It
would
be
of
no
use
,
my
informant
said
,
to
ask
the
natives
anything
about
the
place
.
The
only
one
who
would
talk
was
a
very
aged
but
normal
looking
man
who
lived
at
the
poorhouse
on
the
north
rim
of
the
town
and
spent
his
time
walking
about
or
lounging
around
the
fire
station
.
This
hoary
character
,
Zadok
Allen
,
was
96
years
old
and
somewhat
touched
in
the
head
,
besides
being
the
town
drunkard
.
He
was
a
strange
,
furtive
creature
who
constantly
looked
over
his
shoulder
as
if
afraid
of
something
,
and
when
sober
could
not
be
persuaded
to
talk
at
all
with
strangers
.
He
was
,
however
,
unable
to
resist
any
offer
of
his
favorite
poison
;
and
once
drunk
would
furnish
the
most
astonishing
fragments
of
whispered
reminiscence
.
After
all
,
though
,
little
useful
data
could
be
gained
from
him
;
since
his
stories
were
all
insane
,
incomplete
hints
of
impossible
marvels
and
horrors
which
could
have
no
source
save
in
his
own
disordered
fancy
.
Nobody
ever
believed
him
,
but
the
natives
did
not
like
him
to
drink
and
talk
with
strangers
;
and
it
was
not
always
safe
to
be
seen
questioning
him
.
It
was
probably
from
him
that
some
of
the
wildest
popular
whispers
and
delusions
were
derived
.
Several
non-native
residents
had
reported
monstrous
glimpses
from
time
to
time
,
but
between
old
Zadok
's
tales
and
the
malformed
inhabitants
it
was
no
wonder
such
illusions
were
current
.
None
of
the
non-natives
ever
stayed
out
late
at
night
,
there
being
a
widespread
impression
that
it
was
not
wise
to
do
so
.
Besides
,
the
streets
were
loathsomely
dark
.
As
for
business
--
the
abundance
of
fish
was
certainly
almost
uncanny
,
but
the
natives
were
taking
less
and
less
advantage
of
it
.
Moreover
,
prices
were
falling
and
competition
was
growing
.
Of
course
the
town
's
real
business
was
the
refinery
,
whose
commercial
office
was
on
the
square
only
a
few
doors
east
of
where
we
stood
.
Old
Man
Marsh
was
never
seen
,
but
sometimes
went
to
the
works
in
a
closed
,
curtained
car
.
There
were
all
sorts
of
rumors
about
how
Marsh
had
come
to
look
.
He
had
once
been
a
great
dandy
;
and
people
said
he
still
wore
the
frock-coated
finery
of
the
Edwardian
age
curiously
adapted
to
certain
deformities
.
His
son
had
formerly
conducted
the
office
in
the
square
,
but
latterly
they
had
been
keeping
out
of
sight
a
good
deal
and
leaving
the
brunt
of
affairs
to
the
younger
generation
.
The
sons
and
their
sisters
had
come
to
look
very
queer
,
especially
the
elder
ones
;
and
it
was
said
that
their
health
was
failing
.
One
of
the
Marsh
daughters
was
a
repellent
,
reptilian-looking
woman
who
wore
an
excess
of
weird
jewellery
clearly
of
the
same
exotic
tradition
as
that
to
which
the
strange
tiara
belonged
.
My
informant
had
noticed
it
many
times
,
and
had
heard
it
spoken
of
as
coming
from
some
secret
hoard
,
either
of
pirates
or
of
demons
.
The
clergymen
--
or
priests
,
or
whatever
they
were
called
nowadays
--
also
wore
this
kind
of
ornament
as
a
headdress
;
but
one
seldom
caught
glimpses
of
them
.
Other
specimens
the
youth
had
not
seen
,
though
many
were
rumoured
to
exist
around
Innsmouth
.
The
Marshes
,
together
with
the
other
three
gently
bred
families
of
the
town
--
the
Waites
,
the
Gilmans
,
and
the
Eliots
--
were
all
very
retiring
.
They
lived
in
immense
houses
along
Washington
Street
,
and
several
were
reputed
to
harbour
in
concealment
certain
living
kinsfolk
whose
personal
aspect
forbade
public
view
,
and
whose
deaths
had
been
reported
and
recorded
.
