reatened Hammond and myself
with all sorts of legal penalties if we did not remove the Horror. Our
answer was, "We will go if you like, but we decline taking this creature
with us. Remove it yourself if you please. It appeared in your house. On
you the responsibility rests." To this there was, of course, no answer.
Mrs. Moffat could not obtain for love or money a person who would even
approach the Mystery.

At last it died. Hammond and I found it cold and stiff one morning in
the bed. The heart had ceased to beat, the lungs to inspire. We hastened
to bury it in the garden. It was a strange funeral, the dropping of that
viewless corpse into the damp hole. The cast of its form I gave to
Doctor X----, who keeps it in his museum in Tenth Street.

As I am on the eve of a long journey from which I may not return, I have
drawn up this narrative of an event the most singular that has ever come
to my knowledge.

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|Transcriber's Note: |
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|The words peckett (page 11), stronge (page 170) and Boulevart(s) |
|(pages 59 and 80), the use of both L'Estrange and l'Estrange, and |
|variations in hyphenated words have been retained as in the |
|original book. |
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|Page 21 "Derybshire" changed to "Derbyshire" |
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|Page 22 "felt their hair" changed to "felt the hair" |
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|Page 46 "Come baack to" changed to "Come back to" |
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|Page 48 Added " before Dear Mr. Westcar |
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|Page 61 "sufficiently start ling" changed to |
| "sufficiently startling" |
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|Page 84 Changed " to ' before And what other |
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