La Umbra Sobre Innsmouth: Part Cinco

Fus un suave matinee pluve que waked me de my stupor en la arbust-suffocated iron-carriage cut, y quend yo tracted self a la auto-piste yo viewed ningun trace de cualquier creature en la new mud. La pfeishy odor, too, had disappeared. Innsmouth's arruined thatches y campana-towers fure menacando y grey hacia la south-east, pero ningun vivando creature yo spied en total la desolate salt humidals contourn yo. My horolog todavia functioned, y recounted a me que la hour fus depost la meridian.

La reality de lo que yo had experienced fus muy uncertain en my mind, pero yo sensed que algo horrible fus occulted en la history. Yo debit fuge desde malefic-umbra'd Innsmouth - y por consegue yo commenced to probe my fatigued potencies de locomotion. Peso de debility, hunger, horror, y disconcernment yo encountered self depost un long rate potent to ambulate; de este mode yo posed self en marchando languidment por la muddy auto-piste a Rowley. Ante la tardy yo fus en la pueblo de Rowley, acquirando comestibles y presentable robes. Yo mounted la night train a Arkham, y la subsequent day parlayed long y sincerement con government officials alla; un process yo luego factered otra vez en Boston. Con la principal consequence de estes colloquies la public es ahour familiar - y yo aspire, por normality, que no had mas to recount. Quizás es locura que es sobrepotentando me - pero quizás un mas grand horror - o mas grand miracle - es acircando.

Como es facile to imagine, yo renounced la mayor part de my plans por la rest de my voyage - la pastoral, architectural, y antiquarian diversions en cual yo had anticipated con tal intensity. Yo ni defied to chase la strange piece de joyery dixit ser en la Miskatonic University Museum. No obstinate, yo mejorized my voyage en Arkham por recover unas genealogical notes que desde multi temp yo had apsired to possess; muy approximate y apressured data, es certain, pero lo potent ser muy util luego quend yo potent have temp to ordenate y codify them. La conservator de la historical society alla - Sr. E. Laphram Peabody - fus muy amiable por aid me, y munstrated un extraordinary interest quend yo recounted a él que yo fus un grand-filio de Eliza Orne de Arkham, quien nascered en 1867 y had married James Williamson de Ohio a la age de diezysieven.

Sembled que un maternal uncle mio had ser alla multi annuals ante por un chase de la misma data que interested me; y que my grand-mader's family fus un theme de local curiosity. Had, Sr. Peabody dixit, multi discussion sobre la matrimony de su pfader, Benjamin Orne, just depost la Civil Guerra; porque la antecedents de la bride fure particularly enigmatic. Ese bride fus comprehended to have been un orfaned Marsh de New Hampshire - un co-sbrin de la Essex County Marshes - pero su education fus en France y ella savvied muy poco de su family. Un guardian had deposited funds en un Boston bank to maintain her y su French governess; pero ese guardian's name fus unfamiliar a Arkham gents, y eventualment él lapsed de vista, por ese la governess plentered su role por judicial decision. La French fembra - ahour long mort - fus muy taciturn, y fure gents quien dixit ella potented have recounted mas de la history que ella elected to recount.

Pero la mas rare cosa fus la incapacity de total gent to recognize la supposed progenitors de la juvenile fembra - Enoch y Lydia (Meserve) Marsh - en la savvied families de New Hampshire. Es possible, multi suggested, ella fus la natural filia de algun Marsh de fame - ella certainment had la misma oyos de un Marsh. La mayor part de la imbroglio surged depost su early mort, cual passed durando la nascence de my grand-mader - su solo niño. Doted my ahour disagreeable opinions de la name Marsh, yo no fus felicious to apprehend que la name fus en my proper antecedent arbor; ni felicious con Sr. Peabody's insinuation que yo verily had Marsh oyos. Sin embargo, yo had gratitude por data cual yo savvied would ser valuous; y yo scribed abundant notes y lists de bibliographic references sobre la bien-documented Orne family.

Yo vaded directment desde Boston a my casa en Toledo, y luego passed un month a Maumee recuperando de my ordeal. En September yo entered Oberlin por my prime annual, y desde entonces hasta la subsequent June fus occupied con studiando y otra salubrious activities - rememberando la past terror solo por occasional official visits de government hombres enlaced con la campaign cual my supplications had evidently caused. Circa la mediant de July - solo un annual depost la Innsmouth experience - yo passed un week con my defunct mader's family en Cleveland; repassando unas new genealogical data con la diverse notes, traditions, y relics alla, y probando cual enlacences yo potented construct.

Yo no had poco gusto por la travailance, porque la atmosfere de la Williamson casa had semper deprimed me. Had un trace de morbidity alla, y quend yo fus un niño my mader had nunca desired que yo visit su progenitors, ayvoon que ella semper fus felicious quend su pfader advened a Toledao. My Arkham-nascered abuela sembled strange y quasi terrificando a me, y yo no pense que yo lamented quend ella disappeared. Yo had ocho annuals entonces, y fus dixit que ella had morted de lugubrity depost la suicide de my uncle Douglas, su mayor filio. Él had used a pistol depost un voyage a New Inglaterra - la misma voyage, sin dout, cual had caused him ser remembered a la Arkham Historical Society.

Este uncle had sembled her, y yo nunca had gusto por él tampoco. Algo de la fixed, unpalpebrando observance de ambas de them produced un vague, inexplicable anxiety. My mader y uncle Walter no had sembled como ese. Ey fure como su pfader, pero poor co-sbrin Lawrence - Walter's filio - had been un quasi perfect double de su abuela ante su condition forced él a reclusion semper en un sanitarium en Canton. Yo no had viewn él en quadro annuals, pero my uncle un vez implied que su state, mental y fisical, fus muy mal. Este preoccupation had probablment been un grand cause de su mader's mort dos annuals ante.

My abuelo y su wiudowed filio Walter ahour composed la Cleverland family, pero la memory de early temps permanented grossment sobre lo. Yo todavia had no gusto por la locus, y intended to complete my investigation tan rapid como possible. My abuelo provided la Williamson archives y traditions; pero en reference a la Ornes, yo had to count con my uncle Walter por provide la content de total su archives, notes, cards, relics, y fotos.

Repassando la carts y fotos en la latero de Orne yo commenced to acquire un species de terror de my proper antecedents. Como yo have dixit, my abuela y uncle Douglas fure semper disquietando a me. Ahour, annuals depost su mort, yo contemplated su faces en fotos con un perceptible crescended sentiment de repulsion y alienation. A la prime, yo no potented comprehend la sentiment, pero gradualment un horrible species de comparison commenced to impose self en my unconscious mind peso de la constant negation de my consciousness to admit la mas remote suspection de lo. Fus clear que la characteristic expression de estes faces ahour insinuated algo que no insinuated ante - algo cual would tract horrible panic si too overtment considered.

Pero la pejor mental shock advened quend my uncle munstrated me la Orne joyery en un bank chamber en el center de la city. Unas de la objects fure suave y inspirando, pero had un case de strange ancient pieces descended de my mysterious grand-abuela cual my uncle fus almost preferred no to munstrate. Ey fure, él dixit, de muy grotesque y quasi repulsive design, y had nunca a su recollection been publicment tracted; pero my abuela defruited to observe them. Vague legends de mal fortune circulated contourn them, y my grand-abuela's French governess had dixit ey no debit ser tracted en New Inglaterra, pero would ser secure to tract them en Europe.

Mientras my uncle commenced languidment y reticentment to devolve la cosas él recommended me no ser shocked por la strangeness y frequent horribleness de la designs. Artists y archaeologists quien had viewn them dixit su travailance y execution exceptional y exoticment exquisite, pero nadia potented to identificate su exact material o art tradition. Fure dos bracelets, un tiara, y un species de pectoral; este ultimate had certain figures en relief de tal extravagance.

Durando este description yo had contained my emotions, pero my face debit have munstrated my crescendando timors. My uncle sembled preoccupied, y laxed en su devolvement to study my expression. Yo gestured a él to continue, y él continued con new signs de reticence. Él sembled to anticipate un manifestation de emotion quend la prime piece - la tiara - appeared, pero yo dout si él anticipated la magnitude. Yo ni anticipated lo, porque yo creeded yo fus entirement prepared en respect de lo que la joyery would ser. Lo que yo factered fus otra syncope, just como yo had en la bramble-suffocated iron-carriage cut un annual ante.

Desde ese day, my vita has been un incubus de timor y tremulosity, ni savvy yo cuanto es horrible veracity y cuanto es locura. My grand-abuela had been un Marsh de unsavvied fount cuya spouse vived en Arkham - y no dixit ancient Zadok que la filia de Obed Marsh por un mostrous mader fus married a un Arkham man por un trick? Que murmured la ancient borracho de la similarity de my oyos a Captain Obed's? En Arkham, too, la conservator had recounted me yo had verily la Marsh oyos. Fus Obed Marsh my proper grand-grand-abuelo? Quien - o que - entocnes, fus my grand-grand-abuela? Pero quizás este fus total locura. Es possible eses blankish-auric adornments fure procured de algun Innsmouth mariner por la pfader de my grand-abuela, quienever él fus. Y ese expression en la fixed-oyoed faces de my abuela y suicided uncle potent ser pure fantasy - pure fantasy, reinforced por la Innsmouth umbra cual had so obscurement altered my imagination. Pero por que had my uncle terminated self depost un antecedental investigation en New Inglaterra?

Mas que dos annuals yo resisted estes reflections partialment. My pfader acquired por me un post en un securance office, y yo interred self en routine tan profoundment como possible. Sin embargo, en la hibernato de 1930-31, la slumbers commenced. Ey fure muy scarce y insidious a la prime, pero augmented en frequency y intensity mientras la weeks passed. Grand aquatic spaces overted ante me, y yo sembled to vade traverse titanic foundered porticos y labrynths de herby Cyclopean partitions accompanied de grotesque pfeishes. Entonces la otra forms commenced to appear, plenterando me con horror sin name la moment yo waked. Pero durando la slumbers ey no horrified yo por nada - yo fus uno con them; tractando su inhuman vestments, ambulando su aqueous vias, y orisonando monstrousment a su malefic marine-fondo temples.

Had multi mas que yo potented remember, pero ayvoon lo que yo remembered total morning would ser sufficient to catalog yo un loco o genius si yo would defy to scribe lo. Algun tremendous influence, yo sensed, fus intendando gradualment to tract me fuaroff de la sane mundo de salubrious vita enta inclaimable abysses de tenebrousity y alienage; y la process tumbled ponderousment sobre me. My salubrity y aspect converted languidment pejor, hasta por fin yo fus obliged to renounce my employment y vive reclused como un invalid. Un strange nervious infirmity had paralyzed me, y a veces yo no potented close my oyos.

Fus entonces quend, yo commenced to study la specular con crescendando alarm. No es agreeable to observe la languid effects de infirmity, pero en my case had algo mas sutle y enigmatic en la history. My pfader sembled to note lo, too, porque él commence observe me curiousment y quasi timorousment. Que es passando a me? Potent ser que yo fus commencando to resemble my abuela y uncle Douglas?

Un night yo had un terrible slumber en cual yo encountered my abuela bajo la marine. Ella vived en un fosforescent palace de multi terraces, con gardens de strange squamous corals y grotesque brachiate efflorescences, y doted me bienadvened con un cordiality que potented ser sardonic. Ella had modified self - como eses quien vive bajo la aqua modify - y recounted me ella nunca had morted. En reality, ella had vaded a un locus su mort filio had apprehended, y had saultated a un domain cuya existence - cual fus reserved por él too - él had negated con un fumando pistol. Este debit ser my domain, too - yo no potented escape lo. Yo would nunca mort, pero would vive con eses quien had vived desde ante humanity had inhabited la terrain.

Yo too encountered lo que had been su abuela. Por eighty-kilo annuals Pth'thya-l'yi had vived en Y'ha-nthlei, y alla ella had regressed depost Obed Marsh fus mort. Y'ha-nthlei no fus destroyed quend la arriba-terrain hombres launched explosives ento la marine. Ey factered dañage, pero no destruction. La Profounds nunca potented ser destroyed, ayvoon que la paleaeogean magic de la obliviated Ancients potent a veces impede them. Ahour ey would wait; pero algun day, si ey remembered, ey would leven otra vez por reclaim la tribute la Grand Cthulhu desired. Would ser un city mas grand que Innsmouth la proximate vez. Ey had planned to diffuse, y had created lo que would aid them, pero ahour ey debit todavia wait. Yo debit suffer un castigation por provoke la mort de la arriba-terrain hombres, pero no would ser durid. Este fus la slumber en cual yo viewed un shoggoth por la prime vez, y la vista waked me a un coup de frenetic cries. Ese morning la specular definitement munstrated me yo had acquired la Innsmouth aspect.

Hasta ahour yo no have suicided self como my uncle Douglas. Yo procured un automatic pistol y quasi factered la pace, per certain slumbers dissuaded me. La tense extremes de horror are laxando, y yo sense self strangement hauled hacia la unsavvied marine-founds en vez de timor them. Yo oyer y facter strange cosas en dorm, y wake con un species de exaltation en vez de terror. No creed yo have to wait por la complete modification como la mayority have waited. Si yo waited, my pfader would probablement confine me en un sanitarium como my poor co-sbrin. Prodigous y unsavvied splendors wait por me abajo, y yo will chase them pronto. Iä'R'lyeh! Cthulhu fhtagn! Iä! Iä! No, yo no will suicide self - yo no potent ser forced to suicide self!

Yo will plan my co-sbrin's escape de ese Canton maniac-home, y juncted nus will vade a marvel-umbra'd Innsmouth. Nus will swim a ese obscure reef en la marine y submerge selves traverse negra abysses a Cyclopean y multi-columned Y'ha-nthlei, y en ese city de la Profounds nus will vive en majesty y glory por semper.