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"Mr Wilmarth, Mr Wilmarth!" – the boy ran up to Wilmarth and shook him by the shoulder – "I have urgent news for you!"

"What is it?" – The man asked in a sleepy voice. After all, he had dozed off a little from his long rumination.

"Your flat… it burned down." – the boy muttered, and froze in anticipation of the fireman's reaction.

Walter's eyes widened and his mouth dropped open in a mute question that, frankly, he was afraid to ask even to himself. Fifteen minutes later he was standing in front of his house, or rather what was left of it.

Eyewitnesses said that the fire broke out suddenly, and there was a wild rumbling noise from the flat, as if some large creature was breaking furniture. However, the rumbling stopped as quickly as the flames disappeared – it is not known how, where or why.

The young man could only nod his head in sympathy for the loss, for he knew WHO was in his flat and WHAT had happened to it. A few hours later he realised something else as well: the manuscripts had burned along with the flat – all that he had left behind after those terrible events at the Ecklie house. It was easy to guess the reason for what had happened – they had gotten to him, they were very close.